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<event
start="1950-01-01"
end="1950-02-01"
title="Must be 50 characters or less. This is 43."
description="Description."
image="images/1960s/thumbs/1960-hike.png"
link="images/1960s/fullsized/1960-hike.png"
color=" brown"
textcolor=" brown"
tapeImage="icons/blue_stripes.png"
tapeRepeat=" repeat-"
caption=" Photo"
icon="sym_card_club.png"
classname="hot_event" >
(!) =reliable date This is the comment that shows on the timeline. This is a
template for event entries on the timeline including classname. Use it! Please.
I think the date works now. Yes, it does.
</event>

<event
start="1956-09-19"
end="2017-11-11"
title="Bill Van Dyk born."
description="Bill Van Dyk."
image="images/1950s/thumbs/1956-10-bill-baby-picture.png"
link="images/1950s/fullsized/1956-10-bill-baby-picture.png"
color=" brown"
textcolor=" brown"
tapeImage="icons/blue_stripes.png"
tapeRepeat="repeat-x"
caption="Billy Van Dyk, Age: a few months."
icon="sym_card_club.png"
classname="hot_event" >
In Niagara Falls at NF General Hospital, a building which later became a
Salvation Army home. Which was a hospital at the time I was born. Eight of us
born within 10 years.
</event>

<event
start="1961-09-01"
end="1962-06-30"
title="Kindergarten."
description="Bill Van Dyk, Canadian Fool, 1956-2012"
image="images/1960s/thumbs/1960-05-Mom-Eddy-and-Billy.png"
link="images/1960s/fullsized/1960-05-Mom-Eddy-and-Billy.png"
color=" maroon"
textcolor=" Blue"
tapeImage=" "
tapeRepeat=" "
caption="Billy in Kindergarten"
icon="circle_blue.png"
classname=" " >
I have no idea who my teacher was. It was St. Davids Public School, and I
believe I was able to walk to school by myself every day. We had nap time in the
afternoons, I think. It was an older lady, I believe. I swiped some clay--
couldnt have been play-do at that time-- and then brought it to school for show
and tell. I remember kids whispering that I stole it but the kind teacher would
have none of it. There was a nap time in the afternoon, on our blankets. I
remember a nice, large classroom, like a gym.
</event>

<event
start="1962-09-01"
end="1963-06-30"
title="Grade 1."
description="Bill Van Dyk"
image="images/1960s/thumbs/1961-09-10-bill_gr1.png"
link="images/1960s/fullsized/1961-09-10-bill_gr1.png"
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textcolor=" "
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caption="Bill in Grade 1, Mrs. Fast."
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classname="hot_event" >
My teacher was Mrs. Fast. All I remember is that she was mean. I think she had
glasses and short hair. We were in a classroom on the west side of the
building-- I do remember that. Interesting: almost no memories at all of Grade
1, or Kindergarten, for that matter. But I do feel like I have notable memories
of Grade 2. That big a difference? One year?
</event>

<event
start="1963-07-01"
end="1969-12-31"
title="Harrys 49 Ford."
description="Bill Van Dyk"
image="images/1960s/thumbs/1963-Coby-and-Billy-playing-in-Harrys-old-49Ford.png"
link="images/1960s/fullsized/1963-Coby-and-Billy-playing-in-Harrys-old-49Ford.png"
color=" blue"
textcolor=" "
tapeImage=" "
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caption="Harrys Old Car"
icon="sym_card_club.png"
classname="hot_event" >
This was the car, I believe, Harry smashed into the bridge beside the bank
oneday. Or was that a 39 Plymouth? Double check. So. So. It was definitely the
39 Plymouth. Photos.
</event>
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