The Meota snowmobile rally was held Feb. 17 with 106 riders. First, second and third place rider hands were Dan Fitch, $530, Jecamie Amos, $320, and Josh Cheriah, $210. Ghost hand winners were Kathy Day, $190, Erin Duhaime, $115, and Rayson Ray, $75
Hubert Esquirol was the winner of the 50.50, guaranteed at $1,000,donated by Serafina Energy, the event’s main sponsor.
The Rabbit Lake snowmobile rally is set for March 3, so hope snow conditions are still good by then.
Word has come from Burnaby, B.C. of the sudden passing of Ruby (McMillan) Petrie, age 92. She was the last surviving member of the pioneer family of Sandy and Alice McMillan’s 11 children. Ruby is survived by one daughter and two sons, having lost one daughter a couple years ago. The home farm was west of Hamlin and she has many relatives in the Battleford area.
Watching the Olympics has been exciting for those of us who don’t have jobs any more, and our country did very well. In the pictures of one of the skiing events there was brown countryside in the background – so the events must have been scattered around the whole country. The downhill ski track certainly had snow-covered background. The figure skating, both men and women and pairs, this year were outstanding – and with winners less than a point apart, how can those with silver feel badly? It’s too bad there weren’t two or three gold medals when they really deserve them. The love story, skated by Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, makes one think they are a married couple, but alas, they are not. They live separate lives but have skated together since they were little tots and this year is to be their last one, as they plan to retire, but have not disclosed their plans for the future.
Duplicate bridge was played at Do Drop In Feb. 20 and top score went to Glen and Julie Moore, second to Linda Ard and Robert Iverson and third to Margaret Dyck and Maureen Campbell. In the city Feb. 22 top bridge score went to Jean Lawes and Fraser Glen, second to Anne Crozier and Cletus Scherman and third went to Donna Scherman and Catriona Winterholt.
A report from R.A. Knowles told of info in the program of the Saskatchewan Winter Games including a couple of local names. This local district is known as ‘Rivers West’ and the team representing them included Brook Mack in Alpine Skiing and Morgan Menssa was named as coach in gymnastics, both local participants from the Meota area.
Canasta was played in Meota Feb. 23 with four tables in play. Top score was won by Janice Morton and Arlene Walker, second by Bob Lesko and Gwen Lacerte with third going to Vivianne Lesko and Bev McCrimmon.
The 2018 World Day of Prayer will be held in the Catholic Church in Meota, hosted by Our Lady of Fatima Catholic church, on March 2, at 6:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend this Worship Service as it is only held once a year and is always most interesting.
Our local librarian, Debbie Pearce, has finished taking inventory, after putting in 22 hours of volunteer time doing this. She recorded 5,060 books during this overtime she put in Sundays or after hours until she finished. She deserves all the support we can give her. Thanks, Debbie, for a job well done. It would be so much simpler if she could just walk down each row, click the recorder and move along, but no, every book has to be taken to the desk, recorded and returned to the shelf. Now, that was a lot of books to move !
