More than forty members of the Borden Friendship Club travelled to the Radisson seniors club on Sept. 5 for supper and program. The Goodrich Centre was decorated in fall colours with yellow cloths, vases of fall flowers, colored leaves and fall serviettes on the tables. The Radisson Club served a delicious cold plate meal with plenty of salads and make-your-own sundaes for dessert. Tina Hessell thanked everyone for coming and had tables of six compete in a pub quiz with the winning ladies all picking up a prize – Rita Smith, Elizabeth Derksen, Dianne Rawlyk, Shirley Hawes, Eileen Petrun and Phyliss Blakney. A few jokes were told and a number of door prizes were drawn for – from Borden club Terry Petriew, Reuben Derksen, Bev Assman, Lew Wall, Eleanor Walton, Martha Rempel, Sandra Long, Irene Hamp and L. Olinyk. The 50/50 draw for $85.50 went to Phyliss Blakney of Radisson. Entertaining for the evening were Russ Fountain, singing and playing guitar, and Jack Karpan, who played banjo for several of the tunes and steel guitar for the majority of the songs. They had a few instrumentals featuring the steel guitar and Russ sang many old favourites from days gone by.
At their September meeting after the summer break, the Borden Lions met to finalize fall activities. The members had attended a wind-up supper and evening of music on July 19, thanks to hosts George and Jan Sparks. Quite a number of the members attended Colleen O’Conner’s funeral in Saskatoon on Aug. 17 – her husband Sean plays with Borden’s Celtic Country and they attended many of the Lion’s functions in Borden. Committees were set up to look after the Remembrance Day service on Nov. 11, the December Carol Festival and their annual fowl supper on Saturday, Oct. 19 at the Borden Community Centre from 5 to 7 p.m. The cart train with a number of sponsor signs that the Lion members Ed and Archie had built was a great attraction at Borden’s June event and they have been asked to have it at Threshing Day. Four of the members will be attending the Sask Convention in Saskatoon Oct. 25-27, when deceased member Murray Taylor will be recognized at the Memorial Service. The district governor for our area 5SKN is Bernard Rutko of Wadena and the club will invite him in March for a visit. The club plans to have a dinner theatre on Feb. 15 of 2020 and the Battleford Players will put on a comedy show. The scholarship committee of Sharon Assman, Wendell Dyck and Patricia Nicol have forms ready for second year secondary students to apply and they need to be in by Jan. 15, 2020.
Borden’s Annual Threshing day is coming up on Saturday, Sept. 28. The gates open at 10 a.m. at the site two miles north of the Highway 16 east entrance to Borden, with cook car open to sell soup, borsch, bread and beverages. There will be the Parade of Power at noon at the site, then demos with teams of horses, vintage combine and threshing. Following the events at the field you can travel in to Borden and visit the museum, then the threshing roast beef supper served the old fashioned way by coal oil lanterns, no serviettes and pie in the pie plate on the table will start at 4:30 p.m., with tickets going on sale in the senior’s room (east door) by 3:45 p.m. Hopefully the weather will co-operate and you can enjoy a day of seeing how things were done in pioneer days.
