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Shell Lake Community Hi-litesPlans for a Shell Lake School Reunion are in the works for June 26, 2010. Watch for more news in the January Hilites. You can also email schoolreunion@canada.com for updates.
Choice of Chev or Ford SUV(two prizes) plus six lesser prizes.
Show your support as a new hospital is badly needed.
Shellbrook will continue to be our first stop by ambulance & point of care when returning from a city hospital. You may purchase tickets from Jean Zawada, 427 2002.
December 4/09 will be Shell Lake School's last Family Night. Roast beef supper will start at 5:30 p.m. , adults $7.00, up to 12 years $5.00, and preschoolers will be free.
Following the supper there will be games and fun prizes for everyone.
There will also be a mini trade show. If you are interested in bringing your products in for sale (ex. Mary Kay, Watkins, Epicure, homemade items, etc, ) call Cathy at the school to reserve a table. There will be no charge for a table.
The Little Wonders Clubhouse will have the Shell Lake Phone Directories for sale at $4.00 each They will also have cookbooks for sale. After the Family Night these phone directories will be for sale at the Shell Lake General Store if you wish to purchase one.
We still have no mayor and unfortunately if no one comes forward the minister will appoint one for our village.
We would like to remind all our village property owners about how many recreational units can be stored on one's property, only one recreational unit per lot. We do have a bylaw in place regarding recreational units.
If anyone has any questions or concerns, feel free to stop in or call the Village Office at 427-2272. I am open Tuesday to Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and closed for noon.
Tara Bueckert, Administrator
Annual Christmas supper for Shell Lake and area seniors will be held on December 6th. Tickets for the meal can be purchased in advance from the General Store.
An entertaining program to follow supper.
No birthday party/monthly meeting or potluck supper will be held during the month of December. Everything will resume in the new year.
Wellness Clinic scheduled for
December 14th.
Happy Holidays to all and a
prosperous New Year.
We held our Potluck Supper, Registration Night, and Annual General Meeting, on November 21st and had a good turnout of people. The food was fabulous, thanks to everyone who came. We had a good start on numbers for our league membership for the Saturday night league curling, so we have officially decided to put ice in for the 2010 season of curling. We ask anyone who could not attend but wants to curl, please enter your name or team by December 15th with Della at 427-4548. We are also making up a sub list which will be available to anyone that cannot make it and it is each curler's responsibility to find a replacement. Anyone wanting to be placed on the sub list can contact Della. We would like to have the teams organized before Christmas as our first night of curling will start on January 2, 2010. We are pleased to announce that we have hired an ice maintenance person. There is still a lot of work to be done before the rink is up and running and we are asking for volunteers to help put the ice in. They can contact Dennis Simonar at 427-2080. We are planning on having the ice in by December 20th, so if anyone is interested in renting the rink over the Christmas holidays, they can let us know. We are having a few bonspiels this year, which includes an open, ladies, and seniors; watch for posters and dates. It is also Shell Lake's turn to host Legion curling on January 9th, so please come out and watch the action!! Our new club President is Jim Marks and the Vice President is Dennis Simonar. If anyone has any questions or concerns, feel free to contact either of them.
The 2010 Birthday Calendars are here! They can be picked up at Dicus' home.
Congratulations to Alex Skarpinsky the lucky winner of $100 in the Lottery 250 draw.
The library is hosting an Open House on December
15th and 16th. Coffee, cookies
etc served.
The Library will be closed Christmas week December
22 & 23. It will be open for regular hours the
following week. Tuesday 10:30 - 4:00 p.m. and Wednesday 1:00
- 4:00 p.m.
Thanks to all the people that attended, worked and donated to the 31st Novemberfest held November 7, 2009 making it a great success. The grand prize winners splitting the $1,050 were Clara Crawford, Mont Nebo and Maurice (Lana) Grimard, Leask.
Special thanks to those individuals who donated food items, Earl Davidson, Barb Creary, Jerri Olson, Henry Simonar and Dave Jensen. Special thanks to Big Pines Contracting for donating the lovely gift basket.
Circle your calendar for Saturday, April 17, 2010 when the Shell Lake Lions Club will be hosting our "Spring Fling" or previously known as Pasta Night. There will be a menu change and our professional entertainers are Freddie & Sheila Pelletier from Prince Albert. Hope to see you then.
Shell Lake Lions Club is hosting a TURKEY BINGO, on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
All players must purchase a master card (includes children). Door prize, 50/50 draw. Come and have some fun and be the lucky winner of your Christmas turkey.
The residents of the Schwartz Villa would like to thank Anita Weiers and the Shell Lake Lions Club for bringing over some of the left over food from the Novemberfest.
Also a huge thank you to Linda Hill and Vern Clark for preparing and serving us a delicious supper. Thank you also for putting up all our Christmas decorations. You did a fantastic job!
Larry Proulx passed away on November 4, 2009 at the age of 29 years. Larry will be deeply missed by his parents Hilda and Laurent Muloin, numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.
Sunday worship and Sunday School at 10 a.m.
Mass for the winter months, beginning November, will be in Spiritwood on Sundays at 11:15 a.m.
Sunday school at 10 a.m. and church service at 11 a.m.
I am looking for links to my father's immediate family who lived in Shell Lake around 1931. They immigrated from Odense, Denmark in 1927 to Canada as a family.
Sigvald and Anna Marie Olsen where my parents, children: Max Laurence , Leo Henry (my father) Alf Louis, Edel Ruth, Joanna , Christian and Antony.
I understand that the parents died suddenly in Shell Lake in 1931 or thereabouts which led to the break-up of the family. I understand that the younger children were taken into some sort of foster care/orphanage which may have been in the Shell Lake area. My father (Leo) lost contact with his family at this time and subsequently migrated to New Zealand and sadly passed away this year, aged 92.
I have been searching genealogy websites to find birth/death records or other links with little success apart from their arrival in Canada in 1927. Please would you let me know if there are any cemetery records, any ideas on where the children would have gone, or people I may be able to contact for information that would help in my search?
I am very keen to make contact with someone on his side of our family and would really appreciate your help.
Many thanks and look forward to hearing from you.
Deb Bennett (nee Olsen)
ddbennett@ihug.co.nz
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