Th-- they all went to college. The young lad- he went to trade school for mechanic. He's a-- he works in Elk-Lake.

And as you can see, that's the result of ah, the young lad having his friends over at this repair job to my umbrella. It has L-E-D's in it. You crank it up and it shines a nice blue, party like light at night and that was totalled from one Kirkland-Lake gathering...

And ah, he said, 'Oh, we have a, ah, a young lad here from northern Ontario,' he says, and um, and he says, 'As you can see, he doesn't even have a chair- a hair on his chest yet.'"

Yeah. You-know got to check in with the young lad there and make sure, you-know, how's school going and- 'cause we bypass each other, we only have supper together every night as a family. Whether, you-know, like whether we see each other at any other time, we have supper at the table every night together.

Speaker: No no I was just going to- my elbows here ah the joint- were festered with a boil that big on each side and they had- Interviewer: Eating candy (laughs)? Speaker: Had to b-- yup. And they had to be lanced. I had to go to the doctors and have them lanced because they were that big. I couldn't bend my arm for- for three months. And eventually- eventually ah the doctor told me (laughs) she- "You better cut back on that stuff. You're going to kill yourself."

I would just cross from the movie theatre the- I remember a laneway at the back. And then I moved to ah, I-don't-know ah what age I was but I ah to ah Tower-Street over here.

Well I was coming out of our grand(inc)- laneway out to the street and a big- ah Texas is known for wind. And a swift of wind came around the garage and that was just opposite of our lawn and I went sprawling on the lawn.

Yeah, telling her to get out of the car, go into the laneway and fight him, like this is guy doing this.

Ah, no. I work at the Legion, right now. ... But I w-- my mom worked at the Franklin-Tavern for fourteen years. I was there for almost ten. ... My whole family worked at the Franklin, actually.

Interviewer: Okay, so where did you say you work now as a bartender? Speaker: At the Legion. ...I don't mind it. I don't know many jobs where I can sit and get paid. ... For- for most of the day. Like I think out of a- what six-and-a-half-hour shift?

Um, I've played on a few different teams. Ah, most of the girls that I started out with aren't playing anymore. ... Ah, I'm on a really good team right now. Actually, we're sponsored by the legion and we've won five out of six years.

Interviewer: Aw, that's okay. What is it that you're trying to think of? Speaker: His platoon that he was in. ... It's at the Legion, I can see it on the wall, but I can't come up with the name (laughs).

But you-know what was interesting? Years later. This is sort-of interesting. Years later my dad told me that the team I- I'd played for- Legion was the organization I'd played for. And my dad told me that they were interested in taking me to play Junior-A when I was much younger.

And ah there was a regiment that came out of Kirkland-Lake, if I remember correctly. Algonquins. And ah the legion was a big thing. The legion started sh-- shortly thereafter, and- Interviewer: Okay. Yes, I've heard of it. Speaker: Almost all the men and- and women who served- ah joined. ... legions nowadays are having a tough time, because, you-know, the old-timers have all died off ...

The Hargrave was- w-- was the third mine from- this is the Tolburn, the Silver-night and then the Hargrave, eh? It was one of the bigger one. It was the Silver-night and the- you know when you go ah, to the legion- ... Well that's the Hargrave property. The legion and where the- the diamond drilling place is- ... And you know where the bingo hall is? ... That- that was the f-- the recreation ah, building for the Hargrace-Mine, eh?

Interviewer: Oh, tell me about those. What's a fifty-fifty draw? Speaker: Well we have one fifty-fifty is ah, fift-- f-- f-- half of the money I pick up goes to the legion and another goes to the person. And then we have a draw for the bus driver.

So you go to their- they have a presentation every year and you go and they have a flower show and then show the winners of the roses, and the best ah, you-know, vegetables and that's ah you get out to see that. And then our Legion is- I said, our Legion's busy. ... Like it's still carrying on after all these years.

Well, have to go and rent a bus for the Legion and they take it to him. Four times a year, I only go (fumbling).

But this is a lovely red outfit, I remember. And oh all the people are dead now that helped to model. You know a lot of them from the legion. What was her name? ... You know his- you know his mother.

But anyway, it included everybody in the Y-M-C-A including dad and I always got a kick out of dad playing bridge at the Y-M-C-A. 'Cause dad could do this, you-know (laughs). Interviewer: Oh yeah, that's right. Speaker: At the legion. Interviewer: (Laughs)