December 17

Happy 99th Birthday

Vera Schwartkopf, Lawrence Watmough, Al Duncan, Charles Wesselman and Fiona Denhoed joined Mrs. Lenz and her 2-3 class and Mr. Bryant’s grade 6 class to celebrate Coalhurst’s 99th birthday with a song and cupcakes on December 17th.  Each of the guests had a chance to share one more story with the students. Mr. Wesselman told us about being in grade 3 and having pneumonia so bad that he had to go into the Coalhurst hospital, where they drained his lungs. Two other youngsters were in the hospital at the same time he was. He noted that this treatment for pneumonia is no longer practiced. Mrs. Denhoed told the students a story about how their teacher, Mrs. Lenz (her daughter) got stuck in the mud in front of her house in Coalhurst.  There were no sidewalks on the west side of Coalhurst until the 1980’s.

 


Posted December 17, 2012 by darlenehubber in category 1913-2013

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