Wearing of the green as UCT members celebrate

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Published on Sunday, March 29, 2015

By Ann Mandziuk

Neepawa UCT #924

Green was the colour of choice as Neepawa UCT #924 Council celebrated St. Patrick’s Day by awarding life memberships to five long standing members. Edith McCracken, Barbara Davie, Marina Pedersen, Shirley and Lloyd Reidle were presented with certificates by President Leonard Pritchard. All five members are residents of Country Meadows. 

As well, we said a thank you to four members from the Neepawa Belles, Beaux and Builders 4-H Club. Richelle Forgue, Abigail Plett, Claire Tomoniko and Rylee Martin are working on a community volunteer project with their club and they have been working with some of our members at Country Meadows. They joined us and helped as we served birthday cake to members celebrating Mrs. Edith McCracken 97th birthday March 18. The girls lead us in singing “happy birthday” and continued with “bonne fete” as well. 

As UCT members, we also had a chance to say thank you again to Richelle and Abigail for their help last year in sewing pillow cases that we donated to Cancer Care Manitoba. Norma Reid and Ann Mandziuk had a great day with Richelle and Abigail sewing 16 pillow cases. 

Progressive Agriculture Safety Day was one of our major projects in the last year. Helped my Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development we organized a safety day in Neepawa for grade 5 and 6 students.

Our UCT group is responsible for volunteering at two yearly blood donor clinics, providing lunch and volunteers to help with set up and working during the day.  

Neepawa UCT has had a busy year and has made donations to many local organizations including: Manitoba High School Rodeo, Beautiful Plains Horticulture Society for the Junior Section, Terry Fox Run, CIBC Run for the Cure, NACI Tigers Hockey team, Neepawa Silver Spurs 4-H Club, Neepawa and District Fine Arts Festival, New Beginnings Grief Support Group as well as several donation to a variety of charities in memory of members who have passed away. 

We would like to thank the staff of Country Meadows for the use of their common room for our celebration and meeting and having the residents ready for our celebration. 

To find out more about UCT, go to www.uct.org/