Interviewer: It's so sudden. Speaker: But I-mean I'm just telling you that she- she asked Dave for a drink or- a- an aspirin I believe- if the stor-- you-know I-mean I only know what people tell me. That ah- but it was a sad affair. Really and truly she wasn't old. Interviewer: Yeah those things are tragic when they happen.

And I- well mom and dad put me through ah drivers-ed to so it's better on your insurance, big time.

She was born in nineteen-twenty, the same year that my dad was born and she's still running the store and her- her daughter's trying to get her to give it up because it is a lot for her. Um, yeah it's- it's changed big-time. I know they've got the rec-center there and- and I think for the elderly people there is a lot of them to do.

Like ah we are farmers. I always took a lot of pride in that but that too has changed big-time. Now I think the only smart farmer is the one that knows enough to sell.

Speaker 2: But people do, they'll say- they'll say "oh well I wonder who that is?" And "I wonder where they're going." Speaker 1: Oh its nosey big-time.

Interviewer: Well I know you're missing out on things that could be beneficial and to bring people to the community. Like Speaker 1: Tourists, attractions big-time. Interviewer: Or even just activities for young families.

I used to hull the lumber to Toronto when I drove a truck. Well to start with, you'd load the lumber on the ro-- railroad car eh? And the boxcar but then when they got these big trucks the trucks got to be more economical than the railroads.

... but he didn't have enough sense to go to anybody and say "hey my little brother's out there. You-know, can somebody help him." You-know. I don't know what he did. He just buggered off for the day and forgot about me. So ah that- that was somethings and- and we were in to escapades like that all the time. Like, we just- we just run around and sort-of raised ourself.

Well what they're trying to do, they're to p-- trying to get um people in period custom. Way back in eighteen-hundreds, hundred-and-fifty years ago I-guess. Um so there will be a few of those. Ah they'll be old vintage cars, ah house and buggies, horses.

Huh, I met her, actually one of my friends was ah- that I chummed around with in Fenelon, ah, was going out with her at the time and I come up here and ah I started going out with her older sister Dana.

That's how Maggie- I-mean she- her and Amanda used to chum together all the time and they u-- another thing they used to do volley-ball but I know that they done- ah ah she- she took a lot of- there was ah- an experienced woman that ah done sewing-

Yeah actually, they're- I think they're coming up to their thirty-first or thirty-second year of the annual lob-ball. So that's been an annual thing and it's always Civic-Holiday-Weekend. So it used to be a- a huge ah weekend thing.

... our short-stop and him and Mandy and Sam and Bob, are my sister-in-law and two nephews, would all come up and they would camp out for, for the whole weekend, and stay- they'd actually come up Thursday and make a big long-weekend out of it for Civic-Holiday weekend. So ah, that was always a lot of fun. Always had a beer-tent set up down there and-stuff-like-that so, lotta- lotta fun.

So I-mean all you do is fill it out and you get first dibs on what- where you wanna be.

My wife wa-- helped run it. But the two girls still on it but they've kind-of retired now and- and the younger ones have taken over but- there's still a good do which is all next weekend and it's a good do for the community.

My wife wa-- helped run it. But the two girls still on it but they've kind-of retired now and- and the younger ones have taken over but- there's still a good do which is all next weekend and it's a good do for the community.

...it never affected me because there was never any money in our family for Christmas presents and-stuff-like-that anyway. And ah, as I got older, when my birthday ah was at Christmas ah, everybody ah you-know always made a big do- do out of it so

They love to four-wheel.

You got-yo-- - you do a lot of stuff like- snow, like lot of outdoor stuff. Um, that's what I'm into, so- I go snow-mobiling a lot and four-wheeling in the summer and-I-don't-know-

Speaker: We used to have our homecoming in May. We used to have the lob-ball in the fall. Then we used to have New-Year's and Christmas down here- Christmas and New-Years down here. Interviewer: (inc) Speaker: Used to hav-- yup, Strawberry-Suppers, Fowl-Suppers and they're still on, but there's a lot of things that we don't do anymore.