The creamery was built on the Northwest side of town across the road from the Gillespie elevator. About once a month, mother would give me a 10 lb. Burns can full of cream to take to the creamery on a Saturday. That was my spending money for the month. Walking down the railway track...
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Alas, hail the mighty hose! The genius who invented it (Jan Van der Heiden, Dutch, 1652) was without doubt a practical man, and thinker on shortcuts to hard work. My guess is he never fully realised the later implications beyond fire fighting, which begs the question: Why didn’t they open a dyke and channel...
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Ever sit down and listen to a story from a family member recalling the events of a war from long ago? Perhaps look upon the face of a veteran and get a tale of the bygone days? Well, that seems to be a pastime of mine, or at least a situation I often have...
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It may be Emergency Preparedness Week across Canada, but the message from the City of Fort Saskatchewan is that local residents should take disaster readiness seriously the entire year. “It’s meant for all of us to know that this is something that needs to be in our minds at all times, not just this...
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Perhaps being a mother can be ranked as one of the most important jobs ever. But for most mothers, being one is not really a job. Rearing children, be it now or sixty years ago, always had challenges… striving to do the best we could with what we had. There was a time not...
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