Steve Gunner

Hi Ron! Been a long time, we have a lot of catching up to do.

I became friends with Bill Nicol in the 8th grade, and man did we get away with some s**t...! That summer we would spend all night wandering the Kutras and Garden tracts until dawn, then crashing until 3pm or later. Sometimes John Piatkin was the Third Musketeer. His older sister Kathy would sometimes come to my house with Bill and we would go swimming. Once my mom drove us up by Dunsmuir and dropped us off on the river for a few hours, where we hiked and explored like Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Bill seemed always upbeat and happy, and was fun to hang out with. It was a very sad loss when he passed.

Niles was my neighbor during the 60's in the Kutras tract, about a block away, although I met him years before when I lived on East Street. We caught fish and frogs, tadpoles, snakes, lizards around the ponds at Kutras and Turtle Bay. Niles was into music too, and often came over when the Warlox were jamming at my house. The last time I saw him was December 1993, in the lounge at the motel by the Civic Auditorium.... what was the name? He seemed in good spirits, the same Niles I always knew. RIP bro.

I first met Lee at Cypress Elementary when we were both 9 years old. Often times Rick Phillips and I would hang out at Lee's house after school, building things with Erector sets and magnets, dissecting frogs, the usual kid stuff(!). I think we used some ether we got from Lee's dad to anesthetise the poor things though. We lost touch in high school, never saw him much after that. All the memories are good ones.