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Volume 24 Number 2
Your COMMUNITY... Your NEWSPAPER
February 2023
Museum in a Suitcase visits Borden Care Home
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and reminisce about days gone by. Elaine has numbers were four digits long that included Peter Mary, manager of the Borden Care brings interesting pieces that spark lively discus- many of the small towns between Saskatoon and Home with an idea for a new activity for the sions. A phone book from the days when phone North Battleford. One of the residents look residents. She called it “Museum in a through it and found her old number Suitcase”. Elaine loves history and has from when she was a child! Another rare been a curator and a volunteer in musepiece was a store catalogue from 1949. ums since the 1990s. She planned on These are hard to come by since any catbringing a suitcase of articles from the alogue usually ended up in a “special Borden Museum to the care home once a room” outside as all the residents remonth. The idea was a great success. membered. Each month, Elaine brings a suitcase Everyone looks forward to the monthly with a theme. In November it was Revisits of Elaine and her suitcase of memmembrance Day and December was ories. Christmas, naturally. For January she The Borden Care home is a level 1-2 chose the theme of The General Store. home. We provide private rooms, home The chosen articles are displayed out on a cooked meals, housekeeping and laundry table that is visible to everyone. Picking services, regular activities and in house up each piece and showing it to all presreligious services of 3 different denomient, Elaine shares a story that often nations. If you are interested in seeing sparks happy memories and sharing from the home or have questions please call all present. Nearly all the residents of Elaine Gunsch(r) from the Borden Museum displays her Sr Peter at 306-997-2266. the Care Home come to the dining room ‘Museum in a Suitcase’ for the Borden Care Home residents n the fall of 2022, Elaine Gunsch approached Sr
INDEX
Down the Road ................ p. 2
Council Reports ................ p. 4
Local Businesses ............. p. 7
Contact Us ....................... p. 2
Nick Kossovan .................. p. 5
Business Directory .......... p. 8
Community Reports ........ p. 3
Agriculture Reports .......... p. 6
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