Ken McGratten:  

I guess it's time to update my life story. To recap, I finished at RY, & went to Lakehead U taking forestry. Worked for 4 summers fighting forest fires for the MNR, then due to slow employment prospects, returned to school taking Stationary Engineering at Confederation College also in Thunder Bay. ( Stat Eng? think of Homer Simpson only at a paper mill instead of a Nuc ). Worked there for 33 yrs and then entered blissful retirement in June ' 11. Still married to Rosmarie and have 2 grown married children with one living in the Guelph area & the other in the Okanagan Valley in BC . Still no grand kids yet which is entirely our fault as we never told them the facts of life. We get down to Toronto occasionally either to see family or for connecting flights. Either way it makes me appreciate living in Northern Ont that much more. I keep busy by catching up on a back log of 33 yrs worth of odd jobs around the house, trying to keep the deer from eating our garden and doing the occasional preaching at several churches in the area. When I am preaching I feel th...Expand for more