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Shell
Lake Community Hi-lites
January, 2008
The committee would like to congratulate our early bird draw: $1000.00 winners - Harvey Franson, Spiritwood; Ernie Huchkowsky, Shell Lake; and Carol & Richard Chmelyk and Bill Janzen, Saskatoon. The Bush Bear 250cc ATV winner was Mel Heidt, Saskatoon.
A special thank you to Debbie Brad at the Lakeland Diner for letting us hold our live remotes in her diner and for generously donating a $100 ticket to one of the tickets purchased on November 28th. Brad Rose of Shell Lake was the lucky winner. He purchased an additional ticket for the draw.
On December 12, Greg and Joy Ardagh of the Shell Lake General Store, generously donated a $100 ticket to one of the tickets purchased that date. Gerald and Mari Rose Banda from Blaine Lake were the lucky winners. They also purchased an additional ticket for the draw.
Thank you to all who have purchased tickets. We still have plenty of tickets for sale and lots of great prizes to be won. Call today for your tickets 427-2109 or 888-510-3607.
Happy holidays!
Due to renovations, The Cove Family restaurant will be closed from December 29 - January 31. We will reopen on February 1.
The family of Sonia DeRoo will be having a Come and Go Tea on Saturday, January 19/08 to celebrate her 80th Birthday at the Shell Lake 50 Plus Centre from 2 to 4 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend!
10th Anniversary Sale January 2 & 3, 2008. Greg and JoyAnne wish to thank all customers and the community for making our first 10 years successful and fulfilling. Thank you to all our staff over the years who have guided us and made it all happen.
The month of January brings renewal reminders. The municipality requires you to purchase a business license if you run a business from your home. The annual fee is $50.00.
Secondly, if you own a dog, a dog license is required. The cost of the license is $5.00 per dog.
The following is a Bylaw reminder; Village Bylaw states that the use of fireworks and/or firecrackers is prohibited in the village. This Bylaw is in effect regardless of the season.
Let's make garbage pick-up more efficient. If your garbage can't be bagged in appropriate garbage bags, then it should not be placed out for pick-up.
Please note the village office closures as previously posted for the month of January. There will be no council meeting held this month.
Happy New Year, and may happiness and good health be yours in 2008.
Mayor, Paula Stalwick
The ice is ready - thank you to Greg Ardagh, David Jensen, Larry Rush and the painting crew and thank you Greg for the face lift in the basement.
League curling will begin January 8 (Tuesday & Thursday evenings @7:30). Enter as a team or individually, call JoyAnne or come to the rink on the 8th or 10th to sign up.
Bonspiels - Open - Jan. 30 - Feb.3, Beef on the Bun Supper on Feb. 2 - open to everyone. Ladies - Feb. 22 - 25/08.
Phone entries to Dennis Simonar (427-2080) or JoyAnne Ardagh (427-2044 or 4749).
The Learn to Curl for Kids will begin on January 9 at 3 p.m.
Next meeting Thursday, January 24/08, plan to attend - memberships dues are now overdue.
The Shell Lake Metis Association would like to thank all our supporters. We really appreciate it.
The next home baking sale will not be until May long weekend. However, we will take orders for the last Saturday and Sunday of each month in the winter.
On January 19/08 there will be free coffee and a light snack from 10 a.m. - 3 p.m..
The December winner of the Lottery 200 was Alfie Vaagen.
The Junior Curlers will be hosting two home games in January. The first game will be on Wed. Jan. 9 at 4 p.m. versus Debden. The next home game will be on Wed. Jan. 30 against Canwood. They will also be competing in away games on Jan. 16 & 23. Playoffs will be on Feb. 8 & 9 in Canwood.
At the Tourism Committees December meeting it was unanimously agreed that they would cease to be a committee. The reasons were many. The most prominent ones - No one to take on the position of treasurer, the burn out of long standing members and the age of the majority of the committee members prevents them from active participation in many projects.
If we lose this organization our town will be losing some very important events. Some of the functions done by the committee :
- prepare welcome packages for newcomers to Shell Lake.
- plan and arrange village cleanup.
- maintain the rock garden (weed, plant, water, etc.)
- plant flowers in and maintain the pots in the planters around town,
- promote and organize Hey Days.
- sponsor Canada Day at the park
Now these are just a few of the items that this committee has done over the years. There must be some interested persons out there that would like to see this committee remain active and not let all this hard work be lost. If you are interested in joining the Tourism Committee and helping out to keep our village alive and attractive please call the Village Office by February 19/08.
Sunday worship and Sunday School at 10 a.m.
Mass in Spiritwood on Sundays at 11:30 a.m..
Sunday school at 10 a.m. and church service at 11 a.m.
We forgot to thank Judy Mayo last month for such a good supper.
Thank you to our Christmas Elves - Ada and Mabel for the very lovely Christmas supper. We enjoyed it very much.
Thank you to the choir for the practice they had at the Villa, it was great.
Another thank you goes out to the pre school children and their teacher for bringing cookies and singing for us. That was very nice.
A huge thank you to all of these special people and the very best to you in the new year.
The Villa Residents.
We have just been so incredibly blessed spending our Christmas week this year up at Shell Lake. The hoarfrost was just gorgeous!! We so enjoyed seeing church family in both the Partners in Worship Church on Christmas Eve and at Mont Nebo church. We want to thank Merv Dust for blessing our family with a sleigh ride through his pasture. We really enjoyed showing our family and friends the beautiful display of lights up on the hill outside of Shell Lake - WOW! What work that wonderful lady goes to every year and blesses others with her passion. Thank you!!
Also, I just wanted to mention that God has been so good - OVER 10,000 of my calendars have been sold for 2008 - the ones that feature Shell Lake/ Memorial Lake area. Thank you for encouraging me and supporting me in this first venture of creating calendars with photographs that God has blessed me with. I will be starting the work on the 2009 calendars next week. I look forward to sharing them with you once they are complete. Feel free to contact me at lisaspics@sasktel.net to order your calendars or with any questions you may have. God bless you all in 2009!
Lisa Braun
Lee Hill passed away on November 29/07 a the age of 59 years. He leaves to cherish his memory his wife Kathy , his sons William (Alyson) , Nelson (Stacey) and daughters Paula (Conrad) Goller and Naomi Hill and Phyllis (Gene) Baun along with all their families.
Martha Christiansen passed away on December 14/08 at the age of 86 years. She leaves to cherish her memory, her daughter Irene of Kelowna, B.C and her son Dennis (Diane) of Canwood along with their families.
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