Onoway Heritage Days

This weekend is Onoway Heritage Days, we attended the Pancake Breakfast (sponsored by Onoway Fish and Game), wandered around viewing the different booths set up on Main Street, checked out the new Bakery, Woody found a good deal on blades he can use for this leather work in the Mini Mart Store. The owner of the store created a huge western/agriculture scene using pull tabs from aluminum cans named “Awesome Millions” he used over 2.5 million pull tabs which many were donated by people from the Onoway area. I wish we had thought to take our camera, you cannot imagine it and I sure cannot create a picture for you with words. The whole scene which has a horse and rider, a tractor, front parts of buildings, trees, and I cannot remember what else and is housed in a 40 foot fifth wheel trailer which he has taken to California to show and he has been offered over a Million Dollars for it, but would not sell it. I have never seen anything like it and he did a great job, if you ever have an opportunity to view his work I would recommend it, very unique and impressive, the items are life size. I did not ask how long it took him to finish such a huge project, but he did say he is going to redo the horse and rider, he is not satisfied, said the horse is not proportioned correctly, looked okay to me though, but then an artist is never satisfied with his own work! Woody had seen it before in his store where it was set up originally and mentioned it to me but I never went and looked at, sure happy I had the opportunity today. We hung around to watch the parade which was typical of a small town parade but the coolest thing was the town organized Sky Divers to land on the street just before the parade started, there was about nine divers and all landed safely, it was so awesome to watch them float down and land right in front of us, we have never seen Sky Divers land so close up previously, we used to watch them float down from our yard at the acreage regularly as there is a Sky Diving Club at a small airport just a few km from here.
We returned to the park, the campers were busy playing horseshoes and other games they had set up, we had a quick lunch then Woody went to cut grass at the gun range which is just down the road, Woody volunteers his time to keep the grass mowed, plus does any small repairs required and is a Range Officer for the Range. The weather was nice today, high around 20C (68F) with a couple of light showers in the evening. The Fire Ban is still in effect even with previous snow and rain we have had no campfires are allowed in the park so the rain is welcomed. Life rolls along and we enjoyed our day!