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Don Button

Profile Updated: September 8, 2024
Residing In:
Powell River, BC Canada
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Occupation:
Retired journalist
Children:
2 boys, 32 & 31 (as of 2024)
- one working at U of Victoria (B.C.) in Fisheries and conservation
- More…one gardening and doing CAD for a metal fabricator in Chilliwack, B.C.

2 stepkids, approx 18 (girl) & 22 (boy) as of 2024.
- Wirral UK
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Worked at shit jobs for a few years after high school and drank beer. Enrolled at U of Waterloo but dropped out in first year because I got involved in the student paper and finally found my passion. Spent the next 25(ish) years as a reporter, editor and publisher in community papers in SW Ontario and suburban papers in Vancouver.
Am now retired.

Took up curling a few years ago after years of armchair curling. Qualified as a regional umpire and national-level timer, which gets me out of the house when I feel like seeing somewhere new.

School Story:

Foreshadowing my life, I was a 'tweener in high school. I'm class of '76, but after Gr 9 I figured since we only needed 27 of 32 credits (or something like that), I might as well take courses from a year ahead. So after a couple of years I was in more of your classes than my own year's. In my Gr 13 I only needed 2 credits, so lots of time for extracurriculars. Mind by then most of you lot had left so the Lounge got kinda dull.

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Sep 08, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Love this pic! Wife/partner switched from dragonboats to outrigger canoe and went to the world championships in Hilo, Hi for Canada in August (2024). I got to watch from the beach :)

Tahiti, New Zealand and Hawaii win most of the medals, but Sarah's team made a repechage and had the race of their lives to finish 5th.
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Sep 08, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Anyone remember the big snow storm of April 1975 ish? Took us a week to dig out. That's me and older brother Gord, who some of you may remember.
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New selfie from Hilo, Hi this summer (2024). I'm wearing a back pack, not a parachute.
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Read the sad news about David Bowie`s death this morning and thought of yàll and listening to him in the lounge.

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Oct 13, 2015 at 8:41 AM
g/f dragonboat racing when I lived in Harrison Hot Springs, B.C. Was hard to leave because that was the view off my deck.
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Oct 13, 2015 at 8:41 AM
I should get my own cookery show.
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Oct 13, 2015 at 8:41 AM
With sons Mac and Lucas at FIFA Women's World Cup in Vancouver 2015. Wonderful atmosphere. Saw Canada-England and then the final.
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Oct 13, 2015 at 8:41 AM
Getting cultured up. Vancouver 2014
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Oct 13, 2015 at 8:40 AM
Shopping for outdoor wear at the big and tall store. g/f rolls her eyes and says she can't take me anywhere, but as I pointed out, I actually drove so she's technically wrong.

Also, it's not ME taking the picture :)
Posted: Sep 08, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Love this pic! Wife/partner switched from dragonboats to outrigger canoe and went to the world championships in Hilo, Hi for Canada in August (2024). I got to watch from the beach :)

Tahiti, New Zealand and Hawaii win most of the medals, but Sarah's team made a repechage and had the race of their lives to finish 5th.
Posted: Sep 08, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Anyone remember the big snow storm of April 1975 ish? Took us a week to dig out. That's me and older brother Gord, who some of you may remember.
Posted: Sep 08, 2024 at 2:06 PM
New selfie from Hilo, Hi this summer (2024). I'm wearing a back pack, not a parachute.
Posted: Sep 08, 2024 at 2:04 PM
g/f dragonboat racing when I lived in Harrison Hot Springs, B.C. Was hard to leave because that was the view off my deck.
Posted: Oct 13, 2015 at 8:53 AM
Went to Hawaii 2013 and brought back identical shirts for by boys and I. It's hot in Hawaii. The sun bakes your head.
Posted: Oct 13, 2015 at 8:53 AM
I should get my own cookery show.
Posted: Oct 13, 2015 at 8:55 AM
With sons Mac and Lucas at FIFA Women's World Cup in Vancouver 2015. Wonderful atmosphere. Saw Canada-England and then the final.
Posted: Oct 13, 2015 at 8:55 AM
Getting cultured up. Vancouver 2014
Posted: Oct 13, 2015 at 8:57 AM
Shopping for outdoor wear at the big and tall store. g/f rolls her eyes and says she can't take me anywhere, but as I pointed out, I actually drove so she's technically wrong.

Also, it's not ME taking the picture :)
Posted: Sep 08, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Kain & Polly, my step kids in England. Spent 10 lovely years over there with them. Sadly I didn't get to keep them in the divorce.