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Hi all i seem to recall laura from cunningham but that seems like foreverago
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Howdy Folks,
Laura Helfrich! I remember Laura from Traning School. I don't suppose you now have kids that eat crayons? Just joking Laura. Laurie Perry-Gray Laura and your post brought back a lot of memories I have not thought of since I was in grade school. It made my day.
So tell us Laura, whats happened in your life and how's your family?
Todd Wilson
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Laura Helfrich!!!! I can't believe it....I was thinking about you last week.! Honestly, I was telling my kids, yet again, stories about growing up on Third Street and building snow caves in the back yard. And you were in the story, naturally! God, that takes me back. Drop me a note sometime...i'd love to catch up! Laurie
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Hi Mo (Maureen), just wanted to send more love and prayers to you for support on the death of your dad. I was remembering all those rabbits, what a sight that was to a kid. Remember I'm always there for you.
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Feb 07, 2005 11:24AM
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Hi. It's Laura Helfrich. I started out with the class of 1981. I was just browsing 'round the web, looking for information on Dorothy Dingwall (don't ask why) and found this site. I went through Training School and Cunningham with lots of you, and went to PIHS for my first year, but then I went away to school. We moved away from PI the year before you all graduated.
Just wanted to say "hi," especially to Laurie Perry, who was my very first best friend (long before either of us was allowed to cross Third Street on our own)!
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Condolences to Maureen (Boyle) Patrick and family. Their father, John, passed away about a week ago. They were our neighbors many years ago, and I have a lot of fond memories of those days. Sorry for the loss...
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Glad to see you made it home okay Lisa. Is your mom going to stay in New Hampshire for awhile? Steve was one heck of a guy and I cant imagine anyone who ever met him didnt walk away with a smile or smirk on their face. Take care Lisa and let me know when Missy gets close to her due date. We got 23 inches of snow here in Hollis last Saturday....It sure would look better on your front lawn there in Georgia....LOL
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Jan 29, 2005 3:02PM
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it was no problem he was a family member to me take care
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thank u all for your prayers. my brother was a diabetic for 37 years. he died peacefully in his sleep.
special note for the "visitor" thank u for coming to the service it meant alot to me to have u there.
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Jan 23, 2005 6:35PM
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Howdy Folks,
Thought I'd write in and speak to some thoughts I've been developing over my past 42 years, please bare with me.
First though I'd like to give Lisa and her family my families condolences. I hope he lived well.
Secondly, I used to have a bit of a crush on Mrs. Piper, I guess I thought she was pretty cool. I'm glad to hear she's still vital, and thriving.
Last year I wrote down a list of thoughts to try and collect myself for pending changes and, at my own risk, I thought I'd share them with my peers.
FIRST are my goals =
Good Health. Got some troublesome structural problems that I need to deal with. Learn how to manage stress.
New project - new job maybe new career.
Buy replacement vehicle for my aged Dodge Dakota.
Buy new House - near future. Getting tired of renting need a great place for the family.
Maintain finiacial stability - Develope, save, work at it, and plan for the future.
Retire at age 60.
Put Boys through college.
I've always been very concerned that I did not finish my education and I want to keep this as a goal, but I've recently realized for myself - whatever made me think that my education would ever be finished?
SECOND are character points I either want to maintain or develope:
Be honest and develope integrity in all that you do. Give an honest days work for an honest days pay.
Don't take things out of your control personally because they are what they are. However, beware of people who tell you not to take it personally because your about to be screwed.
Don't accept less than what you've earned from your past. You'll only learn to accept less.
Develope winning strategies for making winning decisions.
If its important to you then don't take no for an answer.
Poor treatment will grow and fester, don't accept it. Nip it in the bud. Do whatever it takes.
Love your parents.
Learn to have faith that things will be alright.
Have a hobby.
Don't allow yourself to get bullied. Sooner or later your gonna have to face them anyhow. Do it on your terms.
Treat others as you wish to be treated.
Develope patients with the people who are closest to you. With all others develope a plan to limit their impact on your life. Follow through.
Don't be too hard on yourself. Its your supposed failures that will make your future as much as your supposed successes. Treat them the same.
Respect yourself first.
Change can be good learn to embrace it.
Hope all is as well as it can be with everyone.
Take care.
Todd Wilson
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Does anyone remember Mrs. Piper? I was running a workshop recently at Westbrook High School and she was there! She's been there for three years. I believe her hair style (and color) is still the same. She hasn't changed at all. She must have been much, MUCH younger than I remembered because she looks my age now.
Maybe I was younger than I remembered?
With so many of our former teachers passing, it's nice to see one still so eager and vital.
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Jan 18, 2005 10:29PM
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for all of u to know lisa brigman lost her brother steve last nite prayer to her family
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our thoughts and prayers to Johna and family
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Condolences to Johna & Family..everyone say a prayer for them.
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Thanks, Laurie- I will give them a hello from you tonight when I call. We had such a short visit to PI- and it was hard to leave! brrr it was a little colder though...
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oh my god....give YOUR parents my best. duh
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Losing anyone is hard, but especially your parents. Happy Holidays, all! Rosemary, would you give my parents my best and wish them a Merry Christmas? My parents loved them both!
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Sorry to sound so insensitive in my last post- my condolences to all of you who have lost parents- words don't quite do it, do they?
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Merry Christmas, Todd, (and all) your post came to me as an email which got me interested in checking out this great website again. I am still in the Farmington area and twin Mary and her family are now in the Belgrade area- so that's cool- a bit closer. We head to PI in a couple days for a hectic, fun but short Xmas celebration- I can't wait! it's always good to go back :-) and we will be doing that alot more since we just bought a camp on Portage Lake! wahoo life is good! hope everyone is doing great too- Allison - let's meet in 2005 at Mary's for cocktails- her kids are wild~ don't tell her I said that! but they sure are cute.........
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I remember sam some a little diffent but a good guy if you got to know him.Thank you todd for the email about everything going on and i agree losing someone you love is hard as i lost mom and dad both this year.Well i hope you all have a great christmas and god bless you all,mike
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Howdy Folks,
I admire your resolve Margo. I can't imagine losing a parent as a child because frankly its hard enough losing a parent as an adult.
I remember the many of hoodilums cause I had to grow up with them too and believe me they know who they were. Hopefully they grew out of it.
In any case Merry Christmas all especially the hoodilums cause I gotta believe God love a hoodilum.
Todd
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I was in Mr. Steven's class in fifth grade with him at Pine Street. And ofcourse it was "just being a boy" back then. Some things you just remember. It was the first day of 5th grade and he made fun of my mother dying 3 weeks earlier... that's how I remember him and Harry. My condolences.
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Dec 17, 2004 8:33PM
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Sammy lived in the Fair veiw acres for a long time before moving to Mapleton .
Jim C
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More snow for Southern Maine? Kim!! what are you saying??!! LOL ok, ok....maybe just a little more than we have now would be alright. I knew Sammy while growing up in Mapleton but dont recall any of us going to any other school than Skyway. Maybe Sammy lived in the P.I. area when we were younger? It is very sad because his younger brother Stewart died a few years ago at a young age also as well as his mom. Condolences to all of his family.
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I remember Sammy. I thought he went to Pine Street School and Cunningham. I don't remember if he graduated or not, but he was in the class of 81. Margo, you are right, he was friends with Harry Lowe. I think they did cause trouble on the playground, but I am sure it was all in fun :-) My condolences to his family and friends. On a brighter note, Happy Holidays to everyone. Can you believe it, 2005! Hoping for a little more snow in Southern Maine for a more festive look. Take care.
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Dec 14, 2004 11:01AM
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Sammye was from Mapleton, I would think he went to school in the 5th grade there wouldnt he? He wouldnt have got to Presque Isle schools until the 6th grade??? Gosh, I dont even remember him being at Skyway now that I think of it. Condolences to his family.
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I remember Sammy Elliott he was friends with Harry Lowe in 5th grade. They were very annoying :)
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I remember a Sammy Elliot but I do believe he was either ahead of us or not present all the way through. Did he play hockey?
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Dec 12, 2004 10:58PM
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I dont know if he finished or no he was 42 years old , his brother was steave mcpherson
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Dec 12, 2004 4:30PM
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I dont remember there being a Sammye Elliott in the class of 81...sorry :-(
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Dec 10, 2004 5:37PM
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I just read that sammye elliott has past away , would anyone have any information about him ,we grew up together , thanks
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Yes, you have the right person. My brother's are Andy and Philip and a deceased sister, Debbie. I will email you because now you have my attention...lol
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Nov 26, 2004 4:56PM
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to Carma Cote-Ouellette. My name is Christy and we are related. Shirley was my great grandmothers neice. Joy and I have recently been doing alot of family research, and I know I've found the right person because i saw you mention philip and I belevie theres also Andy and Deborah if I'm right. I'm just gonna post my email address: enchantedcelt@hotmail.com
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Nov 14, 2004 8:05PM
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Nov 14, 2004 8:03PM
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Great to hear about Missy Lisa!! Let me know when you find out if it's a boy or girl! Are you still planning to come to Maine in the near future? We would love for you to stop in and stay before you head up north to the county. We were up home last weekend. My brother Philip got married and you wont believe to who....email me sometime!!! :o)
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todd
cobb and cherokee counties are the best. let me know what area your going to be in and ill check out stuff for ya
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hey carma
missy is fine. the operation went well. we find out on the 10th what she is having
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Lisa, Still waiting to hear from you! I got back from Bangor on Friday. I never did get to see Denise; things did not go as well as I had hoped there so I never really dared to stray far. The good news about dad is that it was Stage 1 and hopefully they got it all in time. Please call or leave a note to let me know if things are going well. We are still wondering about Melissa and hope she is doing well also.
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Todd,
Sorry to hear about your Dad.
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Hey Brigman..Havent heard from you! How is Melissa doing?? Brandy was beautiful at the wedding. We wish you could have been there.Did you go back to Las Vegas? I will be seeing Denise next week as I am going back to Bangor for a week or so while dad is in the hospital. She bought a new home and I am hoping she will be in there so I can help her paint. Keep in touch!!!
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Wow,
I'm getting good feedback. Thanks Lisa & Jeff.
Its looking like Atlanta is coming up. To tell the truth I'm not sure about moving back to the East Coast, but the job is sounding more and more tempting.
Whats the weather like, are people friendly, and hows the elemenatry schools in the area?
Thanks for the information.
T. Wilson
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well atlanta would be a good choice. i have been here since march and i just love it
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I'd pick Atlanta. Lots of nice suburbs, clean city, lots of jobs, nice weather. The down side lots of traffic. Atlanta has outgrown its highway system.
Philly is a nice place to visit, lots of history, nice places to eat, but I wouldn't like to live there.
Both places are easy to fly out, if you need to travel a lot.
Jeffrey
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Aug 24, 2004 1:53PM
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Howdy Folks,
Hello Leah, been waiting for someone to write.
Can anyone in here give me an assessment of liveability for the city of Atlanta, Georgia.
I could also use the same kind of assessment for Philadelphi, Pennsylvania.
I have no idea about what these places are like and I may need to go there for work.
T. Wilson
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hi everyone, it's been a while since i've seen the website. good job eveyone. it's been busy here. school has started,i hope we get rid of harvest break next year.I just had a 50th Wedding Ann. for my parents this weekend. It was a great time. Lets hope some of us can make that many years. it's been a good summer,busy camping. we are headed to Louden,NH for the race in Sept. I look foreward to that,but it marks the end of summer. Take care all of you.
Love,Leah
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Howdy Folks,
My family and I went camping this week at around 5500 feet (elevation) up on the backside of Mount Hood, Oregon. I had never camped at this campsite, named Tilly Jane, before which is located a couple of thousand vertical feet below tree line. The weather was beautiful, not too hot and sunny. I hiked up the creek trail from the campsite to about 7800 feet and ended up in a draw with lots of sandy, unstable soil suplanted with small, medium, and rather large boulders. The view of the mountain was spectacular and included shear rock faces and dirty glaciers with the bluest of light blue crevases. I took my familiy up o that point the next day and after carrying Ben up a couple hundered feet decided the view was good enough from our vantage point due to the fact I was sucking air like a vacuum cleaner. Its a good work out at that elevation just to carry yourself. My wife, not being much of a hiker, was further enticed up the trail by the shear beauty of the place and the wild flowers that populated the meadows and sides of the creek.
It was a good trip and a great place to visit if yo get the chance.
TTFN
T. Wilson
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Oh by the way the Clark County fair is starting today and we're currently missing the pancake breafast and swine show. Tonight their featuring REO Speed Wagon which is a show I'm tempted to attend. I don't really remember why everything has been rather cloudy since that horse kicked me in the head.
TTFN
T. Wilson
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Howdy Folks,
Summer has been flying by and now that their advertising back to school stuff I'm starting to realize it. Last weekend my family and I went swiming in the Columbia River on the Washington side at Beacon Rock State Park. We've been swimming quite a bit this summer and it turned out to be one of the better places to go. Beacon Rock is an ancient lava dome that sticks striaght up out if the river bank 2-3 hundred feet or so which makes the view from the river fairly spectacular. The side facing the river is made up of columnar basalt which forms after relatively short cooling period of the lava flow. The basalt has an vertical octagonal structure to it which produces a very rugged vertical surface for climbers to acsend.
As we were swiming and rowing around in our inflatable raft I envision a place not touched by us as seen by Lewis and Clark for the first time as they surely did as they descended down the Columbia River to their Winter camp grounds in Astoria. Next year will be the bi-centennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition which I've studied and wondered about since I was a kid. The Columbia river Gorge is still breath taking in this area with the partially forested walls of the gorge rise dramatically out of the river. There's a lot of atmosphere that seems so western to me. I guess I'm pretty taken by it and its affects. My wife and boys don't even think twice about being there because they've either grown-up with it or are growing up with it. To me Its a pretty cool place to be.
Did take a trip home with my oldest son Tim. Tim is growing up fast and is not correcting me so I can't wait for him to be a teenager. I was taken by the sites and smells of home. It's so green and lush there in late June early July. We got to spend some time with family and relatives that I haven't seen for years or Tim has never met. My cousin Cord came up from Paraguay with his family and we had a great time just hanging out into Squapan Lake the now posted and forbidden lake owned and operated by the few remaining lake tirants. My grandfather and father have been going there since before there was a road and infact helped to construct the road to the lake so I take it personally when you can't even access the landing which was always public until some people abused the privilage. It worked out though, now the lake tirants can control lake access and have their own private lake mainly to themselves. Thats all I have to say about that.
So here's to you and yours hope your all fine as frog hair. Anybody playing Texas Holdem?
T. Wilson
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Jul 30, 2004 6:47AM
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My deepest sympathys go out to our classmate Mark Laveway for he and his family's recent loss.
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hey andy and/or tory......
i'm assuming this alumni night at "the roost" in buxton is saturday evening august 14th....the email was not specific. it only referred to that particular weekend.
let me know if you have a minute.
hope all is well with the rest of the class.
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Scott - thanks for the info. I took the liberty of converting it to a link for easier reading.
Torry - I know you sent this to me a little while ago; sorry I didn't get it posted. I've been a little overwhelmed. And yes, a survey about our 25th reunion is a good idea. Let me think about it and we can put something together.
By the way, you can now get to this site by going to www.pihs81.com, which should be easier for everyone.
Hope everyone is enjoying the rainy summer...
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Jul 27, 2004 1:08PM
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I was contacted by one of your classmates today who told me that Torry had posted info about my event on your site. So I came to check it out, and what do you know-- there I am! I have a lot of info to share with you, so use this link to read it. Scott PIHS '89
Click Here for Information
Take care and have a great summer....
Scott M. Daigle / PIHS 1989
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Hey everyone,
glad to see everyone is doing okay.
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You can email Scott Daigle at sea_dogs89@yahoo.com to receive more info also.
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Scott Daigle is planning a multi-class event in Portland for August, 2004.
For more information about this event,
call him at (954) 448 - 1624
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YES- there is a reunion planned in Portland for ALL alumni from PIHS! I will try to get the details posted.
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Hi all, It appears that everyone seems to be doing well. Its nice to read the emails. hard to believe that 25 years are coming up. I don't know about the rest of you, but I am having a hard time with each passing birthday. I hope everyones summer is going well. take care
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Dont worry about it Ivan :o)...you are not responsible for what other people write. I used to apoligize as well but I finally figured out that they are the sorry ones. Hope you are having a great summer!!
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Jul 24, 2004 10:03PM
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I would like to take this chance to appologize to you my fellow classmates who were subjected to some trash that was printed in our class web site. Because I opened my door to my niece and her children I was branded a kidnapper. Go figure. These people need to go on with life and not ruin everyone else's. Again I appologize. I.C.
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i just got an email from classmates.com about an alumni reunion in portland in august...for 80's and 90's alumni...did anyone else get it?
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Jul 21, 2004 2:17AM
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todd wilson should start typin.......lmao........ev
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Hi Lisa. I am back from Bangor..for now. I'll tell you the details when I see you or when you speak to Denise or Tammy again ask them about it.Dad's brother passed away last night so there is alot going on right now. I got Brandy's invitation in the mail when I got back Saturday. They are really nice dont you think? We definitly will have to get together. I am going to see if I can ride up with Kenney as well whenever Tammy hears from him. Dan will have to be in Vermont that week and most likely wont be back in time. I'm sure we will get to talk before then! :o)
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carma i hope your dad will be ok.let me kno whats up. do u still have same e-mail? i want to try to arrange for all of us to be together in august when i bring brandon up to P.I. brandy is getting married on the 21st. why dont u wait and go up then? let me kno how your dad is.
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Hey Lisa.I Hope things are going well....Yes, it is somewhat fixed. I downloaded a new browser so at least I can get into websites now without performing illegal operations or script errors. I am headed to Bangor in the Morning. Dad is in the hospital. I am hoping to be able to contact Denise while I am there. She called last week and seems to be doing well. I was going to go up home in a couple of weeks but I think that is going to put on hold for now until I find out about dad.Take care and Keep in touch!!
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hey carma is your comp fixed yet?
email me
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Jul 02, 2004 5:57PM
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When is the next reunion and where?
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Dianne Carter Collins stopped by last night - we talked about our 25th reunion! It is only a few years away! We will do something (only one night) for those who want to join us!
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Some of you may have noticed that our enemy in LA has been abusing our message board again. I continue to take the liberty of removing posts that appear inappropriate. If anyone feels I've removed something erroneously feel free to email me directly.
And I hope everyone's having a good summer so far! It's starting to get pretty warm again around here.
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May 28, 2004 9:12AM
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it still dose not seem possible that so much time has passed , its been over 20 years since school bells rang out for the last time, ill never forget mr hollowy and mr nelson waving goodby and not realising it would be forever, as i get ready today for my little girls graduation it is sad and exciting but you have to let them fly away and hope they come back to the nest from time to time.
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May 26, 2004 7:49PM
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May 18, 2004 4:53PM
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may 19 is stick it to the man day , tell everyone and email everyone not to buy gas on the 19th of may,
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May 15, 2004 9:58PM
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gas 2.14 today for cheap gas
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May 08, 2004 1:40AM
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in Kalifornia it's like $2.30 right now. The Governator needs to tackle these outrageous gas hikes...
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its 2.05 in georgia for high test 1.85 for regular
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gas was 2.03 yesterday in bangor!!!!!!
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May 05, 2004 8:40PM
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ALRIGHT WHOS PAYING THE MOST FOR GAS, IN NORTH CAROLINA I FOUND IT FOR 1.72 A GALLON TODAY, THEY SAY IT WILL BE 2.00 SOON,
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Hey Lisa...De Je Vu or what? I was just thinking of you! No...I just scanned it and found 24 more infected files. Most of them Trojans. 22 I got rid of and 2 cant be deleted because it says it is using windows (obviously-lol) It didnt find the major virus which is causing all this mess though. Have you heard of "Morze1"? This virus starts the minute I turn on my pc by making files to look for shortcuts and all these popup ads seem to fuel it..yikes....I cant seem to get rid of this darn thing! And how is your week? LoL Hope your getting all settled there in Georgia. your still planning to come to Maine is August I hope. Denise has moved to Bangor. I havent heard from her yet to know if she has bought a home yet or not. Have you heard from her? Keep in touch! :o)
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did u get ur comp fixed yet?
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Hi, everyone. I just decided to take a look to see what everyone has been up to. Finally the weather is starting to get warmer and we can get outside, I love it. I'm getting ready to take a trip with Royal Caribbean to the Bahamas, can't wait. Hopefully I'll need sunscreen. I was glad to see a lot of classmates at the tournament this year. I hope everyone is doing well. Can't wait for the next reunion.
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Hi Margo. I went to Annie Get Your Gun play. It was excellent. Tamia Glidden was awesome as Annie; place was packed.
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Hey Lisa! Glad to hear that you will be coming home. It has been a couple of years since I seen you last. How long will you be up for?? Dont forget...Dan and I bought a house in the country and have plenty of room if you would like to stay a few days!! We have a horseshoe pit and plenty of things to do so I hope you all think about a visit. :o)
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Hey all
Carma, georgia is great.living in the desert for 10 years makes you appreciate nature a whole lot more.the kids and i will probably coming up in august. dont worry brandon is coming too. so i'll see ya then.
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Hey Lisa!! Glad to hear from you. How do you like Georgia so far? I have a friend in Winder...are you close to there? Not much happening here. I havent heard from Denise for quite some time. I was in the hospital with that nasty flu back in December and called her but she was on her way out the door...havent heard from her since. Hope all is well with you and your family. Dan says hello! :o)
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carma just to let you know i'm in georgia now. kev got a great job offer so we packed up and moved.
now i'm only 6 hours away from N.C too bad dad isn't around now. well got unpacking to do.
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it's amazingly ironic and sad that you find out so many details that you didn't know about someone's life from their obituary...
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Here is a link to Mr. Parker's Obituary
http://www.bangornews.com/a/class/obituaries/items/39208_021704_carrolleparker.cfm
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Ok, So someone fill me in...did anyone go to Annie Get Your Gun? I wish I could have gone up to see it.
How was it? I wish I lived closer.
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Feb 21, 2004 8:07AM
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for all of u that didnt know mr carroll parker passed away prays to his family
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Torry you look great!! Gee, looks like your getting younger...what's up with that?? lol Must be that wonderful Hawaiian air!? Glad you all had a good time. Please post some pictures if you have some..we would love to see them!!
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Ugh! I just returned from Sunny Hawaii (85 degrees) to 5 degrees!?! We had a great time (my sister, Trudy and June Judkins Gallant and spouses)! It is just going to be a very long second half of the winter!
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Hello classmates. Thought I would warm up the computer, by reading a few messages on our web site. I don't write any messages, but like reading what everyone else has to say. My life keeps me busy, so there is little time for the computer.
As for the comments, on how our Northern Maine weather has been. All I can say, is that it sure keeps the black flies away!
I have only one more thing to write. I saw an old classmate this past week, Mark Condon. The last time I saw Mark was at our graduation! Some of you probably see him on a daily basis living in Bangor, but it was nice to see him in The County. Write to you later, Tom
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Howdy Folks,
You know it may be considered that your lacking in subject content when the weather creeps into every conversation you have although I have to admit it has a lot to do with how we live our lives.
For instance, when we lived in Utah it was blazing hot in the summer and snowed a fair amount in the valley during the winter. The mountains provided most of the recreation what with skiing in the winter and hiking in the summer. In Utah could always anticipate that the weather would clear and the sun would shine which was a good thing.
In San Diego it was nice in the summer and nice in the winter with the exception of an occasional rain storm or santa anna winds once or twice a year. You found yourself enjoying the weather like an after thought because it was almost always nice. One thing that I found interesting was that my son's school had classes without hallways the doors just opened up to the great outdoors.
Now we find ourselves up in Washington and I've already relearned not to anticipate any weather except rain and of couse enjoying the sun when it shows up. When the sun does come out here it's received more like what is that glowing orb up there in the sky thats making me squint and try to remember where I put my prescription sun glasses. I've come to the conclusion that we were entirely spoiled, weatherwise, living in San Diego.
So now I'm hearing about the more northerly aspect of weather and yes its colder than heck in Maine but then again its even colder in Fairbanks where evidently the busses will run at minus 50 or minus 28 what ever the case may be.....which leaves me to believe hey his rain that keeps pouring down on my head may not be too bad a thing.
So...thats all I got to say about that but I am wondering about Jon's blown thingamajig and how many of you are on this dang Atkins diet that's so quietly killing me and possibly my wife who I supporting by being a codieter. I rather be a codependent, carbo gorging, eating machine but no here I am losing 10 pounds and swearing off everything that I love and makes life worth living.....of course I may be exagerating just a little.
Take care
T. Wilson
So I guess the weather is actually a great conversational subject just because well, its always happening and always changing.
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It was only 28 below - I don't know what got into them to close school!?! It had something to do with the deisel school buses that were "gelling". It just caused lots of problems for working parents! It's 25 above today (that's a huge difference in one day!)We are going skating on the farm pond - no snow but very cold weather makes for perfect conditions!
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It is 36 below in Fairbanks, Alaska today. Kids still went to school.
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They actually closed schools today because it is too COLD!!
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The Dogs!!! I haven't thought of them for a long time. Hey Andy, Remember when we drove to see them....was it somewhere in Canada or maybe in Madawaska.....we could have been classified as Dog-gone groupies!!!
Happy New Year to all!!
PS: Anyone ever rupture their Achillies Tendon? It sucks! Don't forget to stretch!!!!
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Howdy Christmas, hello New Year,
We got snow! Working half a day today....kind-of. Happy New Year All.
From The Wilsons
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Howdy Folks,
Hope all had a Merry Christmas and will have a Happy New Year.
My family and I are now living up in Vancouver, Washington and although the snow level was down below 100-feet a couple of times we didn't get much more than a hint of snow mixed in with lots of rain.
Yesterday we did make it out of the house for awhile and took a ride up to Cougar, Washington where we found some snow for the boys to romp around in.
I'm looking forward to the new year and swear that it's gotta be a better one than I had last year. In any case I've come to learn having a good or bad year is entirely up to me and that things aren't as bad as they seem most of the time. I have a lot to be thankful for.
I'm starting my New Year out with my Brother and will be going snowmobiling in Bend, Oregon. I haven't been on a sled for more than 12-years so I'll probably not be following Brad too closely. My brother has a sled made for climbing mountains and I'm a little warry about where we'll end up.
I keep reminding myself that my bro is the same guy I've watched on video cruising acrossed 80-feet of open water on his CR500 (with a sand tire on the back). I didn't know you could do that on a dirt bike! I also think of the times I've taken turns riding his quad-runner and not quite daring to jump it 15-feet in the air the way he did. I guess that's why they make insurance!
I've also been trying to be a good father and attend my oldest son's Cubscout funtions, which was something my wife had excelled at during her tenure as a Den Leader in Escondido. I have to say I have new found respect for my wife and anyone else who helps boy scouts, and girl scouts for that matter, achieve the goals and attending all of the stuff. I really struggle with it at times....I'm thinking it would probably be a good goal for me to become a good scout Dad this year. Its so hard to get myself away from working or thinking about work.
Andy/Torry, hope you reign-in whatever the problems are on this site. Its makes it harder to communicate openly when there's someone you can't choke the living crap-out of writing derogatory shtuff. Oh did I mention that I wanted to be a kinder and gentler person this new year as well!
Take care all.
T. Wilson
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The answer to Andy's question is we have NO snow! It is 40 degrees and my boys got all new snowboarding equipment for Christmas!?! It is not a nice place at the Eaton household with a 12 and an 8 year old that have nothing to do but play X-Box! Please pray for snow and a lot of it!!!
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I took the admin this time! Let's cut out the problems!
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Dec 08, 2003 4:52PM
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So who's going south for the winter? Man that was a killer storm that the northeast got hit with.
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Once again some people with too much time on their hands have polluted our message board, so I went ahead and cleaned it off.
How's the snow up in Maine? We just got hit again yesterday - about six or eight inches.
Hope everyone's having a good Thanksgiving!
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Nov 23, 2003 11:40PM
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hey dont forget lisa brigman ... brandon s my grandson tooo
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Nov 05, 2003 1:14PM
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The New Hampshire Wall.com welcomes your classmate Ian Serrano as the Sports writer and editor. If you'd like to follow Ians sports commentary, you can do so by putting this link into you browser: http://www.nhwall.com/Sports.htm
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Hey Lisa! Glad to hear from you! I was wondering if you were getting some of that smoke from the fires. Hope they get those out soon.! Denise will have to bring you out here when you get into Maine, I no longer live at the beach.We sold our house and bought a 3 bdrm out in Hollis. We love it here! Denise says downstairs reminds her of your place when we were teens and the only thing missing is Steve! lol Keep in touch!!! :o)
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hey classmates
carma i'm fine just been real busy opening new restaurant.
family is all good. grandson is growing like a bad weed.was planning a trip to the county but have to wait a few more months till restaurant can be stable without me.i'll be bringing brandon and i'll be going to o.o.b for a few days too. hope to see ya.
for any classmates that may live in california, hopefully your not near the wild fires. stay safe
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Actually the bogus postings are about a different matter altogether. Let's just ignore that stuff and move on...
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Oct 29, 2003 5:18PM
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Hi Carma..this is Julie R. If that message left was about you then I have a suggestion for you. We both know who it is doing that and it is time that you put a stop to it in a legal manner. This girl has been harrassing you for over 20 years and I think it's time it stopped. And I agree with you...it is pretty pathetic that she cant get her own life and leave the alcohol and drugs alone cause that's when it seems she does this. Wether it be the internet, phone or in person...her constant childish acts are even bothering me. They didnt make this website for her so she can abuse it. It was made for your class of 81. She obviously isnt smart enough to know her ISP # can be found easily when she logs onto the site.
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Hi all. How is everyone? Hey Ted Stone, are you out there? I ran into your sister Susan today. I recognized her immediately even though I haven't seen her in 20+ years. I had to tell her my name, she recognized my face, just couldn't remember my name. I can't believe I haven't run into her before as I work for the Anesthesiologists that she works with. She got me up to speed on your family and it sounds that all is well.
It was a nice Fall day in Southern Maine. Looks like it will be a decent night for Halloween on Friday. It appears the snow in the County is gone. No more snow forts for your boys Torry, at least for now. I check out the crownofmaine website/webcam occassionally and don't see any snow on the cars anymore. Take care everyone!
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Thanks Andy!! I have a sneakin suspicion that the message probably had my name written all over it. It is pretty pathetic that some people have such sad lives that they are envious of others and how their life turned out 20 years after high school. It is great sites like this where we can all keep in touch no matter how we all got along in high school. Lisa Brigman...Where are you girl? I got your last message and havent seen you since...things going ok there in Vegas? Ruthie....how is it going in Alaska? We havent seen an entry from you in a long time! Have a great week everyone! :o)
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We have you beat! We had 5 inches last Thursday and the boys are still building snow forts!?! It looked like January instead of October.
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It looks like the person who apparently hates one of our classmates is back and is posting inflamatory messages on the board. I will be taking the liberty of removing any messages that look suspicous. If I mistakenly remove a "valid" message, I apologize in advance - just let me know of the error. Unfortunately some people have nothing better to do than to mess with our innocent little site.
Hope all is well with everyone, by the way. It's already snowed four times here! No accumulation, but it sure seems kind of early.
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Oct 09, 2003 11:23AM
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Hi, I'm from the class of 84 and we are planning our 20th. I'm looking for Kevin Wheaton and Dana Johnson's addresses. You can send them to jamero@maine.rr.com if you don't want to post them on here.
Thanks
Carmen(Page)Amero
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Hey, Lisa Brigman! I got your message on yahoo now that I am finially back online. Dan and I are finially into our new house and loving it! The influx of tourists in Old Orchard Beach just got to be too much for us and it just happened that it was a couple from Mass. that bought our other home. Not one single person from Maine the entire month it was ont he market came to look at it..anyways...get in touch with me! Would love to hear from you and see how things are going! :o)
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It's pretty scary when I hear The Dogs and songs from high school on the "oldies" station!!!!!!!
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I also am the proud owner of 'The Dog's' vinyl. Its still where I left it 22 years ago!
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howdy, yes Torry,the dogs did play at our prom..i thought i was the only one with a album of there's..lol...you are NOT the weakest link ev
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Sep 04, 2003 10:29PM
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Howdy Folks,
Has anyone noticed there's a lot of dogma on the site lately and it's been dogging me. Yes I do believe the world has gone to the dogs doggonit!
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Didn't we have The Dogs play at our prom???
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The Dogs still exist??? That's amazing! I used to have an album of theirs (maybe the only one they made) and I actually liked it a lot. I still remember some of the songs. Got rid of it when I tossed all of my old albums.
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hello.nobody adds to our site it seems,Dogs rule,......as you cAN see day 2, of my vaCA is going well,hope everyone hass as much fun as ive had TONITE,..........ev
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hope everyone has a great LaborDay..try to view mars this week,it is a awesome naked eye object.
Last nite northenlites were flaring at the same time of the event...For the record, the DOGS are playing at Wizards this weekend,anybody remember that band?.....ev
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hi everyone,glad to see we're all honest about our age.They say the older the wine,the sweeter the taste.But only if your cork is a good one,lmao..It was fuuny to see what andrea typed the other nite,shes cool,lesbo,but cool....another reason to drink beer todd....take care...EV
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I want to know where all the time went??????
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Got you all beat, was 41 in March
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Aug 08, 2003 2:29PM
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What's up with this www.pihs.com ?? Is this part of this web site?
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I can't type for shit but Hi ! I'm Andrea Bernard! Hi to everyone! I think I read something about A baby boy For Mary Cyr. The Twins are alive and well. Have fun!
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Howdy Folks,
Almost out of California and ready to leave. Its been real and its been nice but it hasn't been real nice. Probably if I had a faster car and hung out with faster women (just kidding hun) I'd fit in a little better.
Came home to our townhouse today and was greeted by the neighbors pitbull mixed breed dog which appearantly thinks its okay to act like its going to get loose from behind the childs door gate and tear my leg off. I tried to ask the neighbors to keep their dog from doing that and they tried to explain how that they don't say anything when my kids are playing out front and making noise which could potentially aggravate their pitbull.
I know I may seem backwards but when an agressive dog such as a pitbull lives within 25 feet of my front door I want assurances that the owners have more brains than the dog. In this case I briefly listened as the male owner, who happens to be black, tried to bring up the issue of race with me as he thought I was sterio typing his pitbull as an agressive dog. In the meantime his wife, who happens to be white, continued to explain the dogs case that it has all the rights of a human being.
In the end I gave up trying to discuss the animal because the owners were more annoying than the dog!
Eric, I believe this is another good reason to drink beer.
Take care all.
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Just catching up i think i have some of you beat on age i was 41 in April not so bad only as bad as you make it. I feel no different now then 10 years ago. Although my oldest is 17 almost 18 and going to be a senior. Did all you from the county enjoy the Phish traffic? Take care everyone
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Jul 29, 2003 9:26PM
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Oops had my fingers on the wrong keys!! I meant hope all is well with each of you.
Marilyn
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Jul 29, 2003 9:25PM
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Greetings to the class of 81!! Was just in the PIHS web site looking around and was checking out your web site. Looks good. Jope all is weel with you.
Marilyn Allen Lavway Class of 1980
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for those of you who know the twins', mary just had another baby---a boy...sorry, don't know his name...second hand information from her brother to my brother (they have been lifelong friends) now, that's something i couldn't imagine having at 40! i have a hard enough time dealing with a 10 & 13 year old--although they do act like infants sometimes! congratulations and love to you, mike and emma!
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Happy Birthday Todd, Cheryl, and Eric!!! No, 40 and over isnt old....I like to think of us like grapes and we just get better and better with age. :o)
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Howdy folks,
For the record I'm 41 tomorrow and I believe Albert Allen is the youngest in the class. Also, I hope 41 isn't bad cause 40 sucked.
My kids arm is now in a cast, I've replaced my trucks battery and I think we need to replace my wifes car's radiator. The volvo's seen better days but you can't beat a car that you've driven for ten years!
To be totally honest I don't know what to think about getting older anymore. I guess I'm at the point where I'm realizing that there's nothing I nor anyone else can do about it. I find it helpfull to throw my arms into the air and say "what the hell can you do about it anyway"!
Survived the latest deadline on the job. After Monday of next week we were supposed to be into liquidated damages to the tune of $45K/day. Appearantly we've received a repreive and now have until August 5th. I thnik I worked, at time frantically, atg least 80-hours this week. I hardly have time to think about anything else except there are those moments when one of the people I work with mention going to Mexico or having a great vacation. It really sucks living my life through other people, but that's the way it seems sometimes.
Have some folks from Mass. onsite starting up the equipment that hydraulically operates the main valve and gates. They remind me of things forgotten and just why I'm who I am. I relearned that being from back east (Maine) is a good thing and that I'll always be a Yankee.
Hope your summer is going well. It's always summer here so please enjoy the season's.
T. Wilson
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ps....to beat me you must be younger...i cant believe im the youngest in our class.....ev
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thanks for being honest cheril(bAD spelling)......im ahead by 7 days,so there,lmao....i think we are the young ones......take care all.......ev
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Unfortunatly, I have you both beat. I'll be 41 in Dec. YIKES!!!! I actually remember going to Goudville with Buddy LaCombe to headstart before we entered Kindegarten. Do they still have headstart programs or is it called something else now? Time goes way too fast!! Anyone intrested in a Ocean Retreat, I am selling my home here in Old Orchard Beach....3 minutes from the ocean! If you might know of anyone intrested have them check out our Ad on ISoldMyHouse.com.(click on York County) Hope everyone has been having a great summer!!!
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Got ya beat...only 10 days to go....Jeeze...
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PS ,ive got a dare for our group, ive got 17 days until im 40...can anybody beat that,i hate black cake frosting....ev
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howdy!..ok i was looking at a class of 81 yearbook with denise henderson,and there was alot of hate writing,very disturbing.(lmfao), i wont name names but i rcogn ized some...todd the beer's getting better up here., is your son a nut or just accident prone? That beer i typed about is on the web, check it out.I finally got Roger Pelkey to stock it.(Roger's.R&R,M&J now)...very shortly Phish is coming back to the county,so he's stocked up hard. Last time they had a concert at Loring there was 70.000 people up there...as you can tell, day 4 of my vaca is going well.No eulogys for me ...take care everyone.......EV
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By the way,
Please excuse my whine but:
My son Timmy broke his arm again yesterday. The same one he broke in April! The cat had to have his face sewn back on Monday to the tune of 300$ (+)(I would personally like to eulogise that cat), My wifes car is overheating, I need a new battery in my truck, and I had my 40 salary hours in on Wednesday in the morning.
Ain't life grand! Again have a Happy 4th!
T. Wilson
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Howdy All Fello Americans,
Happy 4th. Its a hot one down here and yes there's a possiblity there will be a barn burner or two down here and I'm not talking sports.
Eric, when I left Maine in 91 there weren't many local brew's to try back then. Besides seeing the family, I think a trip back up that way to sample some of the local beers would be a good thing. Something I thought was funny when my brother moved out to Oregon was when I took Brad to a microbrewery I ordered a local Pint of Black Butte Porter and Brad order a pint of Budwieser. I could not convince him for the longest time to try anything else. Thankfully my brother has weened hisself from Bud and now drinks Henry's a Northwest beer, which I enjoy when I visit him. If your ever up in Portland, Oregon you'll see what I mean when I say its the beer capital of the country. I'm getting thirsty just thinking about it.
I'm not sure how others feel about having their loved ones eulogised on this website but if I or anyone in my immediate family die's while this sites up and running please do me a favor and keep it to yourself. It may not be appearant from my verbose discourse but I just want to fade away someday down the rabbit hole.
Have a happy 4th.
T. Wilson
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hi,glad to see the site still flowing...i swear TW should have been a beaver.wish everyone a great summer,god knows we need it after last winter..Todd if you ever take a break from the wine,try some Atlantic Brewing Company brews(bar harbor)..for sure the blueberry ale.Well,hope nobody else dies.....take care everyone.....EV
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Jun 10, 2003 6:58AM
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Just thought I would let evryone know that Aaron Nelson, our old principal, has past away.
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Jun 09, 2003 8:52PM
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Hi class of 81 I just wont to send my condolences to
Holly Churchill her gram pass a way and her mom has had
heart attack.
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So the vistor lives in the County.
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Howdy Folks,
One bottle of wine on the wall completed and ready for disposal. It would be hard to become and alchoholic drinking just wine....but there are times when being a wineo is very appealing to me. Gewurztraminer is a very fine wine. I also like any late harvest or early havest white or red table wine selected from any shelf in the grocery store. One of my very very favorites is a logan berry wine or a late harvest reislin. I also like 'turning leafs' chardonay. I like the sweet one's. "How sweet it is."
How is averyone? I feel that Mark may be able to sleep in peace now that sadam is gone. I know I should temper my comments in light of my current condition but...oh what the hell...Hamas is on the list. If they screw up the current peace initiative we'll be chasing them all the way back to Iran.
Tim, Ben, a neighbor boy, and I went swimming today. It was overcast and drizzling today so we had the pool to ourselves. I bought Ben a new lycra swim suit with floatation and we were dieing to try it out. I think he'll be swimming like a fish here before too long.
Wrapping up my work on the Olivenhain Dam mechanical work. Currently, we may be moving on up to Vancouver, Washington but I'm not entirely sure I want to. I could use some divine guidence with my and my families next move. I'm tired of it all and I don't know what to do about it currently. Its ain't simple no more.
In any case, I wish everyone a nice summer and hope everything is fine as frog hair for you. Ricky, You have my condolences.
We'll be seeing you.
T. Wilson
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There's an article about Presque Isle posted on the CNN website. If it isn't on the main page then type in Maine Town in Center of Solar System in the search box and it should bring you to the article.
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May 30, 2003 2:42PM
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love and prayers to Rick and family. I know its been a long hard road for all of you.
To all of you in th PI area that would be interested in a BBQ with Ian Serrano and family,I'm putting together a get together Monday june 9th. drop me an email or call if you can come.Ian hasn't been able to make the reunions so he would love to see everyone.
thanks and see you soon,
leah
lgirardin@nehemri.com or 764-6226
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May 22, 2003 3:18PM
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Condolences go out to Derrick and Dianne Collins. Derrick's dad recently passed away.
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Howdy folks,
Hear it was in the 80's up there in my home town. Went swimin in the ocean today in Carlsbad. It was a fine time. I love swiming in the Pacific.
Take care.
T. Wilson
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hi everyone,just read some of the older posts..yes it snows up here and yes its cold sometimes,but damn its nice...went snowmobiling in jeans last weekend,rode motorcycles monday,4wheelers today..the only thing bumming me out is the lakes take forever to thaw out....on another note,had a few with david watson the other day,enjoyed that very much.He got a award at UMPI for his acheivements(thats why he was up here),got to like that...take care everyone....EV
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Speaking if tournament. Does anyone remember our game against the Lawrence Bulldogs?
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Hello.
Another Miss Dingwall factoid was that she also taught my Grandfather back when Cunningham was the high school. I wonder what happened to her slides from her adventures.
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Howdy Folks,
Torry, After reading your brief message for the third time I now remember how significant its is when the snow finally starts to melt.
T. Wilson
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After reading your posting, Todd, I must admit that I really know very little of the world....but the things I do remember came solely from Merle Smith and Miss Dingwall. To any and all classmates in the service, our best to you and your families.
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Howdy Howdy,
I know I may seem nuts but recently I had another brief Miss Dingwall moment while watching the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." Something about the Parthenon brought it all back to me.
And that's all I got to say about that.
T. Wilson
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Howdy Folks,
The local news station just jogged a deep memory I have whike they were attempting to educating the public about the significance of Iraq's History.
The newscaster explained how Iraq was "Mesopotomia the cradle of civilization" and further announced the existence of ancient hanging gardens as one of the "seven wonders of the ancient world" like it would be the first time I'd heard of it, all with a gleam in her eye!
For a brief moment the bleach blond was transformed into a gray haired, lady with rhinestone glasses wearing a 50's style skirt along with the bobby socks and saddle shoes. I immediately realized that Miss Dingwall's legacy lives on somehow through me.
The ironic part to all of this is that I really did quite poorly in Miss Dingwalls class and I didn't like her all that much (at the time).
I miss her now.
T. Wilson
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The snow is finally starting to melt!
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Mar 28, 2003 6:51PM
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Wake up everyone can't belive the class of 81 is being so quite. Ha Ha take care everyone
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I take back what I said - the boys made it too! Now we will be at the "Auditorium" from 3:00 until 9:00!?!
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Torry, that's so funny. I live in Bangor and even the kids at the high school say, Tournament? You mean basketball? Oh well, guess we were sheltered. Have a great time! We all have fond memories of those "tournament" outings!!!!!
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We are headed to "tournament" this weekend! Why is it that only folks from Aroostook County truely understand when we say that?? Does anyone remember our Senior Year at Tournament? I think the biggest party was at the Holiday Inn!?! I remember no sleep - playing in the band the next day and then driving home while trying not to sleep! The girls were great! That's the same as this year - the girls are much better than the boys! Keenan and his friends have big plans for tournament this year - it will be their first experience (5th graders!) I think the parents are just as excited to get away and have some fun at the Fairfield Inn!
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Hello Margo and all,
Good news we're expecting rain this week! However, it will be somewhere's between 65 and 80 degrees F and sunny for the most part.
I know political discourse can be highly controversial but for some time now I've been wondering what to make of going to Iraq. I've come to regard war with Iraq not much of a war at all but its the after affects that I find much more disconerting
Something interesting I've recently read has helped me understand what I've been trying to understand and its history. If your interested, read the afterthoughts of General Norman Schwarzkopf's autobiography "It Doesn't Take A Hero." I find it sincere and to the point.
Today I turned on the TV and watched Madame Albright (the old battle axe) and Norman Schwarzkopf being interviewed on "Face The Nation". I wonder if this administration is listening?
On the other hand if you realize what bio terrorism or nuclear bombs can do I find it totally freaky that countries with leaders like Sadam or North Korea's dictator can get their slimy hands on them. In light of that I can understand the administrations damb the torpedo's attitude.
So here we go. One thing history in this country has taught me is that Americans will fight for what they believe in. I just hope the paths we've chosen are worth the cost if it comes to it.
In the mean time I wish I could be hunting terrorists. Now that would be fun.
TTFN
T. Wilson
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Todd,
Must admit I do like looking out the window in Feb. and seeing the Robins. We get just enough snow here to keep me happy. We even had a white Christmas here this year.
Keep shoveling PI. Our Ground Hog here says so. Although family has asked Rick to shoot it.
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Hello from sunny Southern California,
Yeah it was around 80-degrees here again today. I keep thinking its summer all the time which can be really quite boring weatherwise.
Went camping at Dixon Lake last weekend and had a camp-over for several of my son's friends to help celebrate his 8th birthday. Its hard to believe I too was once eight years old. We had lots of fun even though we had a bunch of paranoid park rangers pestering us at the campsite. No beer and no fire allowed! You can use charcoal though. Plenty of fire risk in this area with lots of expensive property nearby.
You know....now that I've been southern californified I doubt I can even begin to understand what its like to be a cold north eastener anymore? My my my..
TTFN
T Wilson
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I fixed the problem displaying photos. I know the hit counter on the main page doesn't work - I'll get to that another time.
If anyone is having trouble seeing photos or posting messages, make sure you don't have some kind of ad-blocking (pop-up blocking) software running. The site uses pop-ups to do its thing, so if you block them, some of the features won't work.
Hope everyone's having a nice cold winter! It's not quite as cold as the county here, but we've gotten over 100" of snow so far. It just never stops. I'll take the snow instead of -30 degree temperatures any day though!
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I just moved the site to a server with a newer version of software and you may experience problems as a result. For instance the display of photos in the photo album has apparently broken. I'll try to fix that problem shortly. If you experience any problems besides that please let me know so I can fix them.
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IT IS REALLY COLD IN AROOSTOOK COUNTY!!!!!!! I always wonder why we moved back here in the middle of January!
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Allison i know what you mean about memories i went and watched a Messalonskee Basketball game girls and what memories it brought back. I never realized how much i enjoyed watching the game its not as popular down here as it is in PI. Of course when your a kid your probably to involved visiting with your friends to watch the game, because i'll ask my daugter the score of a game and she says i don't know i don't watch it. My daughter is going to get the experience of a lif time shes going to Florida in March to play softball for a team from Portland, Hopefuly we'll get to go too, How lucky these kids are these days. We'll hope everyone had a happy new year and my thoughts are with you all going through hard times right now becase we are too.
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hope everyone had a great christmas....it was certainly a white one for us in the southern part of the state! i had a barrage of memories hit me last night---went to the wildcats basketball game in hampden...my nephew plays on the varsity team...the girls won in a close game, the boys lost by 6...brought back so many memories of school, friends, life....can't believe, or is it denial, that we have been out of school for so many years....sitting on those bleachers for a couple of hours certainly makes one feel their age!!
happy new year everyone...
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Lisa. Glad to hear from you! Hope you had a good holiday. Denise is still up in Bangor helping her mom out and trying to help her adjust. I thought the funeral was going to be in Bangor. Had I known it was up home I would have rode up there with Kenny so I am anxious to see Denise and make sure she is doing o.k. Hope you and the family are doing well...keep in touch Lisa! :-)
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thanks carma. me and neecie are having it rough this year, but we'll get through it together like we always do.
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Thinking of all the good times will help Carol. Your emotions will be over-filled but they will be more joyeus than sad. I still feel that way with the loss of my mom and sister especially over the holidays but thank god we have the memories. (now that we are adults, we can more understand what our parents meant when they said that)Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all!!!
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My thoughts and prayers are with both Lisa and Denise!
With Christmas coming, this being the first since my dad died, I am sure that there will be moments that will be difficult. God Bless you!
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You are right Torry. Marvin did graduate in 1982. Ol' Marv is still silly I see. Marvin lived in Portland for quite a few years before moving back up home a year or so ago. Marvin hung around the class of 81 which is why he must have forgotten....at least I hope that's why. I know he was around on grad night because he was the one everyone volunteered to store the liquor in his trunk. That would be an initiation of some sort in college wouldnt it? LOL
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Was Marvin Cramichael in our class or '82? He installed a new washer and dryer for me yesterday and said that he graduated with us. I just couldn't remember. A lot of people get my sister, Trudy, and I mixed up so he could have been from '82.
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I guess we are all reaching that stage in our lives where our parents are getting older!?! I heard someone say the other day that once we get done caring for our children we will be caring for our parents (if we haven't lost them already)! My thoughts and prayers are with both Lisa and Denise!
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Condolences also go out to another classmate Lisa Brigman who also lost her father recently. Keep in touch Lisa, We're thinking of you and your family as well.
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Merry Christmas everyone! Here is hoping you all have a safe and happy holiday! Condolences go out to our classmate Denise Carter who's father recently passed away. May they find peace this holiday season. We are thinking of you Denise.
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Howdy Folks,
Hope you all had a fabulous Thanksgiving and are preparing for a wonderful Christmas. Only thirteen days to go!
Yeah we're still here in California. They recently voted Gov. Gray Davis back into office even after the multi-billion dollar energy deregulation debacle he was in the middle of. Now the government is chopping 10-billion dollars out of the education budget to help recover from a 20 or so billion dollar deficite. Its a strange and confusing place to me. I use a brain to money ratio analogy to help myself understand because at times it seems there's more money than brains around here.
Even now I realize the values of where I grew up and thank God that even though we didn't have much it was enough. Not too much if you know what I mean.
We finished placement of the Olivenhain Dam three weeks early and now I'm continuing on with the installation of the valves which will control the flow of water into the distrbution system. You can check it out by looking up "Olivenhain Dam" on Google or check out the company website at www.kiewit.com. If you find dam's interesting
My wife is leading the Christmas float building effort for the Boy Scouts pack 640 "Pacific Desert Council". They have a 3-4 hour long chrictmas parade here in Escondido on December 14th. I have sometimes begruded the cost in time and money for her involvement with the BSA but in the end its all good. I remember the parade last year. It was 70-degrees out!
My wife's parents came down from Oregon to have Thanks Giving with us. My wifes parents are definitly a product of the 60's.....they plan to sail their 44-foot sailboat down here on their way to 15-years of sailing around the world. I used to get angry at their supposed selfishness but have learned to accept it and love them just the same. My Mother-in-law, God bless her, has recently found out she's had MS for a while now is showing some symptoms. The disease punctuates both her vunerability and her strength as she continues on with life. I know now where my wife gets her tenacity.
Well, thats all for now.
TTFN
T.Wilson
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hi to all. I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. May the holidays bring peace and joy to you and yours. Take time for yourself and your family during the season. Isn't that what it's all about. Love,Leah
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Nov 19, 2002 8:40PM
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Maybe Martha was preparing herself for what's in store in the future. she has a home in Maine and accoriding to her neighbors, she isnt a very nice lady. But I find her shows very informative and refuse to believe a lady worth a billion dollars would bother to sell stock illegally for the sake of money. Just my opinion........ :-)
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Hi,
Just happened to be flipping through channels this morning and saw Martha Stewart on a harvester at the Good farm in Aroostook County....It was a nice piece. Wish I could have taped it. It talked about how school is let out, hand picking etc. Ahh, the good old days.
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Hi everyone. Torry, I think I vaguely remember some music coming from somewhere that visitor asked about and I do think it was around the area where you lived. I am not sure if it was on a pole or not tho. I havent thought about that in years.Like you, I will be turning 40 in a few weeks so I could be wrong.
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My memory is fading!?! I turned 40 yesterday!?! I somehow vaguely remember that same "box"! I will ask my parents about it! At least it was warmer today and most of the snow has melted.
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Nov 05, 2002 6:29PM
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It's official. Fall time is over and Old Man Winter has arrived. It seems that this year has zoomed right on by and Thanksgiving and Christmas are right around the corner. Torry...did they play music from some sort of box on the phone pole next to your house when we were kids or is that a faulty memory? I think the box was actually hooked up to the post office or something.??
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My boys (including my husband) "love" to go to the fields after the harvester has been through to pick potatoes! You can tell they never had to do it to earn money!?! I never go with them! We actually had snow last night - it was enough so that everything was white this morning. It was gone by the time we got out of church.
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All the talk about harvest certainly takes me back. Remember Potato Picker's Special on WAGM? I worked with Karen Tompkins on that show.....behind the scenes, that is. We were the ones who picked up the Dunkin Donuts at 3:45 a.m. and then made bacon and eggs for John Logan and all the crew. It made actually picking the potatoes look like a dream. We'll never forget those days, will we?
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And Ted, how about some news from the front line? Do you stay holed up in your house now or what?
Unfortunately splattering the sniper news all over the TV only gives this guy the charge he's looking for.
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Thanks for the link to the NPR story Jon. I too have haunting memories of harvest. I must admit they are good memories, although I don't remember liking it at the time. I think about it quite often this time of year when I'm getting so much stuff out of the garden. I agree with you, Todd - it's the smell of dirt that usually brings it all back.
We got an inch of snow here last night. All I have left to bring in are the potatoes. I'd give anything just for a potato digger. I only have two rows to dig, but doing it with a shovel gets old real fast. Maybe if I get some sticks and mark off sections I can get the neighbors to help. I'll pay them a penny a potato. Yeah, that'll work.
Listen to your radio early tomorrow morning: "Andy Johnson says he's starting on time..."
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Howdy Folks,
Here's a few songs I often hear in my mind at this time of year:
"Well we pick-um up pick-um up put them in a barrel put the big ole barrel on a tater truck"
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"Give me 40 acres and I'll turn this truck around its the easiest way I've found."
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"I've got a brand new combine harvester and I'll give you the key. You've got 40 acres and I've got 53."
Something like that.
One more song for all you tater pickers. I think I was 6 or 7-years old but I used to go pick taters with my mom at Beaulieu's and they always played the song " Haper Valley PTA" which used to get louder as we passed the radio station out by Arnold Brook Lake.
One more thing....when ever I'm around dirt equipment with sqeeky tracks and the smell of the earth I immediately rememeber potatoe diggers and home.
Thanks for sharing Jon.
TTFN
T. Wilson
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HEllo everyone. ust wanted to thank you all for your prayers. Andrew is doing great and is coming home tomorrow. HE is 100% walking, talking, so thanks again
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Hello everyone,
With the beautiful fall colors, crisp cold mornings and clear blue skies the memories of those days out in the potato fields, busting our backs and freezing our feet...KEEP COMING BACK TO HAUNT ME!!!! WHY WON'T THEY LEAVE ME ALONE!!!!! 35 CENTS A BARREL!!!!! IT WAS AROOSTOOK COUNTY'S EQUIVALENT TO A SWEAT SHOP....ONLY IT WAS TOO DAMN COLD TO SWEAT!!!!
But seriously....I was listening to National Public Radio today and low the following segment was aired: "Potato Harvest" in Presque Isle. The following link will take you to the article.
http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/segment_display.cfm?segID=151308
I listened with a smile from ear to ear as Brandon Roope, my former neighbor and employer (and nemesis) for several harvests, gave his thoughts about the potato harvest break and what it means to the community.
That segment had more impact and meaning to those of us who experienced it than anyone else could EVER imagine!!
Just wanted to share that with everyone. Warm regards to all!!
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FINALLY! The leaves are just now changing color. Usually by now they are all on the ground!?! It was a beautiful weekend - 70's yesterday! Global warming must be hitting Aroostook County!?!
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Oct 06, 2002 2:01PM
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Has the leaves started to turn color yet in the county?
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Hi Everybody! I now live in Washougal, Washington. We have been here for 3 yrs. Move here as a result of job changes with Pete's Job. Pete and I have been married for 13 yrs and have 2 children, Tim 8 yrs. and Stacey 5 yrs. For now I am a stay at home mom, best job yet!!! My dad past away in March 2002. He battled cancer for 5 years and actually beat the odds. Though I will miss him even more now, I know he is Home with the Lord! Anyway, glad to have found this site. I have wondered often over the years where everyone went. Sure would have loved to have made it to the Class Reuion but one can't be in 2 places at once.
All the best to each of you and God Bless!
Carol
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We are back from another adventure to Europe! Sorry to hear about Karen's Dad and Mr. Kennison.
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Howdy Folks,
Its another sunny day down here in Southern California. Sorry to here of the new losses. Mr. Kenison introduced me to the tromebone when I was in 5th grade. It didn't take but I'll never forget the introduction. As for the bandies.....there hasn't been anything any more memorable during the basketball games then the band. I loved the music and whats more I loved the marching band during the parades I attended throughout my life in Presque Isle.
Andy, I'm back. I find it interesting that Switzerland has joined the United Nations. Its status of the last bastion of nutrality is now history.
I don't know how everyone else weathered this past week, but for myself it has been particularly draining. My mother had a successful hip operation at Maine Med. and my father is staying at the same Comfort Inn that the terrorists stayed in. Seems that everywhere you go there they are. Buffalo included.
Well, TTFN
T. Wilson
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To all of you "Bandies"......I've just returned from Mr. Kenison's funeral. Anybody who experienced his teaching in PI will be glad to know he continued this valuable gift until 1999 in the southern part of the state. He will be greatly missed. My thoughts and prayers are with Karen, also, at this difficult time.
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I hear Karen Tompkins' dad passed away this week. Sorry to hear. Our thoughts go out to Karen and the family...
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Sep 11, 2002 12:06PM
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The High School Music Teacher has passed away; Mr. Kennison...Condolence to his friends and family and former students.
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Thank you all for your prayers. But i think some of my message was lost while being sent, It was not my son who was hit but his best friend . I still want to thank you for your prayers though.
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Torry - let us know how it goes with the kids. It sure is nice to travel by ourselves (granted we don't get to do it much), but I can see the day when we'll want to bring the kids out to get some culture. When they're old enough to appreciate it, that is.
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What an excellent opportunity Torry! I hope you and your family have a wonderful and safe trip and dont forget to let us all know about all the wonderful places that you will be visiting! Hope everyone had a great summer!!
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Actually this is John's sister. I was looking up my class site and I thought I'd take a look at his. I found your message Laurie and thought I'd let you know that he's in Maryland. He lives in Waldorf and works in D.C. as a federal agent for ATF (Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms). I'll tell him about this site so he can talk to you himself.
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Wish us luck! We are off to Europe again!?! Hopefully taveling with a 7 year old is better than when he was 5! We will be there for 2 weeks so we will not be "in the air" on September 11th but we will be out of this country!?!
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Sep 01, 2002 10:18PM
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Sep 01, 2002 8:07PM
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No,I dont have to steal anyone else's lines. Just making a fact of how you must have quite the sad life to be on a class site of people who graduated over 20 years ago and who u most likely dont know. Must suck to be you....come on everyone...poor poor JP....doesnt get enough attention at home so it has to get it from strangers on web sites. When it finds out no one is intrested in what it has to say...it festers and festers like a boil until someone like me gets inside his computer and takes care of the problem. do ya need some help shutting that down Jean-Pierre?
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Sep 01, 2002 7:35PM
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Ah, a steel magnolias fan, I see.
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Sep 01, 2002 1:41PM
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More like a boil on the A** that just keeps festering is more like it!
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Aug 31, 2002 11:16PM
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Don't mind me, I'm just the figment of everybody's collected imagination :)
Jean-Pierre
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Aug 31, 2002 5:00AM
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JP: Just admit you cant figure out passwords if you cant even figure out how to spell your own name. a Fictionous "JP" isnt impressing anyone. Impress this class site more by not coming back.
sign: ME (LOL)
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Aug 30, 2002 6:10PM
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I mean it Andy,
I got too many of my own fish to fry right now anyways, so coming up with ways to get through passwords is just a waste of my time.
JP
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Sounds good to me, "JP". I do have better things to do than try to keep you out of here and set up passwords on this site, ruining it for everyone. Apology accepted, if you're serious.
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Aug 30, 2002 12:35AM
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Okay, Andy, enough is enough I'm calling a truce. Guess I got a little carried away here, I appologize for be a bit unbearable, so let's things just get back to normal here.
Best Regards,
JP
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I don't know how many of you garden, but holy cow do I have a lot of veggies to eat. I didn't think this year would turn out so great, but it sure has come around. We're in the thick of harvest now, with plenty more to come. Nothing better than garden vegetables, home-grown chicken, fresh eggs, venison, rabbit, wild turkey, partridge, and pheasant to eat! Although I may sound like quite the hillbilly, I wouldn't give this life up for anything!
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Does anyone know where John Winslow is? Any info would be great?
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PS getting old sucks no matter what the alternatives are. "Sex, drugs, and Rocken Roll"....baby.
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Greg Flewelling,
If your listening I noticed you live in Chelmsford, Mass.
I worked on the Hiat Regency hotel located in Chelmsford years ago. It seemed like a nice part of Mass.
T. Wilson
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Howdy folks,
Andy, my wifes late Grandfather was a civil engineer and her Grandmother has an 8-millimeter film of "galloping girdy" in action prior to its demise. Believe it or not there's a sister bridge to galloping girdy in Maine on the coast somewhere's around Machias.
Its been around 13-years now, but I once drove over the one in Maine on one of my sojourns around our beautiful coastline and was so taken by it's vertical curvature and construction I stopped to take it all in. Subsequently I've read an article on how they made the one in Maine resistent to harmonic distortion by shortening its suspender cables (making it arch more) and adding fenders to the open girders that support the deck. These fenders make air pass both under and above the deck similar to an airplane wing reducing the sway and bounce to acceptable levels. I'm very proud to say that at least they knew how to fix the bridge in Maine!
Another point on interest for the galloping girdy bridge in Tacoma, Washington is that the remnents of its bridge deck now located on the bottom of the Sound are protected by historical preservation laws. Go figure?
Well, don't want to get too excited about the new Tacoma Narrow's bridge....something about counting your chickens before the eggs hatch (which I do believe answers that age old question of which came first). Life can change on a dime and I may be lucky to make it through the job I'm on the way things go sometimes.
On another note, my family and I went to the San Diego zoo the other nite. I have to laugh because when I first enter the zoo I wondered just exactly where the animals were as we made our way through a rather large consessions area. Like any amusement park they draw you in as they relieve you of your dough. Some of the money goes to helping animal species all over the world so its a good cause.
In any case, If you ever go to this zoo I suggest you do it in the day time so you don't get turned around like we did. My wife and kids managed to get into a show they have, which was quite spectacular from what I hear. My wife and kids ended up seperated from our neighbor friend and I when they took the tram and we took the paths to meet them.
The San Diego zoo is a great zoo despite all the people. The tree and plant varieties they have are also amazing.
Ta ta everyone.
T. Wilson
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Aug 14, 2002 6:49PM
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"OLD AGE IS NOT SO BAD
IF YOU CONSIDER THE ALTERNATIVES"
****MAURICE CHEVALIER
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This brings back memories of college - wasn't it the original Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge that tore itself apart years ago in an infamous catastrophe? I've seen film footage of the bridge oscillating like crazy before it tore itself apart. It was almost "required watching" for engineers to learn about resonance and its amazing effects.
Of course I assume you guys will do a much better job!!!
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Howdy Folks,
Andy, Switzerland sounds like a nice place to visit and I hope you enjoyed yourself there. I love the quality of there construction which includes stainless steel plumbing pipes as a national plumbing standard. Though I have no desire to venture past our borders at this time it is good to hear others are.
Recently flew up to Tacoma, Washington for a one-day area meeting and future work review. My big hope is to be assigned to our newest project called the "Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge." Similar to the cable stay bridge we recently built in Boston, its what they call a signature span and would look very good on a resume. It took the company I work for eight long years of discussions, planning, and waiting on the good citizens of the state of Washington to finally approve the project and now we're planning it's design and construction. The competition to be assigned to this project is keene, but the timeing of the end of this dam project and that one's start-up makes it a likely prospect.
I appreciate your discretionary editing. I believe I did wade in a little, thank God I was wearing my gum rubbers.
To all, Hope this summer has been a good one for you and your families. Take care for now.
T. Wilson
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I see someone did some deleting thank you. I'm starting to think that the website my high school class down here has the right idea, you have to pay to write messages on it. But i do like coming here and reading about your lives. Thanks
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Just wanted to drop a little note to say Hi!! I'm still working at the YWCA in Bangor. I just spent 2 weeks working with a marine biology teacher from Bangor on a summer camp offered by the Y. It was Oceanography and it was like a 2 week long biology field trip like alot of you went on in high school. I missed out because I didn't take college classes, which I regret now. But twenty years later I learned a lot and had lots of fun with the kids (ages 10-12). Have been having a very busy summer. Hope you all are happy and well. Billy B. if you're still reading this drop me a line.
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Wow. I go on vacation for a couple of weeks and the whole site goes crazy! I've cleaned things up now. For those of you who have been paying attention, you should find it all back in order. Sorry for the delay; and believe me, I'll be paying attention now.
And for what it's worth, I had a great vacation! My wife and I finally got to go away without the kids and have a nice break. We went to Switzerland and travelled around. It was awesome! As much as I love the kids, I find that getting away on occasion is very enjoyable and important for our "emotional health." I strongly recommend it for everyone!
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Hope everyones summer is going well. Our has been very busy with summer softball, my daughter plays,we were in MA last weekend for regionals and it was the trip from hell! We got lost for 2hrs looking for the fields that were 10 minutes from our motel. Not fun. Then everything went down hill from there. No need for details just imagine what could happen and it did.This weekend were in Bangor,at least we won't get lost there. Other than that summer has been great. take care
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Jul 08, 2002 6:21AM
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Thoughts and Prayers go out to the family of Carroll Dickinson who passed away on Sunday. Carroll and his family have resided on Condon Hill for many many years.
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sorry everyone who got an e-mail from me. I meant to post it to this message board. Didn't mean to clutter your mail boxes. I'm just looking for an address for Karen Tompkins-Stuart. Her listed address isn't valid. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hope everyone is well......thanks for your help.
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The class of '82 are having their reunion next weekend. There is no way that they will have as much fun as we had at ours!!! They are having a DJ Saturday night!?! We are headed to Bar Harbor for the 4th (week of sailing and fun)! Happy Independence Day to you all!
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hi everyone. good to hear from you. it's been a while. things in PI are busy. work is good. we are doing a big vacation this summer. maybe i'll drop a line and let you know how much fun we have. we are doing Boston,New York and DC. Have a nice summer everyone and be safe.
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Howdy Folks,
My family and I went to Knott's Berry Farm yesterday. I wanted to go to work today but found a long knap more appropriate. I've come to the conclusion that twelve hours of amusements is way more than I really need! My wife and son's enjoyed themselves and we did get many memorable pictures. I went on the 'supreme scream' machine...you know the one that takes you to the top of a very tall tower and then drops you to within a heart beat of the bottom. Oh yeah, it definitely was worth a long scream!
I thought being around the crowds would be a challenge for me and for the most part they were, but people were pretty well behaved and the lines we're long at all. The longest I waited in line was actually at Lucy's Diner. I waited in line for chicken nuggets, minature corn dogs and a 6$ coke for a little over an hour. If there ever was a fast food hell Lucy's Diner was closely modeled after it.
Well, the sun is shining here and its pretty nice. It's strange to me but deep down inside I do want to make it to Disneyland someday, if not to just say I've been there and that once was enough.
Ruth, there are a lot of Harleys around here. I think of your commentary when I see them.
Take care.
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Jun 17, 2002 3:02PM
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Holly Churchill is living in Mapleton with Eddie Skidgil they both were married to different people but have been back together for quite a while now.
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Furthermore, can anyone explain what "Boys State" is?
Also, recently I've had this song in my head "Do the Hustle", whats that about anyway?
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Howdy Folks,
Happy Father's Day! If you've ever asked yourself whether a trait you have is something you want your son to have or not I can definitely relate.
Recently my wife reminded me that when your meeting people for the first few times its better not to discuss your work, in my case construction projects, in terms of shear dollar volumes and your critical role in that projects well being. My wife also told me that I sweat competition and don't even know I'm promoting it, however friendly I may be while I'm doing it.
So here I am having the realization that she's right and longing for the day when I can finally have the social graces to just relax and not be too overbearing in a social situation.
In light of this realization, and it being Father's Day and all, I'm still learning that I set a huge example in my and my children's life.
So there you have a personal thought of the day from me.
All due respect, I hope the Visitor(s) inquiring about the all those other classes figure out which class they belong to???
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Jun 11, 2002 5:18PM
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How about a website for the class of 83, does anyone know of anything, Thanks
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Jun 11, 2002 10:50AM
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Are they going to set up site for Class of 2002
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Jun 11, 2002 9:26AM
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Hey has anyone herd from Holly Churchill
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website address for the class of 82 is: http://www.northern-pine.com/1982/
put in presque isle high school in a search engine, when you get to the high school website, you can click on alumni information and it lists a whole lot of years and their websites, if they have one....
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Jun 07, 2002 3:32PM
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Does anyone know what the website address is for the class of 82?
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Hello everyone- just got caught up on the recent messages adn thought I'd give my 2 cents: I for one thank the anonymous visitor for the post from Howard Zinn (yep I'm somewhat of a Zinn fan, and as my husband would say "a bleeding heart liberal" and I'm not at all afraid to admit it!) perhaps that visitor would've signed their name if they weren't worried about the backlash (which was mild but still came...). Yes I ma extremely proud to be an American becuase we CAN have diversity of opinion!
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Graduation week always makes me think back to our graduation! I posted a picture of Cheryl Chow and I as we waited in line to go in to the PIHS gym 21 years ago! My nephew, Seth, will graduate from Caribou High School next sunday. He is the Valedictorian of his class and will give the class address - if only I had been as ambitious as he is. He plans to attend UMO (full scholarship) to study Micro-Biology and then to get has Masters and PhD in Forensic (sp?) Science. I wonder where he will be in 21 years!?!
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Carma.....yes this new bike is very nice......i still have the sportster (feels like a little scooter now compared to this cruiser)....may keep it for my son whom just graduated Friday night...Im single again so i can ride my daughter on the heritage and Ike can drive the sporty. I have a great bunch of HOG friends here in Alaska. I would like one day to drive my heritage cross country and head to Sturgis. We have to ride them a lot in the summer because the snow seasons comes around mid Sept. BUT...the sun shines all night now and its pretty cool. Im getting my garden in today and i have flowers everywhere in my yard. Soon, we will hit the rivers for some killer fishing. Have a great summer! Peace...Ruth
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Hi everyone it's been a long time since I posted.
So much to tell! My son Brandon just went to his (prom) 8th grade social dance (as the school calls it now) at Cunningham Middle School.
His date was Kevin Higgins daughter Chelsey. They had a great time! The theme was the sensational fifty's! All the girls wore poodle skirts, and the guys were in leather jackets! Brandon will be graduating on June 11th.
My daughter Amanda had her prom last weekend, and she graduates from Presque Isle High on June 8th! Needless to say I have been very busy! Amanda has been accepted to the University Of New England in Biddeford Maine majoring in Pre-med. (There goes my chances of getting my dream car, vacation, summer home.....)
I'll post later when things slow down, if they slow down!
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hi everyone,
Just wanted to say hi to everyone and tell people to email sometime. My oldest daughter just graduated from college (with honors). She is almost 21 and the ages of the other girls is 17 and 12. What an experience trying to raise 3 girls!!!!! Everyone write and say HI!!! Celebrating my 1st anniv. on June 8 ( although I have been with him for 17 years before I married him) Life is GREAT!!!
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Hey Torry - I meant to tell you - nice job with the recent pictures. When I have nothing better to do I'll finish adding everyone's yearbook picture. I thought maybe I'd get freed up this summer, but I'm not too sure. For some reason my wife doesn't think scanning in old yearbook pictures has a really high priority!
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long entry it might have been but it was in his own words...
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May 20, 2002 6:27AM
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Speaking of long entries..........................
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Please excuse the poor english grammar. I'm having a hard time with the use of their and there amoungst other things!
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Howdy Folks,
I briefly reviewed the article on Afganistans woes and have decided to refrain from trying to write something longer......however I do feel obliged to remind the visitor that many Americans understand the true cost of war and its not to be taken lightly.
Visited Oceanside, California with my parents this past week. Oceanside is a true blue Marine town with lots of history and patriotic display and it reminded me of my cousins service to our country and his experiences shared with me over the last 20 years. Beruit, Kuwait, Somalia, are a few of the places he's been.
Beruit: they were told if they locked and loaded their weapons they would be court marshalled, it was a peace keeping mission. The whole time they were they were their they were in extreme danger, taking incoming fire from the people they were trying to protect. My cousin told me the children there were like animals and would kill for a pack of cigarettes. I had never heard of such behavior before that but now we witness it daily.
Kuwait: my cousin had a long look in his eyes when we talked about this mission. He was part of the LAV maintenance battallion that had to recover the LAV's and their operators that had been blown appart by their own friendly fire. I remember pictures of the death and destruction and the environmental nightmare set-off by the burning of oil wells.
Somalia: We went there to try and to help those starving war torn people. My cousin was there as well and recanted how the media greeted them as they landed and how desperate the people were. In the end when we went after the warlords who created the mess. We watched in horror as they drug the bodies of our men through the streets of Solalia in some sort of victory parade.
Thats all I have to say about that.
I gotta go to Wal*Mart now and buy a vacuum cleaner for the wife.
God Bless America.
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May 18, 2002 9:03PM
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Sorry about the posting of the entire article. I would have used a link but I am kind of new at this. I did indeed post it to add, what I thought might be, some balance. It seems too frequent that conversations about the "war" are without consideration for the other side. That's not to say that they were justified in their actions but I do think that there is more to the story.
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What a great Mother's Day gift you received Ruth!! I bet they have to "pry" you off of that at the end of your day..lol what an awesome gift! Congrats!
Torry...remember when the snowbanks were as tall as the telephone wires? Or is this a faulty memory?? Thank GOd we dont get winters like that anymore but proves there is "global warming". Tourist season has kicked off already down here...ugh!
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Thanks guys (Ted and Andy) that was very appropriate! I want to respond to the whole SNOW thing! I had at least 6 inches of snow on Wednesday!!!!! Karson wore his snowsuit and boots to Daycare!! I can't belive I live here when that happens in the middle of May! Today it was in the 60's (what a difference a day makes)!
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I must say I agree, Ted. Although I have always refrained from making any changes to posts on here (free speech is a good thing!), I'm making a minor exception in this case. I've replaced the visitor's post with a link, to at least keep the long text off the board.
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Unidentified Visitor, thanks for what I assume was an attempt to provide some sort of "balance" to our message board. Since you did nothing more than anonymously post an article written by someone else, it's not at all clear whether you have any thoughts on the matter yourself. In any case, if you or anyone else feels the need to post a lengthy copywritten article on this board in the future, would you kindly post only a brief excerpt and/or link to the article.
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May 17, 2002 8:06AM
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Some thoughts about your patriotic banter:
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Rosemary....hey it may be winter where your at hun but ive got almost 24 hours of sun and its awesome riding weather. This old interior sun is hot! I am having so much fun. Have a great summer! Peace. Ruth
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so there's Allison- soaking up the beautiful Florida sunshine,(your right- you deserve it!) we didn't do our annual pilgriimage south this year- old doggie keeping us home (our house has become a great dog nursing home...)but now I want to hit the beach, especially after we got snow last night! ok only 1-2 inches but come on- it is supposed to be over! I wonder- did PI get that storm? we even lost power...and Ruthie- what are you doing out on a motorcycle in ALASKA- isn't it supposed to be still winter there?!
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Happy Mothers Day......it was a beautiful day here in Alaska cruising around on my new Heritage..(my mother's day gift..i got it yesterday)....hey Rosemary...how are ya girlfriend....I also got that e-mail....not even sure where it came from.....anyway.....happy summer to all..... (woops...this isnt from Sherry....its from ruth....)..PS...how are you sherry?
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Happy Mothers Day......it was a beautiful day here in Alaska cruising around on my new Heritage..(my mother's day gift..i got it yesterday)....hey Rosemary...how are ya girlfriend....I also got that e-mail....not even sure where it came from.....anyway.....happy summer to all.....
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May 10, 2002 6:27PM
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"LIFE IS LIKE A COIN. YOU CAN SPEND IT ANY WAY YOU WANT TO...BUT YOU CAN ONLY SPEND IT ONCE"
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY TO ALL YOU MOM'S OUT THERE!!!
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hey rose!! decided that the best mother's day present i could give my mum (and myself) was a visit...so, off to orlando for a long weekend!! no kids or hubby but a best friend, a book, and margaritas by the pool---now that's nirvana!! great fares on southwest if you do the friends fly free...we leave out of manchester and it came out to be $120 round trip! now ya can't beat that! stay at mum and dad's for free, get spoiled with all my favorite foods and get a tan---life is good!
i haven't spent a mother's day with my mum in about 15 years so this will be a great weekend...
happy mother's day everyone---relax and be pampered--we deserve it!!!
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hi everyone- I just got an e-mail about the '81 Eastern maine girls team which prompted me to get back on here- nice to know the site is alive and well! sorry to hear about so many recent losses. I was just in PI over the weekend and got caught up on some local news. Once again I was struck by how beautiful it is up there, in a way so different from western Maine. There is something about those hills and fields. One thing I noticed is that people are still tooling around Main st. on Saturday nights- wow that brought back soome memories. Farmington, cute, quaint little college town it is, is pretty quiet on a Sat. night....
anyway. I hope I get to do some fishing with my Dad this summer, around Portage, Deboullie or whatever- seems there is never enough time to do the things we love.
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WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN - It just takes me a long time to get those pictures on this site! I am not very good at the whole "scanning" process!?!
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May 08, 2002 2:10PM
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All the new photo's look great. However, where are the
pictures of the Eastern Maine Champions in Class A Girl's
1981. Have we already forgotten (?)
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Gerry McGlinn's Dad (Nason) passed away last week. Our thoughts are with you and you family - Gerry! A lot of us have fond memories of your parents and their "hill"!!!
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Just checking in to see how every one is. My condolences to Dave And John. Well summer is upon us if this rain ever stops.
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I was just passing by to check out what was up with everyone. I enjoy Todd's writings, but mainly wanted to send belated condolences to my old friends Dave Carlow and also John Robinson and thier families. Our thoughts and prayers are with you all during this time of loss. I enjoy reading all your entries, and send greetings to all.
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Apr 26, 2002 7:48AM
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Condolences go out to classmate John Robinson who's father recently passed away. :-(
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Howdy folks,
Dee Dee how are you? I've been wondering how things are going for you and hope you get out to see the Puget Sound or Mount Rainer or some other beautiful landmark up in that neck of the woods.
Speaking of nature I was driving on a rather muddy, rutted road last night and I noticed a little itty bitty frog of some sort hopping acrossed the road in my headlights on its way to our water storage pond. We drive this road with anything from cars, pick-ups, motor graders, 769's (giant off-road dumptrucks), and larger still 777's (gigantic off-road dumptrucks)and here's this 1-inch long frog taking what looked like 3-foot leaps (I'm exagerating) to get outta my headlights and reach the relative safety of the pond.
You'll have to make your own conclusions on this reflection, but my point is, is that I noticed!
Another time, quite a while ago, my father and I went hunting together up in the Northern Maine woods about 80-miles from Ashland. The terrain was large hills and numerous ridges with varying degrees of slopes connecting them. Although my instincts were to hunt down and shoot a deer my desire was to hike to the top of the tallest hill (little mountain back east) to see what I could see.
Dad and I split-up and planned to meet back at the truck just after dusk which released me to just hike up that hill. On the way to the top I had to crawl under blow-downs, pull myself up steep grades, and back track to find a better route all the time dealing with about 2-feet of snow.
I saw and was visited by numerous critters including one pesky Gorbie bird that helped me eat my lunch almost taking food from my hand. When I arrived at the top I was rewarded with a beautiful vista (as they'd call it down here) and I jumped two deer who were bedded down at the edge of the uppermost ridge. Their beds were together and steamed.
I followed the deer's winding tracks down the backside of the mountain I had just climbed and followed the larger ones trail. The two deer's tracks crisscrossed for a while and then split up. After a while I realized it starting to get dark and in order to get back to the truck on-time I would have to break with my pursuit and head-back. To get back I followed my own tracks back to where I could determine a better way to get to the truck, bi-passing my earlier trail for a quicker route.
Just before I got back to the truck I noticed the cold creaping into my arms and I remember thinking how inhospitable the woods were becoming. That night, I drove the truck out of the woods on the now icy road with the heater on full blast. Dad and I never talked about much except to discuss the deer signs we had seen and how cold it had gotten so quickly.
I haven't forgotten that day nor the lessons I learned from it. I thought then, as I do now, life is a lot like the paths I took that day. Sometimes up, sometimes down, sometimes you have to crawl, sometimes you have to go back, sometimes you have to pull yourself up, and who knows what you'll find or who you'll meet along the way.
Peace be with you on this Easter Holiday.
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Howdy Folks,
Thats a lot of love there Gordon I'm glad there's still some of that in this whacked world we live in.
The news media keeps delivering bad news to our homes whith the efficieny of a grist mill. Its funny, when they aren't trying to tell us how to live our lives they're telling us everything thats bad in the world. I really don't know how news casters can sleep at nite except that they are totally oblivious to what comes out of their mouths. I think the news is so ironic/moronic.
Currently I'm studying effective communication skills, which come to find out requires excellent listening skills. In the course they say that people only attain 25% effeciency in communication because they fail to listen. In my case, my wife thinks its a lot less.
Its overcast and cool here in North San Diego County. We're just hanging out on this lovely Saint Patties Day 2002. I listened to some Celtic music this morning to celebrate my Scotts-Irish heritage and in remeberance to dancing on top of bar tables at this Irish pub in Portland, Oregon on this day a decade or so ago. I know now where I get that behavior and I come by it quite honestly.
I gotta go shoot some hoops with my seven year old today. He's started attending a basketball YMCA class on Saturdays and he's demonstating way more ability and coordination then I had already. I'm not entirely sure I want my boys to play basketball but that will be up to them ultimately.
Well, were wasting daylight. Gordon, I hope you keep spreading the good will around and write more and often to this site.
Andy, I'm glad you and yours made it back to Maine.
Alison, hope your family is fine as frog hair.
Dave, this is belated but I'm sorry to hear of your loss.
To all. You can e-mail me but don't expect a reply, however I will attenpt to write back in due time.
Regards,
T.Wilson
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Dave - real sorry to hear about your dad. I have some fond memories of a wide variety of "teen-age" activities we used to do at your house, many of which we were sure he didn't know about. Of course you realize as you get older that your parents actually did know everything that was going on back then - they're just smart enough to let you think you're getting away with it!
I just got back from Katahdin a couple of days ago (I don't get back to Maine too often now). We didn't get to go to the top but it was still a great trip. The weather was beautiful skiing in and going up to Chimney Pond, but it was sleet and freezing rain on the day we would have climbed. Luckily the weather got nice again for the ski back out. I was glad to see they even have snow there. I was getting worried that there wouldn't be enough snow to ski in. We've hardly gotten any snow this winter, which is very unusual for the Syracuse area. Apparently there's not much snow anywhere this year.
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ok...that was in no reference to the bird!! sorry for the misspelling---it's been to long!!
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mr tweety---that was very eloquently put...and i totally agree...
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Laurie Perry-Gray, you are a Star! The Land of the 5 F's was indeed Norway, and whether that refers to Forests, Fish, Fjords, Falls, Factories or Farms (What a minute, wasn't that Aroostook County?) I must confess I'm not exactly sure. Thank you to Brian, Eric and Todd for playing.
Speaking of farming, my Dad was telling me that Aroostook County now only plants 62,000 acres, down from the 235,000 acres it planted in its heyday. Its hard to imagine the times when the county supported several semi-professional baseball teams and there were THREE trains a day up and back from Boston. I understand the high school now has a around 650 students, down from the 1200 when we started. It must seem a bit strange to those of you who have occasion to go inside there now.
Yes, everything changes, and in reading these messages, we can see our classmates being challenged to make difficult changes also--each in his or her own way. For those classmates who have lost loved ones recently, or are undergoing some other ordeal, its probably pretty hard to believe the words of Kahlil Gibran, that "Pain is only carving out a place in your heart, that it may hold more joy". Nonetheless, one thing has been especially clear to me since Sept. 11th, when we saw the end-product of hate and fear realized on a larger scale than we're used to dealing with. What is clear, is that, as trite as it may sound, Love and Kindness are all that matters. Compassion and Understanding are the qualities of heroism, and each event of our lives, no matter how painful, gives us the opportunity to expand into more noble, caring, beautiful people. Painful events ultimately teach us to accept our selves and others, to forget the stupid things that were said and done, and to choose to remember and value what was important about the people in our past, and what is important about the people who are in our lives today. As the song goes "Love is never gone. As we travel on, love's what we remember." When we remember this, we know that life is good. Its ALL good. In tough times, its sometimes nice to know that other people are thinking of you. Whether you are here or very far away, we are thinking of you, and we remember you with love.
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Howdy Folks,
Just got back from my districts annual meeting up in Oregon. Saw some beautiful snow covered mountains on the flight down. Mount Rainer, Saint Helen's, Adams, Jefferson, Hood, and the Three Sisters, all part of the Cascase range. Saw the Columbia and Willamette Rivers as well as Lake Taho.
Its warm here in San Diego about 65-degrees. Our plane was an hour late due to a security breech in Phoenix, Arizona where it flew from.
Everytime I go back to Oregon it feels more like home to me. I hope to spend more time there someday. While I was driving around I thought about some of the things I felt when I first moved there. I was home sick and didn't like the urban sprall but the forests are made up of giant Doug Firs, the rivers are wide and have big fish in them, the mountains are like snow covered jewels, and the ocean is breath taking with all public beaches.
Speaking of Merle Smiths teaching habits I remember a habit he had that involved his nose more than I remember the land of the five f's, which was Finland I do believe.
Not to change the subject but my most recent career challenge was a speech I had to prepare and give to 100 or so people at our district meeting. You know of it weren't for the last minute I'm not sure I would get anything done! My topic involved the dam we're building down here, specifically the intake structure.
Their about to extinguish the Olympic flame. I watched the opening cerimonies with awe and wonder. I really liked the Native American theme. My wife and I are glad we aren't living in Salt Lake City at this time, it probably has been a mad house the last two weeks. One thing that is pretty cool though is when they talk about the place we know what they're talking about.
Well, I've gabbed enough for now. My family is healthy and happy for now. We have some challenges ahead but lifes a journey. Since I don't have a choice, most of the time, I hope for the best and take what comes.
I'm not sure if this means anything to anyone in here, but lately there have been times, when life is challenging me and I feel like what else could go wrong. I find strength in my own determination to make it through.
Take care.
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hi all~...saw BC the other day and he said I must quit swearing, if I insulted someone, excuse my candor...ruth...ever drove a
springer softy?.(last bike i drove last year)........hooked for sure......that new shop you have in town sounds cool,but if you know one thing about me,I work on skidoo..Our winters suxz lately.....would be cool to live somewhere where it snows.......later all!
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Feb 21, 2002 4:53PM
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DEEPEST SYMPATHY GOES OUT TO THE CARLOW FAMILY.
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Dave Carlow's Dad (Norm) passed away this morning. Our thoughts are with you and your family (especially your Mom)!
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Congratulations Danny and Jennifer on your new little "guy"! We also have two boys and I know that if I ever have another one it will most certainly be another boy. But - I think BOYS ARE WONDERFUL! That way you can send them off with their father and have a day to yourself! My guys are off at PIHS to watch the WIlDCATS play B-Ball! I never thought in my wildest dreams that my kids would be in that gym someday! We are headed to Florida on Friday - I am getting "Cabin Fever"!!!!!
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Land of the 5 F's....my vote's Norway.....let's see, Norway, Sweden, Finland or Denmark....yup, Norway because of the FJORDS and FACTORIES...how'd I do, Gordon? (But my son says Finland because Finland begins with an F.)
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Eric......just last week...the Harley Outpost opened up a large new store and they are now the Polaris Dealer as well. Im sure they can use a tech that can work on both. You should consider it. Talk to Clark (svc mgr.) at the outpost. They have a website. Im going down today to look at some new bikes. Im actually thinking Fatboy. That Roadking is just so darn big. Ill keep the Sporty for my son who has driven it and is almost 19. Anyway's, if you love the winters, they are a lot calmer here in Alaska, just a bit longer. The summers are killer with sun 24/7. There are a lot of Maine people here too, you'd be surprised who you'll run into. Take care!
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hi all.....hey ruth,i can can ride sportys but i look like a monkey f*&%en a football,if i can ever get there ill be sure to look you up..3800 mile road trip would be nice.....do they need any sled technicians up there in the frontier?...as for the 5f's...........findem...feelem....fu*&em....feedem breakfast...forgetem.........freedom.......hows that TW?
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It's been quite some time since I've been here. Thanks to those who have written with regards to my mother and I apologize for the lack of response.
It's been a strange 6 months since the reunion, which seemed to be the start of everything. I lost a very close friend who was like a second mother to cancer in late August. As most of you know, my mom passed away in Nov. And 2 weeks ago tonight I lost a very close friend who had had a heart transplant. He was only 19 but was an old soul and like family. We became friends more than 6 years ago, about a year after his transplant. Can't even begin to tell you how amazing this kid was. You should visit his web site he created about a week before he died. www.moun10dewu.com/jakethesnake
Not all bad has come from losing 3 very special people. After 9/11 I feel lucky and blessed because I was able to spend a lot of time with each of them unlike so many who also lost friends and family members.
This isn't the most uplifting note but did want to check in again after seeing so many of you this summer. Hope you are all happy and healthy.
DeeDee
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let's see.......the land of the 3 f's is aroostook county, right? ``fishin, farmin.....and, well anyway.
sorry gordo, i must reluctantly admit to growing a bit older, i simply cannot remember the land of the 5 f's. if i were to attempt a complete shot in the dark i would have to say scotland.
for those of you who don't have the opportunity to enjoy a typical aroostook county winter, i can assure you it is now very typical. spent most of this past weekend snowmobiling with my daughter........15 years old and absolutely no fear. dad could not keep up! oh well. the scenery was nice.
saw dana rattray and his wife becky this weekend. they bought a convenience store in fort fairfield. dana still works for boise cascade and becky is in 7th heaven running the store.
ruth, fyi charlie roberts is stationed at an airbase outside fairbanks.
todd wilson....good to hear about your escapades......must be a bitch, huh?.....all that sunshine all the time.
well......wind appears to have died down.......guess i'll take the afternoon off and contibute to global warming and air pollution. maine's snowmobile trails wait for nothing!
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Thanks everyone for the Merle stories, they really made me laugh! One of my favorite Merle tactics was how he would throw out a nickname or a landmark, ie. "Land of the 5 F's" (Can you still name them?) or call on you directly and say, for example, "Gordon, the Great White Church!" and just as you were about to give the first consonant or syllable of the wrong answer and say "Rome", he would instinctively speak loudly over you and say "HELSINKI, ri-ight". I was always so mortified when I couldn't remember. He sure made you learn.
Cheryl, I will join you in saying hello to Gerald because I also got an email with no text. I saw your Dad at MidCoast Hospital, Cheryl, and he said you were doing very well.
Brian Colton, you old straphound, I'll bet you know the Land of the 5 F's was ------, and so does Ted probably, and Torry and Laurie and a few of you others, but no notebooks or conferring with other classmates please as you NAME THE FIVE F's and submit your anwers to this website or to my personal email address: gordontweedie@yahoo.com You all have been challenged!!!!
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Hi everyone-
it's been a while since I've visited this site and I am so glad it's still active! I am sorry to hear about everyone's recent losses, and Mr. Smith's/Miss Dingwall's passing. I still thnk of them and their teaching techniques from time to time- when I took edu. classes at UMF they often came to mind. yep they did everything they say not to do now (esp. Merle), but it sure did work! How rich they made geography and history for us. I still have a fear of tipping back in my chair though. Remember the Kattegat and the Skaggerrak??? I can't remember what I had for breakfast but those little gems come floating back.... :)There was another history teacher at Cunningham that I liked alot- she was real mellow- I can't even remember what grade or her name- help!
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Eric......if youd like to come to Alaska...hey we could go the the ralley this summer in anchorage and get some tattoos or something......perahps by that time il have my road king....youll have to drive the sporty......cya here! Ruth
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Feb 06, 2002 11:56AM
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Lee Kinney (aka Roger) from class of '79. Just discovered this site and glad to do so. Reading your messages has brought back so many memories, clear back to Cunningham and Merle Smith. Laurie, I too, remember the Istanbul vs Constantinople song. I also remeber getting a nuggie from Merle because Iw as chewing gum in his class! LOL. But, I must admit, I remember him the most. Thanks for the memories, folks.
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i work on bikes and sleds(atv and watercraft too)....want a Diablo....Jesse James style....just lackin 60k........thats all......my goal is custom..........
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ps......ruth can i please ride your HARLEY?
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hi aLL,...hope 02 is workin for all...............ruth,,,,,,try 3 braden st.PI..mite get a reply........you dont know how hard i worked for that........jill mazorelle is there for sure.......i hope you two connect......anyway.....cold as hell here and lovin it...
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Jan 30, 2002 9:03AM
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Mike Hammond died of natural causes.
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Carma......we've had those cameras for a few years now and so I will try to wave.....this summer when there is more daylight (and warmer, its almost 40 below this am) ill ride the harley down there and sit for a bit and wave...hehe.....Eric....hey thanks for letting me know...perhaps Jill would consider coming here to see me during the summer months...I want to send her a postcard and is her address still on Blake St.? Please let me know. Hope everyone is healthy and happy. Ruth in the Last Frontier
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Dear Cheryl,
Its been my experience that when people e-mail you they are trying to communicate and say hello or something like that. Grin.
In any case how are you Cheryl Chow-Kunis?
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Happy New Year from the Nation's Capital, and my condolences to those who've recently lost a parent. Thanks to all for sharing your stories about Merle Smith, one of my favorite teachers of all time and certainly one whose course material I remember best. (While cleaning out my attic last month and digging through a box of college research papers, I found my notebook from Mr. Smith's class. Also discovered my notebook from Miss Dingwall's Ancient History class -- the only two notebooks I saved from PI school years and both teachers pass away in the same year. Hmmm.
I especially enjoyed Brian's comments about the spelling of Medi-terr-an-ean and the flow of the North Atlantic Drift. Picturing Mr. Smith sweeping his hands across the map caused me to laugh out loud. Since I had shared a few anecdotes about Mr. Smith and his teaching methods with my wife, I of course shared the news about his passing. Her reaction was to put her finger just to the side of her nose and say, "where's muh learn-ers?"
Thanks in large measure to Mr. Smith's teaching, I had a great desire to see Europe and spent three months doing the post-college urban backpacking/youth hosteling thing in the mid-80's. At some point during the experience, I sent a postcard to Mr. Smith and told him how he'd inspired me to make the trip. When I returned home, I found a long letter that he'd written about his love for teaching, etc. I mention this as a lead-in to something that he said that you all might find as hard to believe as I did at the time -- the man had never been to Europe himself. All his knowledge had been gained through books.
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Howdy folks,
Long time no converse.
So Merle Smith is no longer with us? I can't decide who I learned more from....Mr. Smith or Miss Dingwall in any case the world is a much more interesting place to me because of them.
Jill if your listening, I'm sorry to hear about your Mom. On my recent visit back home I heard about your loss from my family and we all express deepest condolences.
Skeeter my Mom told me see recently talked to you hope all is well. Do you still collect coins?
Its been over 5 years since I've been back home. This brief visit turned out to mean more to me than I probably realize. Nieces and Nephews were all grown up. Mom and Dad are enjoying the things that they've worked so hard for. My sisters are still plugging away. I learned somethings about myself and my roots that I'd either forgotten or never new.
While I was home I read a fortune that I got from a temple in Nagasaki while I was visiting there. It said "things lost will be found in the northeast".
I've often felt like what the hell am I doing here in the past and it was nice not to feel that way for a while.
San Diego is warm this time of year. We went to the beach as a family for the first time last weekend and I kept thinking man this is hard to take. My wife and I think the lack of bad weather here makes you complacent and somewhat oh hum about another sunny day. In any case its nice not to be freezing. I went on a walk one morning when I was home and at 4 below all I could think about was finding a shortcut to where I was going!
Take care and best wishes to all for 2002.
Todd Wilson
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hi all,...ill pass the message ruth, im friends with jill and her ex,hope you 2 hook up.... cold as hell here,and lovin it..later
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This addy is better than the other one..:-)
http://chili.rt66.com/ozone/cam.htm Hope you dont mind me sharing...
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Happy New year to you as well Ruth!! Hope things are going well. Next time you are at cushman Street Bridge...or at the intersection of Geist and University Ave.......WAVE!!! I found 2 cams in that location.!! Anyone intrested in an awesome site to view live cams all over the world......
http://www.gates96.com/livecam/ :-)
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Happy New Year from Alaska Folks! I have been reading the news on some recent deaths and I am sorry to hear about them. I also heard through a friend that Jill Madore's mom passed on also. If anyone sees Jill, please tell her to contact me at penobsct@mosquitonet.com. We were very close friends in 1996 before I came here and I have not talked with her since. Thanks. Peace to All. Ruth
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Jan 14, 2002 10:11PM
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Does anyone have any information on the death of Mike Hammond from Easton??? He is our age and had always hung around Presque Isle. Was saddened to read his obit. in the Bangor Daily News web site.
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Gerald,
I am not sure why you sent me an e-mail, but thanks. It has been awhile since I was on this site last.
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Dee Dee, I am so sorry to hear about your mother. She was always like a mom to me. I remember all the fun times we all had at Portage.
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Lauren and Dee Dee, so sorry to hear of your loss. I know it must be especially hard for you around the holidays...I remember each of your Mothers were always very kind and had beautiful smiles. Hang in there.
I'm glad to discover this message board today. The reunion date caught me off guard, but I'll plan for the next one. Take care everyone!
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hope everyone has a very happy new year
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Andy wasn't sure anyone hunted anymore, but both my sons ages 10 & 12 got their first deer this year, they both love to hunt & Fish it drives me crazy. But they are happy when they can be outside. Sorry to hear about Everyones loss. My prays are with all of you. My parents are only 60 & 62 it doesn't seem possible that some day they might not be here. I have a lot to thankful for. Hope you all have a Very Merry Christmas. The only thing that realy sticks out in my mind about mr.Smith is his eating peanuts during class, Never could figure out why i was always in trouble for cheing gum I had it on my nose a lot,but he was a good teacher wish i would have paid more attention in class.Well we have pently of snow here and more on its way Monday we have about 16 inches here in Belgrade. I love it!
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santa's almost here and life is crazy! i doubt i will be online again until after christmas so....merry christmas everyone and have a safe, happy new year!
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hard to believe how much impresion he left on us all,living in PI i ran in too him sometimes,he always remembered a face..RIP
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Ah yes, Mr. Smith and memories of his clothes pin that he would flick off his half pinky at the "bad boys" or trying to figure out who rigged the map to flip up when he would pull it down. Just took a trip and saw may thing I learned about in 7th grade. He had always peaked my interest about the Alps too, and now I have seen them. Every thing I had hoped they would be. Thanks Mr. Smith for peaking my interest in history.
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it's amazing what memories come crashing back...i heard so many stories about mr. smith from my siblings that i was scared to death of him! but, i must admit, i remember alot from that class...thanks for the info bri...
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Poor Merle...so sorry he's gone. I have to agree with Brian, though. His class is probably the one I retained the most. My favorite was when he pulled out the "record player" and played..."Istanbul was Constantinople, now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople." So many memories.
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for those of you who may not know, we lost another teacher recently. Merle Smith passed away at the age of 80.
for all who attended Skyway, Mr. Smith taught 7th grade social studies at Cunningham. Anyone who had Mr. Smith as a teacher will no doubt agree that his methods of teaching allowed for much information to be remembered. Even now, I can still recall how to spell ``MEDI-TERR-AN-EAN''. And who could possible forget the direction of the North Atlantic Drift. Does anyone remember one of Ireland's nicknames?.........``THE LAND OF POTATOES AND PEAT''.
Believe it or not.........i learned alot from many teachers through my 12 years in S.A.D. #1, but i can say that Mr. Smith stands out as one of those teachers who could really make information stay with his students.
my hope for my children is that they may come away from there academic career with memories of at least 1 teacher who really made a difference in their lives. for me it was Merle Smith.
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ya know, i'm glad someone feels the same way about the supercenters as me...they just built a new one in auburn and i call it the warehouse...i absolutely hate it...to many rude people and it's way too big...i think i'm getting much more claustrophobic as i get older...i can not stand the crowds and you can't just run in for something really quick!
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Dec 10, 2001 12:34PM
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I lost both my mom and dad last summer...
They're making those Walmart Supercenters just too darn big!
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Terri Estey's Mom passed away last week also! I guess we are at the age where our parents' health is not guaranteed!
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Dee Dee and Janet....So very sorry to hear about the loss that you each have suffered. My mom passed away last summer so I can relate. My best to you both...
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hey dudes!....just wanted to wish all a merry christmas.....hope life is good....cant wait for 2002...later shipmates
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Hello there Kent! Haven't heard from you in a quite a while. I can't believe you found this site on a search engine. And you're quite right - now that I look, Google shows 66 sites for Kent Kofstad and 422,000 for Andy Johnson. What's even funnier is that if you search for "Kent Kofstad" and "Bill Gates" it finds only one site - and it's about you! I'll bet that's what you were searching for, trying to find some long-lost connection with a billionaire!
I assume you're still in Nashua and working for Mitre. Hope everything is going well. I haven't been in the area in a couple of years now - I'm sure it's even more built-up by now.
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At times it can be useful to have a unique name, since any hits on a google.com search on "Kent Kofstad" are going to be about me, while I suppose "Andy Johnson" hits are limited to about 4000 different people.
That's a long way of saying that I got to this message board by searching for info about me on the WWW. Pretty vain, I suppose.
Any way, hello to all. Interesting photos from the last twenty years. Good Job Andy et al. I, too, have put on 25 pounds since high school, but at 6'4" it pretty much moved me from anorexic to skinny.
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Nov 29, 2001 5:28AM
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Shooting deer behind the house? There Doesnt seem to be much challenge in doing that. Hopefully the house isnt located in a residential neighborhood. lol j/k
There isnt any snow up in the county yet, just a dusting. I think we are in for a major snowstorm and will get it all at once.
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sorry andy...can't share any stories except i'll be glad when the seasons over...i still have to worry about the kids and the dog outside...we only have so much orange clothing!! besides the fact that i'm one of those people who hates hunting...in this state, i'm well in the minority, i'm sure...i'd much rather shoot them with my zoom lens, thank you very much!
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I haven't read about any hunting success on here this year - has anyone had any luck? Deer season opened here last Monday - my buddy and I got three on opening day right behind the house. He's still got one more tag, so maybe we'll get another. It's sure a lot different hunting in central NY - a lot of fields, and a ton of deer; nevermind the rabbits, partridge, pheasants, and turkey. Any stories from the county?
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Hi everone.so many things have happened this year that it makes you think. I would like to send my prays to Dee Dee and family. the funeral service was wonderful.makes you stop and appreciate what you have and live for today. Happy holidays to all.
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Dee-Dee my thoughts and pray are with you and your family your mother was a great influence on my life she was a fantastic teacher.
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dee-dee...so sorry to hear about your mom...you are in our thoughts and prayers...be strong...
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thanks everyone...... being a grandmother id going to take some getting used to. so far its ok. the best part is not dealing with the 2am feedings.........Dee Dee, our thoughts are with you in your time of need.condolences from my family to yours.
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I'm extremely sorry to hear about Dee Dee's mom. Dee Dee's mom was one of the nicest people to me when I first transferred to Pine Street School and I never forgot it. For what its worth Dee Dee you and your family have my sincere condolences during this time of loss.
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DeeDee's mom (Wilma Footer) passed away Thursday (November 8th). You are in out thoughts and prayers DeeDee!
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grandchildren! wow, that is so out of the realm of possibilities to me! congrats lisa! hopefully, that status is way far away in my future!
i can't believe it's november already...christmas is coming right around the corner...work is getting busy and gearing up for the holidays...smart, organized people are calling in their christmas orders while i still ponder whether i'll start shopping the second or third week in december this year!
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CONGRATULATIONS Lisa! The good thing about grandchildren is you can send them home with their parents when you've had enough!
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thanks carma!!!!!!!!! he's such a cutie!!! his name is brandon. he was 5lbs 9ozs and 18 1\2 inches long. i call him baby joey face.. denise has pics.
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Congratulations to Lisa Brigman! She is now a Grandma!!! Tell me again how old you feel Lisa...I cant remember... I think that's great!! Congratulate Joey for me!
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Nov 03, 2001 9:25PM
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Hey Visitor you still around?
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Condolances go out to Janet Lamoreau-Cyr. Her father Ken Clark passed away on Oct. 26th after a valiant fight with cancer. This summer Janet had been spending most of her time with him in PQI. It was important for her to be with him as much as possible and create memories of her twins, (Emily and Jacob - 15 mos.) with their grandfather. Ken was a wonderful man and judging by the number of people who paid their respects he touched many, many lives. Truly a mark of having lived a very successful life.
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Just dropping into say hi. For visitor maybe you could also find Troy Dow through his sisters email for class of 80 Jody Dow. Troy was in PI a couple years ago but think he moved away. Hope everyone is fine and ready for winter. I have 3 hunters excited about tomorrow. But my daughter also has a field hockey game right in the middle of it all. Hear PI did rather well in soccer. you all have a good team. Well hi Everyone maybe i'll see some of you this winter snowmobiling.
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It's fixed now! Sorry about that. The picture was of Mark Lavway!?!
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Oct 22, 2001 5:24AM
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Has Paul Thompson gotten a face lift since the class reunion?????? I dont recall him looking like that at all. I dont think that is him in the pic. under his info. I cant remember who that is, but he looks familiar, but it is not Paul Thompson...Thanks :-)
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Oct 21, 2001 5:08PM
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Tryed to email some of you over the years but I didnt have any luck.Sounds like everyone is doing ok.Drop me a line Dalelovely@msn.com
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Oct 21, 2001 2:51PM
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Dale Lovely next time leave an email address.Someone might just want to talk to you.Cindy Shaw said to tell you hi!
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I think Mark Daigle told me that Jesse is in a nursing home near Augusta. He never recovered from the "fight" that he was in right after High School.
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Oct 15, 2001 5:54PM
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Please...let's not open up more scars and wounds by bringing up Jesse Lebreck and asking for his address. The last person that brought that subject up got blasted from every side. Whether he is alive or not, God Bless him! No new info. has been given on this subject for many months so we are all to assume he is deceased. To all of those who have passed away since 1981...You will always be in our hearts.
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dear visitor,
cindy shaw could be located via her cousin susan shaw-johnston who resides in presque isle.
troy dow could reach via his father jerry dow who resides in perham.
as for jesse lebreck........i too would like to know what ever became of him. he was a riot to party with!
hope some of this helps.
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Oct 10, 2001 8:21PM
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Would anyone have info or email address for some of these folks that we all went to school with at one time or another Cindy Shaw,Troy Dow,Jesse Labrec,I do know jesse was beaten real bad while he was in the service some time ago I hope he ended up ok
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There was a huge group of contrails high in the sky heading East this morning. The only time I've seen them has been when we've done bombing overseas in the past. I assume it's the B2's on their way over for another bomb run. It's amazing that they fly all the way from the US each time. It also brings it closer to home when you actually see bombers on their way over to do some serious damage. I imagine it'll be on the news again later today...
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I'm glad to hear that we are all participating in Cub Scouts as all good parents should!!!!
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Now that the Afghan Urban Renewal Project has begun things will get much more interesting (although not in a good way). And of course we've got to really watch out for terrorism in the near future...
It snowed here yesterday. In fact the ground is all white today and the kids are making a snowman. I brought in the rest of the tomatoes and picked the potatoes yesterday; nothing like picking potatoes in the snow to bring back memories of Aroostook! Sure wish I had a digger, though. After an hour of digging them with a shovel I had about three baskets of potatoes. What's that - about 25 cents in 1980 potato-picking dollars?
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Moreover, I think its okay to be scared in this situation and I find myself trying to comfort my wife from the fact that this thing could get much uglier before it gets better.
I just hope we all can be stronger than our fears and show the terrorists what their actions get them. Nothing.
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Howdy folks,
So here we go again. San Diego is one of the places used for planning terrorist attacks in our country and could quite possibly still have a few of those folks running around here. Pretty scary!
My wife Becky is a new den mom for my son Tim's tiger cub scouts, pack 640. I participate as much as I can but find myself more as a source of funding and the keeper of Ben our two year old. It works out.
If you didn't know I too have an opinion about the terrorist acts, bigotry against arabs, and now the war on terrorism. I am horrified what humans will do to eachother, thankful for the arab friends I have had (without whom I would have never met my wife), and warey about fighting the Taliban
I do however thank God for our men and women defending us in this conflict and hope all goes well. I also thank God I am not confused or hesitant in my beliefs during this time. Terrorism cannot stand.
My family & I recently visited Sea World for the killer whale (Shamu) show, which was quite thrilling, and we visited Legoland making Tim's long time hope come true. The whales were cool but Legoland was a big money pit. I did manage to have a little fun (to keep my wife happy).
My grandfather used to say "all work no play makes Jack a dull boy" man was he right!
Take care for now.
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Congratulations! Mike is the Assistant Cub Master for Keenan's Pack! He went to a full week of Cub Camp in August with Keenan and 12 other boys from their pack. He came back with a lot of stories and a full beard! He also has the official "shirt"! It is October 1st and it is 70 degrees out. Can this be Aroostook County????
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Went to a Cub Scout camp this weekend. It was pretty good, except for the fact that the "hike around the lake" turned into a "several hour hike through the woods in the dark" because the leader got lost! It was almost a little scary. There were probably a hundred people with about five flashlights between us. I was carrying Kelly (about 35 pounds) on my shoulders the whole time. Talk about sore by the time we were done! It's a good thing it was a full moon. And when we looked at the lake the next day that we were supposed to be going around, it was so small you could almost throw a rock across it. It was probably supposed to be a fifteen minute hike!
Linda's the leader for our den. She's even talking about getting an official leader shirt. She thinks they look geeky, but it might command some authority, which is really needed with the kids at this age. Personally, I've always kind of liked a girl in uniform! Wait a second; this is a boy scout leader uniform - that's not gonna do much for me, now that I think about it!
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