One of the first entries in the June 1975 Pender Post was “June 26… Last day of School, Take Cover”.
The Pender Post executive set up a schedule for the next six months to try and avoid conflicting dates. Today’s Pender Post still publishes a monthly calendar for that exact reason. We make every attempt to ensure that all the clubs that send us information get their dates in the calendar. Not an easy task with all the clubs here on Pender.
The Pender Islands Farmers’ Institute and Salt Spring Chamber of Commerce held a livestock show for their May Day celebrations and the students from the secondary school in the Agriculture course handled all the work. Having entered three lambs in the Butcher section, the Pender exhibitors herded their lambs into their assigned pen and awaited judging.
What they did not realize is the lambs were not judged in the pens but were led to the show ring by a student. All was going well until it came time for the Pender lambs to be shown. A lamb ram raced into the ring with two husky Grade 9 students flying behind it while they held onto a thick rope tied to a collar. He was finally brought to a halt after he spent the next ten minutes running in circles and wrapping his exhibitor’s legs with the rope. Pender did not take home the Best Junior Exhibitor prize, but the audience had a good afternoon’s entertainment.
Nate Grimmer wrote about his reminiscences of a bus tour to the British Isles he and his wife had taken in the 1960s. At this point in their tour they had visited Wales and were on their way to York, Newcastle, and Preston with a two day stop in Edinburgh. It was during the stop in Edinburgh that Nep decided to buy himself a white shirt, only to discover he was running out of cash. He found a very small bank. One room with one teller behind bars and a desk off to one side. He placed his package with the shirt in it on the desk and proceeded to the teller. There was a “very large woman” standing at the desk to whom he nodded. When he finished with the teller the woman was not at the desk but neither was his shirt. He said he ran from the bank looking for her but she was gone along with his shirt. He very kindly stated that she was probably not Scottish to have behaved like that. Hopefully he writes more about his trip in later issues.
Val Butcher