Ben Beens:  

Life After leaving Kentwood, moved to Alaska for a bit then back to Kentwood, then in '85 my dad sent me to an all boys, private, catholic school in Vancouver. After graduation, I moved to Whistler, travelled a little bit, went back to University in '89. Worked as a Ski Patroller and in the seafood industry for 10 years. Lived in Vancouver for years enjoying the city life, had a VW van that took me on a thousand road trips from BC to Mexico (ahhhh the good old days), Finally, met the one (Crystal, from Kelowna, studied Respriatory Therapy in Toronto), we have been together since '97 and I am truly in love with her (yes, that's a Lionel Richie song) and I can't wait to grow old and senile with her. In 2000, I took a "real" job in Bella Bella, BC as a seafood Plant Manager on a First Nations reservation north of Vancouver Island, this was one of my life turning points, bought a sailboat (never do that again), rescue a little puppy who would end up very large, and part of our family... Moved to Tofino, BC in 2001 to work for an salmon aquaculture company to manage their processing division, had our first child, bought our first house, Crystal's mother and aunt move...Expand for more