This rural Alberta county has a first dose rate of only 45%. People who live there tell us why
CBC
In the small Alberta hamlet of Skiff, Cade Hollingsworth and two of his co-workers are on farmer time, lying on the ground next to a grain elevator, watching the clouds go by.
They have some cleaning and a little bit of paperwork to do today, but beyond that they're waiting for a truck to be loaded up at the farmyard just across the coulee to the north.
That will take as long as it takes — farmer time.
Hollingsworth works for Forty Mile Rail, a short line railway that runs between the village of Foremost and Stirling, Alta. When the grain cars finally arrive, the trio will load it up before it gets shipped to the coast.
Just a little more than 25 kilometres up the road is Hollingworth's hometown, Foremost — one side of the Forty Mile Rail.
It's a small community, with a population of just over 500. Hollingsworth graduated with 15 students in his Grade 12 class.
"Everybody's friends. Everybody knows everybody, which can be good and bad," he says. "I think the saying, 'It takes a village to raise a child,' actually is very true in the village of Foremost."