In the Community

After missing a couple of quilting days due to harvest, our quilters met again Oct. 17. We will probably meet again on a regular basis again now that harvesting is completed.

One week away from Halloween and it seems like we just celebrated Thanksgiving! I don't know about you folks but this year is just flying by for me.

I was born in North Battleford raised on a farm at Denholm. My first three years of education were in Denholm. I then finished elementary school at Notre Dame School in North Battleford and graduated from the Convent of the Child Jesus.

Wishing Sarah Beaudoin and Gertie Sherman a speedy recovery. Hope you're both feeling better. When you read this, you will only have two days left until our Maymont Legends.

It was a "dark and stormy night," as Snoopy would say, in Hafford this past Friday as the Vikings played Outlook in the last football game of the season.

The Borden and & district volunteer fire department held a hotdog fundraiser Oct. 17 in the Borden Fire Hall. For $3 you got a hotdog, chips, pop or coffee and sweets, and an extra hotdog for $1.

Most people associate dirt and worms with a garden, but last week it was the food offered for sale by the SLC.

The monthly St. Walburg Royal Purple meeting was held Oct. 13. The hall looked very welcoming with Thanksgiving decorations to brighten things up. Thanks, Terry. There were many compliments. Eighteen members signed the roll call book.

We can only hope the fine weather we have been experiencing the last few days will extend for a while.

Much has been written, and rightly so, about the soldiers, who went to war in 1914, were injured, and made the ultimate sacrifice so we may enjoy freedom.