7 During the recent reunion of
“former employees who worked
at the: Home for the Aged,
Skeenaview Lodge. and:Terrace--
view Lodge, our freelance
reporter Nancy Orr interviewed —
three of the people who attended

the event, This-story is the sec- .

ond in our series on the
memorable history. of that in-
stitution, _

Roberta. Lennan remembers

Roberta Lennan maintains
that she is not really an old- -time
employee of Terraceview Lodge

Fall Fair
features
4-H work

Contributed by the
Shamrock 4-H Club
‘Hi, from the Shamrock 4-H

‘Club. It is almost Fall Fair time [i

again and we’d like to welcome
everyone to come and see the
work we have done this year.
Our club has 18 members —
‘seven have beef projects, eight
have lamb projects, three have

goat projects and two have rab--

bit projects. Our club has par-
ticipated in judging rallies,
public speaking contgsts and
‘demonstration contests.

_ This year we have taken ad-
vantage of some exchange trips:

three senior members. went,.to

Prince Albert, Sask..for a week
and then three members from
their club came here to enjoy the
scenery for a week. We also have
had three Japanese exchange
_ students for three weeks, and we

hope ‘next year some of our
-seniors will visit Japan as ex-
change students,

All of our projects will be .
shown and judged—at the Fall

Fair. They will be there for
everyone to visit on Saturday
and Sunday. Our beef and lamb
projects will be auctioned off on
Sunday at 1 p.m. Leo De. Jong is
the auctioneer, so come out and
support our 4-H Club and buy a
, beef ora lamb.

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because she. didn’t work thefe,
until 1961. :
But she worked for the pa-

tients long before that.

by Nancy Orr

For at least: two years before

the big move was made to bring
the 150 patients from Essondale.

in Port ‘Coquitlam to Terrace,
there was a lot of preliminary
work to-be done. -

Roberta worked in the office

of the Essondale facility and it

-was her task to write to the

relatives of each person to -be
moved to ask for permission to

“make the change.

_ “The permission was seldom

“refused, ” she said, “but the p pro:
cess of. finding the next of kin,
and of writing and waiting for

the: Teplies was long and time-

consuming. ”

When she ¢ did go to work in
the office at the Home for the

Aged in Terrace (Terraceview) in

1961, it was her duty to register
the new patients, and to look
after their effects, Many strange

things turned up.

“I remember one old. chap
from the Usk area,’’ she said,

* “He had been living on his own,
and he had all sorts of

a miner,
things stuffed in coffee cans
with everything covered with

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‘And then in one can we
found a whole wad of Old Age
Pension. cheques, never cashed
— more than $2,000 worth never
used.’”

She told of another old fellow
from the Queen Charlottes
brought in by the R.C.M.P:
with his effects bundled into an’.
assortment of bags and boxes:
Roberta had to go through them
and sort them out for listing.

“I can still see that one very
old, very smelly bag, green with
age, that I was tempted to throw
away. But I made myself open
it. ;

“Inside was a great: big
mouldy sandwich — and the fill-

. ding was a.-thick wad of: ‘dolla

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bills! We counted more’ ‘tha
$2,000 worth. — What.
sandwich!” .- n

Roberta arrived in Terrace. in
Suly, 1961 with her new son,’
Brian, to join husband Ron,: .
who did not work directly with wo
the ‘Home’, but. whose arrival ..
was indirectly linked to the staff.

When J.B. MacKay, a meticu-"
lous carpenter, complained that :
he could not get good skilled.
recom...
mended for the job and after
cautious inquiries and personal . -
interviews, was hired-by the can- °
ny ‘Scotsman, That. was -the.~
beginning of a long and happy’ moe

workmen, Ron was

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