Rose Jardine is probably fed up with being told she made a good move in marrying Alan Jardine and becoming gardening columnist for The Western Producer.
Jardin, of course, is the French word for garden or park.
In mid-August we stopped at Oyen, Alta., to see Rose and had an enjoyable chat about things present and things that once were. She was waiting rather impatiently for a telephone call summoning her to Calgary for a knee operation.
She has things to do that involve get up and go, and a gimpy knee is no help.
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For example, the previous week she worked at the Oyen Fair and the local committee insisted she use a wheelchair. After a day on the concrete floor of the fair building she conceded it was a good idea.
Rose reluctantly agreed to ride in the parade and didn’t find out until later that on the other side of the carriage she was riding in was a sign saying: “Rose Jardine, Oyen’s No. 1 Volunteer.”
This was the fair’s 25th anniversary and hence the parade. Rose has been a key organizer of the fair and other community and regional activities for all of those 25 years.
We at the Producer had a disturbing sense of loss years ago when Rose Ducie resigned as one of the senior editors of our newspaper to become the wife of a farm machinery dealer in Oyen and Flaxcombe, Sask., but it is apparent the Big Sky Country certainly benefited from the move.
Now this perky lady is planning to buy a computer so she can do a better job of letting the world know about Oyen and southeast Alberta.
Her mother lived to 107 so the computer should be well used.
