ALIDA - The Alida community is sorry to say good-bye to Justin and Alesha Boettcher and their family, who are now making their home on their newly acquired acreage south of Redvers. Best wishes and good luck Justin and Alesha. Enjoy your new home.
Lee, owner of the Rag Bag business here in Alida, held an Easter egg count contest and announced that the winner of the Easter eggs in a crystal decanter was Shelly Cowan, who was only six eggs short of the correct number. Congratulations Shelly.
Sincere sympathy is extended to Tania and Phil Yanchycki and family on the passing of her farther Laurent Cruywels on April 20 at the age of 79 years. He was predeceased by his wife, Odette in March 2022. He will be forever remembered by his daughter Tania, his grandchildren, siblings, in-laws, nieces and nephews. Funeral mass will be held at a later date.
The Alida community extends sincere sympathy to the Bukatka family on the passing of Anna Hames on April 21 at the age of 71. She was the was raised on their Alida farm before moving to Regina. She is survived by her husband Dick, daughter Joanna (Mike) Bui, a grandson, brother, niece, nephew and their families.
Welcome back home to all our snowbirds who are now slowly but surely returning from their winter homes in the southern U.S.. Have you noticed that when they return we get some unwelcomed weather conditions? Just kidding, of course. We wouldn’t want you to completely forget what our Canadian winters and springs can be like.
Tim, Shelly and Ainsley Cowan spent the weekend of April 22-24 in Regina where Ainsley participated in a dance competition. One dance on each day April 23 and 24 and they returned home later on Sunday. Ainsley’s dance group placed second in their first dance and received a high gold in their second dance.
A winter storm hit our area on April 23. We lost our power that night and were without power all day April 24. Power was restored to the town of Alida and also to a few farms nearby, but ours came back later. I kept warm by sitting in the sunshine coming through the window.
Sincere sympathy is extended to Faye Walker on the passing of her brother-in-law Dean Walker of Saskatoon on April 26.
On April 30, Gray and I attended the dance recital at Redvers School where we watched our granddaughter Ainsley participate with her dance group. All the dance groups did an excellent job. Just one more performance the following day and they’re done for the year. Congratulations to everyone on doing great.
