BORDEN — A memorial golf tournament was held at the Borden Golf Course Aug. 17. many golfers participated in the tourney with a donation to the Borden Golf Course as the entry fee. Paul Hunchak passed away April 3 at the age of 90 after a bout with cancer.
Paul grew up in the Borden area and attended Halcyonia and Borden School, had farmed in the area for many years. He looked after the Borden Golf Course for several decades, all the while living in Saskatoon with his wife Margaret and raising daughter Valerie and sons Gord and Andrew.
He is also survived by six grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, one brother, three sisters and their families, and predeceased by parents, three brothers and two sisters.
At the tournament, everyone who donated or played received a set of golf balls and could partake of a hot dog lunch with bags of chips or goodies and beverages. Nearly everyone who played received a prize donated by the family.
Adventure at the Borden Museum happened Aug. 17, with Pat Morris of Saskatoon, accompanied by her son Darren, talking about her father, Bernhard Wall, who was born in 1908 and raised in the Borden area, the fourth of nine children. He attended Hoffnungsfeld School and Rosthern Junior College.
Ben taught school for five years in the Borden and Langham area, then became a dentist at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, graduating in 1939. He first practised in Ponoka, Alta.
In 1942 he moved to Saskatoon and started his dentistry practice in the old Canada Building Jan. 30, 1943. Since he spoke German, many of his patients were of German descent. Pat herself often worked in the 1950s in his office as a receptionist. A filling cost $7 in the 1960s, and he didn’t believe in freezing the mouths of children.
Dr. Wall retired in 1983 and passed away in 1988. The dentist’s chair, many forceps and tools of dentistry along with plaques of Dr Wall are on display in the Borden Museum.
The next talk at the museum will be Aug. 31 at 2 p.m., at Borden Union Hospital.
Winning the 50/50 draw at the Borden Farmers’ Market on Aug. 16 was Joyce Olzewski.
