Radisson's centennial is being celebrated Aug. 9, 10 and 11.
Registration, lunch, get acquainted cocktails and a banquet take place in the curling rink from 1 - 8 p.m. Aug. 9. There are close to 600 registered for the supper. Then from 8 p.m. - 12 a.m. the Hamp's Band will be playing in the arena.
Saturday morning there is a free breakfast on Main Street the parade at 11 a.m. with over 100 floats entered and historical tours by horse-drawn carriage in the afternoon. There is also a gymkhana at noon, kids' activities, musical entertainment in the arena and a buffet supper from 5 - 7 p.m. in the curling rink. There are still a few tickets available for the supper. The Radisson fire department's dance is from 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. in the arena.
Sunday, Aug. 11, is a pancake breakfast from 8 - 10:30 a.m., an interdenominational service at the Lutheran church at 11 a.m., a light horse show, a tractor pull at 2 p.m., a soap box derby on Main Street at 2 p.m., cake cutting, balloon release and five-cent cones from 3 - 4 p.m. in the curling rink and a windup buffet meal from 4 - 7 p.m.
Other activities are the exhibits in the school gym on Saturday and Sunday until 4 p.m., and slo-pitch ball, food booths and children's activities both days. The museum and swimming pool are open both days. Don't forget to stop at the Royal Purple ice cream booth, serving sundaes with various toppings.
With a lot of former residents coming home to celebrate 100 years of Radisson, it should be a fun filled weekend of entertainment and reminiscing. See you at the fair!
Borden and District Museum held a garden and historic tour the afternoon of July 28, followed by a beef on a bun supper with salads and strawberry shortcake in the seniors' room. About 60 took the tour, visiting Terry and Lottie Petriew's "village hideaway" garden, Ivan and Ilene Youchesin's "grandchild's getaway" along 2nd Avenue, Rawlyk and Kerr's "secret gardens" and the Diefenbaker cairn on the way to Halcyonia Heritage Country School.
At the school Daphne Pearce explained the history and the display of farm home photos in the area, along with many other photos from the early 1900s. Then it was on to Heinz and Nancy (Penner ) Henn's to view the many artworks crafted by Nancy before driving by the Quaker church, one of the first to be built in the province, still being used during the summer months, and now the only Quaker church left standing in the province.
Then on to Kenjockety Farms, formerly owned by the Piprell family and now by the Walker family, where the 100-year-old two storey stone house is used as a bunkhouse for Walker's calving help in the spring.
The ninth stop was at the spacious farmyard of Bruce and Sylvia Larsen, the former site of a Doukhobor village in 1905, then on to Ted and Rose Mandziak's "sandhill landscape", where Ted has grown a wonderful garden with much landscaping, using as much of the natural growth as possible and lots of watering. It is located in Aspen Acres East.
Visitors came from Moose Jaw, Tisdale, Hafford, Speers, Delisle, North Battleford and Saskatoon along with Borden residents and there were over 70 at the supper including the museum board.
The Borden library holds a cake of the month raffle each month and the winner for July was Helen Sutherland, just in time for her birthday July 26.
Borden United Church resumes services Aug. 4 after holidays for the month of July. The Anglican Church minister Rev. Debbie Ramage takes her holidays in August. Because of the local eating place not being open, the United Church is having potluck lunch after the 11:30 service, Aug. 4.
Gayle Wensley is helping with the ecumenical church service at Radisson's centennial Aug. 11, so there will be no church at the United Church, but former Bishop Rod Andrews will be taking the service at St. John's Anglican. Services at the Riverbend Fellowship in the seniors' room are at 10 a.m. for July and August.
Radisson held their annual show and shine along Main Street, July 28, with 120 vehicles entered in the car/truck show, one tractor, 35 machines in the vintage snowmobile show and there were a number of motorcycles on display. William and the Shadows provided the musical entertainment, the kids could ride in the barrel train pulled by David Ruzesky and his MF garden tractor and several young Ukrainian dancers from Sonia's School of Ukrainian Dancing in Saskatoon performed some lively dancing to showcase their talents.
There were many prizes donated by local businesses and individuals for the show and shine raffle. Winners of some of the bigger prizes were Linda Doige - 14 x 12 tent; Larry Shapansky - fire pit, John Braun - homemade wooden birdhouse and Ralph Sothman - large wooden welcome lighthouse. Chamber of commerce raffle prizes went to: Sue LaFlamme of Radisson - generator; Liz Risdale of Saskatoon - Rider barbecue; and George Zeabin of Saskatoon - chainsaw.
Out of the 35 vintage snowmobiles, winning for the farthest travelled was Dwayne Grant of Calgary, Alta. Also on display was a Lorch 1928-30 scale model snowplane built by Lloyd How in 2009.
Winning the trophies or plates at the car show were:1920 -29, Nestor and Irma Buhler of Saskatoon with a 1929 Graham Paige; 1930-39, Ron Lee of Saskatoon with his 1935 Ford two door; 1940-49, Lorne McLaren of North Battleford and his 1940 Buick convertible; 1950-59, Bill Wibon of Saskatoon with a 1950 Ford two door; 1960-69, Kim Petz of Martensville with a 1968 Super Bee; 1970-79, Kirk Sinclair of Saskatoon and his 1971 Camaro RS; 1980 - 89, a 1981 Corvette of Robert Bratlien of Saskatoon was tops; 1990-99, Ben Lafonde of Saskatoon with his 1994 Corvette; and, for 2000-plus, John Millard had a 2007 Mustang.
In the customized vehicle competition, Rob and Sharon Stinson of Saskatoon had a 1947 International Truck. For best convertible, Ralph Sothman of Elrose won with his 1962 Impala. For trucks, Herschel Smith of Elrose was tops with his 1957 GMC half-ton. In tractors, Randy Friesen of Radisson won with a 1959 Massey 50.
Best import was a 1962 VW Beetle shown by Jean Moss of Saskatoon and best motor bike was a 2005 Soft Tail owned by Terry Okemow of North Battleford.
Special interest vehicle chosen was a 1959 Mack owned by Andy Zary of Saskatoon. The best racing vehicle was a 2006 Tundra, no. 94, owned by Pogoda Racing. Travelling the farthest was Calvin Robson of Edson, Alta.
The tool box for participants went to Bill Hiebert of Saskatoon.
