A busy life sits well on Omar Hanson. He doesn’t look
old enough to be curling in an cver-80s bonspiel.

28 — Sunday. February 7 1999 — North Shore News

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Hanson masters his own Ii

OMAR Hanson’s

advice to young people

is to: “Get the best
education you can, set
yeur goals, give 100%
effort.

“DT strongly believe in
being master of your own

life -- be vour own person.”

This 1918 New Year's
Eve baby developed into a
dynamo entrepreneur and is
living proof of his own
advice. Omar is a master at
timing and judgment, and
his life's path has taken him
into numerous successful
business ventures.

His business smarts are

obvious, bur it is the sinceri-

ty of this caring family man,

friend and neighbour that is

most impressive.

This Shaunavon, Sask.

son was educated at nearby

Frontier and attended the

same school as his future
NEWS photo MikeWokelleld ines he started working at.
$60 2 month in the lumber
business for his dad at the

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wite, Bernice. After graduat-

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Reaver Hansan Company.
Life was good, so Omar

and Bernice ser July 1, 1939

as their wedding date wad

“Realize that
everyday isn’t
perfect, Sut
your attitude
makes the
difference.”

arranged with the minister
for a 9 a.m. ceremony,
because Omar was scheduled
to play in the second draw
of the sports-day baseball
tournament that afternoon,

Well, wouldn't vou know
it. Omar's team was called
up tor the first draw which
Meant a postponement of
the wedding, much to the
disgruntlement of the voung
couple, Their anly cansala-
tion was that Omar's team
won the tournament. At 7
o'clock that evening in the
manse, Omar and Bernice
exchauged their wedding
VOWS,

Upon their return trom
their honeymoon in the
Vancouver area, Omar was
transferred to Pathlow, Sask.
te run a branch Jumber
operation, with only one
helper. Omar’s salary was
$25.00 per month plus 5%
cominission. He and Bernice
paid $5 per month rent for
their living quarters above
the store. He recalls: “A
quart of milk was 10 cents,
egys 12 cents per dozen,
and 25 cents would buy a
pound of any type of meat
or poultry.”

Omar recalls one bitterly
cold New Year's Eve at
Pathlow with a temperature
of -40°F (that felt like -80°F

with the wind chill factard,
and with four feer of snaw,
when he received a call trom
his brother Ted to pick him
up at Melfort, some 18
miles away. How in hell,
thought Omar, was he ever
going to accomplish that.
How indeed.

, Omar persuaded the CPR
section foreman to rake him
to Alelfort (return trip) via
the railroad’s motorized
handear which travelled at
15 miles per hour with no
shelter trom the wind. At
times, the two men had to
lift the heavy contraption
off, and then back on, the
tracks to let a train go by.

Omar finally picked up
‘Ted and arrived back home
+— nearly frozen and disap-
pointed at missing the cli-
max of the New Year's Eve
party.

Like other men, Omar
did his stint with the Armed
Forces and went overseas in
1943. After his discharge
trom the RCAF, he and
Bernice returned to B.C.,

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