Steam power reigns down at Campbell’s farm – Blowing off steam has been a community event at Eric Campbell’s farm since 1972. While most farmers use a combine these days, Campbell still likes to get a group together and thresh grain like it was done in the old days.

“That’s what built this country, people working together, so we’re doing it like the old threshers did it,” he said. 

His three steam engines from 1895. 1896 and 1911 consistently fed power to three threshing mills on Saturday. 

Campbell welds all his own parts in order to keep the machines in working condition.

“We restore the best and junk the rest,” he said.

When the threshing was done around 3 p.m. the entertainment began. Local musicians performed in the barn, using fiddles and guitars and food was served to satisfy the workers’ appetites.

Dr. Hudson honoured: Community Day in Quyon Saturday and Sunday will wrap up by recognizing a once prominent member of the community, Dr. Robert Hudson. A plaque and a picture of the man who practised out of an office on Quyon’s Main Street for 35 years will be dedicated to the library Sunday at 2 p.m. Hudson passed away due to a heart attack in 1974 at the age of 64

‘Scissors’ cuts 400 pot plants: Police pulled 400 pot plants last week from a plot of Crown land near Coale Lake, north of Sheenboro. Acting on a tip, two officers from the Pontiac MRC Sûreté du Québec and two officers from the SQ’s major crime unit in Hull seized the plants as part of the province-wide Operation Scissors, which began last year to combat the multi-million dollar marijuana-growing industry. The SQ estimates the value of the 400 plants at $800,000.