Election results from the Village of Borden are as follows: Mayor Dave Buckingham elected by acclamation. Councillors are Ian Tracksell with 88 votes, Tom Redhead with 77, Jamie Branderick with 72 and Terry Tkazcyk with 60. Frank Silcox's 45 votes were not enough to get him on council.
In the RM of Great Bend in Division 1, Greg Orchard had 19 votes, Lance Walker 17 and Elizabeth Torrens 13. In Division 3, Ian Hosegood got 33 votes and Colin Elliot 13. So Greg and Ian are the two new members of RM council. Reeve Ron Saunders went in by acclamation.
For the Town of Radisson, the mayor is Don Tanner with 132 votes. Surendran Chetty got 58 and Leona Bennett 19. The six councillors and their vote numbers are: Marlane Wenner - 165; Darren Harris - 163; Michelle Nelson - 152; David Summers - 124; Denise Geroux -111; and Marion Fehr-Stead - 100. Also running were: Mark Kizyma - 83, Jolene Renas - 78 and Bella Armitstead - 67. There were 209 who voted at Radisson.
Condolences are extended to the family of Bill Nichol, who passed away Oct. 22 at the age of 72 after a long and courageous battle with Huntington's disease. A short service and luncheon was held in the Borden Community Centre Oct. 26 to celebrate the life of Bill, with Gayle Wensley presiding. Kendal Redhead was the soloist and the United Church served the lunch.
Borden still has volunteer drivers who will drive people to Saskatoon or other towns for appointments. The drivers used to belong to Community Services but that is no longer in existence so they volunteer through the Saskatoon Health Region. The cost for a volunteer driver to Saskatoon is $35 and the client pays any parking fees and if it is over a meal time they are to pay for the meal. Cost to Radisson is $10, Langham $15 and to Dalmeny $20. The only drivers right now are Ivan Youchezin and Lorraine Olinyk.
The Borden fire department and volunteers are hosting the Saskatchewan Firefighters Curling Association provincial curling championships Feb. 8 - 19. Even though Borden does not have a curling rink they will be holding the event using the Langham Curling Rink, with the banquet in Borden Community Centre.
Ian Wainwright is the president of the SSFA and this winter's edition of the championships will be the 55th year of the event. They are expecting at least a dozen rinks from across the province and the winning team will go on to the National Firefighters Curling Championship in March. On the team from Borden is Ian Wainwright, David Buckingham, Eric Pearce and Barry Saunders.
The opening ceremonies will have a parade of curlers led by a bagpiper and they will have signs made up for each team. They are in need of volunteer drivers to help shuttle the curlers to and from the rink and to the banquet on Saturday, so give any of the four curlers a call if you could do any driving.
The Borden senior boys' volleyball team played in Langham's tournament Oct. 26 and 27. After some hard-fought games in the round robin, they ended up playing Langham in the finals and were unable to defeat the host team, coming away with a second place plaque. Even if they didn't win first place, they played some great games without three of their players who were curling in Lloydminster.
Borden is hosting a tournament this weekend, Nov. 2 and 3, but because the Borden gym is not completely renovated yet, they will be hosting it in Colonsay.
The junior girls played in Hanley, placing fourth. Their playoffs were Oct. 30 at VCA in Osler. The senior girls played at Christian Academy in Saskatoon and received the third place plaque, playing very well and losing some of their games by a narrow margin.
Grad 2013 held a bottle drive Oct 28 and, thanks to the generosity of so many in Borden and area, the 12 students bagged a cattle trailer full of bottles and pop cans to take to Sarcan. The grads also did cleanup at Mary and Ron Saunders 40th anniversary.
Ron and Mary Saunders celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary Oct. 27 in the Borden Community Centre, with a short program and then the Julseth family and friends played tunes from the 60s and 70s for the dance. Many were in costume pertaining to the 1960-70 years so there were colourful clothes, miniskirts, long hair hippie style and colourful bracelets and beads. The three-tier cake was made of Rice Krispies with flowers all around it.
Daughter Nadine introduced family present, and the best man Don Irwin was there along with bridesmaids Elaine Saunders and Delores Simpson. Son Nathan was wearing his dad's wedding suit and his wife Christine was wearing Mary's going away outfit. Sharon Assman also spoke of the many trips and get-togethers over the years.
Mary and Ron both thanked everyone for coming and for helping decorate and plan the evening. They said how lucky they are to live in such a great community. Ron said he has been on council or reeve of the RM since 1985 and has never had an argument with any ratepayer.
Oct. 16, the Radisson Museum hosted the Battlefords Red Hat ladies to a hot luncheon. There were six ladies and two gentlemen in attendance as not all the ladies in the group could attend. After lunch the ladies had fun playing on an accordion. One of the gentlemen played the mouth organ. The afternoon was spent reminiscing and ended with a birthday cake and ice cream as one of the ladies was celebrating a birthday.
