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Bjorkdale News: School gives farewell to three staff members

The school organized some videos for all the recipients that included a dance, skits, plays and just overall, having all the students say how much they appreciated them all.
Bjorkdale News staff moving on 2022
Bjorkdale School celebrated staff members Sherry Fredsberg, Jordann Kovach, Helen and Sherman Babcock, who are leaving the school.

The Bjorkdale School gave a farewell supper to three of their long-serving staff members.

Sherry Fredsberg was the school’s receptionist/librarian for 11 years. Jordann Kovach was the high school Physical Education teacher for seven years and Helen and Sherman Babcock started in 2008 being the custodians at the school.

The school organized some videos for all the recipients that included a dance, skits, plays and just overall, having all the students say how much they appreciated them all. There was also a spaghetti supper organized by the students and staff and that was a silver collection that raised over $3,000 towards Alicia Orosz, the Kindergarten, Grade 1, 2 teacher who is currently on leave battling breast cancer. Great job by everyone involved.

The June is Recreation & Parks Month grant was utilized to bring in the Tisdale Day Camps climbing wall as that day and was climbed on for a straight three hours by all the students and even some parents took a turn. The kids enjoyed it and it was great to have something different come to town.

The Saskatchewan Cutting Horse Association will be hosting the Tisdale Cutting Horse Show on July 2 and 3 starting at 9 a.m. each day located at the Van Haastert Arena, Bjorkdale, SK. Cutting is a ranch sport where a horse and rider team compete to sort and hold a single cow away from a herd of cattle. There will be lots of action as there are competitors eight years old to 80 years old. Open - 3 man Draw Teams, 2 runs per entry, Youth - 2 man Draw Teams and each team will be provided with an adult to be the ‘gate man 12 and Under 3 runs per entry. Please send name and number of entries to Sam at c-barproductions@hotmail.com.

This will be my last article for a couple weeks. I’ll be off to Belgium, the Netherlands and France. Peggy Looby will be back, keeping you up to date, while I am away.