BORDN — The Borden Lions Chase the Ace jackpot has grown to more than$2,000, as the Ace of Spades has not been picked. Weekly prize winners were Leanne Sargent June 22, Andrew Hess June 15 and Ivan Youchezin June 8. Get your tickets at the Borden Village Office, Roadside Inn or Bev Assman or you can go online to [email protected].
At Radisson Seniors’ Goodrich Centre, activities are going on in July: bingo on July 10 and 24 at 7 p.m. and backyard concerts outdoors on July 9, 16 and 23 at 1 p.m. (admission by donation, bring lawn chairs). Radisson celebrates July 1 with kids’ games, ball and food vendors. It all begins at 4 p.m. at the ballpark and curling rink. Cake is served at 6 p.m. and fireworks go off at 10:30 p.m.
With July 1 holiday on a Saturday, several businesses in Borden are closed June 30: village office, health centre and library. Closed Monday are Block’s Agencies, RM and village office, credit union and post office. The co-op is closed July 1 and 2. Gas Plus is open every day.
Sunday, July 2, St. John’s Anglican Church and Riverbend Fellowship will not be meeting at their regular places but a joint service will be held outdoors at the Borden Care Home backyard, so please bring lawn chairs if attending.
Borden School Awards Night was held June 15 in the school gym hosted by Esther and Joanna. Principal Trevor Gerwing gave an address thanking the many talented and hardworking students for their achievements and congratulated them on their great work ethic
Earning the Governor General’s Award for 2022 was Sadie Funk. The William H Johnston Scholarship went to Jack Donegan.
Earning parks and recreation P bursaries were Kaitlyn and Bill H. Citizenship awards went to: kindergarten – Kaci, Grade 1 – Hadley, Grade 2 – Abby, Grade 3 –Myla, Grade 4- David, Grade 5 – Steel, Grade 6 – Eve, Grade 7- May, Grade 8 – Zoe, Grade 9 – Alexandra, Grade 10 –Tyler and Grade 12- Bill H.
Most Improved Awards: K – Loki, Grade 1- Rebecca, Gr.2 – Liam, Grade 3 – Shelby, Grade 4 – Carsten, Grade 5 – Milavna, Grade 6 – Nathan, Gr . 7 – Cailey, Grade 8 – Tatum, Grade 9 – Ryder, Grade 10 – Cael and Grade 12 – Raylene.
Sports medallions were presented to students in Grades 7 to 12: junior boys’ volleyball and curling to Tatum, senior curling to Bill H., junior badminton to Zoe and senior to Owen, junior track and field to Boh, senior to Bill and Owen and junior cross-Country to Madison.
Athletes of the year were: junior female to Zoe and Madison and male to Treyton and Josh, senior female to Sydney and male to Bill and Owen.
Certificates for honour roll went to Alexandra, Treyton, Sam, Tyler, Ben, Emma, Cael and Noah; honour roll with distinction to Isabelle, Esther, Owen, Bill, Sydney and Katelyn; and highest average to Alexandra, Esther and Owen.
Heart of a Bruin in kindergarten to Grade 6 went to: kindergarten - Taylor P., Grade 1 and 2 – Cadence and Charleigh, Grade 3 and 4 –Mason and Grade 5 and 6 to Daniel and Ivan.
In Grades 7 -12 the junior humanities award went to Abbey, junior analytics to Madisson, junior artist to Joanna; senior humanities to Bill, senior analytics to Sydney and senior artist to Isabelle.
The school community council gave gifts to staff, recognizing years of service – eight years to Angelina Lukan, nine years to MacKenzie Martel, 12 years to Nicole Kaufman, 17 years to Marylee Mikituk and 19 years to Linda Yuskiw.
The SCC for 2023-24 will be Gwen Dyck, Melissa Braun, Kandice Walker, Brooke Rideout, Beth Usselman, Kim Worona, Melissa Hosegood, Alana Gunsch, Lynette Schmidt, board member Ken Crush, community rep Karen Kerr, staff Angelena Lukan and Terri Troupe-Logue. Leaving the council are Chanda Chabot and Pam Constantinoff.
In closing the hosts thanked all the sponsors of their awards program — the Hosegoods, Orchards, C. Chabot, Larners, Schmidts, Tracksells, Village, farmers market and co-op.
The Borden Co-op held its annual meeting June 20 in the Borden Community Centre with close to 60 enjoying a turkey supper catered to by the Borden Lions before the meeting.
On the co-op board are president Luke Walker, vice-president Brett Larsen, secretary Julia Orchard and directors Glenn Sutherland, Darrel Wiebe, Melissa Braun and Diane Tracksell. The terms of Luke and Darrel terms expired but Luke was reelected by acclamation and Jason Rempel went on in place of Darrel.
Chairing the meeting was Glenn Sutherland and the recording secretary was Julia Orchard.
Darrell reported on 2022 year’s activities, thanking Luke for his leadership. He said the co-op has had challenging and exciting times and the manager Robbie Schmidt and staff are doing great with the board appreciating all the work they do to improve operations.
Randy Graham, District 4 director, spoke on what Federated had done over the past year, with $12.5B in sales, and $411M net income. Federated Co-op has 160 retail outlets. Hosted were had eight training sessions with seven via video and one in person. He congratulated Borden on a successful year.
Manager Rob Schmidt reported the co-op had $4.8M in sales last year with sales at the grocery store just under $1M, and petroleum sales of 3.2 million litres compared to 2.2 million in 2021. But because of an increase in operating expenses and lower margins, they had slightly lower net savings. They allocated $58,000 in patronage dividends with two per cent on fuel and one per cent on all other commodities.
They are doing feasibility studies on adding to the cardlock, but due to the size and cost, they will complete it over a couple of years, with the estimated cost of the groundwork for future expansion of $255,000 which will be financed from operations.
The auditors’ report and financial statements show total assets of $3,183,426, liabilities of $377,520, members’ equity of $740,534 in share capital and $2,065,372 in reserves and retained savings. Sales in 2022 were $4,867,402, cost of goods sold $4,381,291, for a gross margin of $486,111, expenses were $480,132, savings from operation $5,979 with net savings of $221,409 minus transfers to reserves of $163, 598 and patronage allocations of $57,811.
There are no retained savings at the end of the year. With cash from investments and net savings along with FCL special deposit, end-of-year cash and cash equivalents amounted to $1,167,521. Sales for 2022 were: general store $951,194, farm supply $708,084, petroleum $3,208,124 for total sales of $4,867,402 up from sales of $3,801,260 in 2021.
Total membership is 824 with 556 as active purchasers in 2022.
Door prizes were won by Bob Krueger, Jean Longmore, Corinne Szwydky and Lynn Cutting.
