Rick Ebbers has been involved with the Ashern Museum since 2002. He's now Chairman of the Ashern Museum Board, and getting ready to hold their annual Threshing Day this weekend. It runs from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM this Sunday.
According to Ebbers, it'll be a very packed day, and there will be a few notable guests in attendance.
"We're going to have all our museum buildings open for touring, and we're going to have some speeches by our local MLA and Member of Parliament, and we'll be having a threshing demonstration going on in the afternoon...we had hoped to be doing a binding demonstration, but I don't think the grain at the field there is going to be ready for binding yet, it's still a little bit on the green side," said Ebbers.
If you haven't been to the Ashern Museum yet, Ebbers said you're missing out. It's a great way to get a glimpse into the area's past, especially with the variety and quality of the buildings and artifacts at the site.
"Well we have the original [Canadian National Railway] station which is our main building, and we have a united church that used to be in town here, we got the Hoffman House, which is a good example of a early log building from the area," said Ebbers.
Despite how well-kept a lot of their buildings are, their age shows through the fact there's almost always something to repair. The cost to attend the threshing day is $5 for adults and free for kids 12 and under. That money goes right back into helping the Ashern Museum keep going.
"There's always some repairs to be done, we do have a student for the summer this year, and that's basically taken care of by usually a grant that we have from Canada Summer Jobs, but yeah, there's always repairs to be done, and in the future here there's a couple of buildings that we are going to have to put roofs on them pretty soon," said Ebbers.
For more details about the Ashern Museum and their upcoming Threshing Day on Sunday, visit their Facebook page.
