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The Borden Friendship Club held their first business meeting for 2017 on Jan. 11. Messages were heard from SOS Villages, through which the club sponsors a village in Mozambique every year. 

The club is holding their annual Telemiracle tea and bake sale Tuesday, Feb. 14 at 2 p.m., with 50/50 draw and door prizes. Proceeds from the tea are sent in to Telemiracle every year.

There will be Kaiser tournaments Jan. 17 and 31 at 7 p.m., and Feb. 21. Bingo is always the third Wednesday of the month.

Close to 40 members are attending supper and program at Langham on Saturday, courtesy of the Langham 60 Plus Club. 

The potluck supper and January birthdays will be held Jan. 25 when Walter Kyliuk and company will be entertaining.

The Borden Museum is holding a supper and silent auction March 11 and the club members offered to decorate and set up for the event. The museum is also holding a fundraiser luncheon Feb. 7 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Borden seniors’ club room. Admission is by donation,

Speers United Church annual meeting is Sunday, with a service at 4 p.m., followed by a supper and meeting, Battleford United Church plans theirs for Feb. 12 and Borden will hold theirs Feb. 19 after the 1:30 p.m. service. The minister, Gayle Wensley, will be away at a continuing education seminar at Lumsden from Feb. 1 to 10 and the Langham United Church minister, Kathleen James-Cavan, is covering for her in case of emergency. At Borden there will be no service  Feb. 5, but Speers is covered by a visiting minister.

Borden School students are preparing for their first semester exams. Grades 9 to12 will be writing Jan. 25 and 26. There is no school Jan. 27 for semester turn around. All schools get their break Feb. 20 to 24, with students back in school Feb. 27.  

The senior girls’ curling team is coached by Mackenzie Fisher, who also helps Terri Troupe-Logue coach the junior girls’ curling, with practices at Langham and Radisson curling rinks. A few senior girls are playing with the Maymont senior girls’ basketball team and they are attending a tournament in St. Walburg this weekend. The junior girls and boys have basketball practices and a few games planned but do not have enough players to be in the league this year.

Action Bowl has started up again in the new year with the Winter League underway the week of Jan. 9. There is bowling on Monday afternoons, Tuesday morning and evening and Thursday evening, with possible school bowling on Tuesday afternoons. Looking after the alley is BJ Berg who also works for the Village of Borden, with other helpers on Mondays. Anyone interested in bowling can contact BJ at 306-241-2499 or call the village office at 306-997-2134