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Checking in to say hello to all of you from the 60s. Is anything planned fo Manitoba Homecoming in Shilo this summer. We plan to be in Winnipeg for part of the summer, and could make a side trip to my old stomping grounds.
Checking in to say hello to all of you from the 60s. Is anything planned fo Manitoba Homecoming in Shilo this summer. We plan to be in Winnipeg for part of the summer, and could make a side trip to my old stomping grounds.
Added: February 20, 2010
Name: Theresa (Poirier) Easterby
From: Calgary, AB
E-mail: tess_e@shaw.ca
Hi All, it's been a few months since I checked in. Mary MacDonald, welcome to our home!!! I remember so many crazy girl times. You always could make us laugh till we cried.
To add to Rusty's post on the murder/suicide. I do remember it because the girl was Yvonne Hamer and my babysitter. She had been dating a soldier who was older than her and her parents objected. So she began to see another young man. That night they were on a date at the movies (now the drill hall behind the mall). While walking home with her escort her ex hid at the back and when they walked by he shot them and then went back to the barracks and killed himself. That was bad enough but the man escorting her was not her new boyfriend. Since he was a new recruit he had to be back for bed check and had asked a friend to walk her home.
In so many ways Shilo really was a little Patten Place or maybe all small towns are like that. Some stories were true while many were just assumptions turned into gossip. Anyways as long as you were a kid there it was great. We really did have some great times.
I didn't know I was an unofficial historian Doug, but I do have so many memories of Shilo. Ever hear the one when Miss Sheehan tried to drive her car from the coffee shop to Royal via the field in the back. Oh and it was winter and she must have had a wee bit of Christmas cheer that night.