Lorne Vanderwoude
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Taxi driving experience
I remember seeing the new taxi company start with one old purple Oldsmobile with a home made top light. The owner used a pager which his wife would answer the taxi phone at their house. 672-9897 was the taxi phone line. Now, for those of you who do not know what a pager is please let me explain.
By Lorne Vanderwoude13 days ago in Journal
Memories from my Childhood
The school years of any child is a time for development in the life of the person. Children are very impressionable from the time they are born until they become an adult. My life as a child began in April 26, 1968 when I was born in the old Red Deer hospital.
By Lorne Vanderwoude3 years ago in Families
Taxi Driving Experiences
I first tried to get my class four in 1988 while working in Banff. I was 20 years old and had just completed my first year at Bible college. I did not do very well when it came to grades. My goal was to go to college to find myself a wife.
By Lorne Vanderwoude3 years ago in Journal
How we as a society treat each other?
How do we as a society allow abusive behaviour towards one another? The way how our society has changed over the past fifty years is very suddle. These changes have crept in very slowly over the past years. This is what I mean when I say this.
By Lorne Vanderwoude3 years ago in Humans
Memories from my childhood
When I was a young teenager, my Father started a new business adventure. He had gone to an Agricultural school for four years in the Netherlands. So, he had a lot of agricultural experience. However, at this time, he was a police officer, not a farmer.
By Lorne Vanderwoude3 years ago in Families
memories of my childhood
The days of being a teenager never seems to leave my mind even as an middle age fifty four year old man. As I stand here thinking about all the memories of being on holidays, my mind races back to this picture which I still have in my picture album back at home on my author’s office desk.
By Lorne Vanderwoude3 years ago in Families
My memories of my parents
My Father was born in Holwerd, Friesland, the Netherlands on July 30, 1929 to Pieter and Aaltje van der Woude who farmed outside of Holwerd. My Father was the third child of five children born to them, Egbert, Djoke, Paulus, little Lammert (who died as a baby) and Lammert.
By Lorne Vanderwoude4 years ago in Families
