GADSBY/WESTWOODS -- I have discovered a page on facebook, "Our Town Stettler." Fascinating! Lots to scroll through, you can add pictures in and around town. Gadsby has pictures as well. Great job.
The 4-H banquet and awards night for Big Knife 4-H Beef Club was held July 27 at the Botha Hall. Grand Champion Market Steer went to Kathryn Dolliver; Reserve Champion, Shayna Brower; Champion Commercial Female, Chase Dolliver; Champion Purebred Female, Kathryn Dolliver; Club Rate of Gain, Shayna Brower and Champion Club Judging, Junae Ventnor. Conformation per category: Laura Hebbes, Tyson Brower, Tori Brower and Grace Hebbes. Team Grooming: Laura Hebbes and Keagon Jacobson; Austin Jacobson and Tori Brower, Kathryn Dolliver and Chase Dolliver. McKenzie Hankins was awarded a trophy for Silver Point award for all her activities.
Congratulations to Kyle Bigney and his fellow team members Scott and Luke Ball (Mirror), Jesse Walker (Calgary) and Scott Wismer (Castor) for finishing first in the Death Race at Grande Cache on Saturday, July 30. This was a 125 km race, with Kyle taking 22 km for his part. There were 110 teams total. Way to go!
Friends and family gathered at the Ramada Inn on Thursday, Aug. 4 for a bridal shower for Haley Bigney. Mom Velvet Nickerson, of Gadsby, was among the family in attendance.
Birthday greetings to John Ross, who celebrated his 90th birthday with his family at son Jack and Melody's home.
Neal and Lorna Walgenbach have returned home from a two-week holiday on the east coast. With them were Danny John and Joan Grover. They travelled to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. They said they had a great time, people were so friendly, and the countryside beautiful. Highlights of the trip were Avonlee, Peggy's Cove (a favorite), Lunenburg (a whimsical town), Cape Breton and the Fortress of Louisburg (so much history there). The last two days in Halifax, they took in the Titanic museum, which is on tour there this summer. They heard about the annual Christmas Tree sent to Boston each year to say thank you for the city's help and support after the great Halifax explosion in the early 1900s. Another favorite was Hopewell Rocks at the Bay of Fundy — rugged, beautiful countryside.
Bill and Joyce Hansel attended a joint birthday party for Joyce's first cousin Doug and Doris Russell who are here from Sutherlin, Ore. They were up for the Logore family reunion. The reunion and the birthday all took place at Bar Harbour Camp on the long weekend.
This weekend, daughter Sue took Bill and Joyce to Lacombe to watch son Larry Hansel play ball. Then they went on to Red Deer to see their new (two-month-old) grandson Cason Trennery and his sister Willow along with their parents Calvin and Steff.