Paul Moorey:  

Life Things are going well for my family and I. I’ve stayed busy through the years. Just after high school I left for a short stint at Con College where I enrolled in a Millwright program. During the course we had an "on the job" training period that needed to be completed. I applied to do that at Ontario Hydro which was my employer as a student the summer before. I did the training and assisted with the re-build of one of the turbines at the Aquasobon Power Plant back home along Hydro Hill. That was an interesting experience.... being home for awhile worked out well too. Once the course wrapped up I was offered a full-time job as a Fitter Mechanic (turbine mechanic) with Hydro on the Nipigon River, however after having worked as a summer student with the line crew, my interests were with working outdoors. So it was back to Schreiber to work on the line crew where I started my apprenticeship as a power lineman. My career with Ontario Hydro has been interesting. A few close calls, one on a falling pole and the other involving a 115,000 volt power line and a helicopter. Though I’m still with Hydro but no longer climbing poles or towers, periodically I miss it, but then I go stand outside in January for 5 or 10 minutes and the feeling goes away :-) Concerning personal interests, I’m an avid bo...Expand for more