Local Arts

Many of you know the property. It's about 20 km outside Humboldt, along Highway 5 East, just outside St. Gregor.

The Downtown North Battleford organization has unveiled a new art display on 101st Street in a bid to inject new life into the city's core. The venue for the display is 1132 - 101st St., a building that used to be occupied by Speer's Flooring.

Another runaway hit. Last week, the popular Missoula Children's Theatre (MCT) was in town, holding auditions and subsequent rehearsals for its rendition of The Secret Garden.

The time for mutant-sized pumpkins and seed-spitting contests has arrived once again with the annual Pilger Pumpkin Festival to be held on September 28.

This week the Battlefords Art Club meeting was attended by a very select few. But we managed to enjoy ourselves with laughter and lot sof creative sharing as well as helpful exchanges of various kinds.

The circus came to town this past weekend and while there weren't any tigers, lions or bears there was still a lot to see and do. On the afternoon of Aug.

Dear Editor For many years I was excited and couldn't wait to go to our local parade. During these times there was always at least one band marching and playing - our North Battleford City Kinsmen Band for one and the pipe band.

It was in Calgary, Alta. where Keith Lee uncovered a little sliver of Humboldt's history. Carefully chipping away at the thick, worn- out paint on a 1958 Volkswagen single cab, he saw it. The words "Humboldt Co-op" were staring him in the face.

What better way to spend a summer day or weekend than to head out on a picturesque country drive down winding roads, past lush forests, glimmering lakes, refreshing coulees, imposing canyons and rolling parkland for the 10th Annual Northern Horizons

Is it saskatoon berries? Campfires at night? Long, stretching roads through yellow rapeseed fields, where sky meets land? Cold winters spent at Broncos home games, Tim Hortons coffee in hand? Getting caught behind a slow-moving combine on the highway