Fall suppers are always in abundance over these next two months. People flock to these functions, not only for the excellent home-cooked meals, but to socialize. I have information on a few small towns who will be hosting these feasts with some of the adult prices given to me by a local person in that town, village or hamlet. These places are within reasonable driving distance from Mayfair.
They are: Rabbit Lake, Oct. 10, adult price is $10; Shell Lake, Oct. 4, $16; Borden, Oct. 18; Spiritwood, Oct. 18; Speers, Oct. 21, $12.50; Glaslyn, Oct. 25, $15; Maymont, Oct. 25, $12.50; Blaine Lake, Nov. 1; Leoville, Nov. 1; Mayfair, Nov. 7, $12.50.
Squiggy, a hot selling children's book, is illustrated by a local woman, Yvette Heide, and written by Connie Giesbrecht's sister, Fern Scott from Edmonton. Fern created this book for the enjoyment of her eight grandchildren. Connie Giesbrecht sells the books for $10, plus shipping by mail, and can be reached at conniegiesbrecht@outlook.com
Yvette is a talented freelance artist and this book does reveal this. Years ago she compiled a teacher/schoolroom setting comical form book illustrating true life scenarios. A former Mayfair teacher, Doug Sylvester, published it.
Starting in October and for the next two months interested individuals can dig out their yoga mats and apparel and sign up for yoga lessons at Mayfair Hall. Lessons are scheduled for Thursday evenings from 7 to 8 p.m. costing $100 with instructor Louise Sylvester from North Battleford. Contact Teresa Toews at 306-246-4812 for more information. Remember, guys, this is not just for women, although it seems this is usually who enrols.
Ellyn and Buck Scotton got an early start on celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. Their three daughters and their spouses, Heather and Graham Oddan from Vermilion, Alta., Joann and Dave Pettigrew from Regina and Dawn and Eric Lavallee from Lloydminster suggested a trip to Toronto and the surrounding area. They took in a double header Toronto Blue Jay versus Boston Red Sox ball game Sept. 19 and 20, in which the Jays narrowly lost.
Sights included the Hockey Hall of Fame, dining at Wayne Gretzky's restaurant, the CN Towers and Niagara Falls, where they rented a vehicle and discovered Niagara on the Lake is a neat little town with exclusive shopping. The older folks and younger generation all had a fantastic four-day jam-packed mini holiday. The Scottons' anniversary is in November.
Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike is a hilarious live theatrical play that has been running for the last few weeks and ends Oct. 4 at the Persephone Theatre in Saskatoon on River Landing. This play was originally produced on Broadway in 2012. Leanne Cherwinski, Faye Liebaert and I have been season ticket holders for many years and usually book for Sunday matinees.
Four tickets for the Don Williams show at TCU Place, Saskatoon were given to Barb Sorenson for her birthday from her daughters Ashley and Louise. Barb took Leanne Cherwinski, Margaret Adam and Adgerine McNutt for this special celebration two weeks ago. I enjoyed The Tragically Hip Sept. 23 at the SasktTel Centre in Saskatoon, much to my children's surprise. I was asked if I was the oldest person attending the concert. The answer was a definite, “no!” Can't older people enjoy rock music?
Our first grandchild has started kindergarten at Maymont Central School in a class of 13 young ones. Parker enjoys school and is the only kindergartener that lives right in Maymont, so doesn't get to enjoy bus rides. Obviously he doesn't have to get up as early and will appreciate this when the thermometer drops to minus forty.
I have been observant of garter snakes the past few years, especially in the Maymont area. When excavating the soil to build a new school a few years back, workers excavated a snake pit and hundreds of snakes came crawling out in all directions.
Snakes became a reality for the citizens of that village. While I was taking my one-year-old grandson for a stroller ride, a woman stopped and talked to me about snakes. She said she has a small snake pit across the road from her house and even has snakes sleeping in the trees in her yard. I noticed many dead ones of all lengths on the warm paved streets, They are more prevalent this time of the year.
Where we live, one might come across a snake very rarely. Garter snakes do not bite, if this is any comfort.
With this nice stretch of warm weather, the combines are slowly chewing the crops off. Close to 50 per cent of the crops have been harvested in our area. A farmer can always expect weather delays much against his or her wishes. Hope everyone is experiencing a safe and rewarding harvest. Soon thanksgiving will arrive and when you hear of all the refugees fleeing their unsafe countries, we truly have lots to be thankful for. People do not get to choose which country they are born in.
