MEOTA —The cool morning turned into a warm friendly competition for Meota Golf Club senior golfers. The three-team competition ended in a virtual tie and everyone won. Again, we must thank club manager; Huguette Johnson with her 19 part-time staff and Travis Moccassin and his crew for the great condition of the course and for providing a warm and inviting atmosphere.
Just to clarify a point I made last week, Madeline F. said that 130 bushels per acre of wheat was true and that her boys had taken that wheat off a quarter near Delmas. That land seemed to receive more rain than most land nearby so sometimes we just get lucky. The last time I heard of that yield was in a social studies class, about 1960, in a study of France.
We welcome Lynn Boucher back from Australia after a month's visit with her daughter. We wish Carolin and Dirk Vanee a safe and happy trip to Western British Columbia to help celebrate the 100th birthday of Dirk’s mother.
Get well wishes to our friend Cora Christianson.
The dance year has started and 47 of us were treated to a great potluck supper and some good exercise compliments of the Ukrainian Connection from Radisson. Lots of polkas and waltzes to speed up the blood flow.
The preschool is now being moved to the upper floor of the hall. This will have the Lions’ club room relocating downstairs and the quilting group possibly relocating back to the Do Drop In.
Top scores for canasta this week were by Gordon Klein and David Sayers, first, Marion Ottas and Stella Rendle, second, and Nestor Fransoo and Arlene Walker, third. There was a tie for first and second at Tuesday afternoon bridge by Catriona Winterhalt and Albert Blais and Vern Iverson and Ann Marie Wallbilling. In third were Gerry Craig and Cathy Williams. David Sharpe topped the scores in Thursday night bridge. Vern Iverson was second Mary Phelps and Catriona Winterhalt was third.
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