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PARTY ON - Prepare yourself for a night of uproarious laughter, and once you have finished viewing the welcoming committee, feel perfectly free to move on to the rest of the riff-raff and ready yourself to face a heap of bad memories exposed under the harsh light of interrogations courtesy of your so-called friends. Or you could choose to drink the past right back into your subconscious the same way you've probably been doing for the past 40 years or so ... it's all the same to us. The night will unfold inside and outside the OTS hall, so don't forget to bring your lawn chair if you prefer the crisp June air (and its accompanying horde of mosquitos) over the restrictive confines of the hall and its host of bad-breathed drunkards yelling incoherently in your face. Feel free to play a game of horseshoes or perhaps join in a sing-song around a virtual fire (we are working on having an actual low-tech but REAL fire, but that still hasn't been confirmed yet). The virtual fire will be a descriptive and colourful narration provided by Alan Wampler, who will deliver his sermon to a sparse audience against the backdrop of an out-of-key rendition of "LIGHT MY FIRE", performed by anyone dumb enough to show up with a guitar and no sense of shame, not to mention the strength to prevent their instrument from being wrenched from their grasp and thrown into the REAL fire. Should the weather turn ugly, there is plenty of room inside the hall, and for those of you who still pine for the fire thing, or want to prevent any more amateur guitar playing, there is a FIREPLACE inside!! Either way, it all sounds like hell to me. So that's a start right? Close enough ......

Yes, there WILL be horseshoes, and a place to play music outside and away from the din and racket of the hall if you so choose. There is a screened-in porch attached to the hall for those of you who smoke but prefer to do so out of the rain, hail and skeeters, and beyond earshot of the banjo-pickin' Deliverance rejects gathered 'round the firepit. The sound-system should be within earshot of the porch, so you won't miss out on the excellent selection of 60's and 70's music carefully prepared by the Organizing Committee. Of course after 40 years most of that stuff sounds pretty retarded, which brings me to my next point ..... ALCOHOL IS FOR SALE! Yes, for a very reasonable price you will be able to consume copious quantities (lots) of spirits (booze) to enhance your enjoyment (get drunk). On a serious note, and to meet our insurance policy requirements, we encourage you to arrange for a DESIGNATED DRIVER or to CALL A CAB when you leave the party. Phone numbers will be provided at the hall.

For those of you with enough foresight to realize that all the liquor you are bound to consume might somehow bring a premature end to your evening's entertainment (even though it would ADD to ours), we are pleased to announce that a DELICIOUS FULL MEAL will be provided, and all top-shelf stuff too. This should serve to absorb some of the excess alcohol for you. It's all listed and explained very professionally somewhere else on this website (if you have the patience to search for it) but to those of you who are just happy to have made it this far, I might as well fill you in on the deal right here and now. Courtesy of some diligent work by Robin McCaffry (Official Parkallen 08 Reunion Food Administrator) the menu will consist of the following:

- a Barbequed Steak (burnt or undercooked to suit your taste)

- Potatoes (cooked in a somewhat mysterious fashion, but still edible to the best of my knowledge)

- Salad

- late evening snacks (chips/pretzels/etc)

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