WAWOTA - Wawota is proud to welcome our second family from Ukraine. Welcome to Volodymyr and Liubou Krushelntskyi, and 11-year-old son, Nazar, and two-year-old son Sasha. They are residing in the United Church manse.
A special memorial service was held at Greenspace at Kenosee Lake on July 9. This was to honour Marten Wright, who passed away in Edmonton on Oct. 24, 2021, at the age of 55 years.
Ray, Dorothy and Kim Peters from Ontario visited with Ross and Donna Petterson recently. Ray was a former pastor of the Wawota Alliance Church. Two other members of the church, Isobel Robertson of Moosomin and Roy Petterson from Kipling, were also in attendance.
On July 27, a memorial service was held in Ceylon for Sally (Hamilton) Martin. Sally passed away on Jan. 25 at the age of 97.
Visiting with Harvey and Darla Leader were their grandchildren Hayden and Ali of Fort McLeod, Alta. They are Dustin and Caitlyn Leader's children and they spent two weeks in Wawota.
Ross and Donna Petterson, Darrell Petterson and Levi all traveled to Cranbrook, B.C. They were joined by Mareen Augustine and Heather Petterson of Cranbrook and Sheila from Drumheller, Alta. They were together to celebrate a great-grandchild's birthday.
Dean and Shannon Joanisse and daughters Abbey and Brooklyn spent a week visiting with Shannon's parents, Ken and Anne Wilson.
The Wawota Parkland class of 1987 gathered together July 30 to celebrate their 35th year since graduating. Those in attendance were Lori (Lamontagne) Reis and her husband Ray from Eston, Darren Palendat from England, Stacey (Olson) Heffernan of Regina, Debbie (Brimner) Chalus and her husband Kerry from Carlyle, Calvin Hutchison from Langbank, and local residents Wade and Leanne Porter, Heather (Oliver) Draper, Jeanine (Jacques) Lamontagne, and Al and Lucy Chubak.
A church in the park was planned for last Sunday but as the weather was iffy, members from the three churches gathered at the United Church. The theme was welcoming the stranger. The collection was for the Ukraine Fund.
Sixteen youngsters attended the kid's day at the museum. They were to guess boxed artifacts from the museum. After a virtual scavenger hunt, lunch was a variety of muffins and juice.
