K & D MUSIC FEST

This year the K & D Music Fest is celebrating it's 10th Anniversary. It all started out 10 years ago as a little party in the garage organized by Ken and Delores Schellenberg and has become an international event. Seven years ago they moved it into their big shed on the farm where they can accommodate the large crowds that come and enjoy a camping weekend in the Pembina Valley. It's a festival of music that promotes and preserves your favourite country classics and old time music from the past. You can dance or just listen to the many performers that grace the stage during the four day event. I personally been associated with the event for the past seven years, only because of a chance meeting with Ken one day in the town of Morden, when I happened to comment that I had a sound system. The rest is history, and over the years I have met hundreds of performers that have graced the stage at the K & D Music Fest. Both the attendees and the performers are wonderful down to earth type people who enjoy the same old time values and old time music. If you're into rap or heavy metal this isn't the place for you! Enjoy the relaxing casual slow paced life of the Pembina Hills, you can rejoin the rat race after this refreshing weekend.
This year features as usual the best in Canadian and U.S. bands. Check out the poster for details on performers and times. Also it's a great affordable camping weekend. Your hosts Ken and Delores and their Family are all waiting to see you and greet you at the site.

Pick a Winner Steve!

Sitting there alone at the Kopper Kettle restaurant stuffing my face with sumptuous raspberry bread pudding, my mind slipped over to the current political fray around Ottawa. Now I think I could actually help our Prime Minister out , even though I’m not prone to helping any Prime Ministers, especially right wing ones.
Seems like the bottom has fallen out of this so called New Government and it has become old over night. It also seems like Bernier and Couillard (Julie) have made it look like old home week, just like in the good old Tory days. Reminds me of the old saying “ What goes around, comes around”. Well maybe not quite as amusing as the old verbal exchanges between Sheila Copps and John Cosby, but none the less, interesting. You Mr. Haper have in your caucus a competent, seasoned and well spoken individual, her name is Diane Ablonczy and she is currently being wasted. As the new minister of External Affairs she would raise the profile of Canada and would be a worthy minister on the world stage, no more bumbling here. Yes I realize your both from Calgary, so what? yes I realize she was a leadership candidate, so what? She is far and away better than air-bag John Braid or Ms. “sweets” Rona Ambrose, get with the program Stephan, pick a proven winner eh!

Barbara Walters!

Barbarwaaah! Barbarwaaah! How could you have devastated me so, - having an affair? An affair? You, an American “pop” icon. You, ABC’s original million dollar “babe” - how could you? How dare you dump your dark secret passions of the past on an unsuspecting public. If I was ABC, I’d be asking for a refund, or at the very least, hire Kenneth Starr to impeach you. Are you unaware of the 7th commandment “thou shall not commit adultery”? Well perhaps you didn’t commit adultery, after all, he was a Republican senator. But surely you must have lusted a little, even President Jimmy Carter admitted to lusting in Playboy. "I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I committed adultery in my heart many times," he has said. Please say it isn’t so, Barb.

And you ran right into the arms of the highest rated T.V. talk show, "Oprah", to deliver that knock-out punch to those very young media hogs like Hannah Montana (Miley Cyrus), and to ward off the Britney Spears, Jessica Simpsons, and Paris Hiltons. Not since “Who shot J.R?” has such media pandemonium broken out in our midst. I can’t wait for the encore!