This has been a busy week for the folk in our town. We started out a week ago Saturday with a booth at our annual craft fair. It was a great day for visiting with the fair goers and for visiting the other booths to see what’s new. One gal had made garden stepping stones decorated with stained glass. They were lovely and quite popular and she went home with quite a few orders.
On Sunday, we had a rehearsal for our annual dinner theatre. This is our fourth production and we have a returning core of actors and this year a number of new people have joined us. Our cast numbers 29, not exactly an epic by Hollywood standards, but big for us.
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The play is a comedy and another gal and myself, who are about the same age, are playing a couple of little old ladies from Pasadena. It’s not particularly fun pretending to be old, but we must be doing all right. We’ve had a few laughs in rehearsal. Wait until they see us in costume – her in shiny black leather, me in red satin and lace. We may be old, honey, but we’re hip.
During the week, we were keeping track of Aleshia Besplug, the 11-year-old from a neighboring community who is waging her own fight to save our landmark elevators; she was in Regina on Friday where she marched with the Grain Services Union and appeared on This Morning with her mother, Laurie, and Premier Roy Romanow. I hope some can be saved, as examples of a way of life that once was. Some people think it won’t matter if they all go, just like in the ’50s and ’60s when most of the railway stations went, and now many communities wish they could have them back.
We were also trying to keep track of West Central Road and Rail’s fundraising efforts. They only have until the end of November to come up with enough money to prove that area farmers are serious about saving their rail line. In one day, we had personal calls from two salespersons, with a third on the phone.
At the end of the week, another Saturday, we attended the 13th annual Dr. Stewart Holmes Scholarship Fund Tea, at which four young people from our area who are pursuing medical careers each received a $500 scholarship from the fund set up to honor our local doctor who has served our town for more than 40 years.
His message was one we can all take to heart. Learning is a lifelong pursuit, he told the young people. “I’m still learning, and I’ve been in this business for 40 years. That’s what it’s all about.”
