Jim Morgan:  

Well, where to begin? First of all, I'm a base brat and proud of it!! If I hadn't been, I probably wouldn't have experienced the places I've lived throughout this country and met as many good people as I did in my younger years. I didn't always appreciate that back then but have learned to realize that everybody I've known has left their mark on me in one way or another. You'll probably remember me being "on the air" at CKBG in Bagotville, QC or CHCL in Cold Lake, AB back in the day! In Bagotville (from 1965 - 1970), I was involved in swimming, acting in the school plays, had my own paper route and was involved with Scouts and Search and Rescue. I hung around with the likes of Dale Stewart, Hal Button, Rocky Robar, Buddy Graham, Chuck Pratt, Derek Bird, Fred Brownlee, Diane McMakin, Cindy Miners, Carol Beals, Kathy Wilkinson, Brenda Glover, Kathy Crawford, Francis Ouellet, Bernard Plante, Ron Hamill, Mark Wells, Cathy Palmer, Dave Percival, Denise Mullin, Edith Merriman, Anne McLaren, Alana Makin, Linda Walls, John Johns, Barry Hunt, Don Hester, Pat Fortin, Bev Smithers, Judy MacKay, Margaret Balanger, Morgan Jooste, Dean Proctor, Danny Green, Shirley Boudreault, Ian Turnbull, Debbie Gagnon, Wendy Taylor, Dave Dyson, Peter Dzuba, Christine Brown, Ron Tracy, Felicity Munn, Debbiie Ettinger, Denise Johnson, Linda Butcher, Chris Ricken, Judy Palmer David Dare, David McComiskey, Glen Archibald, Terry Veerhelle, Mark Van Striver, Ed Lank, Grant Walsh, Judy Pratt, Barry Gill, Ian Sutherland, Tom Ross, Coleen Makin, Clarence Johnson, Heather Lindsay, Bobbie Vincent, Sean Kennedy, John Redman, Eric Booth, Fred Eves, Danny Gill, Judy Elliott, Holly Hepburn, Tom Gallant, Bob Lee, Joanne Charbonneau, Wanda Turnbull, Caren Clifford, Karen Dyson, Susan Hunt, Denise "Bubbles" Braun and Karen Grubisch. While at Cold Lake, (from 1970 - 1973) I spent half the day working at the gas station on base and the other half trying to stay awake while I attended Beaver River High. In the evenings, I was either at the radio station, Rovers or slinging beer at one or more of our fine drinking establishments in Cold Lake or Grand Centre. Then the high school moved from the base to Grand Centre and I attended the first year of the new High School. Hal Button and Fred Brownlee followed me a year later from Bagotville to Cold Lake in 1971! In Cool Pool, I hung with Chris Murphy, Cathy Hosek, Barry Alexander, Deb McInnes, Barry Runnels, Bruce Borer, Freeman Taylor, Sonja Imlah, Bruce Macdonald, Robbie Thorburn, Brian Gourley, Debbie White, Cheryl Mark, Chris Jacques, Vicki Bolan, Kathy Severn, Robbi Merrill, Patti Wiebe, Sue Phipps, Judy Eisenhaur, Danny Smith, Paul Odell, Mark Dahl, Don Cassidy, Peter Jackson, Rick Keppler, Andy Hewitt, Brian Shackleton, Kelly Turner, Jennifer Pankratz, Debbie Adams, Roxy Burton, Gary Fisher, Ron Dick, Lance Brown, Marg Hallet, Ron Hodges, Rose LaRose, Heather Gillet, Suzanne Bamber, Bob Preston, Bruce Gallant, Dave Moir, Russ Odegard, Bev Clark, Mike Cormier, Bob Nichol, Kerry Coxen, Bryan Davis, Kathy Reynolds, Howie Gibb, Kent Grant, Carol Coleman, Rick and Stu Talbot, Pattie Lewis, Dean Street, Cal Grasley, Bev O'Brien, Tracy Hagans, Gary Harwardt, Karen Hill, Ken Hodges, Pete Holmes, Lynda Nyburg, Jane West, Cliff Hardlicka, Sue Jacobs, Jean Lohmaier, Andrew Martens, Royden Moon, Linda Melanson, Wendy Williams, Nadine Wanitowy, Debbie Heffner, Debbie Lewis, Linda Rollison, Kim Brown, Kelly Barr, Bob Burton, Mark Emery and Susan Gale. If you knew me in Cold Lake, you'll remember that Brenda Morrow and I were an item! Married Brenda in 1974. We had two daughters (Brandy in 1976 and Shannon in 1980) as well as a son (Cody in 1984). Divorced 20 years later. Brandy has two sons, Brandon, 25 and the first grandson to graduate high school so far and Ethan, 17. She and her husband adopted Seirria (2020) now 6 and had Brennley in 2017, now 4. Shannon has a son, Alex who is 15 years old. My son Cody, had pretty much gone his own way and wanted nothing to do with the rest of the family. On occasion, I'd hear about his antics from some of his friends. He no longer communicated with any of us. Unfortunately, in November 2020, Cody, suffering with mental issue problems, took his own life. He left behind his common-law wife and, at the time, a 7-year-old son. Over the years, I've had careers; fighting forest fires in Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada Packers, Sears, newscaster at various radio and TV stations throughout Alberta and Saskatchewan as well as a stint as a photo journalist. In 1980, I went to work in a coal mine in Grande Cache, Alberta as an assayer/lab technician working side-by-side with Chris Murphy. Got laid off there two year...Expand for more