{"id":27278,"date":"2025-08-19T19:10:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T23:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=27278"},"modified":"2026-04-03T01:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:43:03","slug":"salute-to-paul-caron-who-died-friday-august-15-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=27278","title":{"rendered":"salute to PAUL CARON who died Friday August 15, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FOND MEMORIES OF PAUL CARON – September 1999.<\/div>\n

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IT was a delightful summer afternoon when we pulled our rent a car<\/div>\n
up beside a roadside picnic bench in the south of France.  Paul and Denise Caron<\/div>\n
, Marjorie and AlanSkeoch had retired from the classroom.  Paul pulled the cork from a<\/div>\n
bottle ofFrench wine\u2026Denise and Marjorie unwrapped cheese and warm baguettes. And we made a  toast to the staff and students of Parkdale collegiate<\/div>\n
backin Toronto.  We had retired and planned this celebration.   There was the smell of autumn in the air.  We bought the wine at a French gas station choosing upscale wine rather than the wine suggested by the owner. His<\/div>\n
garden hose wine was  little too cheap . \u2026about a buck a bottle (used bottle) and cork it ourselves.  Not fitting our toast to Parkdale students and staff.  Denise and Marjorie had been Parkdalians as much as we had been..<\/div>\n

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My favorite memory of Paul was at one of our rock and roll Parkdale assemblies in which Paul re -enacted a tune by Jerry Lee Lewis. <\/div>\n
  He added a twist.   He played the piano backwards\u2026his hands behind his back.   Jumping as only jerry and Paul could do;<\/div>\n
The students went wild.  <\/div>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
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FOND MEMORIES OF PAUL CARON – September 1999. IT was a delightful summer afternoon when we pulled our rent a car up beside a roadside picnic bench in the south of France.  Paul and Denise Caron , Marjorie and AlanSkeoch had retired from the classroom.  Paul pulled the cork from a bottle ofFrench wine\u2026Denise and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}