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HOMECOMING Wednesday, July 25, 2007 7 Do you remember when? Remember when winter Sunday afternoons were spent skating at the Memorial Arena? Remember when Doug Vivian, Cec Peacock and all the Rink Rats kept us all in line? Remember polishing your skates before going and attaching bells on the front laces? Remember Mrs. Pries selling hot chocolate and red licorice at the concession booth? Remember eating french fries and gravy at the GDHS cafeteria? Remember Mrs. Kewley? Mr. Hamilton? Mr. Baxter? Mrs. Williams? Mrs. Blaney? Mr. McLaren? Mrs. Glynn? Mrs. Darcie? Mrs. Bowman? Mr. Ramatarsingh? Mr. Ursel? Mr. Nelson? (Insert your own favourite teacher's name here.) Remember cheering on the Rebels at football games? Did you secretly wish to be a cheerleader, but you couldn't do a perfect cartwheel? Remember when the Roxy burned down and we went to watch Disney movies upstairs at the Legion for 10 cents? Remember when teens went to Stan's Restaurant to sit in the booths, play the jukebox, eat french fries and gravy and smoke up a storm? Did your Mother tell you that you couldn't go there? Remember a guy called "Piggy", who was the best basketball player in the school even though he was a foot shorter than everyone else? (Have you said hi to him at the Lotto Booth recently?) Remember when teenagers decided to join the A&W gang and sit in their cars until girls in short skirts brought root beer on a tray so heavy it could give you a hernia? Remember the Lion's Club putting on rodeos? Remember minstrel shows to raise funds for the hospital? Remember when the Dog'n Suds came to town? Remember how far it was to go all the way to the other side of town (but really it was only where McDonald's is today)? Remember Joe's Tuckshop on Main Street? What about Ma's Variety (near Kentners)? Did you buy sponge toffee from Archie's at the top of Ewing St.? Where was your favourite corner store? Did you collect pop bottles and spend the refund on candies? Remember when Canadian Tire was where the Carpet Barn is today? Remember Rexall's one cent sales (way before Dollarama was invented)? Cotton Brothers? Silver's Dept. Store? Holmes 5 and 10 Cent store? Mr. Caruso's fruit store? Wigo TV? Goodlets? Thompson Hardware? Buck's Meats? Superior Food Market? Sykes Bakery? Remember when you decided that you liked being with the Dairy Queen gang and you sat on the hoods of cars in the parking lot next door? Did you bring your pet raccoon (that you got from a guy named Chicklets) to the DQ in hope of Do you remember high school gymnastics classes like this? Photo courtesy Marg Helson getting all the boys' attention and then he when we all got oranges and those small pooped all down the front of you when striped candies? Remember seeing the you got there? (No? I guess it was only me Santa Claus parade and the Girls' Pipe who remembers that fiasco!) Band? Remember when you couldn't ride in Remember when you went to the boys' cars ("bedrooms on wheels" some Bantam tournament in search of excellent parents thought). Remember doing it any- hockey? Remember when you went to the way and ducking every time you saw Bantam tournament even though you someone who knew your parents? could care less about hockey, but because Remember driving to Brampton to go you hoped to find a hunky 15-year-old to the show and having a Big Boy ham- from Quebec or Northern Ontario? burger at Shopper's World first? Remember Bryan Day playing his elecRemember Saturday nights in the sum- tric guitar with his teeth? mer? Did you put on your cutest outfit Remember going to the Quarry? and go roller-skating at the Memorial Remember skimpy bikinis and hoping Arena? (It wasn't the "old" arena then. It they didn't fall down when you dived into was the "only" arena). Did you skate past that glorious turquoise water? 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