I remember Tim from high school. I moved from a small town to Peace River as I entered grade 10. The first few days in a new school and one of the first people to say hello was Tim. It was not long before we had become friends, trading stories and in grade 11 a group of us joined the football team. It was while playing football and as we became a team that I saw that Tim was becoming a leader on our team, that and he was the quarterback.
We spent time in different classes, and it was often in a spare or during Industrial Arts that the stories would begin, hockey, golf and football. Robin, Mike and Tim were the avid golfers at the time and would talk endlessly about their own games or the PGA.
In grade 12 we did what no other Peace River High football team had ever done before, we won the Mighty Peace football championship. It was a great moment and one thing that I learned about that time is, football team mates never forget their friends.
Today I am drawn back to remembering a friend who is no longer with us. A good person, a generous person and someone who reached out to a newcomer and made him feel welcome in a new school.
