Strathcona Tweedsmuir School - Paidia Yearbook (Okotoks, Alberta Canada)

Page 33 text:

.J . 'wg -.Q .. ,.j.fE x.. 1 1.Y'T'xQ ' ' , .WN . . .Gu V. 1 ,A - .x',-Fd l -'fn' Z k 'eff TW-'f,3'l,, 6 , .-wi: ' JW .

Page 32 text:

THE FUGITIVE It was a cool morning and a thin coating of frost covered the scattered patches of yellow-green grass. Lying in a clump of dead bushes was a man. His name was Harold Simms. He was 6' 2 , had short black hair and cold grey eyes. He was 23V2 years old but looked much older. Slowly Harold rose to his feet and stretched. He was wearing a pair of red and white joggers, a dark black suit and tie and a tight- fitting green squall jacket. He shouldered his canvas knapsack and jogged to the edge of the meadow. After clambering over three fences he reached the woods and slowed his pace to a walk. As he entered the cool woods he be- gan contemplating the past few days. Harold remembered clearly the bare features of his barred cell and wondered why he had re- ceived such a fate. After all, he was only 23Vz and wanted for kil- ling a policeman. If caught, he would hang for sure. He was to hang on the 29th. at 5:00, but through an ingenious plan he had made, he was able to escape. Now, on the 29th. he found him- self walking through a leafy wood instead of by a row of barred cells to a room with no exit. Anyway, he had escaped and that was all that mattered right now. Harold tripped over a load of fallen trees and then he realized that the cool breeze had become a stiff wind. Oh well, he had only four hours to go before he reach- ed the border and crossed to a new beginning. He sat down to rest. When he resumed his jour- ney, he noted that it was 1:00. He travelled for three hours and then ate a small lunch of bread and ham. After he had finished, he doggedly trudged along against the fierce wind. Dark clouds gath- ered overhead and the sky grew black. lt was 4:45 and Simms had only half a mile to go when the wind became gale force. The trees bent over and it became very hard to see. The wind chilled him right to the bone. Harold walked a little bit to his right and found himself beside a well-greased railroad track and he knew the border was not far off. Suddenly he heard a train whistle and realized a train was coming down the tracks. He tried to move away from the tracks, but the wind was too strong. As the train came speeding down the tracks and passed by Harold, his tie was whipped out by the wind and was jammed in one of the freight cars. He was dragged the 200 yards to the border. When the guards found Har- old, his face was purple and dis- torted and his eyes were glassy and filled with horror. They mut- tered, He didn't have a chance! Harold was dead as a doornail and, strangely, enough, the hands on his watch said exactly 5:00. Sara Goldstein Grade 7 THE FLU EPIDEMIC Recently there has been much talk about the flu. Epidemiologists say there will be a flu epidemic in the fall of 1976 as deadly as the one in 1918. As everyone seemed so concerned about this flu I decided to find a little more information about the 1918 epidemic. There were several names given to the flu but the most popular one was the Spanish Lady because everyone had reason to believe that it all started in Madrid, Spain. The flu couldn't have come at a worse time because the war was on, there was a shortage in food and already many lives had been lost in the war. The flu hit suddenly and without warning. Men and women walking down streets suddenly stopped as if stabbed, clutching the nearest post or person they could find and slowly fell to the ground un- consious. People became panicky and worried that they would all be wiped out. The flu affected men, women and children. Even animals were affected, especially pigs. Altogether they estimated that over 21 million people died and over a billion people were affected in the short period of 3 months. In Ottawa, as elsewhere in Canada, there were so many cases of the flu that schools were closed down and buildings were used as centres to care for the people who were unable to get into the over- crowded hospitals. When they didn't have enough hot water bags, they used hot bricks wrapped in news- papers to keep the patients' feet warm. Nearly every home was hit by the disease. People left food and hot drinks on their flu-stricken neighbors' doorsteps being afraid to enter. Volunteers opened up soup kit- chens but in some families there wasn't even one member well enough to go and pick it up. Doctors and nurses worked night and day and many of them got the flu. People wore medicated masks that were changed every two hours to protect themselves. Private cars, delivery vans were also used as am- bulances and they ran a non-stop shuttle service. There were many deaths and the dead were buried immediately and often without a ceremony. There were no antibiotics in those days so patients were treated with the fruit and water diet and lots of fresh air. I think we're very fortunate to have all the modern medicines so that if the flu should strike again we will be well prepared. David Thakker Grade 7 1 lfvgdx,

Page 34 text:

V ,...5 Q 1 Q' if f I 4, , . ,- P A L' cgi rf , , yi I1 X L , SENIOR GIRLS' VOLLEYBALL A Y. 5 If gt, Chris Baker, Kim Bridgewater, Tobi Gonsalves, Gretchen Cross, Qgiigif' Nancy Gammell, Don Springer, Kathie Robertson, Cynthia Heard, JQQQEV7 nancy Pasukonis, Virginia Wilson, Laura Tynan, Mr. B. Kilb fCoachl iq.: f W1 C mi Y' FP N if: i it - ffff' N 40 ' ni'-f'--.. Q rf dhag- -amieg I -'Q1l N- itil sENion Bovs' BASKETBALL BACK ROW: Mark Heard, Rod Kirkham, Paul McCruden, Gerald Maguire tCaptainy, Mr. Schmit tCoachJ. FRONT ROW: Brant Rayment, Mike Kerr, Ron Kluzak, Dave Lovo. ABSENT: Brett Kyle.