Orolow Church northeast of Borden held a snowmobile rally Feb.19 with over 120 riders taking part. Top prize of $900 went to Rodger Pederson of Blaine Lake. Other winners were Aaron Gross of Saskatoon $540 and Evelyn Paulson of Langham $360. Winning $133 each were Brandon Lesko of Hafford, Ryan Wolyshyn of Mayfair and Adam Shewchuk of Krydor.
The Borden Museum held a whist drive Feb. 17 in the seniors' room with 20 out to play. Top hands were played by Florence Neufeld and John Petrun and low hand prize went to Eileen Petrun.
Borden School curling play downs were held for the juniors Feb. 16 and 17 in Waldheim. The junior boys' team of Connor Wainwright, Eric Westad, Andrew Derksen and Graham Sargent lost out in the A and B final, placing third. The junior mixed team of Aidan Loessin, Brad Brazeau, Emma Pidwerbesky, Emma amd Sara Prescesky won the playoffs, but the juniors do not advance. Coach was Megan Shaw and helping were parents Lindsay Westad and Heather Prescesky. The senior girls' team lost both their games when they went to Hanley last week.
The Borden Threshermen's potluck supper and program in the Borden Hall is on Feb. 26th at 5:30 p.m. You're never idle when you live in a small town/village as there is always bowling in Borden or curling in Radisson Monday to Wednesday if you're not at a meeting or event.
Christchurch, New Zealand has had another devastating earthquake with a number of casualties this time and most of the buildings downtown destroyed. Two suburbs near the harbour have 80 per cent of the homes destroyed or rendered unliveable. My son Bryan Pidwerbesky and his wife Helen and my grandson Nikolai live in Christchurch, but I was able to phone him six hours after the quake. They are all fine and so are Helen's parents and sisters. This earthquake had a magnitude of 6.3 but was only eight kilometres under the surface and only 10 kilometres from Christchurch. Six hours after the quake they had had 22 aftershocks and some hit four on the scale. They have no power, no phones and the Christchurch hospital was damaged. Bryan has seen helicopters coming and going, probably airlifting patients to other hospitals in area.
