Ninety-one year old Harvey Doll received an award from Edna Cooper for be- ing the most senior-guest at the racent Terrace Oldtimers’ Reunion and an- nual banquet. Tom Hart of Seattle, Washington, also received an award as :. : It was a time for reminiscing and renewing of friendships when one hundred and sixty-five ‘Terrace oldtimers sat down for dinner at the Terrace Hotel on Friday, July 31. oo - This was the Sixth Annual get- .together for the Terrace Old- timers’ Reunion, which began officially in July, 1982. ‘The eligibility date to attend this year’s event was 1957, making it possible for anyone to attend who had lived in Terrace -thirty years ago, or prior to 1958. As a spokesman stated, ‘“We the guest who had travelled the greatest distance to attend the event. Annual reunion | attracts 165 reunion from the greatest dis- tance, the prize went to Tom Hart, The door prize was won by Gary Reum. Out-of-town guests included: from Victoria, Ron and Bernice Kolterman, Frances Olson, Ann Tallboy; from Prince Rupert, Freda Mallory, Margaret Wood, Norman Moorehouse, Ina and Bill McNab; Archie Hippisley, § Kitwanga; Phyllis and Jan Bain, Vancouver; Mollie Gardiner, ‘Kamloops; Lee Kirkaldy, Ab- botsford; Tom and Jennie Hart, Seattle; and Steve and Em Terrace pioneer Onnolee (Lee) Kirkaldy recently made a val- uable donation to the Terrace Regional Museum Society that. will bring back many fond mem- ories for long-time ‘Terrace residents. A hot chocolate urn, which was a center-piece in the Princess Ice Cream Parlour on Kalum St. from 1923 to 1930, is now on display at Heritage Park. . Lee Kirkaldy remembers life in the Princess Ice Cream Parlour and around the village of Terrace in the 1920s with fondness and good humor. Before officially donating the -urn to Heritage Park, she related a few stories from that period such as waiting for the- train, which at that time could be days rather than just hours late, to pick up the mail for the post of- fice at the ice cream parlour. She said the train didn’t stop long, and in order to meet it they would sometimes have to sleep Terrace Review -- Wednesday. August 12, 1987 15 Gift revives memories - _on the front seat of their truck, in all kinds of weather, waiting. for it to arrive so they could receive the weekly mail. She also recalled that Christmas morning meant sort-' ing and handing out mail at the ice cream parlour so residents could have their Christmas packages on time. She said An- nie would make Christmas din- ner: while they sorted mail, and ‘for their family, it wouldn't have been Christmas any other way. oo in Annie’s footsteps and- once played at Legion dafices herself, completed the ceremony with an impromptu’ performance on a -piano at Heritage Park, the. ‘Same piano which was once used: to entertain passengers on river-- boats travelling. the Skeena River. | . Annie Kirkaldy: was born in Sydney, Australia, on Sept. 11, With a youthful glint in her: - eye, Lee Kirkaldy, who followed’ 1875, and emigrated to a small prairie town in Saskatchewan with her son Sam and her hus- band Jock in 1904. — In 1910, the.family moved to Terrace — atime when Terrace was only a fledgling community and Prince Rupert was still a - ‘tent city’. . Over the next 10 years Jock Kirkaldy was the founder’ and first president of the Great War Veterans Association in Terrace, _which later-became a Branch 13 of the Royal Canadian Legion. - Annie was also active in the community, and was one of the original: members of the Great War Veterans Association and later received the honor of a life membership. She. was also one of the. first members to join the local chapter of the Rebekah Lodge.. en Sam became a charter. mem- ber of the Veterans Association continued on: page 24 YOUR DAY. = _,.. have your newspaper delivered every week. 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