Hafford and District Music Festival results:
Vocal: Most Outstanding Female Vocalist, Kacy Tkachuk; Outstanding Vocalist, Zoie Sherstobetoff; Best Performance in Musical Theatre, Michelle and Jenna Gall, Kacy Tkachuk, Kendra Lafreniere; Most Promising Vocal Performance, 14 and up, Kendra Lafreniere; Vocal Performace, Alex King; Most Promising Vocal Performance, 14 and under, Callie Fehr.
Choral speaking: choral group, first – Sterling, Ward and Reeve Johnson, second –Hafford Grade 2 class; individual verse – Steele Johnson; instrumental – Rayna Yasieniuk, $20.
Piano scholarships: Kacy Tkachuk, $200 and Most Outstanding Pianist trophy; Austin Sherstobetoff, $150 and Outstanding Sonata Performance trophy; Colby Tkachuk, $100, Outstanding Senior Pianist trophy and Outstanding Baroque Performance trophy; Michelle Gall, $50, $75 and John Worotniak trophy; Kendra La Freniere, $50, $50 and John Ogenchuk trophy; Brooklyn Lesko, $100; Kathryn Naharney, $100 and Outstanding Pianist junior or senior trophy.
The following all earned $50 –Chantelle Robin, Levi Gough, Emily Schell, Anna Sherstobetoff, Nicholas Siebert, Jessica Flath, Emma Bolt, Joyah Hunchak, Karista Stotz, Anna Gough, Esther Harkness, Leah Kohut, Jeremy Flath and Julia Siebert. These pianists received $25 – Rayna Yasieniuk, Amy Robin, Grace Siebert, Joelle Flath and Zane Zipchen.
Also winning trophies in piano were Brianne Cadrian for Best Performance senior or intermediate; Noah Verbonac, a keeper trophy for Composer of the Year; and Jordyn Fehr-Stead won the C. Dolezal Memorial trophy.
Thanks for the many scholarship and trophy donations awarded to the many competitors. A great job was done by everyone who competed in the festival. Finally, a big thanks to all the volunteers who made the festival a success again and thank you to the judges.
The Borden Friendship Club held their April and annual meetings April 13, with 28 members out to hear all the reports. Officers elected for the upcoming year were president Eileen Petrun, vice- president Rita Smith, secretary Lorraine Olinyk, treasurer Florence Neufeld and, on the committees: entertainment – Ed Neufeld and Ruben Rempel; cards/games – John Petrun and Jean Sawchyn; sending cards – Jean Hryniuk; lunch – Bev Assman; Dianne Rawlyk, Doreen Flath, Jean Sawchyn, Mary Thiessen, Lorraine Olinyk and Audrey Baker as buyer; decorating – Martha Rempel, Jackie Meister and Brenda Tumbach; bingo – Bev Assman; and janitor – Gary Palmer.
The membership fee was left at $10 a year. Outgoing president Elizabeth Derksen thanked everyone for their support the past two years and a vote of appreciation was given to her.
The club is inviting three other clubs to a supper and program June 7, and Borden is invited to Radisson May 6 at 2 p.m.
Rita Smith announced the club had received a $6,000 grant from New Horizons which will be used to pay for the new fridge, a beverage dispenser, new cupboards up on the stage, a new cover for the pool table and other needed items. The club donated $150 for flowers and soil for the flowerpots around town.
Winners of the Kaiser tournament April 12 were Dianne Rawlyk and Ed Neufeld. Upcoming will be the potluck supper, April birthdays and program in conjunction with the Borden Lions’ presentation April 27 at 5:45 p.m.
The Borden Friendship Club hosted Cashback – a tribute to the music of Johnny Cash performed by Dave and Debbie Norman of Rosetown – in the Borden Community Centre April 17. Close to 200 from all the surrounding towns and cities were on hand to hear the vocals sung by Dave, who plays electric and acoustic guitar, and Debbie, who plays bass guitar. As they sang each song, Dave gave a bit of the history of the song and how it came to be written, mostly by Johnny Cash.
A few of the songs sung in the hour and a half concert were Don’t Take Your Guns to Town, Train of Love’s A Leaving, Wabash Cannonball, I Walk the Line, Ring of Fire dedicated to volunteer firefighters and gospel songs Peace in the Valley and Were You There? Songs about trains were accompanied by the sound of train whistles. At intermission the seniors’ club served beverages and cookies.
The concert itself was paid for by a grant from Sask Lotteries and so any donations for admission were donated to the Borden volunteer firefighters and the Borden Care Home emergency generator fund.
At Borden School, badminton is in full swing, with the juniors playing Hepburn at home April 19 and Langham April 26, with playoffs May 3 in Langham, May 5 in Stobart and May 7 at VCA. The seniors play in Perdue April 19, host Asquith April 20 and have playoffs April 27 and 30 in Hague and Rosthern.
The SRC is hosting a family social April 21 with lots of games, cards, etc., from 5:15 to 7:15 p.m.
Fifteen runners are in the Marafun Run and practise Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at noon. They go to Saskatoon to run May 29.
Track and field practices have started with clinics April 14 and May 5 in preparation for district track and field May 19 at Griffith Stadium in Saskatoon.
In conjunction with Borden Lakeland Library and Library Week there will be a storyteller event May 13 at 1:30 p.m. in the school gym, when Donna Dudinsky will tell folktales from around the globe. Everyone is welcome.
