Senior’s corner: Sandy’s grocery store
Stefania who prefers to be called Sandy says as a child she was “a smart, pretty, good girl”. Each month, at her school, the smartest student with good attendance would be awarded a hard cover novel in the Bobbsey Twins Children’s Series. Sandy collected the prize regularly and before she was 12, she had earned the entire series. Perhaps ‘smart aleck’ could also describe Sandy, as she confesses to being an instigator.
Back then it was common for families to do everything together. They had an outhouse with double seats … a big hole for the big folk and a small hole for the little ones. Every morning the kids raced to get the little seat out of fear of falling through the big hole. Sandy loved to cook and was often busy in the kitchen making a meal. Her cabbage rolls were a family favorite. Once in a while her parents would head to town on business, leaving the kids at home with directions to be good.
Sandy wanted to become a teacher, but there was no school for her after Grade 8. From Grade 9 onward it cost money to attend school and getting there meant a 3 mile walk each day. Instead, 13-year-old Sandy moved north to Wayne – a mining town, near Drumheller, Alberta. There she moved into her older sisters’ home to help look after her kids. Here, Sandy meets a miner named Harding Jensen and at 16 they are married and starting their family.
The girls are 12 and 9 when Sandy meets a Heavy-Duty Equipment Operator named Alex Marnoch and they marry. Curly is often called to work up north so the family decide to join him. They buy a trailer and have it barged up the Douglas Channel, where Curly is hired to build the infrastructure of the new town site called Kitimat. Its 1952 and Sandy remembers Kitimat as one huge, huge mud-hole.
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