smithers joe
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don't know if its true but i read that clint eastwood died. anyone know for sure?
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29 minutes ago, Jack Gordon said:
i think i did but but not sure.
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for me, it was family. when iwas stuck and needed help or encouragement cdc family was there. when i needed someone to stay with me after eye surgery in terrace, chon derry came from rupert to make that happen. when my brother died, deb was so consoling and even offered to talk with his wife. many members over the years have offered their support. as the oldest member on cdc, these things mean everything to me. chon derry and j.a.n.i.a.h.n. have both been to my place in smithers, several times. thank you. and deb went to 2 canuck games with me. i will remember.
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not having this site, is like experiencing a great event and then not having anyone to tell. makes my cocoon diminish further.
this has been like a family to me. why take them away? why?
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most interested in kudryavtsev, brzusewicz, mcdonough and zlodeyev. i think they will all make the canucks someday.
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1 minute ago, smithers joe said:
just heard that ed ames passed away earlier this year. rip.
i may have been the only one with ed ames.
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just heard that ed ames passed away earlier this year. rip.
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i have to admit for much of my early life, i was very selfish. most everything i did i did for my own gratification. i was in my 3rd year coaching little league baseball when that began to change. this is the story of ray.
i believe it was my first year coaching baseball in newton, which would have been in 1970. we had tryouts and then a draft.there were two buys with the same last name, but not related. when i called out ray's name, the other coaches started laughing. they so ran the kid down and when they told me i could change my pick, i said no,he is the boy i wanted.
to say that ray was uncoordinated would be an understatement. if the ball was hit his way, he would put his glove in front of his face. when he went to throw the ball, it went sideways. at batting, ray would miss the ball by a foot or more. i was having trouble teaching him the game. it wasn't long before the other boys took him aside and told him he should quit. you're ruining our team and we don't want you here, they told him.
later, ray's mother phoned me and asked if i would come over as ray wanted to quit the team. i have to admit that on the way there, i was thinking of telling her that i thought he should too. when i arrived, his mom told me how much she appreciated my being the only positive male influence in ray's life. ray lived with his mom and two sisters and they were very protective of ray.
before he came in, his mom told me the story of ray. three years earlier, when he was seven, ray and his father were out fishing in the middle of a large lake. suddenly, his father suffered a heart attack and all he could get out was, "ray get help " ray rowed the boat into the shore, crying as he struggled with the oars. sadly, his dad died before help arrived. ray became withdrawn and joining the baseball team was the first time joining in with others.
when ray came in, i told him that if he came back, there would be no more trouble with the other boys. i phoned the rest of the team and asked them to come to practice fifteen minutes early. when they came, i told them the story of ray. i told them, if they did what i wanted them to do, that they would see a miracle happen before their eyes.
throughout that season and next,the boys all became like big brothers. they helped him and encouraged him. ray did improve but not to the level of the other boys.
by the time my son was three and because i lived in north delta, i decide i should switch and coach there. a few years later, i ran into my fellow coach from newton. he said ray never came back to baseball but instead joined a football team and apparently became a pretty decent player.
three years later, i moved to smithers. several years after that, my old fellow coach from newton, came through smithers and looked me up. he told me what each boy was doing now. i asked him about ray. he said sadly, that ray had died of leukemia a couple of years after i moved to smithers. he said ray's positive attitude helped his mother and sisters cope with losing him.
it may be hard to see a miracle there, but i believe there was one. to me, the story of ray lives on.
the story of ray doesn't define my life, but it sure set me on a new course for the rest of my life.
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7 minutes ago, Bob.Loblaw said:
Защитник Никита Евсеев (Nikita Yevseyev) выбран Питтсбургом на драфте. Вы не поедете в Канаду!
@Patrick Kane Торопиться!
you don't say.
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12 hours ago, Elias Pettersson said:
George Hainsworth retired in 1936. So, you would need to be over 100 years old to have seen him play. Only 316,000 people out of $7.8 billion in this world are currently over 100 years old, so more than likely none of those 316,000 people are currently members of CDC...
a little before my time but i was born in 1938 and started hearing hockey games in 1945. i have seen a lot, forgot most of it.
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17 hours ago, Jester13 said:
Marty, and I can't believe anyone would consider someone else.
GP, wins, GAA, SO, goals, points...
i don't know how terry sawchuck would fare in today's game but he excelled back in a time before plante created face masks.
i wonder how the modern goaltenders would fare without face masks.
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i think we should be more concerned about who gets move this summer.
i have myers gone; one of beauvillier, garland or boeser gone and pearson either on ltir, waved or 2 soft forwards moved. poolman on ltir.
i want each line to employ a scorer, playmaker and grit.
tocchets wants board battlers to make the team harder to play against. that is why he loves joshua and PDG.
only one of the following players should be on each line...kuzmenko, boeser, beauvillier, and hoglander.
i don't see many of your lines being hard to play against.
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have you ever looked at a picture, put yourself in that picture and then write down what you see and how you feel?
it is the back half of august and i just noticed the picture on the calendar. the picture is of a boy and his dog daydreaming in the shade of an oak tree, beside a small brook. this is my first attempt;
lying back against a sturdy oak, with my best friend teddy. as i lay there, all the hustle and bustle of the day and life, seems to fade to a stillness in my mind.
a brook breaks the silence with a gentle lapping. cares, disappear as if gobbled up by the places and adventures of my mind. hello universe.
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williams..kesler...smyl...6
reinhart...ohlund...5
luongo...5
won't get pushed around.
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i think to some of these cults that can get members to take poison or kill themselves or others as being rational? i remember one group that did end their lives because they were told about what would happen to the world when haley's comet appeared again. gullible, brain washed or mentally weak?
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1 hour ago, JeremyCuddles said:
My favourite thing about you is it's never the player's fault when they sign a big contract and suck. Lol. We still had Tanev when we signed him. We weren't asking Myers to be Chara or Doughty, we just needed a complimentary top 4 right hand D. Not a complete defensive liability that doesn't produce offence either.
myers is responsible for his play. as a 3rd pair he is effective enough. benning saw him as the answer to his defensive woes. it got 6 mil on what benning expected him to be. if he's not good as a 3rd pair d man, that's on him. being bad in the top 4 is not.
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On 8/4/2023 at 4:10 PM, Devron said:Might actually be good. Cut Myers mins by like 5mins a game he might be effective
and cut his contract down by 5 mil and we could live with his play. it's not his fault, he was paid too much and played higher in the line up than he's capable of playing effectively.
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42 minutes ago, Devron said:
Something I’ve learned from being around a narcissistic people in my life. It’s not about you but the recognition the person gets from doing acts like these. That’s where they get their fill from. In their mind it’s about them and not you. These people are usually kinder to the strangers than they are to their own family.
Look about Narcissism. I believe it to be the first signs of a psychotic person. Not saying every narcissistic person ends up doing what this man did.
Just my experience and opinion.
we'll you know more about then i. i just knew the man for a brief time. he helped me through a tough time, so trying to understand his actions is hard for me.
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20 minutes ago, Devron said:
There’s mental illness then there’s this. I don’t think they should be grouped together personally.
I have dealt with alot of depression and anxiety in my life. I think most of the population deals with some sort of mental health problems at some point in their lives. It’s crucial we all take care of ourselves.
That said, this is psychotic. These people just weren’t born with the ability to feel. Unfortunately like pedos they shouldn’t be in society. I believe some people are just vessels. Soulless if you will
if he couldn't feel, why did he spend part of every day encouraging we to stick to my recovery routine? something happened to him that i don't understand.
because his was so emphathetic with me, i have to believe he was that to his family too. something happened to his mind.
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words, imo, are the most dangerous weapon man can use. growing up in a foster home, to keep us in line, they would threaten us with behave our we'll send you back to your mother to live. we were all afraid of that not because it was bad because how we were told made us fear it.
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i didn't know the man well but i believe that when the world didn't end and having to live with what he did, he would have chosen hanging as a way to forget what he had done. imo spending a life time suffering with his truth would be worse than any punishment man could come up with. we can judge him, but could something happen in our lives that could force us over the edge?
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i wonder how the ordeal has effected the youngest child throughout his life. we as parents can cause a lot of difficulties in or children's growth by how we handle situations.
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i haven't thought of this part of my history for over 50 years. when i was 31 years old i almost died from a tumor. in my large intestine. my recovery was several months long and through it all, a fellow i didn't know well, sat with me every day for an hour when i was bedridden and walked with me as i was gaining my strength. once i had recovered i don't remember him being around. two or three years later, this man was at a meeting of finatics who claimed that the world was ending and everyone would die horribly. this man who donated his time encouraging me, went home, killed his wife and three of his four children. the youngest child hid in a closet, until he heard his father searching upstairs. he left the closet and run next door, where the neighbour called the police. after a long chase, the police caught up. he was sent to a mental hospital. how do you explain this caring fellow, thinking he was saving his family of a horrific death?
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[Discussion]Pushing for continuation of this board
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back before bure's arrival, i wrote the canucks and proposed a trade that would have been the worst trade in canuck's history. right to bure to edmonton for dave hunter. harry neale wrote me back and thanked me for my interest and support. i thought that was super, especially after bure got here and was so amazing. whatever happened to that team and fans loyalty and communication? shame, if they can take their game and go home if they don't like how their fans feel about their product. are they looking for sheep? i don't know who actually killed this form but someone should come by and explain why.