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Marilyn Schultz portrayed by Linda Fletcher tells of her ordeal during the fire of 1989!
2000
Millenium Dinner Theatre

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Local resident Marilyn Schultz tells of the horrific experiences of the 1989 fire and the miracles that happened to her family.

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Marilyn reading from her journal about the fire in 1989 and how it impacted on her family.
2000
The Millenium Dinner Theatre
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Marilyn Sholtz reads from her journal.

My son Mike was visiting from his home in Fort McMurray. My husband Len went to work. Mike had lunch in town and returned to say there were fires near Camper close to our farm. We got our two dogs in the car and tried to drive to the highway. The smoke was too thick. All of a sudden I just prayed and said, "Lord, please give me some direction here". We could only head east to the hydro lines and further to the gravel pit. I said to Mike, "Let's go the hydro lines." Mike and I and the two dogs went to the hydro lines and just sat in the car and watched the fire, it burnt all around us. Fireballs would shoot from one spruce tree to another. Finally, around seven in the evening, hydro men came and said that we could go home. Our house was there but that was all. Len came home around five. He was worried. He was looking for us. Everything around the tractor except the house was a black mess. We had no water, no hydro no phone, no nothing! Then I came driving into the yard with Mike and the dogs.
18 houses were burnt in the area but ours was spared. I believe because I have faith that God was looking after Mike and me that day because the very next day the wind blew the fire back. The wind switched and burned right down the hydro lines.

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Jenny, the donkey, leading the cattle.
11 May 1989
Jim Hedden's farm near Camper

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Jenny the "Hero Donkey" leads the cows on the farm of Jim and Donna Hedden near Camper. Jenny led the confused cows out of the burning farmyard to safety during the Fires of 1989.

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Article about Jenny, the donkey, leading many cattle to safety during a fire.
1989
On the Hedden farm near Camper
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Newpaper article about Jenny the Hero Donkey.

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Fire burns through the base of a tree during the wildfires of 1989 near Ashern.
1989
East of Ashern

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Fire burns through this tree leaving an unusual shape.

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Herb Price's home, saved from the 1989 fire.
1989
East of Ashern

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The home of Herbie and June Price, local residents near Ashern. The fire burned around the home but left it intact much to their releif.

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The trail winds among the burned out forest area east of Ashern, a legacy of the1989 wildfires.
1989
East of Ashern

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A road winds into the burned bush east of Ashern during the 1989 fires.