BORDEN — The Borden Friendship Club held their monthly potluck supper Thursday, Oct. 26 with more than 50 in attendance. There was a great variety of food to sample and birthday cake to enjoy for dessert. The tables and centre were nicely decorated with a fall/Halloween theme with mini, coloured gourds, vases of fall flowers and candy dishes filled with suckers and mini bars around the centrepieces set on bronze napkins. Celebrating birthdays in October were G. Abbott, Angelina Lukan, Sheila Block, Tom Popoff, Elvira LaChappelle, Stew Walton and Peter Thiessen, but only Peter was on hand to blow out the candle. Taking the stage for the entertainment was the Putt Putt Garage Band from Borden, with Russ and Jeff McBain and Jamie Brandrick playing guitars, Andrew Hess playing drums and Kendall Redhead on vocals and playing castanets.
Oct. 27 there was a Flu/COVID clinic in the Community Centre from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with many dropping in to get their shots.
At noon the Friendship Club held a fall tea, with a Halloween theme for the decorations, serving pie and ice cream along with beverages to 45 people, by donation. Thanks to the generosity of those attending the proceeds of $365 will be donated to the Borden Care Home. There were many door prizes brought by the members and these were all handed out to attendees.
The Friendship Club Christmas dinner is Thursday, Dec. 7, in the Community Centre and it will be catered to by the Langham United Church. The deadline for members and guests to let Bev Assman or Lorraine Olinyk know and pay for their meal ($15 for members and $20 for non) is Nov. 23.
Coming up in Borden in November is the fire and rescue steak supper Nov. 4 in the Community Centre and a raffle for pork and a barbecue will be drawn that night. Tickets for supper are $25 from any firefighter.
Monday, Nov. 6 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. St. John’s Anglican Church will be holding a soup, bun and dessert luncheon, by donation, in the church lower hall. Proceeds will be going to the Borden Ministerial Fund which helps out the needy at Christmas.
Music nights are Nov. 8 in Radisson at the Goodrich Centre at 7:30 p.m. and at Borden Nov. 18 at the Seniors’ Centre at 7 p.m.
Radisson Seniors host bingo nights at their centre Nov. 6 and 20 at 7 p.m. and Borden Seniors’ bingo starts Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. Everyone is welcome to these bingos.
Nov. 11, the Borden Lions are hosting a Remembrance Day service in the Community Centre, starting at 10:45 a.m. sharp and there is lunch to follow.
Nov. 15, the health centre hosts a health talk on the risk of falling, starting at 1:30 p.m.
Nov. 25 is Radisson Seniors’ Club pancake breakfast from 9 -11 a.m. and the Borden Farmers’ Market Christmas sale is that Saturday (25) from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Community Centre with many vendors booked. Lunch will be available in the Seniors’ Room sold by the Borden High School students so support local enterprise and get your Christmas shopping done early.
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