Pangman

This past weekend a winter storm hit Pangman and area causing power, telephone and internet outages.

We received a lot of snow and the high winds caused many snow drifts around town. It took the majority of the day on Monday for the graders to clear snow and there is still more to be cleared today.

The power started to go out on Friday, January 22nd, and then on Saturday, January 23rd, the power went out in the afternoon for about 3 hours. It came back on for about 4 hours or so. Then around 10:30 p.m. or so it went out again and did not come back on until around 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 24th. Then during the night it went out again, but was back up yesterday morning. Apparently some power lines broke due to heavy ice on the lines. Other communities near us did not have their power restored until late Monday, and some farmers in the surrounding area are still waiting for their power to be restored.

The telephone and internet was restored in the early afternoon yesterday.

The Deep South Personal Care Home has a power generator, so many of the elderly were taken there to stay while the power was off.

We would like to thank the Sask Power and Sask Tel employees for coming out to repair the power and telephone problems during the storm.

Below are a few articles about this winter storm:

• Thousands of Saskatchewan residents without power after winter storm
• Winter storm pounds Saskatchewan

• Powerless communities open shelters

• Saskatchewan highways shut down, power out due to weather

Here are some photos of the Pangman after the winter storm.

We had our January book club meeting on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at the Library.

Our December selection was This Year It Will Be Different by Maeve Binchy. A collection of 15  Christmas tales about love and family snarls in the season of comfort and joy, set in England, Ireland,  and Australia.

We discussed this book a bit and the consensus was that it was not what we expected for Christmas stories and  most of us did not enjoy this selection.

If you would like to read other books by Maeve Binchy, you can find more books by her on www.amazon.ca.

Our January book club selection is The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. As this is a very large book, we will be reading the first half of this book in January and the second half in February.

Our next meeting is on Wednesday, February 10th, 7:00 p.m. at the Library.

This is our second year for the Book Club. We started the book club in November 2008 and the first book we read was Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan.

Below is a list of all the books we have read so far:

• Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan – November 2008
• The Ukrainian Wedding by Larry Warwaruk – December 2008
• Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark – January 2009
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway – February 2009
• Why Shoot the Teacher by MaxBraithwaite  – February 2009
• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams – February 2009
• Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald – March 2009
• Revenge of the Land by Maggie Siggins – April 2009
• The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith – May 2009
• The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou – August 2009
• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines – September 2009
• 1st to Die by James Patterson – October 2009
• Where the Heart is by Billie Letts – November 2009
• This Year It Will Be Different by Maeve Binchy – December 2009

If you love to read and would be interested in joining the book club feel free to come to our next meeting or call Debra at 442-2055 for more information.

The Community Town Hall Meeting will be held at the Pangman School gym on February 13, 2010 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Lunch will be provided by the Deep South Personal Care Home Ladies Auxiliary at a price of $6.00 per person.

This meeting is being hosted by the Village of Pangman, The R.M. of Norton and the Economic Development Board. Everyone in the community and area is invited to attend the meeting.

The Economic Development Board will be hosting a Pancake Breakfast at the Community Center on  Saturday January 30th, Saturday February 27th and March 27th from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. – $6.00 per person.

The Economic Development Board is looking for volunteers to help out at the breakfasts.  Contact Eileen at 442-2145 if you can help out at one of the breakfasts.

The Ladies Auxiliary have a beautiful Valentine’s Basket with lots of delicious chocolates which  they are raffling off for Valentines Day. You can view this basket at Kathy’s Place.

Buy your tickets now at Kathy’s Place.

The draw for this basket will be held on February 12, 2010.

Even though it was extremely cold out on Friday, January 8th, about 10 people showed up for our first Shuffleboard/Pool night at the Community Centre.

We will be having a Shuffleboard/Pool Night every Friday night at 7 p.m. at the Community Centre. The cost is $3.00 to play shuffleboard,darts and pool. Pop and chips for sale and free coffee!!

We hope to see you out at our next Shuffleboard/Pool night on January 15th.

Well, another year has come to an end, and a new one is beginning. Time to reflect on the events and news that happened in the Village of Pangman in 2009.

• In May Pangman Charity Farms seeded a half section of land dedicated to raising money for Pangman School.
• On June 22nd A metrological tower was erected June 22nd and 23rd, 2 1/2 miles south of the east entrance to Pangman.
• In late June the Farmer’s Market started and was held every Saturday morning from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and ended on Saturday, October 31st.
• In July the Swimming Pool was re-opened. In September the school children were able to spend a few nice days at the pool.
• In August the new Playground equipment was set up.
• On August 24th, Pangman receives funding  for upgrades to our water treatment plant.
• In the summer Pangman received a grant for a Day Care which has been approved for opening in September 2010.
• In September the Village of Pangman website was launched.
• In October we had our annual Fall Supper and Wall of Fame ceremony.
• On November 10th Charity Farms harvested the crop on the half section they seeded in May.
• On December 5th the annual School Craft Bazaar and Santa Day were held.
• On December 12th a Community Christmas Sing-along was held at the Abundant Living Church.
• On December 17th the Annual Sleigh Ride was held.
• and many more events, too numerous to mention. Check out our Blog for more information.