Welcome to Berry Creek!!! Where your neighbours are your friends. Or that's what the sign says on the way into town. The sign also says this is the location of the best Berry Pies this side of the rockies. Every Summer there is a pie baking, pie eating and pie throwing contest. The area is ripe with wild berries and you pick farms. It's one of the main staples for entertainment.
Berry Creek was founded when explorers got blown off course from the main river in the fall. They came across a Native American encampment, they were welcomed to share the fire. They also shared fresh picked berries and bannock that night. Because the creek is on the larger side, some of the explorers asked to stay and began setting up homesteads. Within 2 years there was a prosperous community living along the creek. They had good relations with the neighbouring Natives, but as the land had never been claimed by one band or another the residence were not bothered by the natives in the area. At least to begin with.
Fast forward ahead one hundred and ten years to present day. Berry Creek is still a prosperous community though it's growth has slowed somewhat in the past few years. They have expanded their industry to include a Saw Mill and Pulp and Paper mill to the North, Potash Mines to the south, and there are a few federal and provinicial prisons in the area. Berry Creek's population has grown and continues to grow, there are about 45,000 citizens in this fair city.
The city has trees and hills and is divided into 6 sections. There is central Valley, South hill, West Valley, East Valley, West Hill and East Plains. Each section has multiple elementary schools and there are three high schools in the city, a public one, a catholic one and an alternative high school. There is also a college located in East Valley that works as a feeder to the provinicial universities. The affluent areas include the West Hill and East Plains with East Valley and South Hill being fairly middle class. Central Valley is mostly commericial developments though there are a few older homes which vary is price range. The West Valley is mostly low socio-economic, there are more incidents of crime and gangs in that area, but for the size of the city the crime rate was a little higher than someone would like it to be, meaning most of the citizens in Berry Creek.
The Public High School was a comprehensive High School. It was named after the founder of the first school in Berry Creek, Mrs. Vylma Meiers, Meiers Comprehensive High School. The school usually had a population of 3500 students at any given time. In the 80s the school had gone under a revamping to include different programs for all the students. It boasted one of the most varied program offerings in the province. The sports team were known as the Meier Mauraders. There colours were blue, silver and white. They even had a drama club known as the Meier Masquaraders which would often put on variety shows and compete in national drama competitions. The last 5 years they had won nationals and were even given the opportunity to showcase some of their skits on the Comedy Network.
The Catholic High School, which provides MCHS with it's greatest competition, is Sacred Heart High School. It started some 20 years after the public school and has a population of 2000 students at any given time. It is currently undergoing an upgrade so that it can offer more programs and increase their sports program. Their sports team are the Sacred Heart Saints and their colours are Black, red and yellow. Their Drama deptartment will sometimes pair up with MCHS and put on public musicals or larger productions although this is becoming less frequent as the school's population increases.
The Alternative High School is staffed as a cooperative by the public and Separate division. They offer courses at alternate times and in such away that young adults who would like to finish their education but have to work as well can attend school at night or in block chunks meaning they would only take one class in the morning or afternoon but they would only take that course for 4 weeks.
The rest of the city was pretty much like any other small city across the country. There were regular restaurants, fast food restaurants, chain restaurants, two malls one was better than the other, box stores were beginning to pop up everywhere and the housing development had recently gone on the rise.
Outside of Berry Creek are some wonderful natural places to experience. They have lakes and parks within a hour driving distance, there are historical sites that are marked as places to visit but also there are some sites that aren't but the teens love to go there and have for years. Just don't tell the teens that their parents used to hang out there too!!!
In future blogs I will go into more detail in the schools, the hang outs and some other important venues of this little town with so many loveable characters.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Meet Tacia Victoria Larson
What is your full name?
Tacia Victoria Larson. My mom had a thing for royalty. I'm sure she would have stuck Catherine in there i my cousin hadn't already had that name.
Do you have any nicknames?
No just Tacia, although sometimes people just call me Tay or TayTay so I guess that's a nickname.
What is your gender?
Seriously, that question is on there, well I am female.
How old are you?
I am 17 years old
What is your birth date?
I'm a Pisces, through and through, I was born March 14th.
What is your relationship status?
Like on Facebook? I'm still looking for Mr. Right, I thought I had found him but he proved to be Mr. Dead Wrong. I just still kind of wish that he hadn't been though. It's Complicated, that's my Facebook Status.
How would you describe your hair colour?
It's an auburn colour by choice, but I have been known to be blond and chestnut brown. I like to change it, my birth colour is mouse brown, very blah and boring!!
How would you describe your eye colour?
They are a stormy grey, sometimes blue sometimes green. It depends on my mood. But if you have ever seen a storm rolling in on a large body of water and the grey green colour of the sky before it's right on top of you, that's what my eyes look like most days.
What is your orgin?
Well I came from my mom and dad, who came from their parents etc and so on. My heritage is Heinz 57 but really what Caucasian person living in North America isn't? I mostly connect with my Norwegian heritage, but my French side is kind of fun too. I am a proud Canadian American. I was born in The states and I go back all the time, but I live in Canada now.
Do you speak any other languages?
Not really, much to my step-dad's charign, I can understand French but it's hard for me to figure out all the verb tenses and stuff to answer back. I just don't use it enough, maybe I should start using it more.
How tall are you?
Too tall, is that an answer? I'm like 5'11" I'm taller than almost all the boys, it sucks. No one wants to date an Amazon, they all want the pixie sized girls, the little girls.
What is your weight?
That's a horrible question!!!! I'm a healthy weight. That is all.
Describe for the readers your body structure and physical faults.
I've been blessed or cursed with a curvy figure. I have horrible fingernails, mostly because I always pick at the imperfections and then they peel or I bite them. I am always trying to quit but nothing has worked yet. I have large feet, which is probably normal seeing as I am a descendant of the Jolly Green Giant, no I kid, but i have larger feet than all my friends. Maybe I need to find taller friends? I also have imperfect teeth, they are straight but I have a small gap and my eye teeth sort of flare out. I never smile with an open mouth for pictures if I can help it.
How is your health, Physical and Mental?
They are both good.
What ethnicity are you?
I already answered this, maybe I didn't understand the first question, but I am Scandinavian and French.
What would you say is your personal style?
It's pretty much classic with a little prep, I am never very trendy with the clothes I buy.
What can you tell the readers about your family?
I live with my mom and step dad. I have two sisters, one lives with us and one lives with our dad, I also have a brother. I am the oldest of my mom's children. My older sister lives with my dad for 3 months of the year and the other time she lives with her mom, but sees our dad every other weekend. My oldest sister is named Jessica. My other sister is Elizabeth Grace (see obsession with Royalty) and my brother is Andrew George.
My mom and step dad are pretty cool, and I get to see my dad twice a year and I talk to him all the time, but sometimes I miss him and wish I could be the only one with him for most of the year.
What can you tell us about your circle of friends?
My core group of friends are Marisal and Alizhay and Reese and Paige. I usually always hang out with Marisal and Alizhay outside of school and Reese and Paige in school. I probably have more in common with Reese and Paige now, but Marisal and I have been friends since middle school and Alizhay has been our friend since high school. I hang out with a lot of people but I make the most time for Alizhay and Marisal.
Do you have any enemies?
Who doesn't? I don't actually think so, but sometimes people do mean things to further their own agenda, I try not to hate anyone, my fatal flaw, it takes too much energy and I would rather have happy thoughts.
What are your religious spiritual beliefs/ values?
I don't know how to answer this! I believer there is a God. I believe in treating people with respect, kindness and dignity. I don't agree with organized religion, even though my parents haul me to church every weekend. I just think that organized religious groups cause more trouble in the world then good. It's just my opinion, I don't think the people are inherently bad, they just make bad decisions and blanket statements that don't work for every situation. I believe that absolute power corrupts and so does absolute spirituality. If you don't have an open mind to other belief systems you can't get along with other people. I believe Jesus was real, but I don't think the average person knows his full story.
What are your life goals?
Right now I want to graduate high school. Then I want to have a family, a large family, but I want to be a child psychologist. I love working with kids and I especially love helping kids.
What is your dream job or dream for your life?
It's a secret but I would love to be a published author, I think that would be so cool.
What is your favourite phrase to use?
get out of here or I'll do it and Seriously?
What are your hobbies?
Reading, writing, running, swimming, playing sports, photography and baking.
What do you like?
I like good books, good movies and good food. I enjoy music and I have favourite songs in every genre. And must see television, I may be a bit of a television junkie.
What are your dislikes?
techno and reggae music are not my favourites, I hate feet as well and fake people.
What do you loathe?
boring books and liver
What are your fears?
losing someone I love and death and heights.
What are your strengths?
persistence, dependable, organized, quick learner and I am honest. I am also very forgiving, again this could be my fatal flaw.
What are your weaknesses?
I have a weak stomach for certain smells. I also don't always trust my own abilities.
Talk about what you believe are your good qualities.
I am a great listener, I have a lot of empathy and I am great at helping others solve problems and I can follow directions really well.
What are your bad habits?
I easily get wrapped up in my own world, I don't always act selflessly, I have a quick temper, by which I mean it lights quick but fizzles out even faster. I forgive too easily and it often leads me to being hurt (fatal flaw)
Turn ons: strong arms, tall guys and blue eyes
Turn offs: overweight, short guys and arrogance
Natural talents: writing, learning and being able to see the whole picture (when it's someone else's problem, when it's my own I have tunnel vision)
Temperament: easy going, long fuse, not easily angered but when angered it burns bright and fizzles quickly.
Background: My parents divorced when I was four. I moved to Canada and began kindergarten in the city but moved to a small town after kindergarten when my mom met my step dad. They got married and my brother was born 6 months later and my sister was born 3 years after that. We moved back to the city when I was in middle school where I met Marisal. We both moved to the Public High School after grade 9 and that's when Marisal met Alizhay. She was a year younger than us, but she worked hard to take extra classes to join our graduating class. She's definitely closer to Marisal than me but we get along just fine too.
Happiest Moment:
When I got my license on the first try, and when my brother was born and then my sister.
Saddest Moment:
When my nana died. She was always with me every summer and she was so much fun.
Tacia Victoria Larson. My mom had a thing for royalty. I'm sure she would have stuck Catherine in there i my cousin hadn't already had that name.
Do you have any nicknames?
No just Tacia, although sometimes people just call me Tay or TayTay so I guess that's a nickname.
What is your gender?
Seriously, that question is on there, well I am female.
How old are you?
I am 17 years old
What is your birth date?
I'm a Pisces, through and through, I was born March 14th.
What is your relationship status?
Like on Facebook? I'm still looking for Mr. Right, I thought I had found him but he proved to be Mr. Dead Wrong. I just still kind of wish that he hadn't been though. It's Complicated, that's my Facebook Status.
How would you describe your hair colour?
It's an auburn colour by choice, but I have been known to be blond and chestnut brown. I like to change it, my birth colour is mouse brown, very blah and boring!!
How would you describe your eye colour?
They are a stormy grey, sometimes blue sometimes green. It depends on my mood. But if you have ever seen a storm rolling in on a large body of water and the grey green colour of the sky before it's right on top of you, that's what my eyes look like most days.
What is your orgin?
Well I came from my mom and dad, who came from their parents etc and so on. My heritage is Heinz 57 but really what Caucasian person living in North America isn't? I mostly connect with my Norwegian heritage, but my French side is kind of fun too. I am a proud Canadian American. I was born in The states and I go back all the time, but I live in Canada now.
Do you speak any other languages?
Not really, much to my step-dad's charign, I can understand French but it's hard for me to figure out all the verb tenses and stuff to answer back. I just don't use it enough, maybe I should start using it more.
How tall are you?
Too tall, is that an answer? I'm like 5'11" I'm taller than almost all the boys, it sucks. No one wants to date an Amazon, they all want the pixie sized girls, the little girls.
What is your weight?
That's a horrible question!!!! I'm a healthy weight. That is all.
Describe for the readers your body structure and physical faults.
I've been blessed or cursed with a curvy figure. I have horrible fingernails, mostly because I always pick at the imperfections and then they peel or I bite them. I am always trying to quit but nothing has worked yet. I have large feet, which is probably normal seeing as I am a descendant of the Jolly Green Giant, no I kid, but i have larger feet than all my friends. Maybe I need to find taller friends? I also have imperfect teeth, they are straight but I have a small gap and my eye teeth sort of flare out. I never smile with an open mouth for pictures if I can help it.
How is your health, Physical and Mental?
They are both good.
What ethnicity are you?
I already answered this, maybe I didn't understand the first question, but I am Scandinavian and French.
What would you say is your personal style?
It's pretty much classic with a little prep, I am never very trendy with the clothes I buy.
What can you tell the readers about your family?
I live with my mom and step dad. I have two sisters, one lives with us and one lives with our dad, I also have a brother. I am the oldest of my mom's children. My older sister lives with my dad for 3 months of the year and the other time she lives with her mom, but sees our dad every other weekend. My oldest sister is named Jessica. My other sister is Elizabeth Grace (see obsession with Royalty) and my brother is Andrew George.
My mom and step dad are pretty cool, and I get to see my dad twice a year and I talk to him all the time, but sometimes I miss him and wish I could be the only one with him for most of the year.
What can you tell us about your circle of friends?
My core group of friends are Marisal and Alizhay and Reese and Paige. I usually always hang out with Marisal and Alizhay outside of school and Reese and Paige in school. I probably have more in common with Reese and Paige now, but Marisal and I have been friends since middle school and Alizhay has been our friend since high school. I hang out with a lot of people but I make the most time for Alizhay and Marisal.
Do you have any enemies?
Who doesn't? I don't actually think so, but sometimes people do mean things to further their own agenda, I try not to hate anyone, my fatal flaw, it takes too much energy and I would rather have happy thoughts.
What are your religious spiritual beliefs/ values?
I don't know how to answer this! I believer there is a God. I believe in treating people with respect, kindness and dignity. I don't agree with organized religion, even though my parents haul me to church every weekend. I just think that organized religious groups cause more trouble in the world then good. It's just my opinion, I don't think the people are inherently bad, they just make bad decisions and blanket statements that don't work for every situation. I believe that absolute power corrupts and so does absolute spirituality. If you don't have an open mind to other belief systems you can't get along with other people. I believe Jesus was real, but I don't think the average person knows his full story.
What are your life goals?
Right now I want to graduate high school. Then I want to have a family, a large family, but I want to be a child psychologist. I love working with kids and I especially love helping kids.
What is your dream job or dream for your life?
It's a secret but I would love to be a published author, I think that would be so cool.
What is your favourite phrase to use?
get out of here or I'll do it and Seriously?
What are your hobbies?
Reading, writing, running, swimming, playing sports, photography and baking.
What do you like?
I like good books, good movies and good food. I enjoy music and I have favourite songs in every genre. And must see television, I may be a bit of a television junkie.
What are your dislikes?
techno and reggae music are not my favourites, I hate feet as well and fake people.
What do you loathe?
boring books and liver
What are your fears?
losing someone I love and death and heights.
What are your strengths?
persistence, dependable, organized, quick learner and I am honest. I am also very forgiving, again this could be my fatal flaw.
What are your weaknesses?
I have a weak stomach for certain smells. I also don't always trust my own abilities.
Talk about what you believe are your good qualities.
I am a great listener, I have a lot of empathy and I am great at helping others solve problems and I can follow directions really well.
What are your bad habits?
I easily get wrapped up in my own world, I don't always act selflessly, I have a quick temper, by which I mean it lights quick but fizzles out even faster. I forgive too easily and it often leads me to being hurt (fatal flaw)
Turn ons: strong arms, tall guys and blue eyes
Turn offs: overweight, short guys and arrogance
Natural talents: writing, learning and being able to see the whole picture (when it's someone else's problem, when it's my own I have tunnel vision)
Temperament: easy going, long fuse, not easily angered but when angered it burns bright and fizzles quickly.
Background: My parents divorced when I was four. I moved to Canada and began kindergarten in the city but moved to a small town after kindergarten when my mom met my step dad. They got married and my brother was born 6 months later and my sister was born 3 years after that. We moved back to the city when I was in middle school where I met Marisal. We both moved to the Public High School after grade 9 and that's when Marisal met Alizhay. She was a year younger than us, but she worked hard to take extra classes to join our graduating class. She's definitely closer to Marisal than me but we get along just fine too.
Happiest Moment:
When I got my license on the first try, and when my brother was born and then my sister.
Saddest Moment:
When my nana died. She was always with me every summer and she was so much fun.
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