Borden School held a barbecue supper Sept. 25, preceding meet the staff night. Organizations and businesses — Borden Lions, Adventure Club, Borden Library, Affinity Credit Union, school community council, Borden Parks and Recreation, Borden Dance Club and Borden Busy Bees Preschool Co-op — hosted display tables. The SCC served food and beverages at no charge.
The Borden Friendship Club met Sept. 26 for their potluck supper and birthday celebration, with close to 50 out including members and guests. Blowing out the candles on the cakes were Lenna Balon, Jackie Meiser and Lew Wall. Entertaining for the evening was Terry Pugh from Warman, who played guitar and sang, played harmonica and the accordion for some instrumentals, and told jokes between the songs.
Borden Threshing Day was held Sept. 29 on a cold crisp day and some snowflakes falling in the afternoon. The gates opened at 10 a.m. and a parade of power was held at noon. Flag bearers were Alana Gunsch and Krissy Derbowka on horseback. Other entries included horse drawn machinery and conveyances and antique gas powered machines.
Twenty donated Rider Bags were given out to: V. Hinz, Saskatoon; Norm Elgert, Thornsburg, Alta.; Ward Buller, Warman; Jerry Penner, Osler; Katrina Rioch, Lloydminister; Bob Klassen, Lanigan; Art Rawleigh, Tisdale; James Volk, Denzil; Mitch Block, Martensville; Hope Marcinet; and Phil Siebert. The rest went to local winners.
The first demonstration was sawing wood using a Co-op E3 tractor, then bindering with Ed Neufeld driving his 1945 John Deere and Ruben Rempel on the McCormick binder. There was plowing and discing done by horses and an old Rumley steel-wheeled tractor. D. Matechuk and Cyril Saunders dug the potatoes with a John Deere tractor and old potato digger while people grabbed bags and filled them with the spuds.
Cyril showed how to combine using his 1927 Massey Harris combine, Ed Neufeld did a few rounds with his John Deere pulling the Clipper combine, Daylon hooked his John Deere tractor up to the threshing machine and they did two racks of sheaves.
Over by the cook car, Daryl Amundsen and family of Debden played music for an hour, then later at the Community Centre where they played and sang for over an hour to those waiting in the seniors’ room to go in to supper.
Melissa Saunders and AJ displayed shoeing a horse, from the making of the shoe to nailing it on to the hoof. The Borden firefighters had some of their equipment on hand and sold tickets on a gas barbecue.
Carol Crabb and Eleanor Walton manned the registration booth and reported more than 200 signed the guest book at the site. Some went in to Borden and toured the museum until supper, then at 4:30 p.m. guests were taken in by hostesses to the main hall for a roast beef supper by the light of coal oil lamps. Due to the weather and local farmers combining, the total for supper was 230 plus the servers, which is the smallest crowd they have had.
The museum and Threshermen’s Club should do all right financially as the cost of the beef was covered by the Dyck family – Murray, Matthew and Andrew.
A baby shower was held Sept. 30 in the Borden Friendship Room for Mason Burtley, son of Cody and Jenna Bradshaw of Borden. Mason was born Aug, 23. Guests enjoyed a time of visiting while Jenna opened the gifts and then she thanked those attending and lunch was served.
Upcoming at Borden is the last day for the Borden Farmers’ Market in the fire hall Friday, Oct. 5 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with burgers, hotdogs and pie sold by the United Church. The Borden Lions turkey supper is Oct. 13 in the Community Centre from 5 to 7 p.m. The Friendship Club has their business meeting Oct. 9, Kaiser tournaments Oct. 9 and 23 at 7 p.m., Harvest Tea and Bake Sale Oct. 17 and a potluck supper in Oct. 24 (one week earlier due to Halloween).
The Borden Firefighters hold their annual steak night Oct. 20 with raffle, silent auction and great food. There is a Halloween Dance on Oct. 27 from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. with costume prizes, door prizes, raffle of a $300 gift basket and lunch. Proceeds will go to the Terry Tkazcyk Trust Fund.
The Radisson Dance Club hold their jam session Oct. 11 in the Borden Friendship Centre at 7 p.m. This is held every month on the second Thursday in the centre.
Condolences to Martha Lessing and her daughter Christel (Jan Kepurra) on the death of Armindo Lessing of Radisson, who passed away suddenly Sept. 25 at home at the age of 73. Armindo was originally from Brazil and farmed at Radisson. His service will be Oct. 4 in St. Paul Lutheran Church in Radisson at 2 p.m.
