Radisson Royal Purple ladies held a barbecue supper meeting June 5 at the home of Tina and John Hessell with five members– Tian Hessell, Roberta Harris, Linda Yuskiw, Audrey Baker and L. Olinyk – and two special ladies, Colleen Nelson and Terry King, who always help out at functions, on hand to enjoy the time together (Eileen Fountain often helps but was unable to be there). The Lodge had sold 13 books of Charity Appeal tickets for the Sask Elks Foundation, are having the ice cream booth at the Radisson Fair and also sponsor five classes – one for the Lodge and four in memory of Kay Garnett, Joy Froom, Vera Hamel and Ellen Cousins. The Lodge had sent donations of $50 each to Borden and Maymont Schools and also to Camp Easter Seal. The Lodge does not meet again until September. On June 7, the ladies hosted a Strawberry Tea at the Radisson Goodrich Centre, with 21 from Borden and Radisson enjoying strawberry shortcake and beverages. They also listened to Jackie Meister play the piano, played a few games of bingo and had a sing-song, then everyone went home with a door prize.
At the Borden Lions meeting June 6, Sharon Assman presented the Lion’s $500 scholarship to Paige Yellowlees of Langham, who has completed two years of Bachelor of Arts and plans to take English honours and become a librarian, then complete her Masters at the University of Alberta. Donations of $315 plus $215 in individual donations had been given to the Lions Foundation Dog Guides Ride on June 3. Fifty dollars was donated to the Borden School awards night and $150 was donated to the Beautiful Borden committee for the flower barrels around town. From the Mother’s Day Brunch, $500 was sent in to the Cavalcade for Diabetes. The Lions Club is catering to the Borden Co-op supper June 14. June 7 was the 100th anniversary of Lions international.
The Borden Community Centre was nicely decorated for Borden’s graduation with yellow and gray panels on the sides draping from the ceiling to the centre, hanging white light globes and a stage backdrop of white sheer drapes with mini lights. The grads entered under the decorated archway. On the south wall was a photo gallery and on the north wall the theme was set on the yellow panels – Don’t Stress, Do Your Best, Forget the Rest.
Emcees were 2016 Grads Graham Sargent and MacKenzie Piprell, who welcomed everyone. O Canada was sung, then Principal Mitch Luiten introduced each grad and escort and gave a brief school history of each one as they entered and walked up on stage – Krysta Haley Bueckert escorted by Jeffery Massie, Celeste Michelle Lumgair with escort Dylan Tracksell, Brett Adam Reiter with Danika Pidwerbesky as his escort and Sarah Evelyn Sliedrecht with her escort Dallas Elias. Krysta plans to work for a year then maybe attend post secondary school or open a bakery. Celeste plans to stay with her family and work with the horses more. Brett is enrolled in the U of S in Agriculture and BioScience and Sarah plans to work for a while before deciding what to do.
The valedictorian address was given by Krysta, who thanked everyone for attending.
“We have all worked hard to get to where we are today,” she said.
She also thanked parents and teachers, thanked her classmates and gave each one a special gift. “Try to reflect on the past but make time for the future, whatever we do there is no limit to at least do something, don’t waste your days, push yourself, be proud of yourself and always believe in yourself.”
Guest speaker was Darrel Wiebe, who touched on their theme – what is doing my best? Challenge yourselves, be honest with yourselves, be full of integrity, be a person easy to trust, don’t be afraid to make mistakes as we learn from our failures, he said. He gave examples of famous people who didn’t have it easy to start with. He told them to learn how to deal with stress, laugh at yourself, get along with people, avoid foolish arguments and always be thankful for what you have.
Clayton Wiebe then had a slide show presentation of each of the grads, which was set to music.
Mitch Luiten handed out scrolls to each grad and escort as they walked out of the hall during the recessional.
The chairs were then re-arranged , the DJ played music and each grad came in and handed yellow roses to moms, grandparents or those who had helped them get to this stage of their life. The dance began with grads and their parents, then escorts and was soon open to everyone to dance before lunch served by the Grade 11 class.
