TAILOR/TAYLOR
TALESKI
TAM
TAZZMAN
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON
THORPE
THURSTON
TONG
TUROW
TAILOR/TAYLOR m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-01-22 published
TAILOR/TAYLOR,
John and Edith - Happy 60th Anniversary
January 27, 2005
Still having fun after all these years!
With much love and best wishes from your family.
TAILOR/TAYLOR m@ca.on.grey_county.artemesia.flesherton.the_flesherton_advance 2005-04-27 published
TAILOR/TAYLOR,
Phyllis and Gordon - Celebrate 50th Anniversary
On Saturday, April 23 Phyllis and Gordon
TAILOR/TAYLOR celebrated their
50th wedding anniversary with family and Friends in attendance
at the Badjeros Community Centre. (Photo submitted)
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TALESKI m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-03-05 published
TALESKI,
Howard and Gene - 60th Anniversary
Congratulations!
Married March 6, 1945
Happy 60th Anniversary from all the family and Friends. We wish
you many more happy years of good health and happiness together.
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TAM m@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-01-15 published
Nancy LAU and Jeremy
TAMM
By Judith Tenenbaum, Saturday, January 15, 2005 - Page M6
'What's a girl like me doing in a place like this?" was the thought
that flitted through Nancy
LAU's mind as, numb, drenched and
exhausted, she and boyfriend Jeremy
TAMM forged the slithery
slopes of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. At 6,288 feet, the
inhospitable peak is reputed to have the world's worst weather
and winds -- and a trail marked with memorials. So for Ms.
LAU,
a cosmopolitan Toronto native, the ascent was tough.
"Before I met Jeremy, my only experience with the outdoors was
hailing a cab on King Street," she says.
The pair became painfully aware that the rosy view that had seduced
them as they motored a paved road to the peak a few years earlier
was an illusion. On this hiking trip, in late June of 2003, they
encountered a harshly different reality. "We were expecting it
to be like the Bruce Trail, dirt and some boulders, but the whole
thing is rock and steep. You are stepping up boulder after boulder,"
Ms. LAU says.
"It was 30 degrees at the base, beautiful, sunny," Mr.
TAMM adds.
"But it started raining, we hit clouds and at the top it was four degrees."
His idyllic vision of conquering the mountain and presenting
a ring dimmed, until a bedraggled Ms.
LAU plunked herself down on an outcropping.
Seizing the moment, the deflated Mr.
TAMM rallied. "This is the
first place we visited together... and it has been a long journey
to get back," he told Ms.
LAU, and despite her desultory staccato
responses of "yes... yes," he persevered and proffered the ring.
Suddenly, in a spectacular tour de force, a revivified Ms.
LAU
dynamited to the summit and dashed down the mountain to call
her parents, with Mr.
TAMM in dogged pursuit.
It was the Canada Day long weekend, and her diamond, a Canadian
stone, was especially meaningful to her. "It's really significant
that I am first-generation Canadian, and it's symbolic that something
I'm going to wear all the time comes from my birthplace," Ms.
LAU says.
Equally important was the fact that it wasn't a "blood diamond."
"I wanted it to come from a place where I knew nobody was going
to die because of it," she says.
Happenstance brought the two together in June, 2000, when Mr.
TAMM, now 32, joined the Information Technology firm that employed
Ms. LAU, a civil engineer. She offered up her PowerPoint savvy
to help sharpen a presentation he was doing, and after a quick
bite that turned into a four-hour conversation, their working
alliance evolved into a starry liaison.
The outdoorsy Mr.
TAMM, an avid snowboarder, sailboarder, mountain
biker and climber, soon realized his interests differed from
those of the sedentary Ms.
LAU.
But by Christmas, confident she
was made of stern stuff, "and she'd persevere," he outfitted
Ms. LAU for powdery slopes.
"Before I met Nancy, I was a committed bachelor," Mr.
TAMM says,
noting, "She became a constant companion and it became important
to share my life with her."
"I took a couple of lessons, went to Blue Mountain [near Collingwood,
Ontario], and had just learned to carve [turn] when he took me
to Banff," she says. "I was totally intimidated. Being out West
is a big deal for a snowboarder and I wanted him to embrace his
environment, not babysit me."
Mr. TAMM, however, recalls with a laugh that when he careered
black diamond runs for entire days, leaving her behind to tackle
the easier green runs, "there was some serious pouting."
The venturesome Ms.
LAU has since taken on another challenge,
switching careers to pursue a chartered accountant designation.
"Being my age, 33, there is always that conundrum: It's too late,
I've got to start over, and will be taking a five-year hit. But
in the end I know it will be worth it."
Mr. TAMM, meanwhile, has moved on to a position as senior sales
specialist with Telus.
At Vaughan Estate on September 5, the couple recited vows, modified
from Reverend Otto
SEEGERS's template. Attendants rewrote tradition
in the recessional by following the newlyweds "in single file
as we appreciate each one as an individual," Ms.
LAU explains.
In lieu of wedding favours, a donation was made to the Jenny
Lau Memorial Award, established when the bride's younger sister
died suddenly of meningitis in 1996 while a student at the University
of Toronto. The award is presented annually to a graduate of
outstanding character in occupational therapy, Jenny's discipline.
"I miss Jenny deeply. My only wish is that she could have known
Jeremy," Ms.
LAU says.
"I loved our wedding. I could relive that day, every day for the rest of my life."
TAZZMAN m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-01-11 published
TAZZMAN,
Jean and Bob - 64th Anniversary
Jean and Bob
TAZZMAN were married 64 years ago today, Happy Anniversary
Mom and Dad. Love Joan and John.
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THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-01-26 published
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON,
Bob and Helen - Happy 50th Anniversary
January 22, 2005
With love, Sharon, Judy, John, Sherrie and families
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THORPE m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-03-05 published
JAZEY /
THORPE
Marsha and Alex
JAZEY of London are thrilled to announce the
engagement of their daughter Jennifer Alexandria to Shawn Thomas
THORPE, son of Barb and Tom
THORPE of Delaware. The wedding will take place June 3, 2006.
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THURSTON m@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-05-14 published
Cathy CHATTERTON and Jeff
THURSTON -- Match
By Judith Tenebaum, Saturday, May 14, 2005, Page M6
It was only natural for wedding photographer Cathy Elizabeth
CHATTERTON to wonder how and when her own turn at the altar would
come, and with whom. The "whom" issue was addressed when she
met Jeff Brian
THURSTON.
The other questions would prove problematic.
"I wanted a distinct memory," Ms.
CHATTERTON says. "I didn't
want to end up in a place where I had worked."
The respective wishes of each family raised further concerns.
Hers wanted an intimate affair, but his huge contingent required
a large soirée. Thus, rife with wedding input from outsiders,
the two balked. "There was a bit of tension," Mr.
THURSTON says,
"and it became clear that we weren't going to make it work for
everybody."
So the couple decided to do it their way. They picked a venue
and date that reflected their fun-loving personalities: Las Vegas,
April 1, 2005. Both the time and place had special meaning for
the couple; that they were to be married on April Fool's Day
would become even more significant as the day approached. They
met on April 1, 2000, at a Toronto party Ms.
CHATTERTON attended
with a girlfriend. "Jeff was 19, and I was 22. I laughed at him
because he was a teenager," she says. But a mutual attraction
was undeniable. "He was fun, and in a Hawaiian shirt. I really
liked him because he was a smiley guy, and it's hard to find
smiley guys."
The next day, Mr.
THURSTON went out with the two women and another
partygoer. "We talked," he says, "but I didn't know if Cathy
liked me because of the age difference." Happily, when the hand-holding
began, he realized Ms.
CHATTERTON was his date.
After their first solo outing a week later, she raved about his
jollity and dance moves, while adding a year to Mr.
THURSTON's
age in a phone call to her mother, who generally believed that
mature men were better candidates for her daughter.
The generosity he later demonstrated toward Ms.
CHATTERTON, who
had completed Sheridan College's photography program in 1999,
probably helped endear him even further. By Christmas, 2001,
he had graduated from R.C.C. College of Technology and secured
his first full-time job, at satellite-communications company
Telesat in Allenford, Ontario Despite working to repay a student
debt and having only a pittance for groceries, he scraped together
enough money to buy Ms.
CHATTERTON a prohibitively expensive
camera, which enabled her to launch her own photography business
in Toronto.
"We never talked about marriage," he says, "but it [the gift]
was like a commitment."
The camera "was a ring for me," she notes, remembering the tears
that welled uncontrollably at the time. Her gift to him was a
lock of hair for the partner she wanted to dance with forever.
"We jived and boogied on our first date, are silly together and
not afraid to be goofy," she says, beaming.
Ms. CHATTERTON's parents -- who live near Allenford, south of
Owen Sound -- ended up falling for Mr.
THURSTON just as their
daughter had. He lived with them, in their daughter's old "flowery,
girly bedroom," during an interminable, 3½-year wait to be transferred
to Toronto to join Ms.
CHATTERTON.
The couple's romance was characterized by blissful weekends in
the city and baleful weekdays apart. Every Friday, Mr.
THURSTON
barrelled 2½ hours down to Toronto for the weekend, where the
two would stroll and rollerblade and take in festivals and other
free events -- the only recreational activities available to
them on the tight budgets their fledgling careers afforded.
Occasionally, when he wasn't studying part-time for his B.A.
from Memorial University of Newfoundland by correspondence, he
would assist at wedding shoots, and the pair would become caught
up in romance. "It was almost like a Saturday-night date," she
says. "We'd give each other little winks, and when someone said
something sweet, we'd squeeze hands."
Their first extended trip together was a spring fling to Las
Vegas, where on April Fool's Day, 2004, before the dancing fountains
at the Bellagio, Mr.
THURSTON started to propose just as a loud
rendition of Sinatra's Fly Me to the Moon began playing. Unable
to hear a response, he remained uncertain about the outcome until
Ms. CHATTERTON urged, "Aren't you going to put it on me?"
April Fool's Day a year later was their planned wedding day,
but the joke was almost on them. An open invitation had 36 guests
keen to attend, although they wondered whether the Las Vegas
nuptials would be a drive-through affair. Mr.
THURSTON lined
up the guests' flights and hotel rooms and a reception with his
credit card, but when Jetsgo filed for receivership on March
11, the couple's plans melted down. Ever the optimist, he scrambled
to find a new airline, and did. On the plane, attendees received
envelopes with Las Vegas trivia and a quiz revealing the ceremony's
location.
At sunset, at the Chapel in the Clouds, a venue at the top of
the 1,149-foot-tall Stratosphere Tower, the couple were wed by
a justice of the peace. An Elvis impersonator performed at the
reception following, and the celebrants toasted with champagne
at the same fountain where Mr.
THURSTON had proposed, before
all danced the night away.
The newly transferred Mr.
THURSTON, 24, and Mrs.
THURSTON, 27,
have now purchased an Etobicoke home. "We are used to saving,"
she says with a laugh, "so we're used to having no money."
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TONG m@ca.on.grey_county.artemesia.flesherton.the_flesherton_advance 2005-05-04 published
RUSSELL /
TONG
Lori▼
Elizabeth,▼ daughter of Ken and Delene
RUSSELL of Priceville
and Stephen Tse-Ying,
son of Kar-Kwok and Rachel
TONG of Markham wish to announce their engagement.
The outdoor wedding will take place at the home of the bride's
parents on Saturday, May 28th, 2005 with a tent reception to follow.
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TONG m@ca.on.grey_county.artemesia.markdale.the_markdale_standard 2005-05-04 published
RUSSELL /
TONG
Lori▲
Elizabeth,▲ daughter of Ken and Delene
RUSSELL of Priceville
and Stephen Tse-Ying,
son of Kar-Kwok and Rachel
TONG of Markham
wish to announce their engagement.
The outdoor wedding will take place at the home of the bride's
parents on Saturday, May 28th, 2005 with a tent reception to
follow.
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TUROW m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-01-01 published
TUROW,
Pat
(MORTON) and Joe - Happy 25th Anniversary
December 28, 1979 - 2004
An Open House will take place at East London Anglican Ministres.
2060 Dundas St. East., London On January 2, 2005 from 2: 00-4:00 p.m.
Best wishes only.
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