Photo by Keith Stewart
A small boy eyes a 1:220th scale of the proposed Aikman Wildlife Park at the Arthur Outdoor Expo last month. There, Arthur resident James Aikman and his staff presented his proposed zoo to the public.

March 4, 2015

Arthur loan officer pursues dream from God

by Keith Stewart
keith@newsprogress.com

After the first dream about owning his own wildlife park, James Aikman, an Arthur resident, woke up and told his wife Kelsey.
“On the night of October 21, 2013, I had a dream of my wife and I basically owning and running this wildlife drive-through park, so that next morning I told my wife about it, and she looked at me like I was crazy,” recalled Aikman to a full room during an economic luncheon at TnT Pizzeria February 19. “Our first son was going to be born in less than a month. She said, ‘We’ve got that coming up; this is not the time to be talking about this at all.’”
Listening to what has often been described as the wiser sex, Aikman let the notion go.
That is, until that night.
Aikman then says he had the exact same dream, a sign that this was not something to be taken lightly.
“I completely agreed with her and thought it was the end of it. That night I had the exact same dream again, and so I told my wife about it and said, ‘I don’t know why, but I really feel like this is from God.’ And she said, ‘If it’s really from God, he’ll find a way to make it happen.’”     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.