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Vol. 13, No. 56, Wednesday, December 12, 2018 www.LamontLeader.com
Humboldt honoured at Christmas
Mundare farmers, Brian and Shawna Sharun’s tribute to the Humboldt Broncos tragedy lights up their Christmas landscape.
Mundare’s Sharun family Xmas display honours Humboldt crash victims BY JOHN MATHER When a truck slammed into a team bus carrying the Humboldt Broncos, killing 16, last April, there was no doubt in Brian Sharun’s mind what would be the addition to his Christmas display this year. Sharun has been constructing larger than life displays, with his wife Shawna, in the fields around his farm just southeast of Mundare, since he moved from the town 18 years ago. “It started with the traditional scenes,” he said. “But has grown to include a display of an Edmonton Eskimo helmet, horse and carriages,
STARS helicopter, reindeers and sleigh, gingerbread house, a train and more. The display at 532020 Range Rd 170 can been seen from Highway 16. “I always wanted to make a sleigh with Santa in the air,” he said. His first one ended up in someone else’s yard, but it has now been returned to him and it will soon be part of the display. He adds he has personal knowledge of some of those killed in the accident that motivated him to build the tribute. Sharun knew a family from Mundare, whom he had gone to school with and had a son the same age as
Sharun’s daughter, Cheyenne, 19. “His best friend was the goalie from Stony Plain that was killed,” he said. “And then one of the staff at work knew all the families in St. Albert who had children killed.” He added those families will be coming to his farm before Christmas to see the display up close. Sharun said he started making the display for Humboldt in early November. He welds the frame to a predesigned pattern. It’s then taken to the Hutterite Colony in Viking, where it is sandblasted and powder coated. He then wraps rope lights around the
framed figures. The couple had a display when they lived in Mundare but things really took off when they moved to the farm. Sharun works at an Edmonton lumber yard where he been a steady hand for more than 20 years. The display is lit from 5:30 to 11 every night and will be on until Ukrainian Christmas Jan. 7. On Christmas Eve and Christmas day they remain lit all night. He says the display probably cost him about $600 - $700 in added power.