Drumheller Family and Community Support Services are very excited to announce the first ever 100 Kids Who Care Drumheller Event on September 11 at the Badlands Community Facility from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. The event is to launch a 100 Kids Who Care Drumheller group.

The 100 Kids Who Care Drumheller group will be a group of 100 (or more) kids between the ages of 5 and 17 in the Drumheller area who care about local charities and want to make a difference within their community.

Members will come together 4 times a year with $10 each to donate to a local charity. Kids nominate a local charity of their choice in advance and 3 of those charities are randomly selected during the event. The kids whose charities are selected will get up and speak about their charity, and then members vote for one to receive the group’s collective donation. The kids are encouraged to earn the $10 donation or to use their allowance or birthday money.

“This is a great opportunity for kids to learn that they can make a difference in the world regardless of their age or how much they have to give”, says Community Services Coordinator, Laura Dougan. “We want kids to experience the power of giving when we work together as a team.”

Currently there are more than 600 actively operating chapters throughout the world with more than 250 under development. Chapters include women’s groups, men’s groups, groups inclusive of men and women, businesses, kids, and teens groups.

Dougan explains that this is a win-win situation for everyone.

“The local charities will benefit from the donations, the kids will feel empowered by their efforts and the community will become stronger in the whole process, so everyone wins,” she said.

The group plans on giving their time as well for community service projects at future events.

To sign up to be a member or for more information people should contact Community Services Coordinator at Laura Dougan (403)823-1365 or via email at ldougan@dinosaurvalley.com.

Just one kilometre from Irricana is Pioneer Acres, a museum dedicated to preserving Alberta’s heritage. The museum, which features vintage tractors and historical pioneer artifacts displays, will be celebrating its 49th anniversary this weekend with a number of special events.

The annual show starts Friday and runs until Sunday, with highlights being heavy horse hitches, an antique tractor pull, a ferrier display to see how horses are shoed, daily horse parades, blacksmithing demonstrations, and wheelwright building which will show visitors how wheels used to be made. There are many more events planned over the course of the weekend.

Forty-nine years is a milestone for any organization, but for show chairman Lyle Rowe, the museum’s great significance for Albertans is what keeps people coming.

“Volunteers are driven by the will and determination to show and tell how pioneers prevailed without modern technology. The museum shows how early pioneers survived and made a decent living,” Rowe says. 

Each year a different tractor or farm equipment manufacturer is featured and this year it is Allis-Chalmers and Rumely tractors and equipment. Allis-Chalmers Company was formed in Wisconsin in 1901 and became an industrial conglomerate, manufacturing farm, mining, and industrial equipment before it was dissolved in 1985. Rumely started in 1853 in Indiana and manufactured threshers and later moved onto steam engines. The company was purchased by Allis-Chalmers in 1931 and stopped production of all models. A presentation about these companies will be at 11 a.m. at the Ron Carey building at the museum. More information about the weekend can be found at the Pioneer Acres website at
www.pioneeracres.ab.ca