27 Replies to “Well Done”

  1. This is what real neighbours and community is all about.

    Makes me so happy to see that such people still exist.

  3. A couple times as I was growing up my father spent a few days helping out neighbors. It’s what we do.

    1. An old Mormon neighbor of mine, showed up unannounced one day to help me remove a particularly stubborn tree stump. He said … “when a neighbor’s cow is in the ditch, you have to help”. Good man.

  5. Actually choked up reading this.. THAT is Saskatchewan. THAT is my culture. And imagine that all of this was done without appealing to the government “to do something.” Sounds like SK lost one heck of a good man.

  6. ?
    you guys in a different century out there in Saskland?
    speechless.
    truly speechless.
    I uh, this urban 68 yr old hippie, I gotta go in a quiet spot and ummmm . . . .
    say a prayer for the family and a huge sense of admiration for the fellows in the machinery.

    WOW.

  8. That is a Canada that I recognize because I grew up in NE B. C. with people like that.

  10. Ok…a few tears from reading that…wow, just wow…
    Real people, real neighbours, real community.
    Thanks for that amazing story.

  11. Worked with plenty of Sask farm boys on the rigs over the years…good people all, not surprised in the least.

    1. PO’ed in the Patch. First job I had in AB was with a young fellow from Speedy Creek, in 1975. No work for him in NDP land at the time. Worked in the Drumheller area. Lotta sky out there and just as many grain trucks. I was fresh faced from Montreal back then. Had to let folks have their fun with “the enemy” at the time. I boarded at a local grain farmer’s hacienda, with Speedy Creek. A learning experience.

  12. Funny how people look after each other in times of need without the government holding a gun to their head

  13. I have seen this sense of community at other times, as well. When a friends father passed away, her mother’s front doorstep sprouted prepared casserole dishes galore (8-10). All came with a little note offering whatever help was needed.

    As Red Green used to say: “We’re all in this together.”.

  14. I grew up on a farm in central Ontario. I witnessed acts like this as well.

    Good on ya’, SK. Well done.

  16. In communities small enough that people actually know their neighbours, know they might need their neighbours’ help one day, and know they will be judged on their willingness to do their part.

    In such communities, the truly needy never go without if their neighbours can avoid it.

  17. happened in Grand Valley after the tornado hit, leveled an uninsured house. House was rebuilt by the community, NC. Mennonites came from afar to help with construction , and it is always heart warming at times like these.

  18. They know what’s important;
    Organized community support, Fall harvest,
    &
    // Some community members have also picked up a few of Berkan’s Zamboni shifts at the rink //

  20. I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s working on farms in the Niagara region of Ontario. I worked custom work for a farming family who were not wealthy. I learned that sometimes people need help. I saw that help given. My boss would send me with a tractor and plow and work for two days at someone’s place. They needed help. In that time I also learned that some of the most generous people I have ever met were some of the poorest. It was a good way to grow up. I wish more could experience that childhood today. Thank you to all who were involved in this harvest.

  23. You don’t have to look too far back in the news to find the case of a VIA rail train having fuel freezing problems near Spy Hill SK when the locals fetched the passengers to town and fed and watered them in the town hall until the railway could arrange for bus transport for them.

    I also recall a story very similar on Gormley’s radio show where a young and expanding family (new set of twins just added) in southern Saskatchewan lost their father and husband very unexpectedly and the community did a very similar outpouring of assistance. The act that made my eyes water was it was reported to the show that a local businessman, as an individual, visited the widow and handed her card lock fuel cards and told her he would be buying her fuel from then on. No names, no publicity expected, just trying to help as best he could with what he could offer.

    Prairie pride and resilience on display. This is a far better place because of it.

  24. Well, that’s well done, to be sure.

    I’ve been watching the harvest come in here in SW Ontario since August, beginning with the wheat.

    It’s gotta be hard work. My BIL farms about 1,000 acres, wherein Dave couldn’t drive a tractor on a straight line to save his life.

    “You’re fired!”

    The dust is everywhere.

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