Byemoor/Endiang News
The Byemoor Curling Club is looking for teams to enter its Men’s and Women’s Bonspiel coming up on Feb. 2-7. Entries may be phoned to Eugene Nixon at 403-579-2460, Justin Jones at 403-579-2585 or John Schofer at 403-579-2488.
Be sure to treat your sweetheart with tickets to the Valentine’s Dine and Dance in Byemoor on Feb. 14. Tickets are $50 and include the supper, dance, door prizes and a chance to win a $2,000 travel voucher. Doors open at 5 p.m. with the supper at 6 p.m. The dance follows with the music of Lori Blake of Hanna. Tickets for just the dance are $10. The event is sponsored by the Sullivan Lake West Agricultural Society. Advance tickets will be available at the Byemoor Store.
At the Endmoor Drop-in Centre’s crib meet on Tuesday evening, it was Bob Smyth who posted the top score. Gladys McLeod was second. The Drop-in Society will be holding their meeting on Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. with crib to follow at 7:30 p.m. All are welcome for both.
Sympathy is extended to the Duncan and Walker families on the passing of Harry Duncan on Jan. 9 in Calgary. He was 82. In his younger days, Harry farmed and operated a trucking business in the Endiang- Halkirk area. He and his first wife, late Pat Walker, had a daughter Dixie. Following Pat’s death, Harry married Hazel Walker and they had two sons, Farren and Darren. Our thoughts are with Hazel and the other family members at this time.
Congratulations to Jesse and Brittany Hebert on the birth of their daughter Heidi Paulette on Jan. 22 in Drumheller. Heidi weighed eight pounds five ounces and is a little sister for Duncan. Congratulations also to the grandparents Pat and Sandra Keith, June and Jim Maxwell and Rick Hebert and to the great-grandmother Mike Keith.
Sympathy is extended to the family of Edel Giesell, who passed away on Jan. 20 in Stettler. When Edel lived on the farm between Byemoor and Big Valley, she was active with the Endmoor Drop-in Centre and the Byemoor Fair. She and her friend Irene Petrussa were also regular visitors to Our Home Kitchen in Endiang and the Country Diner southwest of Byemoor.
Congratulations to the Nixon brothers — Dave, Terry, Wayne and Dale — on winning the C Event at the Farmers’ Bonspiel in Stettler.
Local folks been enjoying some vacation time. Doreen Nixon along with her children Eugene and Becky and brother-in-law Kenneth Nixon returned home from a trip to Las Vegas. They report the weather was cooler than normal there.
Brad and Terri Mappin and their boys Ryley and Brady enjoyed a vacation to Mexico, where they attended a family wedding.
Dale and Dee Green along with Charlie and Wynn Nemetz of Stettler are enjoying the sights of Costa Rica.
We send sympathy to Herb and Helen Gutsche and family on the passing of their sister-in-law Lydia Fercho. She was 83. Family members from here attended the funeral in Calgary on Monday.
The Bessie Walker family received word of the passing of their cousin, Bernice (Fowler) Strader. She was 97. A memorial service will be held at a later date.
The weather on the weekend broke records for high temperatures. I saw plus 14 on our thermometer on Sunday and water was running down the driveway. Winnie Paulsen said the rose bush beside her house is budding out. Very unusual weather for January but its better than minus 40.
Humorous Quote — “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”
Theodore Roosevelt