The Borden Friendship Club held their potluck supper on the Dec. 31with more than 35 out to enjoy the evening. The birthday cakes were brought by Anne Palmer and Eileen Petrun and blowing out the candles with December birthdays were Dianne Rawlyk and John Longmore. After the dessert, the movie Brother, Where Art Thou was shown to those who stayed.
Riverbend Fellowship Church and Borden United Church held their joint potluck supper Dec. 21 with more than 100 out for the evening. Non-perishable food was collected at the door and this was combined with Affinity Credit Union and Radisson Tops Chapter and distributed to five local families. The children put on three plays with Kelly Wall as MC for A Christmas Addition, when members of a nativity clash with the more traditional decorations of Christmas. As the nativity characters tell their story, the others begin to see why Baby Jesus is the real star of Christmas.
Daryl Wiebe introduced the second play, Rejoice in the Reason. Gayle Wensley led in carol singing with Pam Pidwerbesky playing piano. The final was a Shadow Drama depicting the nativity scene. The children all received candy bags and everyone enjoyed Christmas oranges as they left.
Borden School K to Grade 6 held their concert Dec. 19 with MCs Clayton Wiebe and Rachel Sutherland introducing the acts. The Borden Busy Bees Preschool performed two songs. Kindergarten to Grade 6 put on a musical play, Elfis The Impersonator with Elvis, Santa and Mrs. Claus, elves and reindeer. The rest of the students formed the choir. Santa arrived and gave out presents to all the pre-school children and students exchanged gifts. The next morning the Grade 12 class held a pancake and sausage breakfast that was well attended. The day included a floor hockey tournament and the children had a busy afternoon playing games and getting ready for the holidays.Â
Our family were fortunate to have my son, Bryan Pidwerbesky, home for a week, arriving Dec. 31 to celebrate New Year’s Day and my birthday, departing Jan. 9 to attend a conference in Washington, D.C. He came from 30 C in Christchurch, New Zealand, to -35 C Jan. 4th, so he will be glad to be back home to warmer weather.
