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Langbank School Reunion |
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| FTLComm - Langbank - Tuesday, July 19, 2005 | |||||||||
 It is really to soon after this event last Friday night to be telling you about it. We moved to the village of Langbank from Kelso when I was to start grade three and we moved into this little house across the street from the Co-op store and beside the post office. When we drove into the village at 6:00 Friday night I was surprised to see signs like this one in front of each lot in the village and immediately I was once again doing my paper route to the fourteen or so customers of a place that had only about 80 people. But we lived in a heavily populated rural area with small mixed farms all around us. Our two room school was bulging then and as we baby boomers made our way through life Langbank school would grow continuously with Kennedy only four miles away doing the same. The reunion was really huge and the organisers had tried to set up eras with each group seated in their time but it was a very large crowd and just as we had in the 50s our group was a problem as we had to be subdivided when it was time for picture taking. |
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 As I said at the beginning I really feel that it is to soon to be thinking about this event because when I left in 1962 my family left only a few years later and though I always think of Langbank as my home I actually have lived here in Tisdale longer than I lived in Langbank. Alex Sighithy came up to me and introduced himself. There really were less than ten of us kids in town when we moved there and Alex was one of them and I had not seen him since his graduation a couple of years before me. He lives and works in London Ontario. All evening it was meeting and greeting finding out about children and questions about those who were not there. Deano was sick, where's Margaret, anybody seen a Wallace, how is Wilma, where is your brother Allan? By 9:00 I had moved solidly into memory overload. There were events planned for Saturday but I needed to get away and sort out my thoughts work on the information I had gained and try to get some perspective on things. I have a bunch of pictures that my wife and I snapped during the evening and right off I have to say I am sorry about the spelling and miss-identification errors. Be sure to send me e-mail so I can fix the mistakes. |
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005
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