Over the years there have been several private pilots in the Esther community. Ron Barnett and his Piper Cub, carried a little freight and sprayed a few crops for himself and the neighbors. Bob Bamber and his Citabria could be seen buzzing around the countryside in the evenings. Roy and Roxie Pratt and their Cessna 182 traveling about the province on business and pleasure. Rick Strankman and his commercial spray plane spending countless hours spraying crops and grasshoppers when they were hungry. Steve Kuzmiski could be seen out enjoying his 172 and Doug and Joyce Westerlund also both had their licenses. Just a hop and a skip to the east were Buck Foss in Loverna and Barry and Delphine Slater south of Loverna with their crop spray planes. All in all, we had a pretty talented group of pilots in our midst. Fly in breakfasts were a common site as well, sometimes at Roy and Roxie's and sometimes at Coates Lake.