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io-wamnuxturmua-Mm 15.2012 HR . Ghosts of Northdale ast ,, 3 \ z A i l l \ l > t Organizers seek eight students for Northdale reumon . ' humiliation ‘ anomaly ' midstallthetalkofreimildingthe . , , MS BikBTOlll' Nonhdfle Whom! in recent ’ ' mammammmf -. : l ' 001mm” Waterlo" thy ' ‘ Q . ' ‘ . AboutISmenandwomenwhogrew ' fl 5 ». ' . ' i' Aug. 18'19 up in the community during the 19505 ' ' E i expect challenp and l960s will meet at the East Side 1 . o 6 A “Mme {”3th2 mm $2150 the Uni- Mario's on King Street to share stories ~ i ' ‘ 3 ' versi {Waterloo mm 13 and 19 andreminisceabouttheirlivesoverthe . ‘ 7‘ ' tyo onAug. If past Myyem \ . \ l J pan of the 2012 MS Bike Tour. North Americas They were once the children that , ‘fi “ - ' . » ‘ ‘ ’ v a“ Onltoarlog's longest will“! MS Bike-foul. POPUIE‘ed the halls of [he former I“ t E. '- - ~. m Acton toWaterl ofiersa 150 kilometre route that Northdale Public School. built in 1959 . l - ‘ - a _. 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Gue ph and Rose- . «a baby-firm ""3323 33:?me 'I started riding with team Are We There Yeti? in P fictive timemthefld only went.up »_ the MS Bike Tour seven years ago.” said Barry school . ‘ V Sanders ' :tiemdsgrgeaglgssmgztgdlhreyuds werte 15 m i the le . iti “A friend who was on the team invited me gradua - About students grew n early Northda neighbouhood arereun beca loved ' bette edin1964. mtmw.mbplmobfi:hlmmnflmlyeutogeflmnmkfir‘g msumhteozegdaugrideanditsmn r 'l‘m sure there will be lots of energy David Steckenreiter is in the se<ond row from the bottom. fourth from the left “Although rye never had a family member or and laughs," said David Steckenreiter mm friend with MS I was sur rised when i started during an interview over Skype last but the advent of the lntemet and web- moved out to make way for students. ii i . t find h p l 1 kn l week. sites such as Facebook have made it and the quality of homes has dropped doha ing Stardom“ £331"), PW? e ow Steckenreiter is one of the orpnizers “‘8' much 0'83"- WY since many as well. Sarge“) t n to min omo- be ofthe Northdale reunion and now “ya have moved as far away as British “This was our home. and whenever t let‘lRArevaV cam we ,1 t i ‘ memh r in Colombia with his Mfg an intema- Columbia and even Sweden. you see changes like that it's depressing Selasm’ “‘20” 9! mime; ohra 5e more t a; tional lawyer. “Every year l've been able to find to see how some of the buildings fall 2012500 ' a 0 I ey ope to surpass The reunions started back in 2010 more and more (people),' he said. notâ€" into disrepair.” said Steckenreiter. ' - for the 50th anniversary of Waterloo ing that the web is still far from a perfect whose childhood home is still standing I No‘ oniyl goesc the" ”all: bmgithmtd‘tfi {is}: Collegiate Institute, where many oithe tool. but is now owned by Laurier and is i but "0M" also I 2:8 l I; $3P:Iillion neighbourhood children attended He spent years trying to track down likelyhome to students, hesaid. in led es SS Ont i0 that will fund c cial his}, school. and Steckenreiter thought one of their teachers. Barry McQuillen. He did call the conversion of run- p . 8 f acro l 1.“. i th MS “:1 it would make a nice addendum to the only to realize that he hadbeen spelling down homes into new apartments a servtcelsmor 350‘) e ”ms": t d as wef ":3 reunion to get together with his old the last name wrong. After making the good example of progress. and is Ii 3: I? cause. trea en an cureo ts elementary school friends who grew correction. he tracked the former buoyed by the sense the neighbour- “new hills eBlke T ‘ . f ‘ i ifi up just down the street from one teacherdown relativelyeasily. hoodwillcontinue foryearstocome. ”'qu i i “3:31.35 one: our mos Swami another. The women from the class have also The reunion this weekend. however, can it whs I "ye? an 5h“: “:50 gm rt f "Most of the families were finding been difficult to track down as many will be an opportunity to look back and igmmne 31%;} ”gig-w Sac, i 5"de 0! their way in life and into the expanding have married and changed their names relive the early history of the neigh- 21”“ P; M i ' 51a] fth 3:35,)”: enf _ middle class,‘ said 3mm!” As this will mark the third reunion bourhood and the families that called it “(I cl e Executige 0 a: OMS Seocie 32:0 ”We knew most of the kids in the for the classmates. many have had 3': home. W28" pm ent o e ty‘s n school and we robabl could have opportunity to return to the neighbo - Steckenreiter said organizers have . ‘ walked the “of“ and {old you the hood that they once called home and managed to track down all but eight of h 'l‘helcommitlment that: shown 93d) year by names of the families and the children Steckenreiter is a little dismayed with the 43 members of their Gmdchlass l e cycoistshvobunteeris. pngrs 21"] gonsto‘li's 5,, “mos. every house: how run-down Northdaiehas become. Judy Koop. Sylvia Hauck. Ann pain; “”5ij :9“ ° “If: 1“" "' °" ‘ "w s As is the case. the years passed and As a child it always emitted the Hol- Yvonne Neuman, Beverly Scott. Bernice Yugo "a?" ti n. b0 t the MS Blk To the children grew into adults. They lywood stereotype for homes seen on Lowry. 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