The Grandview Comets and friends gathered on Saturday night, April 28, 2008 for an awards banquet and social.

The program was emceed by Bob Crowe who offered his own "Words of Wisdom" along with president Tom Bohun, coach Dean Murray and captain Kaine Morran.

Cam Stirling was the guest speaker. He gave a historical perspective commenting on previous Comet teams.

North Central Hockey League Commissioner Wally Henderson was in attendance to present Andy Puchailo and Danny McDonald with their awards as this season’s top goal tenders in the league. McDonald had a 1.80 goals against average for 665 minutes played. Puchailo finished with a 2.67 goals against average for 967 minutes played.

Top scorer for the year went to Brett Ewanyshyn with 20 goals and 16 assists.

The Rookie of the Year was Jerron Kyle.

The R.J. Wilson Memorial Award for the hardest working player was presented by Tannis Pulock (in honor of her grandfather) to Ian Brezden.

The Wade Cowling Memorial Award for the most sportsmanlike player was presented to Derrick Pulock by Wade’s wife Marg and children Lana and Warren.

The Rural Municipalities of Grandview and Gilbert Plains have completed their 2008 budgets and in both cases, municipal tax rates will be going up.

For Grandview taxpayers the municipal rate will increase by 2 mills from 38.89 to 40.89 and the special levy for Mountain View School Division is increasing from 24.74 to 25.68 or .94 mills. The total for mill rate for most property comes to 66.57 mills. An additional 16.08 mills is applied to commercial property with those dollars going to the Public Schools Finance Board.

As an example, a farm property with no residence on it and with a market value of $80,000 would expect a tax bill of just under $1,400.00.

CAO Joan Scott explained that the municipal increase was necessary to cover the continually rising costs of operating. No major new projects are planned for the year.