Verkley Family Website

Coop’s Children in Holland

While we carry on the tradition of Grandma Verkley’s summer picnic, let’s celebrate a few things:
First of all, there are a few milestone birthday’s: This Sunday come to Paul’s house prepared to toast to Phil, Vincent and Wilfred\’s 50th.

Also, there will be a wedding shower for the eldest Verkley grandchild.  That’s right, Lisa and Jeff are getting married in December but they will be leaving for Nova Scotia at the end of August.  They are registered at Sears should you wish to buy them a gift.  Alternatively gift cards are very easy to move. 
So, let’s get ready to celebrate in traditional Verkley style.  Bring your lawn chairs and a contribution to the potluck meal.

It should be a great afternoon.  I can’t wait to see everyone!

Be sure to pass this information along to anyone that might not otherwise have perused this site before this weekend.

Jeff and I are back from our house hunting trip in Nova Scotia. We found a beautiful home! It’s 15 minutes south of Antigonish in the Lochaber area. It’s a Cape Cod style, 3.6 acre, 4 bedroom house on the side of a hill. Lochaber Lake is right across the road giving us an INCREDIBLE view. We move out in a month and are really excited about it – and for getting our stuff out of storage!

Here it is:

Big News!

Jeff and Lisa are engaged!!  We’re also moving to Nova Scotia!  Jeff has won a huge job competition for a detachment supervisor position in eastern Nova Scotia (in the village of Sherbrooke – about a 2.5 hour drive north of Halifax). At best guess, we’ll be moving east later this summer.  We’ll know more details in the next couple of weeks as the paperwork goes through.  Wedding details are still in the preliminary planning stages.

Our beautiful daughter, Hadley Marie Verkley, was born on Tuesday March 20, 2007 at 2:37pm.  Weighing in at 8lbs and a tall 21 inches.  Thank you to everyone who has send warm wishes.  We can’t wait for everyone to meet her!  Please feel free to check out http://ajax.verkley.com/hadley for a few photos.

News has come from Holland that Grandpa Verkley (Peter)’s cousin Piet van Velzen has died at the age of 92.

That now makes Grandpa the oldest of the Verkley family.

Three cheers for Grandpa!

After a full year of writing, I have completed my book titled “From Kerwood to Here, A Life Lived and the Lessons Learned.” After careful consideration I have decided to post it on the Verkley.com website. I was asked “wasn’t your year long efforts worth selling it like all other books? I agree, yet I’m putting it out there so that anyone can read it. All I ask is that you Pass It Forward. By that I mean, you write something; a book, an article or something of value to yourself and then pass it on to others. What ever you decide to do, know that others will benefit from you reading this. So enjoy.

Any comments are welcome to frank@verkley.com.

To read Frank’s book, visit: http://verkley.com/frank/ (PDF Format – 18.3mb)

John and Patti-Jo have decided to get married on July 7 2007. The wonderful event will be held at  http://www.gchfc.ca/homepage/view/index.php?