I always sort of hated chores. We were assigned chores after school like cleaning the Rec room or washroom downstairs or our dorms and washroom upstairs. Also the cloak room where we changed into our boots and coats before going outside. Some of the boys were assigned to the dining room cleaning it up after meals. After they built our great big dining room in 1967 they had to teach the boys and girls how to clean the new dining room. One of the reasons is because in the old dining room there were booths but the new dining room had these great big tables which could be folded up and had wheels on the ends so you can roll these tables out of the way while sweeping and mopping the floors. Trick was move the tables without toppling them over which could be dangerous they were so heavy.
We also had spring chores once the snow melted and everything warmed up. Spring chores involved working on the rinks outside, the ball diamonds, cutting the grass in the fields or up at the barn. One spring once the snow went they called all us Intermediate and Senior boys together on a nice warm sunny Saturday and assigned us different chores throughout the school. Me and couple other boys got sent out to the Old Rink and we had to paint the boards. And it wasn’t all that bad because first of all we were outside and it was so nice out. So warm and so nice and sunny with music blaring over the P.A. system you could hear it all over the school even way out to the rinks.
That was the first time I ever heard Neil Diamond. He’s a real famous singer in case you never heard of him. We painted our boards white. story and photo by verne solonas
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