LARRY & SHARON BRANCH

Amber was down in Arizona over Christmas and has finished her last course.  That one was in Equine Massage and she passed it with a 93.  (Who knew that horses got massages too!!??)  She’s hoping to take a course in Horse Management in Alberta next.  In the meantime she’s looking for work. 

Dylan has been working at Kramer Tractor, which he enjoys very much.  He was living in Regina but gave up his apartment when the lease was up at the end of March and is commuting from home. 

Larry was laid up with a back injury for awhile at the beginning of February.  Sharon started a full-time job at the Home as a housekeeper.  She was able to get on full time when Doreen went down to part-time hours.  There were some very bad weather conditions in March and Amber and Nancy got in a bit of trouble when the truck went off the road and rolled.  Fortunately, neither one was badly hurt, walking away with a few scratches.  Larry is going into the water hauling business and looking forward to that.  He’s been working on the truck so that he can get started soon.

DON & TRUDY BRANCH
Danielle moved into a new apartment in Calgary at the end of March.  She’s back in the North West and enjoys the new area very much.  Her new address is:  #316 – 3500 Varsity Drive NW, Calgary, AB, T2L 1Y3.  She had no end of problems with Telus hooking up phone and internet improperly but is all settled in now. She has been enjoying her work and her friends at work very much and goes out

to dinner with some of them from time to time.  Danielle was entertaining Nicole on the weekend of April 9th while Nicole stayed for a couple of days on her way back to Australia.  They had plans to go to the zoo and out for dinner and drinks with friends.  Danielle will soon be training on a new computer system at work and then training all the others there.  Danielle had gone back to Sask at Christmas and spent some good visiting time with her family.  She enjoyed having Nicole and her Aussie friends return to Calgary with her and they all went out to a Scottish pub on New Year’s Eve.  Trudy came to visit for a couple of days in January in order to bring back the rental car that Nicole and her friends had left there.

matt and nicoleNicole & Matt both found jobs in October in Regina, Nicole with Payless Shoes and Matt with ITG Staffing.  They worked until December when they quit in order to do some traveling.  They went to Toronto and met their Aussie friend Scott, then on to New York where they met their other Aussie friend Dools.  They looked all around New York and had a great time.  From there they went to Niagara Falls, then Ottawa, then Quebec.  In Quebec they met up with Nicole’s friend Sandra who had been on a student exchange with her a few years ago.