The Borden Friendship Club held their annual Telemiracle Tea and Bake sale recently and sent in $219 to Telemiracle. The 50/50 of $40.50 was won by Helen Sutherland and winning door prizes were John Ridgewell, Doreen Parker, Jeannine Fast from Radisson, Sheldon Carr from Saskatoon and locally John Petrun, Brenda Tumbach, Anne Palmer, Sandra Long, Laura Loeppky, Eleanor Walton, Peter and Mary Thiessen, Bev Hryniuk and Archie Wainwright. Winners at the last Kaiser tournament were Larry Trischuk and Florence Neufeld with Alfred Gunsch holding the low hand. Club members are invited to Langham on March 3 for supper and program and close to 40 are planning to attend. Upcoming Kaiser tournaments are Feb. 27, March 13 and 27, at 7 p.m. and bingo is Feb. 21 and March 21 at 7 p.m. For Speers Dinner Theatre, Larceny and Old Lace, April 13-15, the club is paying a portion of members’ tickets with deadline of March 1 to let Lorraine Olinyk know at 306-997-2159 if going.
A Scholastic Book Fair was held at Borden School on Feb. 7, with Librarian Linda Yuskiw hosting the program. From their sale last fall they had received over $800 in free books. The Grade 6-8 Band played a selection then Linda had her 13 Library Club members come up to the front. Grade 3 and 4 classes told funny jokes about libraries and librarians, Grade 2 did an action song about books, Kindergarten-Grade 1 class did a choral action poem and an action song about swimming down the river, illustrating a book they had read. Grade 3 class had done shadow boxes of dinosaurs which were on display on the book shelves.
Borden School held an assembly on Feb. 15 in regards to Telemiracle. Mrs. Troupe-Logue, Grade 3 teacher, is on the Kinsmen Telemiracle Board and she showed some videos on those who have been helped by Telemiracle and in 2017 they raised over $5 million. Telemiracle Teddy was on hand and gave out candy to all the kids. Telemiracle 2018 will be in Saskatoon on March 2 and 3. For the last month, students paid a loonie to wear pyjamas at school on Fridays and they raised $513, which Mrs. Troupe-Logue will present at Telemiracle from Borden School.
The Village of Borden held a Come and Go Tea on Feb. 18 in the Borden Community Centre to pay tribute to Peter Thiessen. Peter has worked for the Village of Borden as maintenance worker for over 25 years and has retired, also retiring from driving the school bus for Prairie Spirit School Division. Mayor Jamie Brandrick welcomed everyone and read a letter from Helen Sutherland stating how Peter often worked many hours overtime, keeping the streets clean in winter, garbage pick-up, looking after the water and sewer plant, helping at the Farmers’ Market during summer, also being a fireman and first responder. Peter had worked with many different mayors and councillors over the years, and this last year or so has been teaching what he knows to the two workers now working for the village – BJ Berg and Duncan Stead. Jamie thanked Peter for his dedication to the village and presented him with a Canada 150 Medal and a gift from the village. Peter replied that he was thankful to be living and working for such a great community and he learned a lot from two old-timers who have now left us – Clarence Williams and Ralph Buswell, who always told him to do things a certain way, and former Mayor Harry Derbowka also told him to be there for the people no matter what happened. Peter thanked the village for allowing him to also drive the school bus for many years. Peter then cut the cake and everyone enjoyed a piece along with other goodies to sample. The cakes, goodies and beverages were all looked after by Eileen Petrun.
