Sonya Ennis:  

Life I got married right out of high school to Bert Brehaut, attended one year of college in Tennessee and three years in Abilene, Texas, to get my B.S.Ed. We returned to Saskatchewan and I got a teaching job in Melville, starting in 1970. After one year there, I taught in Glaslyn one year, Unity two years and Esterhazy six years, a total of ten years fulltime ending in 1981. I separated from Bert in the summer of 1975. I met Garry Seman, another teacher (also farmer) in September and we married in 1977. I substitute-taught, did volunteer work and held down the fort at the farm while Garry was at school. I enjoyed gardening- veggies, flowers, and fruit trees- and even learned to make wine from scratch. I tried ceramics. I took community college classes. Later I began serious volunteer work with the Canadian Diabetes Assocation (CDA), helped to start new local chapter, and then became active at provincial level. This was a result of developing Type 1 diabetes myself in 1981. In 2000, after twenty-three years with Garry, I 0separated once again and moved to Yorkton. I worked at the Academy of Learning for a couple years, at the same time gaining some computer skills. When my employer got a group benefit package established, I got an insulin pump because the cost of my monthly pump supplies would be covered by the plan. The pump changed my life. One month later, I was laid off. Three months later, I was employed as an assistant by two Investors Group consultants, and later worked as assistant only to Terry ...Expand for more