JIM SELLERS

 
Jim Sellers born and raised in the Nunebar district, twenty miles south of Lloydminster, needs little introduction.  Jim's father Horace arrived from England in 1905 to settle here.  Jim attended school in the Rugby and Lloydminster School Districts, completing that schooling in Biggar, due to a family move.

While driving Grey Hound Bus in the Yukon when the Alaska Highway was being built, Jim met a charming young nurse named Buddy.  The two were soon married arid raised two sons - Jim Junior of Calgary, and Rod of Lloydminster.  They have bragging rights on children and great grandchildren.

Jim and Buddy lived in Dawson Creek, Saskatoon, Calgary, and Vancouver, as well as spending many winters in Arizona, but always came back to good old Lloydminster.

Jim enjoyed and excelled at many sports such as Ball and Curling, but his biggest thrill was owning race horses. In 1960 a lifelong goal was realized when Jim and Buddy bought their first race horse.  Jim soon began reorganizing harness racing in Lloydminster.  The Lloydminster Exhibition fell between Edmonton and Saskatoon Race Meets, so the best horses in Western Canada were competing right here in Lloydminster.

By 1969, Sellers owned several horses, so they purchased a farm, built a race horse barn and a race track. In October 1970 "Baroness Diana" won the "Gold Pan" the top race for two year olds in western Canada.  In 1971, Jim was named the "Sportsman of the Year" at the Kinsmen Sportsman's Dinner.

Buddy and Jim will long be remembered for Sellers Dairy Freeze, started in 1953, and for their Kentucky Fried Chicken.  The Sellers were second only to Saskatoon in getting a Colonel Sanders Franchise in this area.  Jim and Buddy reside in Lloydminster full time and are vitally interested in all that goes or, in the city.  Jim also shoots a "mean game of Pool".