Parkhill Tribune September 2025

UPDATE FROM PARKHILL

Dear family members and friends of Andrews of Parkhill,

We had a wonderful summer at our home

We celebrated Christmas in July, enjoyed bus tours, live music, summer barbecues and time outdoors

This month, we will be trying our hand at balloon badminton, do resident sing-a-longs, enjoy card and word games, and host the Son Shine girls for some live music.

I hope you had a great summer and wish you a beautiful September!

Sincerely,

Natacha Landry

We asked. . .

our resident retired teachers what they enjoyed most about “back to school.”

I enjoyed the youngsters, they were just children in Grade 6 and 7 and I was in my early 20s at that time So, I enjoyed their company and most of them, most of the time, enjoyed their company with Mr Toews

- Raymond Toews

I just liked being with the kids and teaching I liked teaching The hardest thing was remembering who was who I don’t think I ever figured out a trick, (you) just get to know them

- Doreen Beagan

I loved it because I loved seeing the kids again and all the new grades.

- Mary Morrison

The first week with the kids I asked them to tell me their names and I wrote it down. By the end of the day, my goal was to remember all the kids in my classroom. I usually managed to do that.

- Sister Frances MacDougall

Every year seemed like the first day I ever taught, in a very good way. You always got new students and they were happy to be back and that made us happy.

- Joyce Dixon

Their youth, their energy and my determination to use what I had learned at teacher’s college

- Sister Alice Long