A baby shower was held in the seniors鈥� room on April 22 to honour Ronan Lee, the new son of Dustin and Brittney Tracksell.
Head table and gift table were nicely decorated in blue and white cloths, balloons and mini baby bottles filled with candy. MC was Kandice Walker who introduced the head table聽 鈥� Judy Wiebe (Brittney鈥檚 mom), Brittney and Ronan, and Diane Tracksell (Dustin鈥檚 mom).
One game played was testing the eight unlabelled baby foods. Winning for聽聽getting the most right foods was Leanne Sargent. Then 鈥淲hat鈥檚 In Your Handbag鈥� was played, with Diane Tracksell getting the most points.
The community gift of cash was presented and Brittney then opened the many gifts that were then passed around for everyone to see.聽Brittney thanked everyone for coming and for the many beautiful gifts and outfits, then lunch was served to everyone present.
The Cotton Pickin鈥� Quilters meet at Radisson St. Paul Lutheran Church basement every Wednesday afternoon from October until April. All quilts sewn before Christmas are sent to the Salvation Army in Saskatoon, along with scarves, toques and mittens from the mitten tree. Most of the materials, such as fabrics, thread and yarn used by the sewing聽聽group, have been donated by members of the Radisson and Borden Community.
At the Borden Friendship Club kaiser tournament April 18 the winners were Gary Lesychn of Radisson and Dianne Rawlyk of Borden and low score to Florence Neufeld. The next kaiser is Tuesday, May 2 at 7 p.m. in the club room.
Condolences are extended to the family and relatives of Delbert Enns, who passed away April 9 at the age of 89 and whose memorial service was held April 17 in St. John鈥檚 Anglican Church in Borden, with Reverend Alex Parsons presiding and niece Sharon Assman giving words of remembrance.聽Delbert had lived in the Borden area most of his life, farming and raising Simmental cattle, until he and his wife Evelyn (deceased) retired to Borden. Lunch was served by the Borden Friendship Club in the Borden Community Centre.
The Borden Friendship Club held their monthly potluck supper on April 26 with over 60 in attendance blowing out the candles on the cakes baked by Eileen Petrun were Ann Brand, Anna Elliot, Mary Thiessen, Ron Suderman, Larry Trischuk, Steve Derbawka, Stan Foster, Bob Wardhaugh and Ed Neufeld. The Friendship Singers, with director Marlene Derbawka, sang聽聽four selections. Then Phil Miller sang a number of country and western songs and he could also yodel. Miller had a great voice and had the audience participating in many of the songs.聽The club members are invited to Radisson for supper and program on May 4 and over 35 plan to attend.
The Borden Farmers鈥� Market will start Friday, May 5, in the Borden Fire Hall, from 11 a.m. 鈥� 5 p.m. The Borden United Church will again be selling burgers and hotdogs from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
The Borden Lions Club held a village and Highway 16 ditch cleaning on Saturday, April 29, with a good number of Lions members and extra help by other folks from the village and district. After the ditch cleanup, four volunteers then headed over to the streets in Borden to pick up garbage. While this was going on the Grade 12 students had a bottle drive on the go and the Borden Cemetery crew were cleaning up and removing covers over graves that had fallen in.
