Christmas Passes For Another Year

As the Twelfth Night, signalling the end of the Christmas Season fast approaches, I look back on some of the many acts of kindness which really define our village. Here are just a few;

• The Snow Angels who voluntarily shovel snow from the walks of seniors and shut-ins.
• The Beiseker Fire Department who volunteer to do their annual Candy Cane Run each Christmas Eve.
• The Emergency Response Team and the Beiseker Fire Department, who have had to open up our Community Centre to stranded motorists at least twice in the past month!
• The volunteer drivers who drive our seniors to medical appointments in Airdrie or Calgary.
• The anonymous good Samaritans who have helped several motorists who were stuck in the snow storm, a couple of weeks ago.
• The Beiseker Volunteer Medical First Response Team who have saved so many already in their short existence!
• Those who volunteer to help seniors fill in their income tax forms each year.
• The volunteer coaches and managers who give up so much of their time to supporting our young people in team sports.
• Those who support our Food Bank here in Beiseker.
• Those who volunteer to help in village clean-up and recycling projects.
• Those who volunteer to make community events such as our Country Fair a huge success.
• Those who volunteer to mow the acres of grass out at the airport.

These are but a few generous acts of kindness found in our village.  Merry Christmas!

Thank you so much, Beiseker!

My friends and neighbours in the village of Beiseker saved my wife this week.

I am not joking.  My wife Madeline got her car stuck on Beacon Heights Road last Monday afternoon.  She was only a couple of blocks from our house, and it was still daylight, so she decided to walk home. 

She couldn't plow through the mounting drifts and fell a number of times;  she only made it a few hundred feet and finally managed to crawl (yes, crawl) to a neighbour's house.  There, she warmed up a bit while another neighbour brought her a pair of snow boots and escorted her home.

The next day, she realised she required medical attention for her frostbitten hands.  Our village's First Response Team sprang into action.  After looking at my wife's frostbite they decided she may require transportation to a hospital.  An ambulance was called, but it couldn't get into our subdivision because of the drifts. 

Many, many volunteers started shovelling and the ambulance got through!  They dug a path to our front door.  However, it was decided that the risks of transporting her in such weather were too high and my wife remained at home. 

In the days since then, friends and neighbours have been phoning and visiting her to make sure she's OK. 
Madeline is doing much better now.  Her hands are still sore, but getting better each day.

Without the help of all those Beiseker friends and neighbours Madeline could have been much more seriously hurt.  "Thank you" seems to be so lacking in expressing our apreciation for all you did this week for us, but I'll say it again; Thank you and God bless!