Kevin Westra:  

CLASS OF 1973
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Newton High SchoolClass of 1973
Newton, NJ

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Since 1973, I moved to Miami, Florida in 1978. I loved the area. It took me a few years but I fell in love with the Miami Hurricanes. I became a regular fixture at their football and baseball games. The Miami area is famous for their beaches. I spent many a day on Key Biscayne. I actually had the pleasure of living there for a few years. It was home to former president Richard M. Nixon. I jumped around a little while in Miami. I lived on the Key as I mentioned, also Coconut Grove, Kendall, Perrine, and South Miami. I moved out of Dade County in 1991 to Palm Beach County. It was about 75 miles north. A much slower pace than Miami. There is where I met my wife, Lisa. She was a pricing manager for a Winn Dixie supermarket. Her store was one of my accounts. We originally lived in Greenacres, then purchased our first home in Lake Worth in 1996. We stayed there until 2005 when we both agreed it was time for a geography change. Without hardly any thought, we found a wonderful little town nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Canton, Georgia. To this day, I still find it hard to believe that I live here. But it's really nice and we've met so many nice people who we've become friends with. Our community has a wonderful pool that is open from Memorial Day through Labor Day. We spend all of our weekends there with our friends. When I'm home, I'm usually sitting in front of the tube watching a sporting event or a good movie....Expand for more
I have a basement or man cave if you like that is home to my passion, my sports memorabilia collection. I started collecting in the early 1990's ad have met quite a few hall of fame baseball and football players, as well as a couple basketball and hockey ones, too. I have baseballs, footballs, bats, caps, photos, basketballs, pucks, and even a couple of boxing gloves signed by Muhammed Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard. There aren't too many that I haven't met at one time or another. In a few years, I will probably sell it all off when we decide to downsize. I would eventually like to retire somewhere on the panhandle or west coast of Florida. I try and make it to the class reunions as I stay in touch with Dave DeGroat and my cousin Patti. Through the years, I've come across a few of our classmates either in my former towns or traveling with my job. I recall running into Kathy Huff at a bar in Miami in the late 1970's. Debbie Hardick and I became good friends when I found out we both lived in Lake Worth. And after I moved to Georgia, my job took me to Nashville where I caught up with Ellen Howell. I still talk to Dave on a regular basis as we talk about our Giants. I can't believe our next reunion with be our 50th. Where has time gone? I certainly don't look or feel that old but I guess it's something we can't avoid. If you're ever up in the northwest Georgia area, look me up. I'm on Facebook. Send me an I.M. or call me at 678-575-3450.
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