BALJENNIE — Sympathy goes out to the Robertson families of Bjelde Creek and Baljennie on the recent passing of Kay Robertson (Goodrich) at Battlefords Regional Care Centre. The Robertson families came from Abbey to purchase the Blacket ranch land in the Bjelde Creek area. Kay was a school teacher at Mosquito Indian Reservation for a few years then she retired. Her husband Grant passed away a few years ago. Kay then left the farm to live at Borden. Due to illness, she was moved to Battlefords Regional Care Centre until her recent passing. They had a family of two boys, Jim and Stuart. They have taken over the ranch that has now spread into the Baljennie and Spinney Hill areas.
North Battleford held its annual parade Aug. 15, followed by Territorial Days Aug. 16 to 18. There were some light horse competitions with junior and senior gymkanas. The main attraction was the pony chariot and chuckwagon races. There were also monster truck rides. The Big Red Barn had a petting zoo. The last day of the fair ended with a big display of fireworks.
Everyone has been following the out-of-control wildfires at Yellowknife, N.W.T. and Kelowna and Shuswap areas of British Columbia. Many people have to be moved to safe places. There have been reports of buildings and homes lost. We wish them well. Many firefighters and armed forces personnel have been dispatched to assist. Water bombers and some helicopters are also in the battle. Heavy smoke impairs their efforts.
The harvest is here. The renters on our land have just finished our fields. Many other farmers are busy combining. It is so dry everyone needs to watch out for fires starting up.
There still has not been much rain in the area. So far, we have not had a heat wave. One night the temperature went down to close to 0 C.
This might be like looking for a needle in a haystack, but I hope someone can help me find a jigsaw puzzle. It’s an old British puzzle called “Fox Hunt.” It isn’t a big puzzle and features red-coated riders and hound dogs jumping over a hedge in pursuit of the fox. My dad gave it to me when I was 12. I had a lot of jigsaw puzzles that my son gave away when we moved from the farm to Battleford West Place. Another I’m missing is a map of Canada. I would be pleased if I could find them both. Dorothy Rowlands of Baljennie may have written on the box with the jigsaw puzzles.
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