The SARM Trade Show is held each year during the Annual Convention in March. This convention normally draws around 2,000 people with the majority being reeves, councillors and rural municipal administrators. The show attracts many different companies, government agencies and special interest associations for the benefit of the delegates. We encourage you to take the opportunity to meet the present decision-makers of rural Saskatchewan, the people who direct the annual expenditure of nearly $200 million in municipal goods and services.
On March 11th 2008, my Dad suggested that I would come to the convention for the evening entertainment. That evening, I visited with my Dad and a couple other members from the R.M. While I was there, we discussed about the latest graders. At first, I wondered why I went but later on, I found it quite interesting, especially hearing it from a bunch of old technological illiterate men. The new graders do not have a steering wheel or hydraulic levers, but instead is entirely controlled by two hand held joysticks. At the convention they had this grader on display and beside it they had two replica controllers. These controllers were set out for people like my Dad to test their ability to use them by following an obstacle course on the T.V. screen (similar to a nintendo racing video game). My Dad, like many other men over the age of forty found it nearly impossible to stay on the “road.” however, the younger men found it difficult but manageableto stay on the road the first time round.
