B4 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 19, 1996
Young writer wins award
NINE-YEAR-OLD Kent
Hailey wants to be a hockey
Star when he grows up. Or
maybe a video game in-
ventor,
But right now he’s making
more money as a writer.
Kent recently won $50 in
a writing contest sponsored
by the Heritage Socicty of
British Columbia.
He was one of twelve win-
ners in the province, and
one of six winners in his age
group.
‘It was pretty neat,’ he
admitted, when he learned
he had won. And be was
thrilled about the money
which he plans to spend
while he’s on summer vaca-
tion.
For the contest Kent had
to submit an old black and
white photo, and write a
story about it
He chose a photo of his
dad, taken when he was
about Kent’s age. His father
was sitling on a pony, grin-
ning like mad, all dressed up
in his cowboy clothes.
Below is the story Kent
wrote (with a little help
from his dad).
My Dad The Cowboy
This is a truc story that
took place in a small town
in Michigan in 1959. The
story is about a little boy
who always wanted to be a
cowboy, his name is John
Hailey. This story is a spe-
cial story for me because
John Hailey happens ta be
my dad,
It was during summer va-
calion one day, and my dad
was pretending to be a cow-
boy in the backyard where
he grew up. My dad loved
pretending being a cowboy
and had all the things cow-
boys have. He had chaps for
his legs, a bandana around
his neck, a deputy badge on
his cowboy vest, a six-
Shooter on his hip and a
cowboy hat on top of his
head.
There was just one thing
that my dad was missing in
order to be a real cowboy,
and that was a horse, My
dad loved horses and made
his own one day out of a
long stick, He put an old
mop on top of the stick to
KITI K’SHAN principal Brian Phillips present Kent
Hailey with a writing award on behalf of the Heritage
Society of BC. That's his grade three teacher Linda
Miller, standing beside him.
make it look like a horses
mane.
He would ride his stick
horse alt around bis yard
pretending to have the
fastest, bravest, smartest
horse in the world, he
named his stick horse
Thunderbolt.
One day, as my dad was
riding Thunderbolt and
playing cowboy in the back-
yard, he could actually bear
the sound of horse hooves.
He thought to himself, ‘boy
Thunderbolt you sure sound
like a real horse today.”’
When my dad looked
toward the road that was in
front of his house, he could
see a man leading a horse
Tight toward his house.
My dad ran to see the
horse that was coming
closer and closer. He asked
the man ‘“‘what are you
doing with that horse, and
why do you have that
camera strapped around
your neck?”
The man replied, “I’m
looking for real cowboys to
ride my horse and the
camera is to take their pic-
ture with.’
As my dad was watching
and dreaming of sitting on a
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teal horse, his dad, my
grandfather, came out and
began talking to the man
with the horse, He noticed
his dad giving the man with
the horse something from
his pocket.
Suddenly, my grandfather
picked up my dad and put
him on the horse. It was a
day my dad would never
forget and to help him re-
member, the man with the
horse took a picture of him
sitting on the horse. My dad
felt like a real cowboy.
Now my dad is 42 years
old, he is not a rea] cowboy
but he enjoys reading about
them and especially watch-
ing cowboy movies on T.V..
My dad has three sons now
and one of them is me. All
three of us have rode horses
and pretended to be cow-
boys just like my dad did 35
years ago,
A train ride
into the past
I WAS TALKING railroad
the other evening with tvo
ex-railway men — Dick
Wells, an engineer who
Worked on the Terrace-
Kitimat railway, and his
friend Bill! Arneson, a
telired railroader and accor-
dion player. ;
Dick Wells grew up in
Victoria, and graduated
‘from UBC as a civil
engineer. Fresh out of
school he was hired by CN
to be part of the first crew
working on the original sur-
vey for the Terrace-Kitimat
railroad in 1951,
Back then surveying was
done by the old. method,
substantially different from
today's technology.
And ‘no fancy accom-
modation for the workers.
They were housed ina. box
car that was set up by the
slalion. And as the line grew
they lived in tent ‘camps,
spread out along the new
milway route through ‘the
bush.
Dick worked the line for
the next four years, fighting
the weather and sometimes
harsh living conditions, The
final line through the bush
included 20 bridges. .
Finally the line was fin-
ished. On a Friday morning,
January 14, 1955, a CNR
train made its: first Terrace-
Kitimat run, .
Since then, the line has
been completely rebuilt, The
old wooden bridges were re-
placed with heavy sieel.
However Dick isn't sure
whether the old bridge at
Alwyn Creck has been re-
placed yet.
And now a little about
Dick's friend Bill Ameson,
Bili retired from the CNR
in- 1986 after 37 years of
service,
That same year he settled
dowa in Terrace.
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