Saturday 6 January 2007

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Awake: 5:05am Temp ? sleep 5+32 clear overnight @ Kemblesville, PA.


We both slept well in Grace & Gary’s plush Newell motorhome. They keep an
extremely clean machine so K & I are being very careful to maintain it
that way. We have cereal & milk with us so we simply have that for
breakfast. Then walk up to their main house around 8:30am for a visit. G &
G were surprised that we had already had breakfast. We sit & talk for an
hr, then Grace & her daughter, Vicki leave to have their hair done.

Later today, Bruce Industrial is having a retirement party for 2 people:
Grace & another employee by the name of Skip. Both have been with the
company for a long time. Grace has 41 yrs with the company but I’m not
sure how long Skip has been there. Kathy & I are here not only to visit G
& G, but also to help them celebrate Grace’s retirement.

Gary invites me to take a ride with him over to Home Depot to pick up a
technical part for his home. Meanwhile, Kathy decides to get some exercise
by walking around the nearby golf course for 1.5 hrs.

@ 3:30pm Gary, dressed to the 9’s, & I, in my Sunday clothes, make a trip
to a nearby Italian restaurant to pick up 2 large containers of stuffed
Pasta shells; part of the dinner meal tonight. Then we proceed to the
Holloway Terrier Fire Hall in New Castle, DE., where tonight’s retirement
party is being held.

Keep in mind, when we visited G & G on August 25, 2005, they toured us
through their company during working hrs where we met only a few dozen
people. Tonight, thoughtful Gary was determined to introduce me to the
office people + the workers as they arrived at the Fire Hall, one by one.
He did a good job, maybe 70 of the estimated 150 all together; that’s a
lot of names to remember. We also had the pleasure of meeting G & G’s
sons, daughter-in-law, and grandsons and their daughters and son-in-law
and granddaughter.

Kathy & I were honored to be seated @ table # 1 along with some of the
other VIP’s including G & G. The dinner was superb; the music enticing &
the Bruce Industrial people, phenomenal! A great bunch of dedicated
employees who obviously admire & respect their bosses so much that they
remain committed workers for many yrs. Gary gave a wonderful ad lib talk @
the podium covering some of the scary yrs when the company was young; then
Grace gave a reminiscent & touching account of her 41 yrs with Bruce
Industrial. Also, Gary’s silent partner, Clem, gave a heart-rending
account of how it was that if you needed to know anything about what was
happening, you would ask Grace; she ran the company! It was one GREAT
company party!

We rode back to their home and plush Newell motorhome in separate cars;
Kathy with Grace; me with Gary & said our “thanks & goodnights.” It was a
wonderful day.

Lights out: 11:13pm

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