Speaker: Oh yeah well Kaitlin would know her. Interviewer: Oh yeah. Speaker: Yeah yeah yeah. Kaitlin- Interviewer: She told me all kinds of things. Speaker: Great gal, yeah. Well but ah-

Speaker: He always makes me cry every time he sings at something special. I- I'd love to have Don up here singing that afternoon. Interviewer: Oh yes (inc). Speaker: (Laughs) That would've been the icing on the cake, eh? Interviewer: He just become a grandfather once again so- Speaker: Oh gal. Oh yes, oh my goodness yes (laughs).

And ah- and ah but ah- before the dinner happened um- I um- this gal, her name is ah Nancy-Pietrus. She lives in- in um Kitchener right now. They moved down there.

And that's one good thing. We have a twenty-four hour gas-bar and corner store. Some communities don't have that.

So then he was kind-of bouncing around- and that's where he did ah like he worked in the liquor store for a couple years on and off, he worked in the beer store for a couple years. He was a meter maid for about a year or two. Um and then he worked ah at um- there's a- the Canadian-Tire-Gas-Bar. Not the one that's built now, there's a smaller one. There used to be. Across from the Canadian-Tire. <6> Oh yeah. <073> Store used a small Canadian-Tire-Gas-Bar. He worked there for about ah I-think a-year-and-a-half.

And then in between there and over here it was- it was a soccer field and a ball field and we call it- and this is where we played as kids and-that, eh? And then 'course you-know with the development of Hortons and ah, Canadian-Tire gas-bar and s-- everything else, but- but anyways they wanted to do something here to ah, you-know add to the community I-guess you'd say.

Interviewer: So what was it like to be working in that confectionery? Speaker: Well it was quite an experience. Interviewer: I bet you. Speaker: That's what I get- ah you-know, obtain my gift of the gab you-know (laughs)? We used to ah- we'd open at eight-thirty in the morning.

Golly, you know I don't really remember.

Yeah, but hey that's a big task golly, golly.

So anyway, at- after that was over I decided well we're not going to do the talk show everyday anymore and I did it weekly for, golly, th-- four years maybe, or so 'til about ah, whenever it was.

And my uncle, on the other hand, he was a real smart fellow, he was finished high-school when he was fifteen. Grade-thirteen. But he was too young to go to college, or university, they wouldn't take him. So he ended up in the S-A office at Teck-Hughes.

Speaker: My first time I ever drank was ah- yeah I'm sure there were kids who did drink but growing up I was ah- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Was when I got my grade-thirteen results. Interviewer: Really. Speaker: I had six beer. Interviewer: Do you remember? Speaker: I remember I was working for the Department-of-Mines.

Speaker: ... they didn't want me to Junior-A but they offered to ah- for me- ah I could play in same (inc) as Junior-B. Interviewer: Oh! Speaker: So I said "No." I wasn't interested and I came back and went to- I took my grade-thirteen and went to university. Interviewer: Why did you decide to do that? To turn them down? Speaker: Well ah because my goal would have been to make- wanted to make the N-H-L. I figured if I- if I played Junior-B I wouldn't make the N-H-L.

... the final reunion they had, which was about three years ago, before they ripped a- ripped the building down- ah I had to make the toast. Because of my long connection. I hate to admit it, but I spent six years in that high-school (laughs). Well it was grade-thirteen, it was five legitimate ones, and then they- I keep telling everybody they held me back to help the younger students coming in. Yeah. Nobody b-- nobody believes me.

Interviewer: And what about you, what made you want to become a teacher first? Speaker: Actually I didn't. M-- after I finished ah grade thirteen, I went to work- this was in Brockville. Went to work for a company called Levi-McNeil-and-Levi- they made condensed milk because it was a farming area all around the city of Brockville. So they- I got a job there from the- after I finished grade thirteen. And they paid me fifty cents an hour. Was- not bad wage at that time.

Interviewer: Yeah. So ah what happened when you finished high-school? Speaker: Ah- high-school. Oh we- high-school, actually we had a team in high-school ah for couple of years and then it kind of faded away in grade thirteen. I guess I-don't-know if anybody didn't want to coach it or I-don't-know.

Speaker: Ah tech mostly the boys went and that was sort-of leading you to be m-- an electrician or-something. Commercial, the girls were going to be secretaries. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: They were only going to go to a-- go to grade-twelve. They weren't- that w-- matriculation went to grade-thirteen. Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: We called it matriculation then and those- those people were boys and girls were mostly destined for university.

Speaker: So we moved and I spent one year in York-Mills-Institute ah, in the north end of Toronto and- and then I just hated it. So I came back to- Interviewer 1: (Laughs) Interviewer 2: (Laughs) Speaker: Kirkland-Lake and went to K-L-C-B-I did grade thirteen and lived with my brother, who was living in Kirkland-Lake and working for, actually, an engineering firm in Kirkland-Lake. And then in nineteen-seventy-two I left and went to University-of-Guelph and spent the l-- the next five years there.

Interviewer: Do you remember your graduation? Speaker: No, I didn't graduate, I went- finished grade-thirteen- grade-twelve. Grade-eleven, I finished grade-eleven and then I went to work. Interviewer: Where did you go to work? Speaker: Ki-- (laughs) at the Be-- at the telephone office.

And he'd show my dad a postcard his son send him from Mexico- New-Mexico. And he says "Oh." He says, "Janet- Janet is saving postcards. Get your son to send some postcards." So I knew- I remember Jack from when- he was in grade-thirteen when I started grade nine and I knew him and ah he was a good-looking guy oh.