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Northerners reunite!

Kelowna reunion draws hundreds

Susan (McCorquodale) Tettenborn
Northern News Services

Kelowna B.C. (Aug 15/01) - During the weekend of June 8, 9, and 10, Northerners reunited in Kelowna, B.C., for the 15th annual NWT Reunion.

Friday was a patio and pool party at the home of Brian and Keith McLeod in Oyama for the early arrivals. Saturday night the second annual Pub Night was held at the Legion in Kelowna and Sunday was the main event at the Bear Creek Provincial Park picnic area.

Each year we seem to be increasing events by one -- at this rate, it will soon become a week-long event! (Just kidding!)

Although numbers of people were down somewhat from last year, we still had over 240 guests sign our registration book. Hopefully, with continuing networking, we can get the numbers up over the 300 mark.

We would like to thank the city of Yellowknife for its generous contribution of pins and various brochures. They were very popular items, and many old-time Northerners were extremely interested in seeing a changed Yellowknife.

Thanks to Northern News Services for supplying "The Yellowknifer" newspapers at the reunions and for their faithful coverage of this event each year.

Another first was having the Seniors's book, Yellowknife Tales, available at the reunion for anyone to purchase. Thanks to Barb Bromley for making them available, to Liz and Mike Maybroda for transporting them, and to Hilya Hall for her great book-selling efforts.

Our appreciation goes to all those who travelled so far to be with us and to help make our reunion such a success again this year. This was the first-time attendance of Cliff and Anne Bawden, who were a former principal and former member of DMS respectively; and Jim Eis, a favourite teacher and friend to many at YPS.

For those of you online, please visit our Web site for pictures of 2000 and 2001 reunions at: community12webshots.com/user/deljim1?rand=2166

For those of you not online, if you have names, phone numbers or addresses, please contact the co-ordinators below:

Delrose Curry, (250) 765-3332, Kelowna, B.C.; Susan (McCorquodale) Tettenborn, (250) 542-8016, Vernon, B.C.; or Brian McLeod, (250) 548-4090, Oyama, B.C.

Who was there:

Trevor Alexander
Debbi (Telgen) Alkerton
Carole Amok
Max & Mary (Balsillie) Anderson
Rob & Patti (Fry) Anderson
Lloyd Anderson
Bob & Judy Baetz
Jack & Mary-Ellen Balsilie
Pat (Moose) Balsillie
Lou Baumgartner
Pete Baumgartner
Cliff and Anne Bawden
Patrick Bigelow
Charlottte (Groff) Boney
Richard & Robbie (Weaver) Borden
Werner & Pat Brinsa
Reg & Leslie (Johnstone) Cagnoni
Umberto Cagnoni
Anna Guarducci
Marco & Miriam Cagnoni
Len Cairns
Ed & Wynne Callas
Grant Carnochan
Herb & Lee (Ross) Carpenter
John & Val (Neville) Carter
Bill & Joan Case
Pete & Norma Chambers
Ernie & Lee (Leonard) Christensen
Stan & Shirley Cochrane
Angelo & Nina Coltelli
Marg Colthorp
Val (Halland) Colwell
Larry Connell & Nancy Ensley
Delrose Curry
John (Jack) Curry
Earl & Yvonne Curry
Don & Wendy (Robinson) Cyrenne
Bart & Anne Davidge
Dean Liam
Jack & Mildred Decker
Hannah Denison
Danielle Dickson
Sandy (Sheck) Dickson
Peter Dirindin
Lois (Smith) Doiron
George & Diane Dundas
Jim Eis
Joe & Rita Ellan
Inga ( Viitanen) Eyben
Robert Eyford
Hal & Tillie Flanders
George Florence
Kathleen (Morris) Fontaine
Tony & Judy (Frey) Foreman
Bruno Franceschi
Ole Frang
Roy & Marjorie Giles
Jeff & Dede Glick
Harold & Zelda Glick
Dawn Gould
Irv & Kay Grabke
Murray & Josie Grabke
Toni Graeme
Carolyn Granquist
Barb Griffin
Loretta (Cinnamon) Grochowich
Bob & Pat (Markle) Groves
Doug & Bernie Gullion
Bryan Hagel
Albert & Hilya Hall
Bill Hall
Carol-Ann Halliday
Rick & Laurette Hansen
Duncan Hewitt
Ron Hicks
Gerry & Lynne Hordal
Craig Hostland
Glenn & Carol Hoyles
Wilbert Hunt
Reg Jacklin
Pat Wenger
Kit (Forstved) Jackson
Patti Janusson
Joyce (Brown) Jarman
Nick Jones
Dragomir Jovanovic
Barb (Byrne) Knutsen
Howie Kolson
Aili (Pohlak) Kurtis & Victor
Darcy Lansdown
Wally Larocque
Tony & Marjatta Laurell
Robert Leyk & Karen & Stephen Pandke
Echo Lidster
John & Barb (Schneiderling) Love
Sherry (Feedham) Lund
Ben & Rose Maguire
Joe & ann Malmsten
Mary Maloffe
Dennis & Lil Marshall
Duane & Paulette Mather
Mike & Liz Maybroda
Doug Maybroda
John & Christine (Wouters) McConachie
Jane McConnell
Brian McLeod
Keith McLeod
Gerry & Helen McPhillamey
Bill & Kay MeInyk
Bradley Mercredi
Ken & Bernice Miller
Bill & Ellen Monaghan
Nora Morin
Steve & Marge Nadasde
Hans Nendsa
Sheldon & Debbie Nider
Bill Ormiston
Jim & Ruby Ormiston
Audrey Orrey
Patricia Osborns
Rae Parker
Debra (Cochrane) Pateliotes
John & Janet Paul
Herman Piekarrek
Jean Piro
Rene (Harder) Poley
Gary & Liz (Wry) Pomfrey
Elaine Power (Gay Halliday)
Betty & Louie Prince
Heather (Harder) Pritchard
Marion Reaburn
Christine Reimann
Binx Remnant
Didi Robinson
Audrey Ross
Hilda Schoenne
Wolfe & Marilyn Schoenne
Joan (Morris) Scott
Wayne & Irene Searle
Joey & Mary Ellen Severn
Penny (Sykes) Shapperd
Charlie & Clara Skeates
Ruth Smith
Bill Smith
Lynn Smith
Morris & Helen Sobool
Doug & Sheila Squires
Brenda Studney
Ron & Clara Sulz
Clifford Sutherland
William & Lidia Talalayevsky
Lorne Tardiff
Graham & Edith Tench
Michael & Susan (McCorquodale)
Tettenborn
Nils Thompson
Bobbi Thorpe
Bridget (Balsillie) Tippie
Jacquie (Robinson) Torres
Kay Vaydik
Peter Verklejon
Cam, Dianne & Jesse Vold
Brian & Penny Weir
Fred & Marion White
Red (Dave) & Peggy Williams
Bob & Wendy (Foreman) Williams
Jim Wison
Ted & Marion Woolfrey
Eileen Wry
Rick Zubot