BORDEN — St. John’s Anglican Church held a Shrove Tuesday pancake and sausage supper in the Borden Friendship Room Feb. 13 with more than 50 attending. The $500 profit will be donated to the Borden Care Home Feb. 23. Following the supper, Rev. Sheldon Carr burned the palm leaves from Easter. These were used at the Ash Wednesday service held at St. John’s Church on the morning of Feb. 14.
The Borden Friendship Club held their monthly business meeting the afternoon of Feb. 14. The club donated $200 to Borden School for their breakfast program. A letter was read on what the money is spent on to feed children coming to school hungry.
The rental rate was reviewed as there are different charges for renting the room. The cost of entertainment was also reviewed, comparing the amount spent to what comes in from the donation box.
The club members are invited to Langham for a supper and program Saturday, March 9, at 5 p.m. in the Langham Community Hall. Members are to let Lorraine Olinyk know by Feb. 29 if they will attend. Radisson Club is also invited and their members need to let Barb Leschyshyn know.
Sandra Long and her committee are looking into a bus trip for club members with partial cost to be covered from club funds. Options were discussed and members will decide at a later meeting which they prefer. The club is also going to look at the cost of a new bingo machine as the present one is noisy.
The club held a Valentine’s Tea for Telemiracle Feb. 1 with more than 30 out to enjoy angel food cake with strawberries and whipped cream along with their beverages. Twenty-two door prizes brought by members were given out, Florence Neufeld won the 50/50 and the profit of $581 will be sent to Telemiracle.
The Borden Lions Club held their final draw for Chase the Ace Feb. 15 at the Borden Roadside Inn with the place full for this final draw. Handling the draw were Lions Kendall Redhead and Carlie Hess and at 7 p.m. the draw began. The first name pulled was Annabelle Wiebe from the care home and she won the weekly draw of $333 as the proxy did not pull the Ace of Spades. Carlie and Kendall then started to draw the names out of the draw drum and each person whose name was pulled was phoned and they had 15 minutes to attend or the proxy, Brendon Parker, would pull a card for them. Nineteen tickets were pulled out of the drum, with several of them present. The big winner on the 20th draw was Cody Bradshaw of Borden who finally drew the Ace of Spades and won the jackpot of $1,341.
Carlie and Kendall thanked everyone who had bought tickets, thanked Brendon and the Roadside Inn for hosting the draw every week. He reported the Borden Lions Club had made a profit of $10,370 in the past year. The Lions' next big project is an outdoor market on the streets of Borden to be held May 25, with the club renting spaces to vendors for the day, with more details to come.
