Weyburn is my home town, Odieman lives there, and jti wants to get in on it if he can arrange the time.
I’ll arbitrarily set the date as the weekend of August 12 (mostly because that’s when I have my holidays ). The Wheat Festival and Weyburn Homecoming are on that weekend, so accomodations might be a problem unless you book early or bring your own. I’ll say it again: I’m not arranging anything! It would be nice if I was that organized, but I’m not even on the scene to call hotels and such.
Any other prairie Dopers out there who’d like to visit Weyburn? If so, mail me at robertk@kwantlen.bc.ca, and I’ll keep you all posted.
Thank you, Megan, I was thinking of you! (I’ve looked at your page and all those cute webcam shots! Especially #6.) I spent a couple of years in S’toon, and loved it.
If you know of any other prairie Dopers, please pass the word on.
Lived in Yorkton 1965-71. Went back for the first time in 22 years in 1993. Steeled myself to accept that everything would have changed in the old neighbourhood.
Uttlery weird experience: almost nothing was different. Walked into my old grade school (Simpson, which is now a First Nations college) at lunchtime, and there was not a single soul in the whole building but me. Very “Twilight Zone” feeling, walking through your old school (built in about 1899), utterly alone, and looking just the way you remember it…
Weyburn is about 70 miles southeast of Regina. Start out straight south and follow the signs. Make sure to slow down through Yellowgrass - the local police force, who spent all his time waiting for speeders, retired long ago, but I think they got a replacement.
Wow…Too bad this wasn’t planned for last summer. I was out in Weyburn a whole buncha times. The Oil & Gas Show, other related oil biz, etc.
Had a fabulous time golfing. Kinda surprised at how good the course was, but I was cursing that long dry grass you call rough. As soon as the ball went in there it was lost forever.
Well have fun rippin and tearin it up at the El Rancho and Weyburn Inn
rjk - do you have slow tractor races at the Wheat festival?
will let you know if I can make it - any idea which fine drinking/eating emporium? (I know, I know - you’re not the organizer, bla, bla, bla - but someone has to decide where! The El Rancho’s easy to find - any other thoughts?)
The Weyburn Inn is there too, and might be better. The Royal Hotel is worse, unless it hasd changed a lot.
I’ll see if I can find out some details on costs and such, and post them here. (Unless Odieman wants to make a few calls, since they’re local for him. Yes, this is a hint!)
I was thinking that the most hospitable place to meet would probably be in Janx in the Weyburn Inn. We probabaly wouldn’t have any trouble getting in there and the food isn’t bad either. It would be better for talking than the Royal and I don’t know how fond the El Ranko would be to have us squat there for a few hours.
I also looked at the agenda for the wheat fest. They didn’t say anything about slow tractor races, they just mentioned threshing bee races. If you are looking for accomidations the Perfect Inn might be good. They are isolated and located next to McDonalds ;).
I’ll call next week for prices and reservation details.
Keith
Oh, and I’d like to extend an invitation to any dopers in Manitoba, North Dakota and Montana to attend as well. One thing, if you are crossing the boarder I think it might not be a good idea to tell customs that you are coming to a dopefest
Keith
Well, just out of curiosity, are any of you also Ruthenian by heritage, (aka Galicia, aka Trans-carpatho Ukraine) and are any of you my cousins, ie related in any way the the Oshmaks/Osmaks?
Here’s the info on hotels that my sister sent me. The opinions she has on the King George, Royal, and 385 are hers, but I certainly agreed when I was living there.
And Daniel, there are lots of Ukrainians around, though I don’t know any Osmaks personally. The name does sound familiar, though.
– Bob
El Rancho 53 Government Road, Weyburn, Sask. S4H 2A2
1-306-842-1441 1-888-842-1441
Old part: economy room – 1 double bed – $35-$40
– queen sized bed – $45-$50
New part: 1 bed (queen) – $70
2 beds (queen) – $80
I didn’t bother with the KG or the Royal and the 385 looks really seedy these days, but people could also phone the following places. They are just west of the El Rancho on the service road.
). The Wheat Festival and Weyburn Homecoming are on that weekend, so accomodations might be a problem unless you book early or bring your own. I’ll say it again: I’m not arranging anything! It would be nice if I was that organized, but I’m not even on the scene to call hotels and such.
