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“Qeninaca’’ HERALD TERRACE, BRITISH COLUMBIA.

UNIQUE EXPERIENCE

The Dogwood room in the B.C.
Building at the PNE in Vancouver
resounded with stories and tales,
reminiscences of school days, of
childhood and of growing up,
which all of us had experienced in
the small community of Prince
Rupert some four and five de-
cades ago.

I youchsafe to say that only
once in a lifetime, — and then
only if you are lucky ~— do you
experience the thrill!

To me it wag like being part of
a dream. When I entered the large
auditorium at the PNE, crowded

f! with people, my heart almost stoof

still. Eyerywhere I looked in that
first - glance, sea-of-faces, were
friends whom I had not seen in

y|many, many years. Believe me it

was a breath-taking sensation. One
didn’t know whom to greet first.
Up until 17 years ago when I
came to Terrace with the “Herald”
J lived in Prince Rupert — taking
all my schooling there and start-
ing ag a newspaper woman at the
age of 17. (Did I say time was
quickly passing?)

The astonishing part of the gala
reunion was that not one of us
cared two hoots how old we were,
how many husbands we'd gone
through, how many grandchildren
and great grandchildren we had,
how grey or tinted was our hair!
It was “remember when” — and
off we'd go!

_T travelled south with a busload
of forty happy old-timers (and
some of them not so old) from the
coast city, who had decided to
attend this 10th annual get-togeth-
er of Rupertites who had left for
southern climes. It was soon quite
evident their “whole being’ had
not left the northern fishing port
— their hearts were in their eyes
as they greeted old friends. One
“grandmother” was heard to ex-
claim with ecstacy: “It was a grand
reunion of our grade eight class!”

For me, memory went back to
the first grade — at one period
in the evening the camera caught
five of us at one table — girls who
had gone all through school to-
gether. Oh, how the tongues wag-
ged.

I was almost floored when I saw
my “first daby-sitter,” and I MEAN
she used-to keep ME from crying

Taking a Look

“RUPERT NIGHT” — OLD MEMORIES REVIVED

Who says a reunion isn’t fun, —~ despite the nudging
| apprehension that time has been passing quickly! I attend-
the 10th annual ‘Rupert Night’ in Vancouver last week,
when literafly six hundred people laughed and wept and spent
a dozen exciting hours greeting friends, — friends who had,
for them, come to life after twenty, thirty, forty years.

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in the dark when my mother and
father went out.

At another point in the excit-
ment I was greeted by two dis-
tinguished gentlemen — they
were newsboys to whom I had
counted aut Daily News in my ap-
prentice days,

One of the biggest thrills of the
evening was when a petite “still
young looking grandmother” threw
her arms around me and said
“Cathie I have never forgotten
how you loaned me two dollars
when I was coming home broke
from Vancouver.”

it appeared — she recalled to
me — it happened away back in
the “hungry thirties,’ and she
said “I remember I was a proud
girl — just like my father — and
you handed me the $2 without
batting an eye.”

I ‘hadnt remembered the inci-
dent — and through her tears she
told me that for all these years I
have remained one of her best
friends, although E never once
heard from her,

And so all too soon the happy
reunion came to an end, and we
all went our separate ways, But
our paths had crossed again in
this brief interlude — and an-
other memory was tucked away, to
be recalled on those inevitable
days when one can stand a “lift.”

Seeks Information
Of Early Paper

For years the provincial library
has known of the existence of an
early Bulkley Valley newspaper,
The Hubert Times and Bulkley
Valley Advertiser, but no files
had survived. Just recently a sin-
gle issue, Volume 1, No. 28, ussued
May 13, 1914, has been presented
to the library. For the boom days
in the Bulkley Valley it has many
interesting pieces of information
and leads one to wonder where
are the other issues?

Mr. Willard Ireland, Provincial
Librarian and Archivist, asks the
question. He would appreciate re-
ceiving an issue either to retain
Permanently or to borrow long
enough to have it microfilmed.

Mr. Ireland can be contacted at
the Provincial Library in Victorla.

Fred Adames Gets\i
Red Cross Award |@

Mr. Fred H. Adames of Terra
was presented with the Canadla}
Red Cross Society Badge of
ice at Red Cross House in Vanco:
ver by Mr. W. J. McFadyen, hono
ary treasurer of the British Colur
bia Division, on April 5, 1068.
Adames received the badge
tecognition of his many years |
service in Terrace with Red Cros
particularly the Blood Transfusic!
Service, Disaster Service and
nual campaign.

_The Badge of Service presents:
to Mr, Adames was authorized Hi
the annual council meeting of oe
British Columbia division of tis
Red Cross, held at Kelowna ff
March of this year.

The London Conference convelj
ed in the British capital on Lig
cember 4, 1866, third and fin‘
major assembly leading to confe;
eration, will be commemorated
the Canadian Post Office with
postage stamp to be issued on M.
26, 1966. ‘

Of the fivecent denominatioi
the stamp will be horizontal in fojjiEm
mat and produced in tones of ~

brown. It was designed by Paul Qmm

Pederson of Brigdens Winnipe: ig

Limited, the postmaster general

stated.

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