The Borden Friendship Club held their Christmas Bingo Dec. 16, with 40 out to enjoy the evening. Winning turkeys were Audrey Duda (two), Stella Hawryluk and John Desrosier. Hams went to Laura Loeppky, Evelyn Kasahoff, Eileen Petrun, Jean Sawchyn and Lorraine Olinyk. The blackout went in 51 numbers to Carol Epp and Breanna Phquin of Langham, so they shared the $80 pot. After the cash was won, five people won boxes of chocolates. Thank you to everyone who supported the bingos. The next one will be Jan. 20 at 7 p.m.
Borden School Grades 7 to 10 students and art class decorated the walls of the Borden Community Centre with long lists of elves鈥� Christmas reading lists and coloured pictures of Christmas related items for the Christmas Concert in the Borden Community Centre Dec.18. The Borden Busy Bees Preschool sang five action songs to start the evening then kindergarten to Grade 6 presented a musical play, Elvis and the Sleigh Riders, a spin-off from last year鈥檚 Elvis the Impersonator.
One choir consisted of kindergarten and Grade 1 and the other choir, Grades 2-4, all dressed with Santa hats. For one song they all donned sunglasses. The Grade 5 and 6 class acted out the play while the choirs sang Oh Ho O Yeah, Gonna Go on a Sleigh Ride, We鈥檙e Sad Feel Bad and Are You Lonely and Blue 鈥� about understanding, apologizingand being kind. They closed with North Pole Rock and Roll and We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Santa then arrived to the singing of Here Comes Santa Claus to hand out gifts to all the preschoolers. Kindergarten to Grade 6 exchanged gifts.
The Grad class of 2016 held a successful pancake breakfast the following morning in the Borden Community Centre, selling pancakes, sausages, oranges and beverages.
The Borden Community Centre was full for the potluck supper and program put on by the Borden United Church and Riverbend Fellowship Church Dec. 20. The Adventure Club, with teenagers helping, put on two plays. The first one was Behind the Pageant, where they are practising for the Big Show. Some of the kids don鈥檛 know the real meaning behind the story they are rehearsing about the birth of Jesus and his death and resurrection. Understanding and revelation is attained by all and the Little Show ends up ministering to the kids more than the Big Show.
Gayle Wensley and Pam Pidwerbesky led in the singing of six familiar Christmas Carols, then they played two duets on the piano 鈥� Jingle Bells and What Child is This? The older children, with three-foot wooden sticks in hand, acted out the words to the song End of the Beginning by David Phelps. It takes place on a plane where a man is reading the Bible and the song went on to relate what happened in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the story of Jesus鈥� birth and death and his work. The lyrics include,聽 鈥淵ou see, He came, He lived and He died, but that was the end of the beginning.鈥�
Offerings from the evening of $320.20 went to the Syrian Refugee Relief Fund and bags and boxes of warm winter clothing are being collected by the United Church for the Open Door Society in Saskatoon and the Syrian refugees. The non-perishable food items that came in are going to be joined with the Affinity Credit Union鈥檚 collection to be distributed to needy families in the area.
