Saturday Oct 5: Absolutely gorgeous day to be out meeting the residents of Stony Plain! 9C (48F) was warm with all the walking and stair climbing… I have never seen so many sets of stairs built so poorly! Honesltly, there has to be a better way to build stairs! 2.9 km, 592 stairs, chatted with 16 people. As of today, I have delivered my brochures in these neighborhoods: Old Town – Heritage Court – Egerland Place – Stony Creek – Brookview – Sunrise Village – Stonegate – Stonehaven – Homesteads – Sandstone – Silverstone – Jutland ridge – Sun Meadows. Talked to 16 people today… please see my George Conrad Dean story @ the end. Thanks to Jill Gargus and Randee Rurka for a great job of covering The Glens & Heritage Estates! I’ll be around to knock on some doors and hear from people in these subdivisions as well as the ones that will be covered tomorrow by my daughter, Heidi, and her Ravens Volleyball Team with a lot of help from some Volleyball moms! Eight large neighborhoods are the target of the “Sunday Afternoon Campaign Blitz”! Thanks to my husband, Dan, for taking care of small signs, to Doreen Noppers for counting and bundling brochures for the blitz. With 6800 residential doors in Stony Plain, this is a big job. Sat on the front veranda to chat with George Conrad Dean who was born in 1933 in Entwistle. He moved to Stony Plain and for many years worked @ Mcleod’s on Main Street. He and his wife moved back to Evansburg to help his dad farm. When Mr. Dean’s wife passed away he moved to Pioneer Manor where now lives. His parents are buried in Evansburg. Amanda Morris, another young mom and their children have “adopted” Mr. Dean. They invite him for supper 3 times a week – tonight was grilled chicken breasts wrapped in bacon, corn-on-the-cob and ceasar salad. Pat: “So do you attend church anywhere, Mr. Dean?” George: “I used to go to the Lutheran Church across the street from where I live. I should go back to church…. I could attend there, I suppose.” After some reflection, George said: “When I die, I want to be cremated… I want to be cremated and I want my ashes spread on my mother and father’s graves…“ Pat: ‘Why on your mom and dad’s grave, Mr. Dean?’’ George: ‘I want to have my ashes spread on their graves because I belong to them; I belong to them… I was created from them and they were very good to me.” Yes… I was choked right up. I left with a lump in my throat and teas on my cheeks. Issues: Need photo radar on Brookview Way; need sign at traffic light by hospital telling people Golf Course Rd is to the right. Semi’s 53’ trailers & backing up is an accident waiting to happen; Need more equipment in playground east of Brookview – 26 kids get off at just one bus stop and there is a big need for it; need the RCMP Detachment “like yesterday! And it should be built north of stony Plain overpass”; Thank you, Lord, for no snow and ice!!
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