Don,
I was thinking lobster, do you enjoy polar bear?


"Don White" wrote in message
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Reggie Smithers wrote:
Don,
Can you send me a few?


"Don White" wrote in message
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Went on a short drive to our major park on the tip of the peninsula.
While there, at an old beach we played on as kids, I noticed two fishing
boats tending to lobster traps right at the beach & next to one of our
container piers.
The biggest local New Years Day polar bear swim was held at this beach
until 2000 when authorities declared the beach too contaminated with
bacteria to allow swimming...even in January. Now I see them fishing for
lobster... talk about being grossed out!

Don't fret about the polar bear swimmers though, events were held at
three other locations within a few miles of the city center...
at Herring Cove, Portuguese Cove and Lawrencetown Beach.
http://www.hfxnews.com/index.cfm?sid=3326&sc=1



What... polar bear swimmers or lobsters?

Reggie Smithers wrote:
Don,
I was thinking lobster, do you enjoy polar bear?



Nope!
A group of my buddies started the first polar bear swim back in the late
'70s and I could have been a founding member. Just too sensible I guess.

Hey Don you go to school with Keener S.M.U. 75 or 76? I was on the
11th floor. You by chance wern't a floor Don were you?

Don White wrote:

Reggie Smithers wrote:
Don,
I was thinking lobster, do you enjoy polar bear?



Nope!
A group of my buddies started the first polar bear swim back in the late
'70s and I could have been a founding member. Just too sensible I guess.

Dry wrote:
Hey Don you go to school with Keener S.M.U. 75 or 76? I was on the
11th floor. You by chance wern't a floor Don were you?

Don White wrote:

Reggie Smithers wrote:

Don,
I was thinking lobster, do you enjoy polar bear?



Nope!
A group of my buddies started the first polar bear swim back in the late
'70s and I could have been a founding member. Just too sensible I guess.

No... I was a 'working class hero' by that time.
Do you remember that old Halifax Cable sports show hosted by Bill Maden?
He and a half dozen other weight room regulars from the South Park
Street YMCA organized the yearly New Years dunkings at Black Rock Beach.
Bill also did commentary on the televised St. Mary's football games.

That was Bill's nick name at St. Mary's. He got the nick name from me,
whenever there was going to be a party he would just bring a six pack,
always claiming that the workout schedule wouldn't allow more. haha I
later lived with John Gallingaugh and Mickey Fox, did the Arizona trip
twice with the team, last one Ross Quackenbush had to do a roadside
sobriety test that was 1984, he was working for Pitney Bowes, then Kings
then St.Marys, small world Don.

Don White wrote:

Dry wrote:
Hey Don you go to school with Keener S.M.U. 75 or 76? I was on the
11th floor. You by chance wern't a floor Don were you?

Don White wrote:

Reggie Smithers wrote:

Don,
I was thinking lobster, do you enjoy polar bear?



Nope!
A group of my buddies started the first polar bear swim back in the late
'70s and I could have been a founding member. Just too sensible I guess.

No... I was a 'working class hero' by that time.
Do you remember that old Halifax Cable sports show hosted by Bill Maden?
He and a half dozen other weight room regulars from the South Park
Street YMCA organized the yearly New Years dunkings at Black Rock Beach.
Bill also did commentary on the televised St. Mary's football games.

Dry wrote:
That was Bill's nick name at St. Mary's. He got the nick name from me,
whenever there was going to be a party he would just bring a six pack,
always claiming that the workout schedule wouldn't allow more. haha I
later lived with John Gallingaugh and Mickey Fox, did the Arizona trip
twice with the team, last one Ross Quackenbush had to do a roadside
sobriety test that was 1984, he was working for Pitney Bowes, then Kings
then St.Marys, small world Don.


Sure is...
Mickey Fox... he was quite the basketball player. (probably still is)
Did you actually play with the team.
Were you involved with the pickup teams 5 or 6 years ago that Bruce
Rainnie of CBC would drive around the province playing high school kids
in exhibition games?

Mickey is teaching math at Sackville high. No I was never on par with
these guys as a ball player my skills were more intellectual, par,par
bogey haha. We keep in touch every five years or so !!

Don White wrote:

Dry wrote:
That was Bill's nick name at St. Mary's. He got the nick name from me,
whenever there was going to be a party he would just bring a six pack,
always claiming that the workout schedule wouldn't allow more. haha I
later lived with John Gallingaugh and Mickey Fox, did the Arizona trip
twice with the team, last one Ross Quackenbush had to do a roadside
sobriety test that was 1984, he was working for Pitney Bowes, then Kings
then St.Marys, small world Don.


Sure is...
Mickey Fox... he was quite the basketball player. (probably still is)
Did you actually play with the team.
Were you involved with the pickup teams 5 or 6 years ago that Bruce
Rainnie of CBC would drive around the province playing high school kids
in exhibition games?