Jackie & Wayne have finally begun work on their house and basement. There was a hold up with all the permits that are required but things are finally underway. It should be done somewhere around middle to end of November.
Jackie, Wayne, Brandy & Denise drove out to B.C. for Grandma's party. They also visited Calgary, Banff, Lake Louise, Kamloops, around BC, back through the U.S. staying in Everette and, Jackie's favorite, Spokane. Good food, friendly people and all that good stuff. Then Great Falls, then home. Brandy has been working at Burger King as well as going to school.
Denise is having fun in Grade 6 and doing is involved in badminton.
Cory and his girlfriend, Trish, are moving into a new place October 1st.
Wayne has been told that he will need a back operation on his disks but it will be put off for awhile. When he's on "light duty" he doesn't have as much trouble.
Niki had a rather nasty argument with some nylon hair rollers early in the summer. The rollers won the fight and Niki had to sacrifice much of her hair. The whole thing appeared to be much harder on Diane in the long run than it was on Niki. Niki has started dance classes in Silton and swimming in Regina.
Frank has been involved in his new job - babysitting. He has been doing a fair bit of it and enjoys it very much. Frank is in Grade 7 and has been elected President of his class, Leader of the SRC in his class, is on the "A" Junior Volleyball team. He's in swimming on Saturdays, at confirmation classes on Thursdays and is trying out for the badminton team. He also plans to start school curling and will be curling regularly in Strasbourg with Gerry. What is with this guy? And with all that he's already gone through 5 girlfriends so far this year.
Robby has moved in with Diane & Gerry. He is now living with them and working part time at DiGer Service too.
Diane & Gerry were at Grandma's 100th birthday party too. As an unpleasant side effect of the plane trip, Diane is now suffering from
All is fine with Jim & Maryann. They had quite the time with a house full of people during the Grandma Party Weekend. At the most it was 18 people staying there (with only one bathroom!). But fortunately, everyone had a good sense of humour about standing in line to take showers, etc and they never did run out of hot water!
Jim & Maryann would both like to convey their thanks to everyone - first for coming and second for helping out so much. There was always someone contributing with groceries or cleaning up or making meals. All the duties were shared around quite happily and that made it all so much easier.
Maryann will be headed to Weyburn in October from the 14-18th. She will have a visit with her family. She has been going through career counselling and by the next newsletter should have an update on that.
They had a birthday party for Steven recently. All is fine with him.
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