Radisson Royal Purple held their first meeting after the summer break Sept. 12 at the home of Roberta Harris with seven members present. Over the summer the ladies held their ice cream booth at the Radisson Fair and had a profit of $294, down from other years due to a rained out Sunday for many events. The ladies are hosting the Saskatchewan Royal Purple President Colleen MacDonald from Choiceland Oct. 3. The Asquith and River City Lodges are being invited to attend. The meeting will be semi-formal and held in Radisson Town Hall at 7:30 p.m. Happy birthday was sung to Audrey Baker who had celebrated in August.
The Borden Friendship Club held their first business meeting after the summer break Sept. 14, with President Eileen Petrun presiding. A Halloween tea and bake sale was scheduled for Oct. 28 at 2 p.m. in the club room. There will be prizes for the best costume. The club also set their Christmas supper and program date for Dec. 8 at 6 p.m., with a short business meeting at 5 p.m. A report was heard from Rita Smith on the Tiger Lily Trail project - the three kilometre trail has been dug by Dan Gunsch and the cement tables and benches have arrived, but the crusher rock has to be laid down and packed.
A work bee on the Tiger Lily Trail was held Sept. 17 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with seniors, students and parks and recreation board members scraping and painting nine picnic tables (Helen Sutherland, Laura Loeppky, Ann Brand, Audrey Baker, Gladys Wensley, Lorraine Olinyk and Fern, Donovan and Preston Hebig). Solar lights were installed on lampposts by Clive Wensley and Phil Hogg. The brackets for garbage cans were welded on to metal posts by Ruben Remple, then spray painted by Martha Rempe.
Parks and recreation board members Dan Gunsch, Terry Tkaczyk , Jamie Branderick and Ian Tracksell installed some of the lampposts along the trail while Tony and Zach Martens, Kimball and Nicholas Siebert and Donavan Hebig raked the mulch that was laid along the line of trees north of the rink. A lunch of burgers, donuts and pop or coffee was supplied by the parks and recreation board and cooked by Don Hebig. Terry and Lottie Petriew picked up 34 poplar trees to be planted along the trail while Rita Smith had picked up the lights and all the supplies for painting.
Borden School Community Council held a trade fair in the school gym Sept. 14 with various organizations setting up booths, and free snacks for everyone. Emcee was Tony Martens who introduced the council members: Kim Anderson, Laura Reiter, Michelle Sutherland, Leanne Sargent, Heather Prescesky, Elise Meister, Pam Pidwerbesky and teachers Mr. Broughton and Mr. Link. Principal Dean Broughton introduced the new teachers, Atina Johnston, Jacqueline Corbett Mitch Luiten and intern Melissa Romanow, along with the rest of the staff. Booths were set up by Affinity Credit Union, Borden Dance Club, Busy Bees Preschool, Adventure Club, the youth group, the volunteer station, and RCMP Criminal Check. There was a scavenger hunt for the students, with each participant receiving a prize.)
Radisson Swimming Pool held their monthly bingo in Radisson Hall Sept. 14 with under 20 in attendance. Out of the four of us from Borden, yours truly was the only one going home with no winnings. The next bingo will be Oct. 5 at 7:30 p.m. in the hall and the jackpot in 50 numbers is $175 with a consolation prize of $50.
Borden Dance Club held its registration and annual meeting Sept. 12 in the Borden Seniors' Room. The club is offering ballet, lyrical, pointe, tap, jazz, hip-hop and musical theatre classes. Lessons will start Sept. 26 and run every Monday and Wednesday from 3:30 - 9 p.m. except for school holidays. On the executive are co-presidents Monique Duperreault and Debby Hembery, vice-president Sheri Sutherland, secretary Sonia Sutherland, treasurer Heather Prescesky, costume co-ordinator Corinne Szwydky and media co-ordinator Gerry Wainwright.
After more than two years of work on the project, Borden finally has their new reverse osmosis system up and running and providing great water quality to the homes in the village. The changeover occurred the evening of Sept. 15 when they flipped the switch and opened the fire hydrants to clean out the old water. Council and staff held an open house Sept. 16, giving residents the opportunity to view the old and new water treatment plant, eat donuts and drink the new water.
Jim Buckingham, who was town maintenance man for 23 years at Shellbrook, has been working at the plant since spring, getting everything up and running. He is a licensed operator through Sask Environment/SaskWater. Jim says that the water is pure and clear with no sediment and is a level 2 while the old water was a level 1.
Once the rest of the storage tanks are installed, they will have more holding capacity than Langham. They are hoping to have everything completed by Dec. 31 as the old plant has to be removed, new distributor pumps installed and a new pipeline put in the plant. They are hoping to move the old pump to the lift station for the sewer system.
Don Hebig, who is assistant manager of town maintenance, will take training to operate the plant. He will be taking classes over the next four years to do that and become a licensed operator.)
