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‘NEVER A DULL MOMENT’ RAISING 10 KIDS SENIORS’ SCENE KATHY NADALIN
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helma (Jackson) Sadowick, the youngest of five children, was born in Rosetown, Sask. in 1932. Thelma said, “My mother was born in Ontario and my father was born in Ireland. We lived in a hotel that my maternal grandmother owned in Fisk, Sask. As children, we never had any pets because they were not allowed at the hotel. I never knew what I missed by growing up in a hotel until I was older and had a family of my own. “My father was a blacksmith and during the hungry thirties (a time of mass unemployment and hunger marches) he always said that we would never go hungry and we would have three meals a day because someone would always need a horse shod or the ring on a wooden wagon wheel would need fixing. “My dad used to feed people in exchange for their labour but I never understood. To tell you the truth I didn’t know there were hungry people in the world until many years later when my kids went to school and brought home stories about school mates with no lunch and no mittens in the winter.” The family moved to Flin Flon, Man., when Thelma was three years old. She said, “When I went to school, we walked both ways. No one had a telephone or a television in their house so we just went outside and played kick the can, hop scotch, hide and seek and we all knew how to play Ante-I-Over and walk on stilts. I was pretty good on stilts and I would walk all over just for fun. “I was the baby of the family; I didn’t have to do any work because I was so spoiled. “When I was 12, we moved to Prince Rupert where my dad worked as a welder on the war ships. “At the age of 14, I moved back to Flin Flon to live with my sister until I was 17. I moved to Prince George in 1949 and lived
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Thelma Sadowick keeps herself busy floor curling, needle pointing, crocheting and knitting. with my parents who were now living on Richard, Betty, Mervin, Leone, Thelma, Burden Street. My mother worked as a Doris, Frances and Gordon. I have 25 cook for the City Café on George Street and grandchildren, 44 great grandchildren and I landed a job as a waitress. I think the only two great-great grandchildren and I am reason my mom gave me the job was so proud to say that this makes five generathat she could keep an eye on me. tions. I have four children over the age of “I met Frank Sadowick, who was born 65. It is hard to believe that some of my in Roblin, Man in 1923. We got married in children are now receiving their Canada 1950 and we moved to Roblin to live with pension. I had to wait a long time to collect his parents on a farm. I had never been on mine. a farm and this was the first time I had ever “We had five boys and five girls and they seen a milk cow, chickens or pigs. I learned were the best kids in the world as far as I how to gather eggs and feed the pigs. was concerned. My sisters and brothers “We lived on the farm for two years and are now all deceased. My life went by fast during that time I had two of my ten chiland it hasn’t always been easy but I got through it all with the help of my family. dren. We moved back to Prince George in The children always stuck together and 1952. Frank bought a truck and a sawmill; never tattled on one another. When they he drove truck in the summer and worked were all adults, we would sit around and in the sawmill in the winter. reminisce and then the stories would come “We lived on the Hart, sold the propout – things I never knew about. I suppose erty and moved to Six Mile Lake and then that is why I now have white hair. Tabor Lake. When we sold the property on “When I look back, I was proud that I the Hart, they built the Overwaitea store was raising ten children. It was always where our house used to be. fun to watch them take their first step and “We were married for 40 years before then watch them learn to walk. The older Frank passed away in 1990 because of ones helped look after the younger ones cancer. and there was never a dull moment. Their “We had ten children: Emily, Franky,
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dinner was always on the table when they came home from school and they all had lots of things to talk about.” Thelma, who has always been full of energy and a bit spunky, volunteered in the Blackburn school library for three years and now enjoys floor curling on a regular basis at the Pineview Hall and at the Brunswick Street senior centre. She finds time to work on her counted needle point projects, crochet and knitting socks all of which she finds very relaxing and productive. She used to spin her own wool which took longer than knitting the socks. *** July Birthdays that I know about are: Bonnie Pauley, Scott Pauley, Marilyn Shelest, Jack Tremblay, Meg Imrich, Joan Buchi, Fred Buchi (95), Evie Padalec, Gloria Thorpe, Della Walker, Mildred Green, Lavinia Ouellet, Gary Kwast, Roy Green, Bernice Carrier, Carole Pitchko, Helen Sarrazin, Henri LeFebvre, Richard LeFebvre, Eugene Fichtner, Delores Baza, Phil Girard, Catherine Gladwin, Karen Kryzanowski, George Lipke, Barbara Mulock, Mary Taschner, Pat Sexsmith, Alice Westra, Red McKenzie, Karen McKenzie, Leonard Duperron, Doris Bolduc, Eileen Slusarenko, Isobel Blair, Carmen Foucher, Bob Collison, Mary Radke, Elmer Braun, Dyanne Hoff, Pam Hoechrel, Reina Mcafee, Ernestine Schreiner, Linda Moore, Kathleen Boyes, Shirley Dewald, Joyce Kennedy, Ta Mackay, Alan Nunweiler, Ben Wilson, Pete Goodall, Gervin Halladay, Ken Schroeder, Norma Raycraft, Leone Sadowick, Dyanne Hoff, Carol Hunter, Robert Wright, Linda Letawski, Dorcas Raines, Garry Doucette, Garth Grunerud, Mavis Kenmuir, Cyril Beaulieu, Connie Halvorson, Robert Whitehead, Wally Worthington, Joan Castle, Ted Heyninck and Gail Gromball *** July Anniversaries: 64 years for Wil and Elsie Wiens, 61 years for Heinz and Ruth Kwiatkowski, 58 years for Rudy and Velma Wortman, 57 years for Don and Joyce Grantham, 54 years for Walter and Joyce Hanik, 53 years for Dawn and Clarence Wigmore, 49 years for Tony and Dodie Bond, 48 years for Linda and Andy Horwath, 40 years for Chuck and Sue Chin and 16 years for Eugene and Hilda Fichtner.
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