The Borden Friendship Club held their monthly pot luck supper Feb. 28 with special music by the Friendship Singers and Richard and Helena Wiebe of Saskatoon. Also on hand were Rev. Rodney Andrews and his wife of Saskatoon and Cyril Saunders from the Borden Threshing Club. Rod presented a painting to the Borden Friendship Club from Bruce Charbonneau of Vancouver. The painting was of Bud Brown and another musician entertaining at Threshing Day a number of years ago. Bruce and Susan Charbonneau lived at Borden many years ago when they ministered at St. John’s Anglican Church. Rod often drives a John Deere tractor in the Threshing Day parade at Borden and once drove 1600 km across Saskatchewan to raise money for charity. There were no birthdays for the month, so everyone enjoyed pie and ice cream baked by Eileen Petrun. The Friendship Singers, directed by Marlene Derbawka and Sheila Block playing piano, sang seven selections – Just as I Am, We Shall Overcome, I Have a Dream, Side by Side, Beautiful Dreamer and Song of Joy. Richard, who is 87 years of age, played guitar and sang many oldies and gospel songs for over an hour, remembering the words to them all, such as Blue Canadian Rockies, Four Walls, Cool Water, Green Grass of Home, Ring of Fire, Precious Lord, Softly and Tenderly and closing with Lord, I Hope This Day is Good. On Saturday, March 3, a number of members from the club travelled to Langham for a turkey supper and entertainment by the Paddle Wheelers. Many more were to have gone, but with the storm, some were snowbound and couldn’t attend. Winning door prizes were Ed Neufeld and Jean Sawchyn.
St. Paul Lutheran Church in Radisson hosted the World Day of Prayer on March 2 and some from Borden participated as readers. Miriam Loessin led the program, which featured women of Suriname in South America who had written the program. Helping with the leading and Bible Readings were Gayle Wensley and Rosann Carr. The stories from seven different women were read by Barb Leschyshyn, Louise Cochrane, Ann Brand, Lorraine Olinyk, Heather Silcox, Helen Sutherland and Grace Schensney. Organist was Linda Hosegood and after the program a video was shown in the Lower Hall of Suriname followed by muffins, cheese and beverages. Offering from this service is held in many countries and in Canada it goes to WICC (Women’s Inter Council of Canada) and in 2017 they had 225 applications for grants from all over the world to help children and women.
Upcoming the week of March 12 is the school supper, silent auction and talent night at the Borden Community Centre, with supper at 5:30 p.m. and the show at 7 p.m. On Friday, March 16 Borden United Church is holding their annual St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon in the Seniors Room from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Celtic Country will be playing Irish tunes. On Saturday, March 17, Borden Parks and Rec are holding Winter Fest, with bowling, games, cards and food. Bowling starts at 8 a.m. and finals are at 6 p.m.
