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Serving the Communities of Asquith, Delisle, Grandora, Harris, Pike Lake, Vanscoy
Volume 15 Number 2
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February 2014
Your COMMUNITY... Your NEWSPAPER
Asquith Fencer Finalist for Saskatchewan Female Youth Athlete of the Year
anuary 8th Sask Sports Inc announced its finalists for the Saskatchewan Sports Award, and fencer Kirsten Van Marion has made the list. Van Marion lives and trains in Asquith, a small town a half an hour west of Saskatoon, the hometown of another great Saskatchewan fencer, Shannon Comerford who is a member of Canada’s National Women’s Foil Fencing team. Van Marion, unlike Comerford who is a foilist, favours the epee and is currently ranked
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#9 in Canada for her efforts in Junior Women’s Epee. No small feat as Van Marion has just officially entered the category age range at age 15, and is officially considered to be a competitor in the Cadet category. Highlights of her 2013 season include: - A bronze for Cadet Women’s Epee (U15) at the Canadian Nationals. - A bronze for Team Epee representing Saskatchewan at the Canada Games. - A gold and bronze medal at the Canadian Western Championships.
- Two gold medals and a bronze at the Sask Provincials. This year, Van Marion also took to the international stage, competing in Dallas, Texas at the North American Championships (NAC), despite a bout of food poisoning. Her future goals include continuing on with her training with an eye to making Canada’s National Team, while continuing to maintain her ninetyeight per cent average in school. Kirsten Van Marion ranked 9th in Canada in Jr Womens Epee
The Royal Canadian Legion Delisle Branch #184
e were actually able to have our January, 2013 meeting. We had missed the two previous years due to cold and stormy conditions. During our regular February meeting our re-elected officers from December 2012 were sworn in with Frank Orchard as President, Lorne Lambden as Vice-President, Charlene Pollries as Secretary and Pat Orchard and Rita Pfoh as the Treasurers. For the February meeting a motion was made to have a donation made of $300.00 to Telemiracle in March 2013. Our scheduled meeting for March, 2013 had to be cancelled due to a storm. We will all remember the winter of 2013, for sure! It was just nasty and didn’t want to end! During our April meeting we were sorry to hear of the passing of Raye Keeler of Vanscoy. Raye had been a long-time member of the The Royal Canadian Legion,
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Delisle Branch #184. The Delisle Branch #184 also planned for the fund raising project of holding BBQs over lunch time on Fridays. The Cemetery and Cenotaph Committee along with all the volunteers and the Delisle Legion members helped out to make it a great success. We want to thank our volunteers and supporters as the money that was raised was split between the Delisle Branch #184 and the Delisle Cemetery and Cenotaph committee. The Zone Golf for The Royal Canadian Legion was held this year on June 8th, in Delisle at the Valleyview Golf Course. Unfortunately it was a very cold, windy and a wet day! We only had 11 participants. They seemed to have fun in spite of the weather. The Delisle Branch #184 provided soup and sandwiches for the golfers. The June 20th, 2013 meeting it was decided that the Delisle Branch would give out two $500.00 bursaries for Red Williams............. p. 3 Council Reports......... p. 4
the 2013 Graduation. A motion was also made to donate $200.00 to the “Wounded Warrior Veterans Weekend” to be held in Nipawin in August, 2013. We lost another one of our Veterans, Danny Arntsen in July. We were very sad to lose another Veteran but the Delisle Branch #184 was honored to have him in our branch. Danny was always very willing to share his many stories of the war and about the community. He will be greatly missed. Delisle Days was held on July 20th and the Delisle Branch #184 arranged to put a float in the parade. The float looked awesome and one of our Veterans, Walter Howe and two other members from our branch, Jim Travagline and Brenda Laing also rode on the float. It was a great day for this event.
Delisle Branch held our annual Remembrance Day Raffle to raise money and we were very successful again this year with many thanks to all the local and area businesses, plus Legion members and volunteers that sold tickets for our raffle. We would also like to thank everyone that purchased tickets. Following is the list of prizes and winners: 1st prize was a two night stay at the Saskatoon Travelodge in a pool side room with a value up to $400.00 and the winner of first prize was Grant Norris from Delisle. 2nd prize was a $100.00 gift certificate from the Vanscoy Meats and Sausage plus approximately $100.00 worth of Saskatchewan Roughrider memorabilia and the winner of this prize was Graham and Kathy Shackleton
2013 Year in Review
RCMP Report............. p. 5 School Reports............ p. 6 Agriculture Reports.... p. 7
from Delisle. 3rd prize was a donation of two scarves and a $50.00 gift certificate from Nancy Durham Clothing. The winner of this prize was Pat Althouse from Martensville. Thank you for the donations from our sponsors. In 2013 we received many entries for the Royal Canadian Legion Poster, Poem and Essay Contest. Local winners are forwarded to Zone, District, Provincial and National Competitions. Winners at the National Level are displayed in the House of Commons. We appreciate the commitment from the students from Delisle Composite, Delisle Elementary and Vanscoy Schools for this contest. Thursday, November 7th the Delisle Branch held their annual Tea in conjunction with the Delisle Composite School Veterans Week Concert. Thank you to Mrs. Landry, Mrs. Dyck and the students of Delisle Composite and Delisle Elementary
MP Report................... p. 8 MLA Report................ p. 9 Community Reports... p. 10
Schools for their hard work toward the success of this evening. Special thanks to Cathy Link, Shelby and Darla Christopher, Delisle and District Fire and Rescue, and Orchard Transport for their generous donations of door prizes for the evening. On November 8th, the Remembrance Day Service was held at Delisle Composite School with several Legion members attending from the Delisle Branch #184. November 11th was a great turn-out for our Remembrance Day Service at the Delisle Town Hall. The Delisle Branch would like to thank Carlin Fehr for preparing the awesome slideshow presentation for the service. This year we were joined by members of the Harris Branch, and again by members of the #4 Squadron 38 Signals Regiment, and also the Delisle and District Fire and Rescue members. Thank you to the Town of Delisle for the continued on page 10
Community Calendar..... p. 11 Business Directory.......... p. 12
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