In last week’s installment of “Sunny Days: The Skip Prokop Story” our young drummer, Ronn Prokop (he had yet to adopt his nickname), was heading to the Preston Scout House to hone his drum corps chops. Suffice to say Skip would not only become quite adept at marching band drum skills, but became a reigning SIX time champion in Canada and the United States with the Optimists Drum & Bugle Corp.
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SUNNY DAYS: THE SKIP PROKOP STORY (PART 2) by Jaimie Vernon
Posted in life, music, Serialized Book with tags Bill Marion, Bill Misener, Bob Cringan, Bob Segarini, Chuck Beal, David Bell, DBAWIS, Denny Gerrard, Dig Band, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Doug Guy, Fern Resort, Jaimie Vernon, Larry Sykes Music, Lighthouse, Optimists Drum & Bugle Corp, Paul Chabeau, Preston Scout House, Riverside 3, Ronn Prokope, Royal York Hotel, Skip Prokop, Skip Prokop Five, Sunny Days, The Beatles, The Paupers, The Spats, Toronto, Toronto Police Department, Waddington School of Music on March 23, 2020 by segariniPeter Flies the Plastic Fantastic
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags "Floh", "The Golden Hind", "The Great Western", "The Hobby and Record Shop", "The Revenge", 87th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Aircrew Reunion, Airfix, Canberras, De Havilland Mosquito, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Halifax bomber, International Plastic Modeller's Society, Monogram, Orillia, Peter Montreuil, Phantoms, Puff the Magic Dragon, Robert Segarini, Royal York Hotel, Short Sunderland, Spitfire IX, Spitfire XI, Spitfires, T-33, Testors, Tomcats on March 22, 2018 by segarini
My dad got me interested in plastic modelling, building Airfix Series 1 bagged ships. I remember watching him at the kitchen table, building “The Golden Hind” or “The Great Western”. He was working on a model of “The Revenge” (What? Sir Francis Drake had another ship?) when his second son, your humble scribe, decided to work on it while Dad was away at work. I managed to make the maindeck melt and sag, through over liberal application of glue. I’m sure he was disappointed, but I did live to tell the tale.
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