The Borden Friendship Club held their monthly potluck supper April 25 with 50 out to enjoy the evening. Blowing out the candles on the cakes were Ann Brand, Velora Friesen, Irene Hamp, Mary Thiessen, Ed Neufeld and Bob Wardhaugh. MC Peter Thiessen introduced the Rempel family – Ruben, his daughters Jae Lynn and Janeen along with guitarist Kurt Penner. They sang more than 15 songs.
At the Kaiser tournament April 24, winners were Daphne Pearce and John Petrun with low hand to Larry Trischuk. The next Kaiser is on May 8 at 7 p.m.
Riverbend Chamber of Commerce held a trade fair in the Borden Community Centre April 28 with lunch sold by Radisson Parks and Recreation Board. Having displays were Riverbend Chamber of Commerce, Affinity Credit Union, Borden Co-op, Village of Borden, Kris Bros and Graham, Culligan Water and Bernie Petkau with Horizons Group Financial Planning.
Promoting their enterprises were John and Julie Heinrichs of Outlook, H. Parentau, Christine Rimm of Radisson, Winnie Schultz of Sonningdale, Sarbjit Kaur, J & R Jams and Jellies of Hafford, Leann Madraga of Langham and Edna Volgelsang.
Winning the 50/50 of $55 was Christine Rimm, door prizes went to Lynette Schmidt and Gerry Wainwright. Winning vendor prizes were Vera Friesen of Radisson, Martha Rempel of Borden, Anne Palmer, Winnie Schultz, Eleanor Walton and Tom Hrenkiw.
Riverbend Fellowship Church hosted an enjoyable evening with Wendy Farha in the Borden Community Centre April 29. Wendy is a musician, songwriter, comedian and inspirational speaker originally from Montreal, now from Toronto. Wendy was featured in the CBC documentary Beauty and the Breast, numerous radio programs and TV shows and performed in hundreds of venues across Canada and the United. She told jokes and humorous stories about herself and fellow countrymen.
During the evening Wendy shared her experiences with mental illness and cancer. In one segment she had men from the audience model the wigs she wore after losing her hair to chemotherapy. These included some in bright colors, a lobster, a chicken and colourful braids.
To learn more about Wendy go to her website www.wendy.ca.
