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Coun. Steve Desroches, helps to cut the ribbon with John Stanton, owner of the Running Room, to celebrate the re-opening of the Running Room’s flagship store on Bank Street. The ‘Fill the Kettle’ Run/Walk was held in conjunction with the store re-opening and was a fundraiser for the Salvation Army.
We ďŹ ve children all vied for the spot beside the stove pipe upstairs to change into our pyjamas. It was always a fast change indeed. If it was a bitterly cold night, Mother would have put the hot water bottle in the bed I shared with my sister Audrey, and wrapped bricks which had been heated on the Findlay Oval for the brothers. It didn’t take long for the bottle or the bricks to cool off, but by the time our bodies had burrowed into the feather tickings between the annelette sheets, we were as cozy as bugs. The last thing I would hear before I fell asleep would be Father stoking
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the Findlay Oval. I would hear the lid of the ďŹ rebox being scraped open, and I could picture in my mind’s eye Father cramming in a log of wood, and I would hear the crackle as it caught ďŹ re. I would have the most contented feeling of peace as the heat of the stove rose through the silver pipes in our bedroom. It wouldn’t be a great heat, but I knew it would be enough to keep us from freezing in our beds, and would keep warm our morning clothes which Audrey and I had draped on a chair beside the pipe. I would fall asleep feeling an inner warmth that made everything right in my world.
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