vi mi m jqhia flhanahhay p6 weekender april 20 1991 woman passionate about freedom guest speaker at stouffville the stouffville rotary club though small in terms of active members is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to attracting guest speakers with intriguing life stories the most recent visitor to impress with her tale of survival and ultimate achievement was eva nichols a woman who ha always been able to summons more than a modicum of determination when faced with adversity eva used her enthusiasm and her persuasive powers to obtain her cur rent position as provincial executive mm mmm wm iw lawn garden maintenance from as low as month weekly lawn cutting garden edging paining as required lawn fertilizer weed control cultivate soil v5svw mr green thumb 47983679315162 the lawn garden professionals you can trust licenced fully insured residentialcommercial we also offer crabgrass control insect control tree shrub fertilizing spring fall cleanups dethatching aeration afi why 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to adopt this country as her own she was arrested at the age of 14 on a street comer in budapest hun gary in 1956 for handing out leaflets espousing the cause of the hungari an freedom fighters in 1956 her parents fearing reprisals against the family suggested she defect eva joined a band of people in similar situations who were planning their escape the youngest of the group she crawled with the others through a minefield late one night and eventually made it to safety in austria but she recalls a young couple among them whose baby continued to cry during the daring departure attempt causing the family to be caught by the russian authorities and sent back to who knows what fate in hungary eva stayed in a refugee camp for several months before finally arrang ing to go to england where she had relatives in britain she met the man she would eventually marry when the couple planned their move to canada in 1968 eva decided to take advan tage of the amnesty being offered hungarians who had left during the uprising her father was dead by that time but she returned to say goodbye to her mother whom she had finally come to forgive for what eva had interpreted at the time of her exodus as an unwillingness by her parents to put up with the hassles of raising a teenaged daughter eva also wanted her mom to have the chance to meet her granddaugh ter evas 18 month old little girl as eva was about to board the plane back to england a stem look ing hungarian official came up to her and told her to go into a small room frightened eva thrust her infant into the arms of a stewardess and told her to see that the child go to her father who would be waiting at the airport in england it turned out the hungarians were clamping down on people trying to smuggle babies out the country after about an hour and a half of determined convincing eva was able to persuade the authorities that her child was indeed hers off to canada she went with her family to a life that has been full of hard work 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