Many of us seniors have been holding our breath as our grandchildren return to school and the fall flu season begins. Hopefully all will remain calm, the children will be safe and the COVID-19 case numbers will stop going up.
Figuring out how going back to school will affect our social bubble with our grandchildren and the level of risk is currently the million-dollar question. We certainly don’t want the grandchildren to link going to school with not being able to see their grandparents.
Knowing that the children are going back to school and interacting with their teachers and other students every day suddenly sounds a bit scary as we try to reassess our bubble.
We have been in the middle of this pandemic for nearly seven months now and for me personally the time has gone by quite quickly and I hope it did for you as well.
If you have had the pleasure of a garden this summer, you more than likely have been busy of late wrapping up the garden and getting ready for winter.
Autumn remains close to normal and is once again beautiful with warm sunny days, cool nights and colourful trees. We need to take stock and enjoy each and every day as it comes
In Prince George, we were robbed out of a nice summer however, we have been fortunate and we haven’t been hit by a killing frost – just yet – and we are nearly through the month of September. It makes you wonder what our winter is going to be like. I anticipate brisk, cold and sunny days and more than likely lots of snow that will fall in the wrong place and someone will have to move it.
Thanksgiving is right around the corner and believe it or not we still have many things to be thankful for especially here in Canada. We don’t know – at this point in time - what our new normal is going to look like as we wait for a reliable vaccine to become available, a vaccine that will hopefully put an end to this pandemic and the daily loss of thousands of lives around the world and especially in North America. In the meantime, we need to keep our faith, stay calm and stay safe.
I don’t have a people story for you this week but here are the September birthdays and wedding anniversaries that I know about.
September birthdays: Christine Hinzmann, Alberto Sultano, Eva Werlberger, John Werlberger, Clarence Wigmore, Claude Bussieres, Roberta Barnes, Rae McIntyre, Jeannette Rogers, Ernesteen McNeil, Colin Blair, Alan Thorp, Joellen Burgess, Velma Wortman, Karin Burke, Mike Bundock, Len Shankel, Jason Shankel, Ernie Myers, Vern Wright, Bill Palmer, Mike Padalec, May Campbell, Ray Lougheed, Anita Robertson, Bill MacIver, Roberta Johansen, Gerda Korolek, Marie Trew, Dee Neukomm, Linton Walker, Russell Padalec, Kelly Ashton, Betty Anne Brittons, Marcella Dunbar, Ken Royston, Brian Kelly, Diane Bock, Celestina Johnson, Esko Karlson, Benita Karlson, Larry Anderson, Dale Ziegler, Tony Mulder, Susan Fowler, Emilia Cote, Luana Jang, Marjorie Lee and Dick Byl.
Anniversaries: 65 years for George and Hilda Lippke, 65 years for Bob and Marvina Nikkel, 61 years for Arnold and Leona (Buchi) Nyberg, 55 years for Dave and Doreen Erickson, 54 years for Roland and Barbara Chartrand, 54 years for Wilfred and Rosel Vogt, 47 years for Denis and Shirley Dunkley and 44 years for Brian and Bev Kelly.
