Pangman

On Saturday, October 22, 2011 was our Harvest Supper hosted by Charity Farms and the 100 Celebration Committee. Many people came out and enjoyed a meal of Turkey, Dressing, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Ham, Carrots, Salads, Fresh Buns, and delicious pies for dessert.

A big thank you to all who prepared food and those who worked in the new Community Kitchen doing preparation, serving and clean-up.

We had a few special guests at our Harvest Supper. Ken Kessler, NDP candidate for our area, and  Dustin Duncan, the Saskatchewan Party candidate for our area.

Chuck Jacques, Reeve from the RM of Norto,  spoke about the history of Charity Farms and the Community Kitchen project. Eileen Tunall spoke about the 100 Year Celebration and thanked everyone for all their help with the celebration.

Eileen Tunall and Joy White of the 100 Year Celebration Committee presented Brian & Gladys Jesse of Charity Farms with a cheque for $35,000.00 for the Community Kitchen.

Sept 6, 2011 was a warm sunny day for the 4 th Annual Pangman Charity Farms Harvest. All proceeds from this farming project go to the beautiful new kitchen for the Pangman Community.

Community Kitchen

A crop of Canola is what was harvested and it is nice to have it in the bins.  Combines were provided by Brian Jesse, E. Bourassa & Sons, Lawrence Fellner & Ken Kaufmann.  Trucks were provided by Roger Sambrook, Mark Johnson & Brian Jesse..  John Colbow supplied the tractor and auger.  Also special thanks to Wayne and Connie Lozinsky, Eileen Tunall, Chris Schwindt, Ken & Joyce Kaufmann for providing morning lunch, Pangman Co-op for beverages and FCC for after harvest supper of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Thanks to all who provided help in any way, it all helps.

The first event to be held at the Community Kitchen was the 100 year Community Supper on Wednesday, July 27th, 2011.

This Community Kitchen will allow us to put on more community events: 100 Year Celebration, Fall Suppers, Women’s Night Out and more.

Contact Brian Jesse of Pangman Charity Farms at 442-5925 for more information. A big thank you to Pangman Charity Farms for spearheading this community project.

We had an opportunity to take some photos of the inside of this new facility.

On Monday, November 8, 2010 Charity Farms continued with their Harvest.

They were out combining and baling, thanks to the weather co-operating and giving them a nice warm day in November.

Thanks to all those who volunteered their time and equipment to help get off this year’s crop. Without your help, Charity Farms could not continue to raise funds for our Community Kitchen.

On Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 Charity Farms started harvesting this year’s crop. There were 4 swathers out on the half section of land dedicated to raising money for Pangman School.

This is the 3rd Harvest to be done by Charity Farms. The first harvest was on September 12th, 2008 and last year the harvest was done on November 10th, 2009.

Thank you to Dale Colbow, Terry Webb, Bill Peters, and Byron Ledingham for helping with the swathing, and also thank you to all the volunteers who have helped with the Charity Farms project again this year.

We are all eager to see the new Community Kitchen built and attached to the Pangman School.

On June 19th, 2010, at the Radio Television News Directors Association (RTNDA) National Conference in Edmonton, Dan McIntosh was awarded the Dave Rogers Award for the short feature on CTV Regina entitled “A School Harvest”.

This short feature aired in November 2009 and it focused on Charity Farms, a group of local farmers from Pangman and area who planted, grew, harvested and sold the grain as a fundraiser for the Pangman School.

Congratulations to Dan McIntosh, the CTV Regina team and Charity Farms.

Tuesday, Novemer 10th was a fairly nice day for the harvest to be reaped. The machines rolled into the yard of Ken and Joyce Kaufmann, stopped for a morning coffee break and then it was out to the field of flax. The 6 combines began their rounds in the field about 10:45 a.m. and were finished by 3:30 p.m. The grain wagon would pull up side a combine and the flax would be transferred to the wagon from the combine hopper and neither one stopped. This went on all day and it was quite an enjoyable sight. The grain wagon would then transfer the flax into a waiting grain truck and off to the bin it would go when full. The flax straw was then baled by 2 tractors and balers and by the end of the day a lot had been accomplished by many willing hands of help.

The day was a long awaited day and it came off very nicely. CTV came down and did a story which was aired on the CTV news on November 17th. Dan McIntosh was the reporter and did a fine job of presenting the Charity Farms project as a community fund raiser for the school improvements.

Combines were supplied by Brian Jesse, Lawrence Fellner, Harry Sheppard (driven by Stan Sheppard), Tim DeBruyne, Bryon Vermuellen and Brent Vermuellen. Jason Vermuellen supplied and drove tractor and grain cart, Wayne Colbow drove the grain truck supplied by Stan Doughty. Ken Kaufmann drove the grain truck provided by Tim DeBruyne. The semi was provided by Egypt Valley Farms and driven by Dan Madigan. Tractor and auger were supplied by Harry Sheppard.

Pre Harvest spraying was done by Dean Meyers of Minton.

Thanks to the Oasis Restaurant for donating meals for all volunteers, Ken and Joyce Kaufmann for providing morning coffee and lunch, Wayne and Connie Lozinsky for providing salad and desert and Pangman Coop for refreshments.

Also thanks to the R.M. of Norton, Grainbelt Agencies, Municipal Hail, Wray Hail and McQueen Hail and special thanks to Richardson Pioneer, Corinne, for their kind and generous donations.

On May 28th, Pangman area farmers began seeding another crop for the Pangman Charity Farm project – a half section of land dedicated to raising money for Pangman School. You can read the entire article which appeared in the Deep South Star.

Harvest Day arrived on Sunday, September 12th and what a beautiful day it was.  The weather was perfect, the crop was ready and men and machinery moved into the field, ready to combine and get the grain into the bins.  Volunteers and machinery gathered in the yard of Ken and Joyce Kaufmann around 10 a.m. ready to go to work.  You can read the entire article which appeared in the Deep South Star.

The Pangman Charity Farms project wishes to express their appreciation to everyone who helped out with the project.  Thanks to Ken and Joyce Kaufmann for the morning lunch, and use of their yard for the day.   Special thanks to all who took the time from their own fields to provide machinery and help to harvest the crop.  Thank you to the following for their contributions towards this project:  Richardson Pioneer, E. Bourassa & Sons, Pangman Co-Op, Grainbelt Agencies, R.M. of Norton, Radius Credit Union, Ceylon Pulses, Weyburn Inland Terminal, Municipal Hail, Morris Industries and Bayer Crop Science and Weyburn Kentucky Fried Chicken.  Without your help this project would not have been possible.