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Senior's Society ready to watch Royal wedding Heather Lange Northern News Services Published Friday, April 29, 2011
Royal watchers were expected to be up at 4 a.m. at the Baker Centre to watch the event, accompanied by silver goblets, homemade goodies and punch bowls with floating duckies in them.
The wedding coverage was slated to start well before 4 a.m., but the seniors were scheduled to gather at the Bakers Center then to watch the wedding on TV. Joan Findlay, a member of the Yellowknife Senior's Society since its inception and a Yellowknife resident for 35 years, said she was going because it was fun. "Some people don't expect seniors to have fun, and expect us to act our age," said Findlay. She has been a "royal watcher" for 70 years and keeps a scrap book of the royals. Findlay said she would be up watching the event at home anyway, so why not get together and make it a celebration with friends. Greta Baetz, another Yellowknife Senior's Society member, said her reason for attending the event is because she follows the royal family closely. "I want to be the first to see, I'm being kinda nosey," she said. When asked if Baetz would have to prepare in any special way for the 4 a.m. wake-up call, she said,"I kinda wander around half the night anyhow, so no difference." Esther Braden, a Yellowknife resident for 47 years, said it's an exciting time for the royal family. "William will be our king. They are lovely young people and I always enjoy anything to do with young couples getting married." Braden is not planning on staying up all night, but she will have three alarm clocks set to go off within a few minutes of each other, to make sure she doesn't miss a thing. The whole event is about coming together to enjoy the royal wedding, according to Vivian Squires, the executive director of the Yellowknife Senior's Society. She said anyone who wants to join the party is welcome to come on out - don't worry about changing out of your pajamas.
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