Radisson Royal Purple held their June 1 meeting at the home of Tina Hessell, with the ladies enjoying a barbecue supper prior to the meeting.
At the meeting a donation of $100 was given to the Brenda Baker Fire Fund at Borden. Members decided to run the ice cream booth at the Radisson Fair Aug. 8 and 9 and sponsor four classes at the fair. The lodge raffle was won by Linda Yuskiw.
A Royal Purple Day Tea was held June 3 in the Radisson Hall with 38 guests from Borden and Radisson being served strawberry shortcake. Entertaining for the afternoon tea were Jackie Meister playing the piano then Gerald Wiebe sang and played guitar for a number of items. Tina Hessell told a few jokes and had everyone up and mixing with others by asking specific questions about each other.
Perfect attendance pins were handed out to five of the ladies – Audrey Baker - 14 years, Linda Yuskiw - 16 years, Tina Hessell - 21 years, Roberta Harris - 27 years and Lorraine Olinyk - 39 years. The ladies had brought in 35 door prizes and Gerald donated three of his CDs, so everyone went home with a prize.
The lodge has been selling charity appeal tickets and 11 books were sold and sent in for the draw June 13 at Esterhazy. Thanks to Radisson General Store and Antiques for also selling tickets.
New councillors have been elected by acclamation. In Borden it was Cody Bradshaw and in Radisson Ken Grainger who take over their new duties this month.
Condolences are extended to the Wasylyshin, Worona and Petrun families of Borden on the passing of Corinne Baldwin (nee Wasylyshin) of North Battleford at the age of 53. The morning service and luncheon was held June 6 at Notre Dame de Lourdes Roman Catholic Church in North Battleford and the burial and lunch at Borden in late afternoon.
The Borden Friendship Club held their annual supper and program were clubs from other towns are invited. June 2, 90 seniors enjoyed a cold plate supper catered to by the Borden Seniors’ Club. The Borden Community Centre tables were covered with lace cloths and bouquets of flowers were on each table. There were guests from Radisson, Maymont and Langham along with the Borden members.
Guest entertainer for the evening was Dwight Powell from Rosetown, who uses backing tracks played on his laptop, making it sound like a full band. Some of the many tunes he played on guitar and sang were Four Strong Winds, Bambi the Rodeo Clown, Watermelon Wine, Leroy Brown, a song he wrote about the Florida Keys and ended with Gentle on My Mind.
Borden School Kindergarten graduation ceremony was held at the school on June 5. Teacher Mrs. Begrand welcomed everyone, then children sang Sparkle Child and the certificates were handed out to the 12 graduates — Abbey Braun, Bohdan Burletoff, Carter Dyck, Casey Wensley, Jaydess Whitbread, Josh Dyck, Justin Worona, Karsyn Grasby, Nathan Cutting, Ryley Torrens, Tatum O’Toole and Zoe Walker. Special thanks were extended to Mrs. Crabb, Mr. Broughton, Mrs. Doratti (Grade 2/3/4), the Grade 1 students and to any senior students who helped make the day special.
Borden Diefenbaker Daze was held June 6 and 7, with a pancake breakfast Saturday morning. The Museum held their official opening at 12:30 p.m. with Mayor Tom Redhead raising the flag while Mary Thiessen played the keyboard for O Canada.
Tom thanked the museum board and volunteers who keep the museum up to date. He said Borden is proud and happy to have such a great museum and hope it will be here for many years to come.
Heather Silcox thanked everyone for coming and introduced the student hired for the summer, Aryn Burm of Dalmeny. Everyone then signed the guest book and guests were treated to a free ice cream cone.
During the day 11 slo-pitch teams played games in a round robin format and Sunday held the A, B and C finals.
Saturday afternoon the Borden Time Bandits Car Club held a vintage car show with 11 vehicles on display. There were prizes for those bringing their vehicles and a contest on guessing the car parts.
In the evening there was a steak supper and entertainment began with Dukes on Fire, a teen band from Hafford who played for over an hour in the teen lounge. To conclude the evening a DJ from Epic Entertainment provided the music for the Rink Shaker.
Sunday was the ball wind-up with the A final taken by the Back Sliders from out of town over MMMFPS (Schmidt and Co.), on the B side Nice Snatch (Anderson and friends) beat out the Jaegermeisters (Derbowkas) and the C final was won by Walk-It-Off (Walkers) defeating the Pitch Slap team.
For the kids there was a petting zoo, blown up jump castle and slide and the Radisson barrel train, pulled by Ed Neufeld on his JD tractor, gave the kids rides. The Saskatchewan Archaeological Society, in conjunction with the museum, had hands-on activities Sunday afternoon.
One other attraction was the cow patty drop, where you bought squares for $10 each then Rachel Sutherland’s 4-H heifer was brought into a pen that was squared out and she did her business on the square bought by Heather Prescesky of Radisson, who won $355.00 with the other half going to the Borden Recreation Board.
