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All Pictures on all my web pages, are now Visibly Watermarked,
some are Semi Invisible, Some Secretly Watermarked,
And some have all 3 !
All my pages are now Right Click, copy and paste, disabled.
If this unauthorized use of pictures from this site continues,
I will remove the whole thing,
as there is no point in keeping it online.
I ask everyone that enjoys free history sites,
to start policing these violations.
If we don't stop this, no one will donate pictures to me or anyone,
and we all loose.
If you see one of my pictures on facebook, etc.
tell them to remove it, if they don't in a reasonable time,
please email me the culprit,
and I will add them to my
Wall of Shame
page.
Trust me,
I regret having to do this!
We started with one Test Desk in Terrace
but in the late 1970's it was expanded to 2.
They were always located in the Service Center area,
close to the large connector card rotary
They were the department that took all the trouble calls,
and tested the lines, to determine if it was a cable fault,
CO fault, or Customer Set fault.
The test desk was moved from 3236 Kalum,
to the 2nd floor of Manuel DaSilva's building,
4241 Lazelle Ave.
then finally to the Primary center,
where the original Operator Room was.
Not exactly sure what year they closed it down,
but Larry Sippel went into Engineering
and Maureen was transferred into the Facility Department.
I would guess end of the 80's or early 90's.
Will correct this when I find out for sure.
Some of the folks on the test desk over the years:
Larry Sippel (went into engineering. later
moved to Kelowna)
Maureen David
, 2 (moved into facilities, then Kelowna)
Pat Duncan (hired 1981- moved to Vancouver in 1986)
Terry Paton (moved to Surrey in 1986, ended up in Vanderhoof)
Herb LN?, I remember he smoked a pipe
Gary Callfas
Ken Klippert,
2
(left in Apr 1980 for Denver CO to make contact lenses)
Terry Prinz (was I&R before this)
Terry Hewitt (went into I&R, quit 2002, went to Ont)
Maureen Olson ,
2 (nee Palahicky)
(left in 1991 to PG)
Terry Paton will never be forgotten as the
man
that got electrocuted through his headset.
It's a story Terry will have to tell one day.
Gary Callfas was actually born in the town I
grew up in,
in Estevan Saskatchewan. He was a DJ at CFTK radio
in Terrace in the early 70's, when I first ran into him after many years.
Actually heard his name while sitting in my trailer at the
time,
in "The Motel" park. I called him to see if it was him,
then went down to the radio studio to see him at work.
CFTK TV and Radio was where the
business development bank building is now (2006)
It was an old house, and everything they used was old.
The radio booth was about 5' square.
2 of us in there and it was overcrowded.
The next time I seen Gary, was 10 years later
over lunch at the Aiyansh Radio Living Quarters.
The guys used to show up for a place to eat their lunch,
and this one day Gary came in and we sat for our lunch.
We talked, he left and it wasn't until a couple days later,
I found out it was the same Gary Callfas I knew from years before.
He later left I&R and went into test desk before moving on.
Pat Duncan is remembered by me, since it was
him
that arranged though a friend in Vancouver for a group
of BC Tel employees to buy an Apple Clone Computer.
64K of ram, no hard drive, no color monitor, I had an amber one.
Other choice was green. I learned some code, learned
the basics of computers, and here I am today,
on a machine that has more memory than me!!
I think they called the Pineapple machines!!
I still have a selection of the old 6" floppies they used.
Maureen David became a good friend working
with her in Facilities. She did a good job on test desk also.
Maureen was the very FIRST Test Desk woman in BC Tel!
Larry Sippel ended up as a Technician before
him and his wife Linda,
moved to sunny Kelowna, now Vancouver I think?.
Larry is a member of the Mormon Church,
and
chats with him, got me on the never ending road,
of Family Genealogy. Linda helped with the research center in town.
Linda was a clerk in Terrace and they met while Larry was a Tech.
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