To the Editor:
Sometimes things happen just out of the blue that can be very comical.
I was just thinking of one such thing that happened on the street just back of the Bank of Montreal on Westminster Avenue in the old Grand Forks garage.
W.X. Perkins owned t and Mike Larama was his foreman. Perkins and MIke were both Catholic. Mike was welding something and the torch he was using was the best of the day but if you didn’t operate it properly it would explode.
Well - the inevitable happened and Mike was blown down on the floor under a car. The Catholic priest was just passing by and rushed in to see what had exploded.
Well, Mike Larama was just coming out from under the car with fire all around when he saw the priest. His exclamation?
“My God! I thought I was in Hell with all that fire around but if you’re here I guess I must be OK.”
This is a true story. I was there afer this happened and was told by some of the men. The time frame was about 1947.
Wilf Miller, Keremeos