“My first memories would probably be as a young boy living up 17 miles from here and coming down. Typically, everybody came to Souris, especially on Friday night or Saturday evening, then you picked up your groceries.” – Fred Cheverie

“…my grandparents built the house out in Newtown Cross in, I believe, the mid-fifties. Maybe a bit earlier, maybe late forties.” – Alex Hennessey

“I used to have to go to Vernon on a horse back to get our mail. I remember vividly one time, it was at dusk or just after dusk, and my horse shied because people were going to the dance in Orwell.” – Rose Hutchinson

“We had the Bamboos. That was right behind the Fox farm. Something that just continues to astound me to this day. That we have something like that.” – Dave Stewart

“We made a lot of money living across from a Legion as kids, but we had to get there before the neighbours.” – Karen Langevin