This weekend is the Lions/UCRC partnership of Little Theatre production with shows both Friday and Saturday. There still may be tickets available so contact either Kristie at Unity Community Resource Centre or Guy鈥檚 Furniture to secure yours.
The Unity Ministerial Association continues their Lenten Lunch series with the next one being held on March 15 at Unity United church and the final one at Unity Baptist Church on March 22. All series being at noon and end at 1 with a silver collection at the door.聽
UPS staff and students will host a hot lunch fundraiser today. As well as there is a Pre-K early years fair for parents of kids ages 0-5. Mar. 14, Grade 6 Bonspiel at Unity Curling Rink. UPS also has some thanks to dole out that include: Thank you to the SCC for the supplying a tasty lunch for the staff and for supervising at noon. It was very much appreciated. Thank you to the Unity Library for sponsoring the Aboriginal Storytelling presentation; really enjoyed the presentation. Thank you to Second Avenue Cinema for donating all the popcorn for our Movie and Popcorn Telemiracle Fundraiser. UPS appreciates all the contributions from many individuals, groups and businesses all year that help towards their costs and activities throughout the year.聽聽聽聽
St. Peter鈥檚 enjoyed their oratory presentations last night at the school. Tonight, students will be participating in Stations of the Cross at 10 a.m. in the church as part of their Lenten studies. During Lent, students also get another opportunity to spend time with the Blessed Sacrament as Fr. Greg will lead them in a day of adoration, as well as take part in the sacrament of reconciliation to prepare hearts for Easter. Having students lead the school in prayer each morning over the intercom brings all together as children of God; and staff and students alike are extremely blessed to get this privilege. St. Peter鈥檚 would also like to pass on their thanks to Kevin and Debbie Akerlund for their extremely generous donation of popcorn and bags for our February popcorn sale; as this donation helped $535 raised as part of our Telemiracle Fundraising. St. Peter鈥檚 appreciates the contributions all year long of individuals, groups and businesses that help in the many aspects of work at St. Peter鈥檚 school.聽
At UCHS, high school curling is now over and in the final stages of their season; with junior curlers completing their district championship event resulting in the mixed team winning silver, the girls team winning bronze and the boys team being oh so close to playoffs. The senior mixed and girls team played in regionals the weekend of March 2 and 3 but results were not known at press time. Now it is basketball teams who are looking to further their season through district and regional competitions.聽 Track team has been practicing indoors and it won鈥檛 be long before badminton resumes in the gym.聽 Yesterday UCHS held a culture fest as part of their ACTIVATE goals for kindness and inclusion and it was a great success. The ACTIVATE team is in their final stages of preparation for ACTIVATE day upcoming in April. The drama students are also in the last leg of their preparation for both spring public performances and their drama festival presentation. The Robotics team are also entering a busy competitive season so are continually fine tuning their machines in preparation for this. Principal Parkers pens some more wise words in the newsletter talking of all the great partnerships between UCHS and surrounding community that enable students to include a career fair as part of their spring Student Led Conferences, as well as enable students to be part of Career and Work Experience through class and business partnerships. Upcoming Grade 11 job shadowing will be another such opportunity, as is Grade 9 鈥渢ake your kid鈥� to work day wherein parents鈥� employers enable students to join in a day of work with their parents to experience a day in the life. Another community group, the Wildlife Federation, contributed towards equipment for the newly founded archery team. Several community sponsors helped out the newly formed robotics team in their quest to improve this UCHS program for both learning factors and competition events. UCHS is thankful for parent volunteers for various programs and sports that include driving students to and from events. Multiple scholarships are donated each year for graduates to earn to help with post secondary schooling. Gilbert Agencies was a recent contributor to the SADD mocktails served at the recent UCHS dance to help raise funds for SADD initiatives. While all individual, group and business donors cannot be mentioned in a short column, know that UCHS staff and students appreciate all of these efforts and donations towards the many activities and programs within the school.聽
Congratulations UCHS curler and Twin Rivers league and competitive curler, Makayla Bakken, who was successful in her bid to be a SaskEnergy junior star for the Brier being paired up with Team Wildcard for the Saturday, March 3, game.聽 Makayla rushed home to participate in the annual ice carnival then will be ready to roll for the U18 provincial curling upcoming March 22 weekend. (As well, Makayla skipped her competitive girls team to a C event win at the annual Battlefords ladies spiel). Everyone is looking forward to see this girl see more success in her curling aspirations in the future. March means, although the curling club is busy, it is also the final few weeks of this year鈥檚 curling season. League games are into playoff portion. Last weekend a successful Oilperson鈥檚 spiel was held and upcoming next weekend is the annual Bramiche Farms Ladies spiel with a record number of teams entered this year. Hopes are high for enough entries for the year end fun spiel, which has sadly been cancelled the past few years due to low entries, entries can be taken now.
Well, playoff hockey is dwindling with only the Unity Midget AA Lazers and Unity Midget A Lazers still in action. The Midget AA team thanks all the fans who came out in droves to support them in their Game 5 to stay alive vs Humboldt playoff round, helping them get past this first round advancing them to the next against Warman Wildcats; which has started this series. The Miners would like to thank the fans for their support as their season was ended via the Wilkie Outlaws.
Ball registration has taken place and it sure won鈥檛 be long before we see all those teams on the diamonds again. The season is already lining up to be a busy one with Unity awarded GPLS championship weekend again along with the dual hosting of Midget and U23 Western Canadians as well as one baseball provincial championship weekend and hopes for a baseball Western Canadian event, too.聽
The museum was sadly forced to cancel St. Patrick鈥檚 Day supper due to multiple other events on the same day; this generated some good revenue for the museum so they are asking now more than ever to support their other major fundraiser the weekly Sunday pancake brunches taking place very Sunday until end of April, excluding Easter Sunday. They want to remind everyone volunteers still needed for a variety of roles and ask yourself if you can you give an hour, an hour a week or more.聽聽 Please contact Pat Uzelman, museum president.聽 The Museum wants to remind residents the Sunday pancake brunches will continue until the end of April and they always count on your support as this is one of the main fundraisers for the museum each year. The Unity Museum board tries very hard to keep our museum front and centre and a positive feature to our town. Many people have built and toiled over the year to have this fine facility that we do; with good reviews as a heritage site and as a 鈥渕ust see鈥� in Tourism Sask. Your support is what keeps the museum viable, so keep it coming folks. The board meets the third Wendesday of every month at the Adanac Hall on the grounds at 7:30 p.m. to discuss plans and they are always looking for new members.聽
The upcoming annual DU banquet and auction takes place on March 17, tickets at UCU and Cinema Satellite, with only 100 left.
As yourself, where do you want to get local info with recent SARM proposed resolution 鈥� where do you prefer your notices from town, village, RV 鈥� local paper, municipal or other website, FB, sent by phone or text, email direct.聽 In last week鈥檚 local paper there were six large job ads, five notices printed, five large for sale ads, one large thank you, six event ads, three business card professional ads, two large real estate ads in addition to full page classified and 戮 page professional directory all included with local news, sports and columns.聽 Where would you post these ads, notices, thank yous and other events if there was no paper to include this information?聽 Papers are relevant; you鈥檝e seen repeated stories in our local paper and other publications of how local papers are still viable providing they are supported by local advertisers, readers and subscribers. This SARM proposal is concerning and you the reader and advertiser have a voice. Presumably by the quick depletion of this supply of this very paper each Thursday in the five bins located at our Unity post office, people must love to read their local newspaper so do your part in supporting what you like to do.
March is annual meeting time 鈥� as a member or part of these businesses and organizations, please consider attending to see how this business has fared the past year and what their future plans are in the upcoming year. Supper is always good, tickets are cheap and info is always interesting and pertinent.聽 So far the events I know of are Delta Co-op鈥檚 AGM being held in Macklin March 20 while Unity Credit Union鈥檚 AGM will be held at the community centre on March 27.
Coffee row folks know that the Olympics being over doesn鈥檛 end their sports corner as the Brier, local curling and hockey, RUSH season as well as upcoming Rider and Jays seasons will keep them in the conversations.聽 And, it won鈥檛 be long until spring predictions are upon them regarding the weather, seeding, moisture levels and all that is prominent with the coming spring. So you can see life is full of fun and activity in Unity and our friends at coffee row sharing this traditional part of our community culture. Until next time鈥�
