Truck & Tractor Pulling Competitions coming to Bonnyville

If you are a fan of power and trucks and tractors you won't want to miss this event. The Bonnyville Ag Society will be hosting the Canadian Truck & Tractor Pulling competitions September 16, 17 & 18 in front of the grandstand at the rodeo and chuckwagon grounds just south of town.

Three days of high performance competition and a fireworks spectacular on Saturday night. Competitors will be coming from across Canada and a few of the northern states. For More information, check out the website at www.powerama.org .

Covered grandstand, beer gardens, displays, concessions, pit passes and a whole bunch of fun are sure to be the order of the weekend.
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This rain is really going to make the garden grow. I planted a few radishes in a couple of small planters the other day (sort of a small container garden). They've all come up and I'm hoping they won't be wormy.  We've planted them in the past just in the ground but they were garbage because of the worms and we ended up throwing them away. We had even used epsom salts because that's supposed to work. I didn't use any in this batch so we'll have to see how this works.

The spuds we planted in the straw are well up and after this rain they will grow like crazy. I'll put a pic up once it quits raining. My grape vines are growing but not as agressively as I thought they would. Grapes need a lot of heat and not that much water so we'll have to see. I've got them on a southern exposure but they are in a bed with our raspberries so they are tending to shade it a bit too much. Hmm, horns of a dilemma. Trim back the raspberries to grow the grapes or let them fend for themselves. Time will tell.
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The Bonnyville Ag Society has a new website as well and you might want to visit them. There's still a bit of problem with the calendar but all the information is there.  www.bonnyvilleagsociety.com Enjoy.
Dave.