Pat Penner (Weston):  

Life Well...I went to Garibaldi hi-school in Maple Ridge or Haney as it was called back then, for gr. 8. 9 & 9 and then to Port Coquitlam Hi-school for gr. 10, 11. Then I moved out on my own to the big city of downtown Vancouver, just off Main & Broadway. I worked at Vancouver General Hospital as a dietary aid for a while & then for a change I worked at some downtown nightclubs until I had to have some major surgery and was told no work for 6 months. So..I moved back to Poco with my Grandmother and took some schooling at Vancouver city college,for office work.. accounting, business machines, shorthand, etc. Again I worked in Vanc. for Vancouver Upholstery in the office, until I decided to move to New Westminster, where I got a job through Marilyn Allen-O'connor at Westminster Auto Leasing & Rentals, where I worked renting out vehicles and doing office work until I moved to the Leasing dept. where it was all typing and paperwork. In the meantime I had met Don and he went to work in Dawson Creek, and when someone had tried to break the apt. door down one night, I decided to move as well. I worked on the road flagging and driving pilot car for the paving crew and Don ran loader at the asphalt plant. We moved around the province for a few years, living in Merritt, Rock Creek, Prince George, Surrey, Fort St. John, Kitwanga. In between somewhere we bought a litle house at the end of Lorne Ave. in Hammomd and then fixed it up and sold it to go work on the road again. When we moved from town to town, we lived in a travel trailer, or a fifth wheel trailer, so we took our home with us. Once there was going to be a new addition to the family, we decided we needed more room, so we bought a mobile home in Maple Ridge in 1985 just before Peter came along and in 1987 we need...Expand for more