BORDEN — The Borden Lions held a successful Mother’s Day brunch May 14 in the Borden Community Centre with more than 130 in attendance to enjoy a tasty meal. There was also an activity table for children to enjoy making cards or pictures. The Borden Lions presented Borden Municipal Childcare (Little Sprouts) with a donation of $5,000 to assist in their building renovations and a fence to surround the property. President Perry Nicol presented the cheque to board members Jillian Orchard and B. Rideout. A large basket of many donated items from local merchants and Lions members was raffled off and the lucky winner was Gloria Derbowka.
May 12, St. John’s Anglican Church presented a donation of $5,000 to the Borden Municipal Childcare Committee to help with the cost of renovations or fencing. Presenting the cheque were Rev. Sheldon Carr, Sandra Long and Sharon Assman from the church and accepting were Jillian Orchard and Emily Saunders.
A celebration of life was held May 13 in the Borden Community Centre for Donald Dyck who passed away April 1 at the age of 91 years. Donald and his wife of 65 years, Claudia, had lived and farmed at Borden for many years, volunteering with the 4-H club, local school board, United Church, East Borden Rural telephone company, Friendship Club and Don was a founding member of the Borden Lions Club. Don was also musical and sang at the university, United Church and Borden Lions with Archies Angels. The service was celebrated by Gayle Wensley and helping was Rev. Sheldon Carr, with tributes by son Dean, daughter Lorna Misselbrook, brother Gerald, Niece Cynthia Leslie and a classmate at U of S George Krenz. A poem, “ I Live On” by daughter Judy Rissling was read and there was a musical tribute by Archie Wainwright and Bob Wardhaugh. Son Shaun had a slide presentation and the lunch was served by the Borden Friendship Club.
The Borden Friendship Club held their monthly meeting on May 10 with president Ed Neufeld presiding and the new secretary Jackie Meister in charge of the minutes. The club donated to the Borden Flower Barrel Committee. All the chairs will be cleaned by a company from the city. A report was given about the bus trip to Meacham for dinner theatre May 6. Sask Lotteries had given a grant to cover the bus fare. A committee was set up to clean all the tables in the community centre as the tables in the Club Room look much better after being cleaned by Bev Assman and John Longmore. It was moved to buy potted plants as centrepieces for the June 8 supper and they will be given away as door prizes. The club also will not charge the Borden Library for the use of the room for Lego Club which runs until June. It was decided to not go ahead with the 55 Alive Safe Driving Course as not enough had signed. Omitted from an earlier report on club entertainment was a poem read by Anne Palmer called Encouragement and a reading by Sandra Long on Growing Old.
