The Borden Friendship Club held their Harvest Tea and Bake Sale on Oct. 18 with more than 30 in attendance. Winning the 50/50 of $25 was Peggy Wainwright and winning door prizes were Elaine Gunsch, Jean Sawchyn, Florence Neufeld, Sandra Long, Dianne Winters, Ann Wardhaugh, Stella Hawrylyk, Ann Brand, Val Fendelet, Eleanor Walton and Diane Tracksell.
Borden Fire and Rescue held their annual steak night Oct. 20 in the Borden Community Centre, serving close to 200. There were more 25 items in the silent auction. Elaine Gunsch won a firefighters calendar, with Borden’s local firefighter Inga Abramson featured on one of the pages.
There were guests from other fire and rescue organization – Langham, Radisson, Maymont, Swift Current, Meadow Lake, Aberdeen, Nipawin and Buckland.
After the meal, acting Fire Chief Ian Wainwright spoke about the new fire hall addition that cost $112,00. So far $38,000 has been raised. He spoke about a break-in with equipment worth more than $40,000 stolen. Two items have been recovered.
Ian also thanked the volunteers on the fire deptartment. who turn out to practice every two weeks.
He said 50 per cent of the evening’s profit would be going to the Terry Tkazcyk Trust Fund. Terry has been a member since 1996 and is fire chief, but suffered a severe stroke in early fall. He is recuperating at Parkridge in Saskatoon.
Mayor Jamie Brandrick welcomed everyone on behalf of the village and thanked everyone for supporting the cause. He gave some statistics on the calls made this past year, thanked Ian Wainwright for acting as fire chief and Inga Abramson for heading the first responders.
He recognized Scott Sutherland for his many years on the fire Department, but who is now retired.
He talked of the grand opening of the new fire hall and thanked Transcare for loaning equipment when Borden’s was stolen.
Affinity Credit Union made a $500 donation and there was a generous donation from Block’s Agencies. SaskEnergy and Borden Co-op donated the natural gas barbecue raffled off. It was won by Archie Wainwright of Borden.
The Terry Tkazcyk family thanked the firefighters and the people of Borden who have all donated to the trust fund to help with expenses and gave an update on his progress in recovering from his stroke.
The 50/50 of $495 went to Lee Osborne of Borden and three bottles of beverages were won by Gerry Wainwright, Krista Julseth and Don Zunti.
The names of all the firefighters were read indicating when they had joined the fire department. Peter Thiessen, joining in 1986, is the longest serving member. The newest is Ross McBain in 2018. The members all went on stage for a photo and were given a standing ovation for all their work serving the community and surrounding areas.
Members of the department are Ross McBain, BJ Berg, Jenna Bradshaw, Dustin Bezugly, Luke Walker, Inga Abrahamson, Connor and Ian Wainwright, Ian and Mandy Tracksell (dispatcher), Colin Lawes, David Dolsen, Peter Thiessen, Jamie Brandrick, Dan Gunsch, Rob Schmidt and Terry Tkazcyk.
Upcoming at Borden is a Friendship Club potluck supper and program Oct. 24 at 5:45 p.m., Halloween Dance and raffle Oct. 28 in Borden Community Centre with profits going to Terry Tkazcyk Trust Fund and walk-in flu shots at the Borden Health Clinic Nov. 1 from 1 to 4 p.m. There is a soup, bun and cookie luncheon Friday, Nov. 2 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Anglican Church lower hall with donations to Christmas hamper fund accepted.
