August 2016
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East-Enders Eighth Annual Reunion in the books excerpts from Bill Moore, Organizer
Although the ‘East-Enders’ eighth annual reunion has just happened, mark it in your calendars for next year: July 15, 2017 at Falaise (10 a.m to about 4:30). Walk into the past, a bit.
Preparing for the group photo. It has been said that getting the East-Enders together is like herding cats.
Photos by John Chepil and Tom Gooden
What started out in 2009 as a Collingwood Park reunion has become a WindermereSecondary-School catchment-area reunion. The first video had the “East-Enders” in the title, so the name stayed. In 2009, before the first reunion, I went to Classmates.com to get the word out. So, I had to advertise it as a Windermere Secondary School reunion, although it was originally intended to be a Collingwood Park reunion. So didn’t want it limited to Windermere, but to include people who lived in the area and went to other schools, like Notre Dame and Vancouver College, Van Tech and Killarney, and people who partied with us in the years after high school but came from other places.
The jam session
More recently, there are Facebook friends in our age group, the baby-boomers, who grew up in other parts of East Van. So basically, the people invited to our reunion are former Windermere students and friends and family.
Here is the group photo from 2015. A good looking bunch. Check out the excellent East-Enders Reunion videos on Youtube to see who you know. Will you be in the 2017 photo? Photo from Youtube.
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If you are coming to the reunion and expect to see a lot of people who went to high schools other than Windermere, don’t expect to see many, although there might be some. What you will find are people who knew the
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