Today is your day Boomer! I have quite a few Boomer tennis and golf friends who are headed south for the winter. Some are taking off as early as next week when the Canada/US border opens for non-essential land traffic. I hear them talking and I wonder about a few things: for example, some of the states that they are headed to have high non-vax rates....states like Arizona, and we all know that this fall/winter period is now a pandemic of mostly non-vaccinated people. For example, in BC you are 40 times more likely to get hospitalized with COVID if you don't have the jab. The death rates are also very high for anti-vaxxers. Speaking of dying, the Americans are approaching 800,000 COVID deaths which is the most of any nation in the world.....that number itself would dissuade me from crossing the border. To give you some perspective, the hated Vietnam War which dragged on for about 15 years in the 1960s-70s only killed 58,000 Americans. My golf group wants to go to Arizona too....we feel a week of shared rental and 7 golf games is a great getaway idea, but we are more careful and realistic. Next winter, we say.....and we will keep our fingers crossed that things will get better. Good luck Boomer Snowbirds! Hope it all works out for you. Cheers.
Today is your day Boomer! Well, yesterday was my day! My long-awaited dream of building and opening a new high school gym in Summerland came true! 550 students watched, smiled and vigourously applauded as the SD67 school trustees officially cut the ribbon and opened the facility. The kids played in their new gym, in a so-called Rocket Rally, right after that and then 200 more mostly-Summerlanders attended a two-hour opening fundraiser that evening. There were people, young and old, every where: going on tours, eating food, watching volleyball and basketball, listening to speeches, and investing money in 30 community-donated silent auction items and a huge 50/50 raffle...organized by the school's Parent Advisory Council. The final fundraiser tally was about 7000$...made in only two hours! Congratulations students and staff of SSS. Your new gym is finally here, the first new one since 1951! Play on....
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