Comments: WE DID IT! a year of planning, prodding and promoting pays off. We issued the Re-Reunion Challenge to return for a reunion, reunite with your siblings, reunite with your friends, reunite as base brats from Shilo, it didn't matter what time period you lived there, we all had relatively the same experience. Thank you for responding. There were 3 major events, a Friday night Meet & Greet and a Saturday retro-night dance in Winnipeg, then a Sunday return to Shilo reunion. All were well attended and successful. The full story is being prepared as a Special Edition feature you can view here, watch for it …
(Home page photo) Winners of the Reunion 2022 Re-Reunion Challenge. Six of the seven ladies attending the Shilo lunch reunion recreated a photo from their 2013 reunion in Hamilton. L-R: Sarah Flynn Lamb, Donna Martin standing in for Heather Pace Cashen, Tracey Flynn Keith, Cindy Buckman Caron, Rosalind Flynn Lebel, Brenda Flynn Stouffer and Ida Oake Rabideau.
Comments: All the Reunion 2022 attention has been on the Main Event, that's the carrot to pay the bills, to cover the Reunion expenses including the Friday Night Meet & Greet for which there is no charge. Thank you Shilobrats, we will be able to do that, and yes there is still room for more but register soon.
The REAL Reunion is the Friday night Meet & Greet. This is where you reconnect in the relaxed atmosphere of a sprawling courtyard style foyer with different areas to gather, sit, stand, wander, have conversations without the challenge of background noise or other distractions. There is a separate bar for refreshments and other areas of the hotel, restaurant and tavern nearby, should you want to gather with your friends after. There is no pre registration, no charge. Please sign the Guestbook and wear your name sticker so we know you were here and who you are. Stay as long or as short as you like at this informal gathering that is the REAL Reunion.
Then if you are inspired to come to the fun night The Way We Were main event, tickets will still be available. WARNING! You could run into yourself from fifty years ago if you attend.
Added: June 2, 2022
Submitted by Name: ShiloBrats
Comments: Happy Mother's Day to all Shilobrat Moms and all your Moms still with us.
Comments: High School Confidential Ad It doesn't take much to activate some of those old songs in your head, and some of those old songs carry fond memories of our younger years. One of the pleasant surprises of ageing is they don't get left behind, we carry them with us forever, and once in a while they get loose.
Shilobrat reunions will do that,
Reunion 2022 will be a one night only Time Machine that will return you to the Way We Were.
Comments: Time is ticking down and registrations are ticking up. The new format of combining Winnipeg and Shilo for a Shilobrats Reunion worked out in 2018, so we are doing it again for all those who missed a great reunion and those who want to come back. Winnipeg is more accessible from other provinces for travel and accommodation and more of you settled in this area after Shilo. Better still, the Reunion hotel amenities allow the reunion to carry on between events whether you are staying there or not. It's a double-barrelled reunion, reuniting friends and classmates from your Shilo days, and reuniting with Shilo, how has it changed? Come find out. This is the one! Stay tuned for new information and entertaining additions on the Reunion 2022 website, just click on the Home page ad.
Stay tuned for new information and entertaining additions on the Reunion 2022 website, just click on the Home page ad.
Added: April 18, 2022
Submitted by Name: Judy Rioux From: Victoria, BC E-mail: jmrioux@telus.net
Comments: I’ve been catching up with all the wonderful information our Reunion 2022 Executive has been extending to Shilobrats, in the hopes of them attending the 2022 Reunion to be held in Winnipeg in June. I attended the 2018 reunion, and had a wonderful time catching up with many of the students I went to school with from 1964-68. So many of my classmates were there, although others were unable to make it. We missed you! A huge thank you to Edith for her skills on the computer. You never cease to amaze me. Unfortunately, I will not be attending the weekend due to other commitments, but my hope is that Reunion 2022 is a huge success, and that all of the Executive’s endeavours pay off in a well received and well attended reunion. You won’t be disappointed! Have a wonderful time. I’ll be thinking of you.
Comments: "Big Twig" Ad What do you want to see when you return to Shilo. For Denise Pike it was a real surprise! Is my house still there or what does it look like now, how has Shilo changed since I left?
There is an organized bus tour from the Reunion hotel in Winnipeg, or you can drive there for a lunch reunion at Junior Ranks Club with brats still in the local area with time to explore all you are curious about. Click on the Ad for all the Reunion information.
Come be part of Shilobrats Reunion 2022 in Winnipeg and Shilo, June 10 – 12. This is the one!
Comments: Big Guns Ad Remember when we used to play on the big guns and tanks on display around the Base, well there's even more of them now.
What is a Shilobrat Reunion without including Shilo. For some of us it's been over 50 years since we left. Many of the houses we lived in have grown old or have been removed, the high school is gone, still the memories live on, so what has become of this place of our youth, are you curious?
The Base is greener now, houses still there have been renovated, new houses are being built, General Strange Hall has expanded, the high school area is now a dog park, well two out of three ain't bad. Join us for this Sunday memory lane mini-reunion lunch and tour at Jr. Ranks to hook up with old friends and classmates from the local area not able to be with us in Winnipeg. Check the Reunion website every week for new additions and updates.
Name: Errol Bredin
From: the Hinterlands
E-mail: bredine@mymts.net
I just want to post that Ivan Traill passed away at age 90 yesterday.
I am heartbroken that my mentor has moved on to chase after reptiles and look for arrowheads and teach angels in a new plane.
God speed Ivan, I'm sipping a wee scotch whiskey right now you meant so much to me.