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March 30, 2019

A Message For You Ch. 30 – Feel Good About Your Job! – Vital Thebeau

CHAPTER 30 The job that I enjoyed was working alone on the forklift – most of the time that was my job – to keep this forklift going. The operators…..
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March 16, 2019

A Message For You- Ch. 29 – Getting an Education!

CHAPTER 29 Sometime in 1972 the Department of Labour, said that we had to have a license to work in the mill, they wanted all the mechanics to have their…..
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March 22, 2016

Showing What I Can Do – Getting an Education

A Message For You CHAPTER 29 Sometime in 1972 the Department of Labour, said that we had to have a license to work in the mill, they wanted all the…..
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March 8, 2016

A Cross For The Church – Vital Thebeau – A Message For You

CHAPTER 28 1970 16th of June I got up at five o’clock in the morning so I could get to work on time. I started to work with Glen McGuigan…..
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February 22, 2016

A New Job, A New Town – Vital Thebeau – A Message For You

CHAPTER 27 1969 I was thinking about finding another job somewhere else. I was working for NB coal LTD and I didn’t like to work there. I started to look…..
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January 25, 2016

Moose & Lightbulbs, Small Business in Action

A Message For You Vital Thebeau Ch. 25 – 1960 In the fall, we had to send and application to natural resources so our name could be put in for…..
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November 23, 2015

A Message For You – New House $600, New Baby – Vital Thebeau Ch.22

Before we were married, Rita had a baby girl, her name was Loretta, and she was born on November 17, 1954. In those days, we had to adopt the baby…..
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July 16, 2015

A Message For You – A Marriage and Mishap – Vital Thebeau Chapter 21

One day my sister Rose and I was driving downtown Minto, I seen these beautiful girls, I said to my sister I was going to go out with this girl…..
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July 7, 2015

A Message For You, Working the 8 Yard Shovel, Vital Thebeau Chapter 20

I went to see Broderick Brothers for a job; he hired me as a bulldozer operator. I was working the night shift, 12 hours a night, seven day a weeks;…..
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April 20, 2015

Coal Miners and Bulldozers, Welders and Me.

A Message For You by Vital Thebeau CHAPTER 19 1948 My sister Dora and her husband Alfonse moved to Minto to work in the coal mine. My brother-in-law was working…..