Sharon Banning:  

Life Where do I start? I graduated from Jackson Walsh High School in 1976. Those 4 years in high school were great. Then it was on to MUN. Hated that so I decided to go to nursing school instead. Of course my twin sister, Sherry, joined me. We graduated from the Grace General Hospital School of Nursing in 1980. I went to work at Carbonear General Hospital in September 1980 and spent the next 22 years there as an ICU and ER Nurse. During that time I married and had two wonderful children, Greg and Kayla. I divorced in 1995 and finally in 2002 I decided it was time to move on. (Actually it was long overdue). I did that big time. My daughter and I moved all the way to Smithers, BC, where I took a job as ER Charge Nurse, Clinical Resource Nurse in the small hospital there. I loved my job and on week ends I travelled around BC teaching critical care courses to other nurses. BC was great. I made many wonderful friends there and loved the little town I lived in. Smithers is a little ski-resort town of 6000 people and it looks like a town in the Swiss Alps. In 2004 I met and married my fabulous husband, Jim. We had a romantic wedding in Kauai, my favorite place on earth. In November 2006 Jim went to work for a mining company in Ndola, Zambia. As Kayla was in her last year of high school, I did not join him until July of the next year. In December my son and daughter-in-law, Kyla, had a beautiful baby boy, Noah. Can you believe it! I am a granny and very proud of it. We sold our house in Smithers and bought a home on the Big Island of Hawaii. Then we ...Expand for more