Borden Library held a Christmas tea Dec. 20 and winning the door prize was Gloria Derbowka. Every month the library has a dessert of the month draw and winning the dessert for December was Grant Buller.
Leading up to Christmas Day, many businesses offered goodies and beverages. Borden Co-op also hosted Santa on the afternoon of Dec. 21. He arrived in a sleigh drawn by a team of horses and handing out candy bags to the children who visited. There were goodies and beverages inside the grocery store.
Monday and Tuesday there were goodies and hot apple cider at Affinity Credit Union along with some door prizes. The Sugar Shack Café also got in on the festivities with an appreciation evening earlier in the month, giving out snacks and goodies to all who had patronized the café during the year.
The Borden Community Centre Preservation Committee held their Christmas raffle of a basket full of goodies and scratch tickets and the winner Dec. 19 was Carlye Saunders of Borden. The BCCPC next draw will be for a basket of goodies for Valentine’s Day to be drawn Feb. 13. Raffle tickets will be on sale from members of the committee or from the credit union early in January. Proceeds from these raffles are going to the purchase of new stage curtains for the community centre.
The Borden Lions are hosting a Valentine dinner theatre Feb. 15, with the Battlefords Community Players presenting a comedy, Red Feather Ladies, in the Borden Community Centre. Tickets are $30 per person and can be purchased from Lions members. Doors open at 5 p.m., supper is at 6 p.m. with the play to follow.
Condolences are extended to families in Borden and Radisson of Annie Pidwerbesky, Saskatoon and formerly of Borden, who passed away Dec. 23 at the age of 87 years. The service was to be held Dec. 30 in Saskatoon with burial at Borden Cemetery. Annie is survived by four children – Stephanie (Dennis), Iris (Kim), Eugene and Ernie, 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
