Dear Canimites,
Spring advances step-by-step here at Canim.
Gardens bloom, Saskatoon bushes set their fruit, and the fragrance of false Solomon’s-seal graces the evening woodlands.
Crib closes
The cribbage group and their boosters packed Margo’s Cabin to close out their season with a potluck – a terrific spread of good food to cap a great season.
Maurice Clark and Bill Morehouse shared first and second place for the year, their averages separated by a mere one-hundredth of a point. Terry Wagner and Dolores Angell shared the much-coveted ‘Most Skunks’ award.
Planter, bake and Craft Sale
On a sunny May 31 at the Canim Lake Store, the good women of the Canim Lake Community Club set out over 100 pots of plants ranging from the purely decorative to the deliciously edible – doronicum to raspberries, dahlia’s to tomatoes.
On the baking table, 60 pies, packages of squares, cookies, loaves and muffins, and a delicious trifle were laid, and more kept coming as the morning progressed. They sold down to the last crumb.
The beef-on-a-bun and coffee got a lot of attention, as did the crafters tables of denise swift (pottery and bark carving) and Leona Hurrell (knitting).
The club netted $715 on the day.
Bursary awarded
Congratulations to Tagen Hubick – the first Peter Skene Ogden Secondary graduating student to be awarded the community club’s $1,000 bursary for continuing studies.
Tagen lives on the Canim Lake Band Reserve with her mother Margo Archie, and she’s enrolled in the social work program at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, with an intended focus on First Nations studies.
Bird notes
Bob Campbell has set nesting boxes on the fence line of the Shirran farm hoping to entice mountain bluebirds.
He has installed about 30 over the years. Bluebirds nest along Bates Road but so far have not settled this far east.
Bob also reports sighting a Lazuli bunting and a western kingbird here this spring.