Spring hurry up

We know we that March 20th  marks the Spring equinox in the Northern Hemisphere but here in Crapaud it's hard to see any sign of spring weather. We have  deep winter with snowbanks everywhere. Sherwood Forest Drive was badly drifted during recent  storm and staff were marooned there for two hours until help arrived.

  Barb McQuarrie recalls that in the old days the Island had plenty of  heavy, wild snow storms. In her childhood they  dreaded a snow storm arriving  and  not being  able to to get out to family for Christmas dinner. Spending time with family  made Christmas special.

Florence Coles Lewis recalls there were times that people were storm stayed three days or more. You could out to the barn for the animals but that was it. She grew up on the Loyalist Road in Milton on a 90 acre farm.  She didn't like the farm life and happily left it all behind when she moved to Summerside to start her own hairdressing business called Du-Hart Saloon.