ESTEVAN - June started with quite a bit of excitement, as Creighton Lodge residents celebrated Queen Elizabeth 2’s Platinum Jubilee by hosting a tea in her honour.
All of the women dressed in their best and some came with fancy hats, just like the Queen herself would wear to such an event. Thank you to Marcia Schmidt and Erin Alexander for coming up with the great event and putting in all the extra effort to make it such a great day for everyone. Also, a big thank you to our dedicated volunteer Bev Holinaty, who came to help serve the tea and dainties.
Our June birthday party was a big one. We celebrated Virginia Schopf, Earl Craig, Josephine Longney, June Fuhr, Richie Mack, Leo Gress, Marie Ritchie and Marie Bill.
KFC night was enjoyed by everyone. This is the one night of the month where everyone is welcome to come and enjoy each other’s company while eating together. Some of our residents cook for themselves, so this gives them a break from the stove and a great way to socialize.
Thank you to our musical groups who came to entertain us this past month: the Olsons, Homespun Harmonies and the Can’t Hardly Play Boys, who performed at our annual Anniversary/Resident Family Barbecue on June 28.
Over 200 people came to help us celebrate our 12th anniversary since the RMs took ownership of the lodge in 2010. Each year we celebrate this occasion by hosting a barbecue for all the residents and their families. We like to include the volunteers, the RMs and city council, our trust committee members and past councillors, who like to come and celebrate with us.
Thank you to the Wa-Wa Shrine Club members who came to barbecue and to everyone else who helped make the evening a success. We had people sitting outside under our new umbrellas, in our gazebos, but most enjoyed the air conditioning inside.
Leo Gress, Lucille Bonokoski and Wanda Kjersem ventured over to St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church on June 20 to check out Music with Friends. They had a great time and stayed the whole afternoon. Thank you to Art Beselt with SMILE Services for ensuring they all arrived home safely. This event happens monthly and everyone in the community is welcome. We encourage you to check it out.
We hosted the Hearts and Hands Quilting Guild the weekend of June 24 and 25. These women are amazing. They each bring in their own sewing machine and all their quilting supplies, then they get to work creating beautiful, hand-crafted quilts. The real magic is in the friendship they all share, bonded by the common passion of quilting.
We enjoy being able to provide these talented ladies with a space to get together and then we all get to see what they are working on.
We hope you all enjoy your summer. Try to go on as many adventures as you possibly can fit into the next few months, because as somebody reminded me as we ate our barbecue supper on the deck, “In just two short months it will start to get dark around this time.”
