Whltby Free Preas Wednesday. July 20, 1994. Page 7 s- 48 hours <Note: Bill Swan promises not te write about a daughter's wedding for twenty five years.) Twenty-five years ago today, two men walked on the moon. It began as a normal Saturday morning in the news- room. I had the paper "put te bed» when the phone cal came. UCeme quick, Jenny's been burned, Barbie, tee, oh corne quick, Mom's called the doctor.» I turned to the wire editor. "Check -my pages. I gotta go home," I said. «Emergency.» Home was fourteen miles away. I pulled into the yard as the ambulance attendant carried Jenny out. uShes burned pretty bad, about thirty per cent of her body,» the doctor said. "We've got te, get her te Victoria in London right away.» London was about fifty miles, an hour's drive. Jen's mother rode in the ambulance. 1 pulled out behind them in the 1967 GMC Handi-Van. Forty minutes later 1 pulled into the gravel parking lot at Victoria Hospital and sprinted to emergency. Five minutes later the ambulance arrived.1 «Where did you corne fromW" asked the driver. "Shortcut," I replied. The medical staff were up front. uShes a severely burned littie girl,» one said. "The first forty-eight hours will tell.» It dawned on me: they were saying that she might net live. Jennifer was three. The Apollo spaoeship was approaching the moon. Neil Armstrong's first steps were forty heurs away. Neil did make those stops. Jennifer did make those forty-eight hours. But less than a week later Armstrong and friends splashed down in the ocean. It was a full seven weeks before we brought Jennifer home again. In those seven weeks she endured several painful skin grafts. She spent the month in reverse isolation. Everyone -- doctors, nurses, mother, father -- had te be gowned and masked. It was weeks before she saw a smile. The visits, heurs long.. Daddy's fingers walking, tip-toe, around the crib railing. And songs: Peter Pointer, Peter Pointer Where are you? Where are you? Here I arn, here I arn< How do you do? ALGER PRESS BU This brick house, the Joshua Richardson Es (Repeat for Ruby Ring, Toby Tail, Tommy Thumb and Garden Streets, and was demolished in 191 Baby-Finger) Oshawa for a printing shop in 1936 and ir One day, as she emerged fromn anaesthetic, I sang the Pringle Creek can be een in the foreground. Peter Pointer song. Jennifer, her whole body except for her eyes encased in protective mummy cloth, waved a cern- pletely bandaged hand: 10O YEARI1 rsa in here, Fs in here, From the Wednesday, Jul How do you do? WHITBY FR How o yu d, idee. Jnnier oonbecme he itte * The Free Press is opposed to the Durhi sixteeo, her okde eam wn therleague campioh ip --pe,É%%f j Pointer hour after heur? 0l The CËronicle is cotmplaining about noxii HereI tp myfis aginstmy eft reat. John Dundas was jailed for 30 days whe HereI tp m fit aaint m het beas. h ~l of him on account of his drunken hiabits.' re in here, I's in here, 1 il How do you do? ~rJ1 UJLDING, C. 1937- state stood at the corner of Dundas and 69. It was purchased- by AIger Press of n later years suffered a number of fires. Whltby Archives photo B AGO r18 1984 editien of the iE 1p>BEss am Region YMCA joining with the Metro ,ng a fitness study for local businesses. [l wxth many special events at Centennial à t by a truck on Victoria Street on July 11. "AGO 16, 1959 edition of the KLY NEWS British frigate H.M.S. Whitby on Labour n of a new town hall. Schools will open in September. J for the formation of a parks board. Is AGO 15, 1869 editien of the [RONICLE tender te buihd a fonce around the Court Àcrosse matches, two of which were won by eswesgrowing on Whtb9 streets. en bis wife testified she was 'in bodily.fear il