The Borden Friendship Club held their supper and birthday celebration March 29 with 50 out to enjoy the great food and entertainment. Blowing out the candles for March on the cakes baked by Eileen Petrun were Martha Rempel, Claudia Dyck and Art and Doreen Flath. The tables were nicely decorated with pastel serviettes, Easter eggs, bowls of candy and vases of live tulips and pussy willows, thanks to the work of Brenda Tumbach.
On the walls of the room are watercolours of local scenery by the late Vivian Tracksell, on loan from Isobel Tracksell. Celtic Country provided the musical entertainment for the evening, with Sean O’Connor on button accordion, Ed Neufeld playing guitar, mouth organ, wash tub cording and vocals, Bob Wardhaugh on keyboard, accordion and banjo, Perry Nicol with clackers and Irish drum and Archie Wainwright doing the vocals along with Perry and Bob.
The Borden Lions held a successful pasta supper March 31, feeding more than 80 in the Friendship Club room. Tables were decorated in an Italian theme with red and white checkered cloths and jars of colored pasta as centrepieces. Bob Wardhaugh provided soft music on his accordion while everyone was enjoying the meal. Their next fundraiser is catering to the bowling banquet April 8.
Some from Borden attended a Depression luncheon at the Langham Museum on April 1, where the museum board served bung bologna, beans, scalloped potatoes, cheese, pickles, buns and bread pudding with ice cream. Admission was by donation.
Condolences go to the Rempel family at Borden with the passing of Ruben Rempel’s mother Esther at the age of 103. Esther and her husband Abram, were married in 1941 and farmed at Borden until 1982, when they moved to Langham. Abram passed away in 1995.
