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10 Monday, May 7, 2018 • Last Mountain Times Band on tour The Horizon Winds Central Band went to the road to entertain the students at Nokomis School on Monday afternoon, April 30. The HZSD Schools Band posing on the vintage tractor in the Nokomis School yard. HZSD Schools Band performing for Nokomis Elementary School students. The band is made up of students from around the Horizon School District. They meet every Wednesday in Imperial for lessons and practice. The idea of holding a concert in other schools is two fold - it is a way of spreading the word to other students about the band so they might get interested in possibly joining it, and it is a great experience for new band members to play for an audience. The Horizon Winds Central Band goes on a tour every spring. This year they are going to Drumheller and Calgary. They have a fun weekend touring and playing a few concerts. -info and photos from Lynn Gettis Lumsden Historical Society 2017 Activity Report and update Last year was a very busy season for us at the museum, in more ways than one. For example, we had more than 2,000 visitors who either took part in one of our special days, a group tour, or who came on one of our regular open days. Our Canadian visitors were from British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario, as well as Saskatchewan. Globally, they came from Germany, Ireland, USA, Switzerland, and Austria. Our major public events were the Aboriginal Day, Canada Day and Fall Windup/Scarecrow/Saskatchewan Culture Days celebrations, along with our community garage sale. Attendance at the National Aboriginal Day event included seven elementary school and two pre-school classes, all from Lumsden, and the general public. The afternoon’s events started with book readings in our large Tipi for the pre-schoolers by a First Nations person. This was followed by the demonstration of pow wow/fancy dancing for the elementary students, public and pre-schoolers. One of the dancers explained the various routines. The day came together thanks to the involvement of the Town’s Community Development Officer, the local library, the Lumsden Elementary School and the museum. This is the second year the museum has hosted and helped with the management of the event. Through our community outreach programming, we engaged with the High School Art Club to paint a mural to hang outside our Blacksmith Shop; provided a venue for the Lumsden and District Arts Council’s summer painting class for youngsters, and had the grade three elementary class help plant our community garden as part of their science curriculum. On the maintenance side of things, our activities included: constructing three new ramp/stair combination structures for three of our heritage buildings; completing the outside chinking for our log house; raising our red storage building in order to straighten the structure and reinforce its wood frame footing; and putting a tin roof on our office/shop building. Grounds maintenance included: removing many dead trees from around the perimeter of the museum; planting four young trees as part of our grounds rejuvenation project; caring for our community garden, cutting grass and looking after the flower beds. Current board members are Kent Lynn, Dave Hansen, Penny Schneider, Ethel Robinson, Lynda Whiting, Reggie Newkirk, Cheri Kowalyshyn, and Bill King. And, just a reminder that the museum’s community garage sale will be held on May 26th and, this year, will be at the M U S E U M. Table rentals $20. Lunch available. Phone Bill at 731-2434, Lynda at 731-3191 or Kent at 731-3341 if you can help us out, or if want to donate an item or two for the museum’s sale tables. Watch for ads about upcoming events in the Last Mountain Times community newspaper which is now serving our area. -submitted by Bill King
The noise is deafening Fancy hooch Who would ever have imagined that the annual announcement of the Nobel prizes could be a source of huge controversy. Yes, there has been lots of argument over the years about the winners of the Peace prize, but Literature? If you thought that Hollywood’s Motion Picture Academy was a haven of dysfunction, those folks don’t hold a patch on the Swedish Academy. On Friday, they announced that there would be no winner of the Literature prize this year. The Nobels are awarded after consideration by large and supposedly ‘distinguished’ panels of judges from the world of academe. Those judges are appointed for life, or until they screw up. Now we live in the age of Me Too, and even those brilliant Scandinavians are not exempt from ‘inappropriate’ behaviour. That is now listed under the classy-sounding heading ‘unwanted intimacy’, and the result is one of the worst scandals ever. It also means that the 2018 Literature prize will be awarded in 2019, or so they hope. Perhaps the suspicion that all was not well when it came to the Nobel Literature prize was evident two Monday, May 7, 2018 • Last Mountain Times My old hometown of Winnipeg is receiving tons of attention right now as the team known as the Jets continue to be very strong in the hunt for the Stanley Cup. Did I mention that it has to be the hardest championship to win in all of sports? The players slog their way through an 82 game season, then they hope their bodies will hold together long enough to put together 16 wins in four rounds of playoffs. Winnipeg has never come close to winning it in the modern era. The last time the city’s name appeared on the mug was in 1901, not long after the death of Queen Victoria. The Jets are the kind of Cinderella story that everyone loves. They joined the NHL in 1979 after winning titles in the old World Hockey Association. They only made it to second round once, and in 1996 the NHL left Winnipeg, presumably never to return. But 15 years later, a couple of wealthy guys named Chipman and Thomson paid a truckload of money to move the Atlanta Trashers to Winnipeg. ‘Draft and Develop’ became the approach, and it’s working. In 2015 the Hockey News raised a few eyebrows and giggles when they predicted that the Jets could be the Stanley Cup champs in 2019. The fact that it might happen even earlier is hard for the locals to process. Yes, we had a football dynasty in Winnipeg when a silver-haired genius named CURRIE’S CORNER ROGER CURRIE Bud Grant was behind the bench, but that ended more than half a century ago. Now with the Jets, we have more people standing outside on the street than there are in the building, and the noise in both places is deafening. Those pictures of the ‘sea of white’ are being seen around the world. Will it make Winnipeg a destination for investment dollars and vacationers? It certainly won’t drive either away. In the meantime, let’s just savour the moment, however long it might last. years ago when they announced Bob Dylan as the winner. Many devotees of the written word raised serious questions about whether song lyrics really qualified for this lofty honour. The aging minstrel, who began life as Bobby Zimmerman in Hibbing Minnesota, seemed to have been offended by the controversy. It was weeks before he even acknowledged the announcement, and he quickly declared that he wouldn’t be able to make it for the fancy awards ceremony. Despite all this, they gave him the prize, which includes more than a million dollars in cash. What has Bob done with that swag? Turns out he’s going into the premium whiskey business. He’s calling his fancy hooch Heaven’s Door, and it sells for about $80 a bottle. There’s also a limited-edition Bootleg Series with a price tag of 300 dollars. Dylan’s distilling partner says the hardest part was decoding what Bob really wanted. Perhaps he should pick up the phone and call the Swedish Academy. - Roger Currie Disclaimer: opinions expressed are those of the writer. 11 MINISTERIAL MESSAGES Psalm 23 God is my shepherd; I shall not want. What are we wanting for ourselves, for our loved ones, our communities, and our world? I would like to see peace for all these questions, both for myself and others. Unless I have peace in my heart, how am I to reach out to those who need my love, care, and support. Not always, even as hard as we try, can we be filled with total peace. With faith in our hearts and the love of God we can do our best. Peace for our loved ones, who each day their lives are filled with mountains to climb. Peace for our communities, who find themselves in difficulty in providing the necessary supports and funding for the needs of their residents. Peace for our world where guns, missiles and bombs are a way of life in so many countries. What a world it would be if only we would bury our indifferences, care and have respect for those we meet on our journey, love even if we disagree. God makes me lie down in green pastures. God leads me beside still waters. God restores my soul. What are our prayers for Earth? for restoration and reconciliation? for stillness in the places of chaos? As we walk this Mother Earth we must always be aware of our everyday habits. How those actions effect the soil, the air, the water, has to be high priority. Our oceans contain large amounts of plastic, which in turn is killing the turtles, the whales, the dolphins and whatever other wildlife that encounters the garbage. We must learn to walk together for the betterment of the earth and the people who walk Mother Earth. Even though I walk through the shadowed valley, I fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff – they comfort me. What are the shadows across our paths? Where does our comfort lie? Shadows are scary and they hide the unknown and as humans we tend to want to be in complete control. Sometimes we are afraid or don’t take the time to take it to God in prayer. God does answer prayers, maybe not always the answer we want, or at the time we want it. God is a loving God, who walks beside us always, guiding and caring for us on our journey of life. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil, my cup overflows. What are our causes for celebration? Where can you point to the overflowing cup? We live in a country where we have freedom of speech, thought, opinion, freedom of religion, belief and expression. We live in families and communities where we respect and are respected, our cup does overflow with goodness. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow us all the days of our lives, and we shall dwell in the house of our God our whole life long. Amen. -submitted by Mary Anne Grand, layperson from Raymore United Church
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