This sign is old and has seen better days - but it is special! It was posted at the original Lacombe station long since gone. A gentleman, Bruce Deedrick, working for Border Paving gave it to us. He got it from the original building and never got rid of it. He knew once he read the article in the paper about the station being re-built that he should give it to us. Right now it sits in a display area in our stairwell. We think we would like to put it down in the board room once that space is finished. It's fun when people pass on treasures from the former station and desire the article(s) to be in the new/old station. Many people have expressed their amazement that this is not a renovation, but a re-creation. Must mean we look like the real thing!

On the weekend - in spite of the lousy weather - we worked outside. Ron and Peter spent some time installing the handrail in our stairwell. This is a long overdue must! One more coat of varnish some evening and it will really be done. Peter is relieved and it looks good. I think it helped he had someone working with him on it that wasn't afraid to tackle the job! They did a good job, and it didn't hurt at all that they got to spend Friday inside out of the cold wind! Who WAS out in the cold wind you ask? Why Bev and myself. We were up on scaffolding and giving a second coat of color to the tongue and groove soffit under our eaves. By the end of the weekend we were more confident on our swaying perch, tired out from stretching this way and that, all giggled out and had finished painting the soffit across the front of the building. Once the inside work was done Peter and Ron went outside and climbed ladders to give a final coat of color to the brackets, ledger board, beam and back face of the fascia board. They finished just over one half of the front face of the building. Off and on throughout the weekend Kevin and Kelsey worked at coating the trim around the windows and doors. They got about 65 percent of the trim work done. And they didn't have to climb up very high, much to Kelsey's relief.

Enjoy the pics! Sorry Bev - Peter really did not get a picture of us working so hard up high and almost out of sight! Everyone else - use your imagination!

Peter and Ron

Kev and Kelsey