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Post by Heather Myles (Fonger) on Apr 8, 2006 0:19:43 GMT -5
Hi Wanda, are you still in Pet? We are now in Cold Lake. Ran in to some people from Bayside - Darryl Shiels, Patty Henry, Terry Pickle. Hi everyone, It's me Wanda Fry now Wanda Goodall. Not only was I a base brat (didn't live in PMQs though)but I joined the military and left for Cornwallis recruit school in Jan 81. Came back in June for grad and then continued on my career for a while. I am I still a base brat since I live just outside a base with a hubby who is still in..guess you just can't get rid of the military once it gets in.
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Post by Wanda Fry (Goodall) on Apr 8, 2006 11:16:14 GMT -5
Hey Heather, last time I saw you was in Tim Horton's here in Petawawa! Does Cold Lake have one? How's it going out there?
Yes we are still here and will be for a while but I'm not complaining. We like it here. Close enough to Ottawa but far enough from the hub of city living.
I just got in touch with Diane Cole yesterday and I hooked her up to this site so hopefully she will come in and say hi.
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paula
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Post by paula on Apr 8, 2006 14:50:35 GMT -5
Steve, do you have a brother Greg?? and yes I remember the Pitt! Does anybody else remember the Pitt???
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Post by fleeter on Apr 11, 2006 12:25:58 GMT -5
Paula, yes I have a brother Greg. He lives in Comox, is married with 2 kids. He is a Warrant Officer now with one of the Aurora squadrons....
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Post by ROADRUNNER 12 on Apr 15, 2006 13:50:41 GMT -5
The Xavier air force brats lived at 37B Regina Cres - the memories. We arrived in the summer of '76, with myself, Jane and Morgan heading off to BSS on the bus. I was in Bay house, while the siblings were in Ontario with Larry Arsenault. Carroll came a year later and went to Trent. The base looks so different now that the DND sold it off to private enterprise....as I learned now, Posted Married Quarters were actually subsidized housing. Our dad's didnt' make big salaries (maybe the officers did across the highway, where we'd get to use the pool in the summer). Those were the days. McDonald's was just built when the Xavier clan was posted to CFB Trenton. That homicide behind DQ was never solved. I still recall seeing the body being brought out in a body bag, the arms in rigor (with my job now covering homicides or MVC's, I've seen plenty of bodies) and stiff about the head. I remember playing floor hockey at the gym. Or tennis. Now there's a large indoor pool on the north side, with an arena, too. And the museum. Memories flood back as I compose at the keyboard. Must be my newspaper side coming out....there's a column here for my next edition. Reflections on being an air force brat, not to be confused with army or navy, though my late father (d. 1983 age 50) was in the millitary when it was "unified" and they all wore green. CFB Trenton has sure changed...the site for deceased troops coming back to Canada via the base after perishing in Afgan skirmishes. Sisters Jane, Morgan and Carroll call Nanaimo, BC, home, while baby sister Teresa married David O'Neil of Trenton (you might have voted for his father, long time MPP Hugh O'Neil) and is still there. She works at Loyalist College, by her eldest daughter Michelle decided to go to the new Catholic school in Trenton versus attend out alma mater BSS. Too bad! Go Red Devils, go!
Jules S. Xavier (76-78)
PS.....And the YBC bowling on the base. Many a Saturday afternoon throwing strikes, spares and gutter balls. And Larry Arsenault having his high toss before crushing the pins.
Memories, eh!
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Post by ROADRUNNER 12 on Apr 16, 2006 18:39:11 GMT -5
What ever became of the Groves, who lived a few houses down from me on Regina Crescent?
Or the Giles, who lived next door?
Joey Proctor lived down the road, and he was last in Victoria as I recall after visiting Vancouver Island. We came across each other on MSN.
Lance Darlow is still in the BSS area, calling Brighton home I think.
Laurie Kanneigser (a large family who attended BSS) is an officer in the Canadian military, after her days at McMaster, now stationed in Winnipeg where she started a family. Her husband is a doctor. She was back in Trenton recently with the passing of her father.
What about the Rumney sisters?
Or Howie Dell's brother, who was last in Sweden?
Names from the past...tracking them down.
Pierre Bedard?
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Post by Teresa O'Neil on Apr 16, 2006 20:05:51 GMT -5
LAURIE KANNEGIESSER AND HER FAMILY ARE IN OTTAWA NOW AND I RUN INTO CATHY RUMNEY WHO IS MARRIED WITH TWO DAUGHTERS DURING THE SUMMERS=AGAIN ON THE SOCCER FIELD. OUR DAUGHTERS PLAYED ON THE SAME TEAM.
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Post by gatorgosse on Apr 17, 2006 7:59:00 GMT -5
Hi Theresa... you and Laurie Kannegiesser were two of the infamous Twerps if I recall correctly. Who else was in that crew... Liz Sweetnam, Anne Johnson? I think I can even remember why J.C. started calling you ladies the Twerps!
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Post by Teresa O'Neil on Apr 17, 2006 15:38:38 GMT -5
Hey there, oh yes I was one of the twerps so labeled by J.C. as was Laurie K, Liz S, Sheri Jay, Ann Johnson and Julie Crews(who incidentally now works in my dentists office), so I see her regularly!!! Sheri Jay is living in Ottawa, Liz lives in the Ottawa area and Laurie is also there now, so perhaps you may just bump into one of those twerps sometime!!!
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Post by MORGAN on Apr 17, 2006 22:47:45 GMT -5
AND TERESA IS STILL A TWERP I WOULD SAY YOU OWE ME AN EMAIL HAHAHAHA HOW WAS EASTER CHRIS AND KATIE AND I HAD DADS SAUCE AND SPAGHETTI THEN WENT TO CARROLLS AND JIMS AND HAD DESERT WITH JANE AND JOHN NOW IT IS NO SECRET HI EVERYONE ELSE ON HERE MORGAN
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Post by ROADRUNNER 12 on Apr 17, 2006 23:06:42 GMT -5
My sister Morgan has finally joined. Now all the Xavier clan can link up with our former classmates from the mid to late 70s. Red Devils rule! Tigers, suck! Just Jane left of the five to get signed up. I think we're all in favour of a 35th anny, versus waiting to 50. That would be the next one to have for the school.
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Post by Diane Cole (Porter) on Apr 18, 2006 7:11:57 GMT -5
Hello Xavier Family. It's great to get everyone connected again. I sure have great memories of both Regina Cres and BSS. It would be great to get the Merriams and the Therrians on here although I don't know where they are. Diane
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Post by Rose Scott-Lincourt on Apr 22, 2006 0:45:14 GMT -5
Brian... I'll tell Tom hollo... absolutely... I LOVE ROBIN's e-mail. Dear god, it's been like almost 20 years since I've seen Robin. Do you have my e-mail addy?
Greg... sorry I've not been online much... I promise an updated email soon!!! I have not fallen off the face of the earth... just yet! lol...
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Post by gatorgosse on Apr 26, 2006 8:29:03 GMT -5
Rose, I e-mailed you Robin's addy. I'm still having flashbacks from some of those Middleton Park parties... slam dancing at the Scott's!
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Post by ROADRUNNER 12 on Apr 28, 2006 20:27:30 GMT -5
Cancer is cruel. There's no quality of life when this dreaded disease sucks the life from a family member who brought this news scribe into this world back in '59. My mother's death last July from ovarian cancer came as relief to myself and the four younger sisters I grew up with on a number of air force and army bases across Canada, including CFB Trenton, our late father's last posting before retirement at age 48. The loss of your mother is hard despite an estranged relationship with her. She left our father, who died in '83 at age 50, and the family, when I was 16. Dad was a single parent raising us kids in Middleton Park when you'd only hear of a single mother trying to make ends meet with four or five kids. Still, there was nothing "silent" about her battle with cancer. Ovarian cancer is referred to as the "silent killer." Why? Because it is often not diagnosed at its late stages, when the prognosis is poor. How true. Doreen, my late mother, was diagnosed three years ago. It was not pretty when the doctors opened her belly and found soft-ball sized tumours wrapped around the ovaries. One was removed for testing. The post-surgery news was not good, with the doctors giving my mother little chance of a long life unless she underwent chemo. Even then there was no guarantee she'd enjoy life on Vancouver Island as granny to eight grandchildren. But mom decided against it, saying she did not want to die with hair loss, sickly and throwing up during the treatments. It was her choice and one she did not regret. Doctors gave her less than a year. Three years passed before the cancer finally took hold and she succumbed to the disease shortly after a late morning visit by a niece, eldest daughter and her big sister. She waited until the trio left for lunch before she took her final breath and escaped the pain that ravaged her body during her favourite time of the year — summer. I was just relieved she died during the day, not at night and alone. It was not pretty, however, in the final months. During a Mother's Day celebration with grandchildren and her four daughters, she was gaunt and weak compared to the summer before. She made it to her 68th birthday, something I was hopeful she would, last June. But by the time the family had gathered in Nanaimo, B.C., mother's health had rapidly deteriorated. How can a body subsist on a little chicken broth and ice chips. Or a sip of Smirnoff Ice provided by my loving sisters who took turns visiting three or four times a day. Swallowing became an arduous task for her. And the pain, something she would not wish on her worst enemy, was excruciating. Drugs helped alleviate some of the pain, but based on her groans while being moved by her compassionate nurses, the medicine only dulled it, it did not take it away. A new study out of the University of California at Davis shows many women with ovarian cancer exhibit symptoms many months before the cancer gets to a deadly stage, and is still highly treatable. The study underscores the need for women like my mother and their physicians to be aware ovarian cancer does have symptoms. Mom's abdominal discomforts prior to being diagnosed with the disease were ignored. An early detection might have provided my mother with a longer life. Ovarian cancer is a fast-growing tumour, progressing from early to advanced disease in as little as a year. The main symptoms are abdominal pain and/or abdominal swelling. By mother displayed both, but ignored it. This latest study noted that four in 10 women with ovarian cancer reports symptoms of the disease at least four months prior to diagnosis. It was too late for my mother. By the time she died, confined to bed, mom was down to about 60 pounds. Born in Cumberland on June 24, 1937, my mother was a healthy 120 pounds the previous summer. Family members and relatives who saw her lying in bed were taken aback how she looked, the deterioration turning her into a skin-coverd skeleton. A brother-in-law and nephew both described her appearance as something they viewed in books after the allies discovered starving Jews held in German concentration camps. It's not an image you want of your dying mother, so I was advised by family to not visit. But with her death, the family gathered to scatter the cremains in the salt waters Doreen swam in during her youth growing up in Nanaimo. It was a solemn ceremony as some of us, clutching her powdery remains, tossed them into the harbour, just across from Newcastle Island, a place we enjoyed as youngsters when our family was posted to CFB Comox. Our baby sister Teresa then released the remaining cremains from a thick plastic bag, the gray material slowly spreading in the water as it lapped the shoreline. While she's no longer living, each of us Xavier brats will hold onto memories of our mother, good and bad, knowing she's free of the "silent killer." Cancer is cruel.
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