Staff Car Rally and Scavenger Hunt

The School staff social committee organised an ingenious and very successful event before Spring Break. I found myself in Margie’s car with Laurin and Nadine moving with speed around town doing a range of obscure things. We had our photo taken by a nice man in a beret who spoke no English in front of the town’s Great Blue Heron statue and delivered four lines of ‘I Come from a Land Down Under’ to the Barmaid at the Neighbourhood Inn. We ended at the Legion getting excited about meat draws, the free spread and avoiding the threat of Karoake. A small collection of the weakies succumbed to peer pressure to finish off the night with a startling rendition of Sylvia’s Mother by Dr. Hook.

After having participated in this unique event, I can report that:

• It was Agnes Schilling (not Angus) who died in 1999 and lies in the Barrhead cemetery
• The Neighbourhood Inn was not founded in 1983.
• The Mayor of Barrhead will happily provide you with his signature upon learning that it is worth 20 points when a pink hair-tie is worth only 5.
• Blair’s music collection boasts a ‘Best of Elvis’ CD
• The Albertan system of numbering Streets, Avenues and Houses still confounds people who have been living here all their lives
• It is possible to kill two songs that died a long time ago in one night
  
• The Legion is looking like a genuine contender for our Farewell Party in December