ShiloBrats Guestbook

Submitted by
Name: Faye McLoughlin (Johnson)
From: Melita
E-mail: fmcloughlin@arha.ca

Comments:
I have spent a couple hours reminiscing on this wonderful site. Such memories! Most even fond ones ha ha. It was shocking to see how many friends have since passed on. I live in Melita, MB (since 1977) and now proud Grandma of 3 boys. Still married and contemplating retiring - though I do need my job to pay for all the volunteer things that I do. Love to be able to connect with past friends. Faye

Added: March 15, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Gary Patterson
From: Nova Scotia

Comments:
Great Site. Thought I might find some army buddies-no luck. Found this site from Army.ca

Added: March 4, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Greg Greene
From: Calgary

Comments:
Faye - You got to ride the horses

- man all I got was a snowmobile that I spent more time digging out of the drifts than riding.

Amzing all the different experiences we had in such a smallplace.

Added: March 2, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Melody Wojnarski (Martin)
From: Shilo
E-mail: melody@goinet.ca

Comments:
Want to pass on sad news.Mr Don Brow has passed away. He is survived by his wife, Ann and daughter, Donna. Funeral service is March 13 in Douglas and interment will be in the Madford Cemetery. Many of you will remember them as teachers in Shilo for many years. We were neighbours for a few years. He will be missed.

Added: March 2, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Faye Helgason
From: Ottawa, Ontario/Lakeland, Fla
E-mail: fayeh51@yahoo.com

Comments:
Geez, where was I? Missed the jump tower AND Waggle Springs??? (okay maybe I was busy getting bucked off Dianne Gray's horse.)

Added: March 2, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Greg Greene
From: calgary

Comments:
I loved the jump tower - best carnival ride I ever had! I think the first time I went down I gripped the bar so hard I bent it - well at least it felt that way. !!

Added: March 2, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Theresa (Poirier) Easterby
From: Calgary
E-mail: tessa5291@hotmail.com

Comments:
Congrats Greg, love to hear of our brats' successes.
I too remember Army Days, Doug. I was terrified of hights and it used to take me 3 runs up the jump tower before I would open my eyes and look around.

Added: March 1, 2010

Submitted by
Name: harvey mcghie
From: brandon mb
E-mail: hmcghie@hotmail.com

Comments:
This June I will be retired 23 years. I visit the site often and think of the great times I shared with many of you. Iam coming up 83 and am beginning to feel like it.
Al mcknight and I play cards on a regular basis in the summer. He winters in Arizona. Doug crandle passed away last year.
I would enjoy hearing from you Jean is in a personal care home with alzhiemers.
Take care everyone.

Added: March 1, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Doc J
From: ShiloBrats

Comments:
In the distance over the fields and through the heat haze I see the first parachutes blossom, and I know my father is among those flowers drifting slowly to earth - Otter

Watching the paratroopers over Shilo was a fascinating sight for us kids and on Army Day each year we were able to watch how they were trained, fly with them in the jump plane from Rivers, and parachute from the jump tower in a special harness seat ,,, what a ride! � if you dared. I did and still remember it well. Who else remembers?

Bruce Ducharme, an army brat whose dad George was stationed in Calgary and Germany, sent us photos from his dad�s collection of his paratrooper training in Shilo in the early fifties. They are now posted in the Galley.

Added: March 1, 2010

Submitted by
Name: Greg Greene
From: Calgary
E-mail: dpcsgg@calgary.ca

Comments:
Hi Bill, Last time I 'overflew' Shilo I got some 'instructive' advise from Winnipeg ATC - something about being in restricted airspace? Couldn't quite make it out over the static on the radio !

Added: March 1, 2010