The Western Development Museum in North Battleford volunteers are kept busy each Friday on antique gas tractors, painting and putting on decals and stencils. When they are done, they are moved out to the open tractor shed. Then they bring in another one to work on. One or two new volunteers have joined the group all ready. A big thank you to them all.
The museum Christmas light up the village will be opening shortly, so the staff have to scramble to get all the lights and decorations put up. They also have local business decorating as well.
Sooner or later retirement catches up to us all as it has for editor Becky Doig, who was with the News Optimist for the last 25 years. Becky wrote “From This Corner” most every week. It has been very interesting to read all these years. Good luck, Becky, in your new venture of retirement. So hope you enjoy it all. Welcome Jayne Foster taking over as editor in place of Becky. All the best to you, Jayne. Watching for your stories every week.
We are well into the month of November and it marks the end of autumn and the beginning of winter. By the month’s end, overnight minimum temperatures dip into the -20º C and daytime maximum temperatures stay below freezing. Rainy days become rare and are replaced by snow. Snow on the ground comes and goes for the first part of the month, but tends to remain by month’s end. By month’s end, fresh water lakes on the prairies have a thin layer of ice that is not thick enough to support a vehicle. November does not record much sunshine, generally, recording the second least amount of sunshine, better only than December. Most stations record less sunshine that January or February. It is also a very foggy month with stations recording on average of two to three days with fog restricting visibility. Thin ice is also forming on our local rivers. Melting hard snow on the highway has left a few very slippery spots. So take care and dress warmly for the colder days.
