Interviewer: I felt they were done a lot of these- these contests? Speaker: Every Friday pretty well. Interviewer: And you could have a good time while you were getting drilled with your basics? Speaker: Oh yes.

It was one of the old-fashioned Fords. And ah- (laughs) we got so that we could do it very nicely! He could be- do the foot part of it and I did the hand part and we got so we could work together pretty well (laughs)!

Interviewer: What would he sell at the market? Speaker: Well, I guess he'd sell pretty well what the market- (bells ringing) they'd sell, all kinds of vegetables and principle vegetables that you sell on the market.

And ah things were pretty- during the war everybody was working pretty well. Insurance was in quite demand then too.

Interviewer: How has the church changed in the years that you've been there? Speaker: How has it changed you say? Well, in early days the church was a community-centre pretty well.

Yeah, yeah and they're metal houses. You can sell them pretty well, oh but all of that down there was the golf course wasn't it, and then a lot of it too belonged to the ah Parkers.

Interviewer: The whole family? You were all interested in tennis? Speaker: Pretty well we were all- yeah my older brother Leonard was a real baseball-star so he didn't play as much tennis as- as Chris and I did, um he was- his summers were pretty well full of baseball-teams and travelling to tournaments and-things-like-that.

When we started out ah you went in and then you had a- you had a curriculum but ah you were left pretty-well on your own to interpret it the way you wanted to, and ah um you-know you still had final exams and what not and- and ah you were pretty-well expected if you follow the curriculum and made some changes that ah there weren't an awful lot of people looking over your shoulder.

Yes ah- Yeah, pretty well everybody was basically- I can't remember any differences, we were pretty white-Anglo-Saxon-protestant guys.

... apparently, population of Florence is five-hundred-thousand people, however between the months of April and October, there's approximately one-point-seven-million people in the city, so there's over a million tourists in that city pretty well at all times, right? But you'd never know.

Interviewer: Do you bike with the same people? Speaker: Pretty well yeah. Interviewer: Oh okay. Speaker: Pretty well. Well we have the- our big group is a big group. There's probably- well there's probably fifty or sixty people on the list. Now they don't all come all the time and-that.

He just had that knowledge of the sounds of wood and-so-on that he- he could ah mostly identify pretty-well any piece of painted furniture.

That- oh we had a- we had a good mixture of ah of kids from ah our area was from the ah ah north side of East-Moira-Street around in a fan around to encompass pretty-well um I-guess everything down to Campden-Road.

Ah yes, just up the river from Meyers-Mill, it's behind the Bellwood-Creameries. So ah it wa-- it maintained about three to five feet o' water all- pretty well all summer it'd get da-- low but ah you could swim right from one side right across the river.

I-guess there were three schools- three major schools around and this one was- well it felt pretty well packed when I ah, went there.

Speaker: For the- the little rustic boats we had. They were square-ended punts and ah boats of all sorts or- Interviewer: Any thing that would float? Speaker: That um- we had ah- we had a good fun.

And we had ours- ours- well it's true, and ah he had a Quebec heater heating the store wasn't um furnace or-anything in those days. It was- everything more-or-less was heated by stoves or coal oil, or it was Quebec heater. And they used to sit around listen to the hockey game.

Well, I- I can tell you some things that I- I was trying to rack my brain on things that I could really remember about it- being a- a kid over there and ah- the one was the- and I must have been very very small but when the circus used to come to town...

Then the province said, ah- we raised Cain about it and we said "Your- you made an agreement, you're welshing on it".

And I remind you that is not the responsibility or the function of communicators is to run the disaster; that is the responsibility of the reeve or mayor of the municipality and their officials. They run the municipality in peacetime, they have to run it in time of disaster.