In the Community

At the Radisson town office Muriel Rosser-Swift has been hired as town administrator with Darren Beaudoin leaving for a year's leave of absence, expecting to return June of 2013. Muriel will be working one week at Radisson and one week in St.

The Manitou Creative Quilters (MCQ) held their bi-annual Gala Evening fundraiser in the Neilburg Community Hall April 21, with 120 women gathering from Neilburg and the surrounding areas.

We were entertained by Valdy and others at the first Leipzig music festival. What a lively performer.

Last year it was a Juno award winning jazz singer. This year its a look into the universe of the late John Lennon.

Let your imagination free. Join the 2012 TD Summer Reading Club Children look forward to the end of school. No more teachers, no more books. But wait! Children should still think about books over the summer.

A week of activities has been organized leading up to the launch of Feed the Artist, the Battlefords first arts and culture magazine made by a group of young volunteers in the community.

Bill and Danny McMurchie of Pointe Claire, Que. Stopped in for a visit with Eva Inkster. They were former Paynton people. Eva was happy to see them. Sam and Barb Kennedy and Scotty Kennedy from Lloydminster were Sunday visitors with Theresa Kennedy.

You don't see a guy with dreadlocks every day in a small Saskatchewan town and you may not see one in Maidstone again for a while.

Bingo was played May 30 with Joan Smith and Denise Newton doing the calling. There was a good turnout. The loonie pot was divided between Bev Stewart and Noelle Coulthard. Lunch was provided by Norma Hougan assisted by Jean Stewart.

The Waseca Community Centre committee met at the community centre for their regular meeting June 6. Discussion of improvements needed at the centre took place. A new refrigerator has been installed recently.