The Community
Press Telling your story
Volume 112, Issue 15
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
$1 Including GST
Strome Threshing Bee a step into the past
LESLIE CHOLOWSKY PHOTOS
The Strome and Area Threshing Bee on Saturday, Oct. 5 gave visitors a look at harvests of old. With a great crowd despite a cold wind, the demonstration of old, but running, machinery showed threshing, binding, plowing, and plenty of antique combines, tractors, and trucks. The working Sawyer-Massey steam engine was the star of the show, pulling an old fashioned Cockshutt plow. More Photos Pg 28.
Old fashioned threshing bee a true Killam achieve back-to-back wins home opener weekend look at past practices in farming The Harty and Rawe families from east of Strome, along with many neighbours and friends lending a hand, put on an outstanding Threshing Bee on Saturday, Oct. 5, with an amazing array of working antique farm machinery, and demonstrations of threshing using pulleys and steam powered machines, early binding machines, old plowing machines, antique combines, and more. Visitors came in a steady stream, despite frigid winds, to marvel in the ingenuity of the incredible and complex machinery from the past. Published weekly in Killam & Sedgewick, Alberta www.thecommunitypress.com
Serving Flagstaff County and Surrounding areas for over 111 years
EMILY TANTON PHOTO
Killam Wheat King Carter Burton scored a hat trick during Friday, Oct. 4’s home opener against the Vermilion Tigers; the Wheat Kings ended up with a 9-3 win, routing the visitors at the first home game of the season. Full story Pg 11. Photos Pg 24. Funded by the Government of Canada