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Tom Lessard

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How it all began

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard, C.D. It was early November 1953 when my fellow apprentice soldiers and I arrived 

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The Grand Tour

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard, C.D. My military career of 18 years took me to many places I probably 

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Daylight losing time

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard, C.D. (Editor’s Note: Please remember that these are memories of a time long ago, 

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Learning the ropes

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard, C.D. Arriving at Camp Ipperwash in 1960, I was directed to the battalion orderly 

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ROTF not LMAO

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard, C.D. “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” Those were the words that came 

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Lighten up, Tom!

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard, C.D. It all began about the middle of November. The weather was perfect for 

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Deserving tributes

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard, C.D. I was privileged to attend the Grand Bend Legion’s Remembrance Day dinner on 

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The bottom line on sewers

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard, C.D. (Continued from last issue) The saga of the sewers continued throughout the town 

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Tom makes a splash

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard, C.D. Not long after Crediton’s bridge repair was finished and traffic resumed (but not 

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Reflections on Crediton

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard, C.D. It all began many many moons ago. This is the saga of the 

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Reunited and it feels so good

Tales from the 2009 Lessard reunion Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard, C.D. My Sunday morning began at 2:45 a.m. 

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Learning to swim

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard, C.D. My family moved from Windsor to Waterloo in 1944 because my dad was 

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Feelin’ alright in Jamaica

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard, C.D. I think it was 1969 that word came down from the top that 

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A break from the heat

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard, C.D. On a warm, sunny day in November 1957, some of us were told 

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Holy tourism, Batman!

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard, C.D. “Hey, Tom! Have you ever been to Tillsonburg?” No. But I’ve been to 

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Boys will be boys in Beirut

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard The time came to get out of the desert, so a two-week leave in 

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Tourism during a (Suez) crisis

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard With Rita away in the sunny Dominican Republic, I was reminded of my trip 

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Go West – to Frankenmuth

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard, C.D. Frankenmuth, Michigan is a beautiful little town on I-75 between Saginaw and Bay 

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Boys’ day out

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard It all started on my birthday this October. My boys bought three tickets to 

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Windsor’s good eats

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard, C.D. I was born in Windsor, Ontario in 1937, the seventh child. I had 

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Another year older

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard On the 16th of December, 1974, at the South Huron Hospital maternity ward, a 

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Go west, young man

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard In the spring of 1958, there was a posting on the board for an 

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Running for office

Or, how to get into real trouble Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard Many years ago, there was an upcoming 

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Toilet humour

What to do when you have to go Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard At Protective Plastics Limited in Huron 

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Wanted: vacuums

Oh where, or where, did our little vacuums go? Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard A lot of strange and 

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A cat and mouse tale

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard Back in the good old days – the early 70s, that is – there 

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A day at the beach

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard Hey kids, who wants to go to the beach? That was a stupid question 

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Remembering the early days in Huron Park

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard The air force had recently moved out of Huron Park when we moved from 

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One night wasted at the Albatross

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard During the years I worked (mostly part-time) as a waiter and bartender at the 

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One for the history books

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard Even though I spent 18 years in the army, I was never trained as 

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A divorce in Cyprus

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard After living in Lizard Flats for a few months, the monotony of the same 

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What a trip!

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard Sunday morning. Club Albatross, Huron Park. Hockey game in Detroit. Most of us arrived 

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The grand prize: a rooster that lays eggs

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard Years ago Bill Brady, the announcer for CFPL 980 radio, ran a fundraiser for 

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A little prank

Keeping the Peace By Tom Lessard A lot of life spilled through the doors of the Dufferin, most pleasurable, but 

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April 1968: Centralia’s bar scene

Keeping the PeaceBy Tom Lessard In April of 1968, Rita and I moved our family from London to Huron Park. 

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You think this winter’s bad! Remember 1971?

Keeping the PeaceBy Tom Lessard For some reason, I had driven myself to work at Wolseley Barracks in London instead 

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Elmer’s wake

Keeping the PeaceBy Tom Lessard Many years ago, I had the good fortune of working for a window and door 

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Cherishing memories of a Cypriot Christmas

Keeping the PeaceBy Tom Lessard, CD I spent Christmas 1967 stationed at Lizard Flats outside Nicosia, Cyprus, which had at 

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The ten-miler: army takes physical education to a new level

Keeping the PeaceBy Tom Lessard, C.D. At 27 C.O.D. (the Central Ordnance Depot on Highbury Avenue in London), the only 

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Educating Tom

Keeping the PeaceBy Tom Lessard In 1953, I was having a difficult time at my high school, St. Jerome’s in 

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(Did Tom deserve award?) Somebody thought so

Keeping the PeaceBy Tom Lessard About 14 years into my military career – by this point the late 1960s – 

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The trip to Egypt: Christmas 1956

Keeping the peaceTom Lessard, former UN peacekeeper It’s Christmas Day 1956, and I’m on leave at home in Waterloo. I 

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Deep trouble: Cyprus, 1970

Keeping the peace By Tom Lessard, former UN peacekeeper I was over in Cyprus in 1970 for a six-month tour. 

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