Carol Dunbar:  

I added to my story - it's at the end of what's written below. March 2016 Well look at that - eight more years have passed!! I have been living in Mexico for most of that time. I call Los Barriles my home now. It is on the east cape of the Baja Peninsula, on the Sea of Cortez in Baja Sur (Baja California south). I just retired from running an RV Park and am into property management. The climate and pace of life here suit me well! All the bad P.R.about Mexico is bullsh*#t. It is much safer here than most cities in America! Some of my time is spent writing stories. I have lots of material accumulated from 20 or so years of traveling around the world, working on yacht deliveries and living in a number of other countries - like Thailand, Australia, UK, Southern Spain/Gibraltar and Costa Rica. My stories have been published locally and I am thinking about putting a collection together for a bigger market. Good to touch base with my past! See you in another few years... Cheers Everybody Cazz (nickname acquired in Europe a few decades ago) November 2008 It has been amusing, emotional, insightful, outrageous and unparalleled, connecting with people who populated the eccentric and inimitable company town and surrounding areas in the 60s and 70s. The Ottawa Valley was both a weird and wonderful place to grow up. As much as we complained about how there was nothing to do in that Paton Place of a one horse town, we were actually fortunate, in many ways. It was a privilege of sorts, to be the company town for AECL (I believe it is CRNL now). We had opportunities not all communities had in that era. The everyone knows everyone factor created a safe, although somewhat incestuous, environment. Some of us suffered/enjoyed a notoriety that hindered/propelled our development and fashioned our characters. Some chose to carry on shaping the history of that region while others, like myself, could not wait to move on to broader horizons. Either way, Deep River and Mackenzie High School played a major role in producing who we are today. I cannot speak for anyone else, but I have an appreciation for the sometimes bizarre, sometimes over-protective (a nice way of saying restrained) sometimes magnanimous influence Deep River and its anomalous and remarkable inhabitants provided in my impressionable youth. Cheers! Life Hello Fellow H.C.s It's hard to believe we are HALF CENTURIANS (or will be shortly). I am actually comfortable with my age because I will not be convinced I look 50 and I certainly don't feel like I imagined 50 would feel like, back when we walked the hallways of Mackenzie High School. I've not returned to Deep River since I moved west with my family in 1974. Since I ventured into this website, all sorts of memories have assaulted me. I haven't maintained contact with anyone from there, not to say I haven't thought about the place and the people, my friends and acquaintances. Anyone of "The Iberville Gang" around? Nancy R., Jane and Patsy L., Chris J., Anne Marie M., Ian A., Barry W., Alan D., Tom H., Andy J.? We certainly made memories in those impressionable years. One way to sum up my life in as few words as possible is: - NEVER MARRI...Expand for more