Wednesday, March 28th - finally a snow day - well at least for some

So yesterday morning it didn't look too bad but when I got out onto the road and had the radio on, all the schools were closed as well as lots of the businesses in town. Even the liquor stores were closed for the day. But fortunately for the population of the province, they were still able to buy cars. Out our way was okay but the closer you got to town the worse it got. There was more snow there than here and it was really blowing around. The winds were very high during the day, gusting up to 90 km per hour. They predicted it would last into this morning but that doesn't appear to be the case. It's a bit windy outside but nothing too serious. It's -4' and heading for -2'. Hard to believe this time last week we were wearing sandals and short sleeves. (Patti told me last night they are supposed to be 15' today).

So Brenda and I owe Bernie really large.  Brenda received an email a couple of days ago regarding the Village Feast in Souris:

FOOD NETWORK VILLAGE FEAST DOCUMENTARY CELEBRATION

In celebration of the Food Network premiere of “Village Feast” documentary on March 31st, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. ADT, the Village Feast committee has arranged a public viewing of the documentary on the night of the premiere at the Souris Show Hall at 8:30 p.m. The public is invited to join the committee as it hosts the viewing the Food Network’s portrayal of the beautiful town of Souris, its people and their role in the Village Feast fundraiser. An informal reception will follow.

Food Network will re-air the documentary Sunday, April 1st, at 4:00 p.m. ADT.

Village Feast Inc. is a non-profit children’s charity based in Souris, Prince Edward Island. It supports local and global initiatives whose goals are to improve the lives of children in our world. Some of the benefactors are Farmers helping Farmers, a P.E.I. NGO which builds school cookhouses in Kenya, Africa, the Souris Food Bank, Coats for Kids, and Main Street Family Resource Centre's Young Mothers cooking classes.

 

We are currently planning our fifth annual Village Feast event on July 8th, 2012.

So yesterday Bernie had the Food Network installed just for us! What a guy. We owe him a really nice meal this time. Of course, I suppose we could have always gone up to Souris on Saturday evening to watch it but now we can do it in the comfort of the Van Gaal living room!