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tribune june 15 1988 c15 shes renewing acquaintances marj ginger from sicamous bc by bruce stapley man ginger sat surrounded by four friends and relatives on saturday amid the bustle of the claremont sesquicentennial celebrations its been about 15 years since weve all been together she of fered it has been a week of renewing old acquaintances for the onetime claremont resident who now resides in sicamous british columbia mar i had been presented with a gift acknowledging her being the person who had come the furthest for the claremont homecoming which was a part of the weekends celebrations i was born in claremont about a mile east of the four corners in 1915 she states i lived here until 1935 when i went into train ing to become a nurse marj claims that she is able to return to her old hometown about once everv two or three years and she shakes her head at how propertv values have escalated and at the overall rate of change its been developed so much she maintains theres just not 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