Dick Cave:  

25 APR 17 just a note to my friends and wishing them every day is a good one. I have had a few life changes since my last note. I lost my left leg above the knee to diabetes in SEP of 16. I had over 19 surgeries in the past five years and the last one created new challenges for me. I'm now looking for pirate prts in the movies. LOL I'm not getting a parrot as they make a mess on the back of your jacket. I got my new leg and am learning to walk on it. it is an amazing thing....foot is made in Iceland, the le and knee in Great Britain and the cup is made in New Westminster. all is well and life is good. I have learned so much in the past year it is amazing. \ + August 2014: Hi Old Friends iI the past two years I have had seven operations on my left leg. The darn thing quit working on me. They have done a vascu;ar bypass, stints and you name it. Would you believe i'm alegic to metals and the old body of mine rejects the replacement stints. They think they have it figured oiut now and i still have my leg. Who would have thought after playing all the different sports over the years the body would give out. I'm still playing with trains and driving a pick up. The Saskatchewan background never changed. I have HO trains and relive the days of working on the CPR. iIt keeps the boy in the boy. I love my pick up truck, a 93 Chevy Sidestep. It is tuff fitting my bride of 46 years in the cab with the two American breed Choclate Labs. sandy, my wiufe said just the other day she is starting to like me after all these years. I have two of the greatest grand daughters who love basketball and golf. my son in law is a jem and he keeps my daughter happy. My son just went back to university after seventeen years so he is an old student now. i think of RVCI often and all the wonderful people who went their. Take care and enjoy life. be happy and all the best. Del (Herman Jean) Delbeck Delbeck….!!!!! You did it again. Some fourteen years ago (it seems like it was yesterday) you stood me up as I was waiting for you to join me for lunch. Your excuses were you needed a Quadruple Bypass. Some six- eight weeks ago, you missed the lunch with Mowery, Sorrell, Westell and I. Your excuse, you had to go to the doctor re stomach cancer. On Friday the 9th of September, you caused a 6.4 magnitude earthquake at the same time you decided to pass along to the next life. It was felt in the Lower Mainland and in Moose Jaw. This cheap banter was so much fun with Del all through the years. I met Del in elementary school in the old Empire school days. I had the pleasure of delivering papers to his mom and dad’s house for five years, and got to know Del better as life went along. We went to high school and kept the friendship going. Del could always find someone from Moose Jaw no matter what town or city he was in. We kept in touch while he was in the army, and I at university. We continued our banter and the next thing I knew, my four year old daughter Traci, was Del and Teresa’s flower girl at their wedding. We kept in touch when we would all go down to Birch Bay when our children were growing up in the preteen and teen years. Scott and Terra would be the light of Del’s life as they grew up. The Grandfather stage was brighter and loving, and the proud showing of the pictures. I know he will watch over Jaxson, Ryelin, Juliet, Chloe and Holland. We then moved to the next stage of our lives and would try to go for lunch several times a year. Poor Brian Westell would have to put up with more of our banter and insults to one another over the years. We would always give each other a bad time. I would ask Del how his good friend Gordon Campbell was and how he would defend him this time. Del would remind me that I was a communist CCF’er (now known as Tommy Douglas‘s army) or a socialist horde. We would then shift to who we had seen lately from Moose Jaw, what news we had from back home, and what else was happening. Sorrell, Mowery and Westell always had a spot in our hearts and would join us from time to time over the years. We would talk about Donna Taylor, Doug Ross( a very special Army Buddy), Donna Knight, Norm Cooper, Barry Le Porte, Ivan Gutfriend, Stan Fedorwick, Dale Gallon, Sandra Gamercy, John Williams, Bob Williams, Dennis Toderash, Ron Mengerink, Horst Bander, Leon Brin, George Patterson, Ron Mc Mullen, Howard Fisher, Donny Sheppard, Ron Petrescue, and just about anyone we went to elementary school or high school with. The conversations would go something like this: This is the one I would have had with Del next Friday as were going to have lunch. Hey, I tracked down Petrescue. Noooo! Ya! He is going to try and join us today. Great, saves me calling and arranging a lunch. You never could arrange a lunch Cave! Where did he go???? Last I heard he was living back in Moose Jaw. Ya Del. He said after he left here he actually went back to Toronto to run a television network. He moved to Moose Jaw to help his mom out for a year before she passed. He said he just got tired of going to Tim Horton’s. He said he would chat with the locals (none of us left) and they would ask him what he did. He said he would answer I used to be in television. The guy would say did you fix TV’s and hook up them bunny ears? He said he replied, no, I was the president of a television network. The guy said what good is that, if you can’t fix TV’s. We would banter back and forth about nothing and everything, and then turn to our favorite topics: his mom, my mom, our wives, children and their families. We would trade stories about how they were all doing, how they had grown and changed and how much they meant to us. We talked about how much we loved our wives and how they would put up with us all these years. ...Expand for more