[The Familia]

For me I was jealous of my friends who got to be patrollers in Gr. 6. I had to walk my younger sister home so I was never allowed (years later she got to be one). Watching all the patrollers get on the bus to go to the annual patrol picnic at heritage park was crushing.

My parents were not wealthy by any stretch of the imagination. I grew up in Whitehorn during the late 80’s until 2001 when we moved to Panorama. I was blessed that my parents were always able to buy me things no matter how close they got to the financial edge. Iver the years I collected the red power wheels Jeep, a purple and black Brett Hull GT snow racer, all the ghostbusters toys and firehall (which I gave away for free), canyon of doom race car set, super soaker 50, SNES with only a handful of games, and was in soccer and swimming lessons.