Daniel Lapp, Musician:

(Daniel Lapp was the Duchess Park Grad President in “Let it Be in '83” in Prince George).

In PG, Grad ‘83 was a year still shaking off (or shaking from) feathered bangs and disco moves. Or you avoided all that hanging out with the gang that smoked Players at recess in the gravel parking lot next to the old Dusters, Datsuns, pickup trucks and rustbuckets blaring Metallica or maybe some big brother’s 8-track of Kansas. It was PG after all, and any vehicle over five years old was showing the wear and tear of salt roads and too long winters. And of course at my school, if you were lucky enough to even have wheels, it was usually from the mid to late ‘60s or early ‘70s...just like us. I was a country bumpkin pretty much...growing up on the other side of the Nechako River and bussing it or taking the ‘68 LTD each day over the Fraser bridge into town. It was not uncommon for weeks and even months to go by where we’d leave for school in the dark and get home in the dark. It was almost ‘the north’ - well if you were talking to any relatives down south, it was the north – but those of us who lived there knew better. We had parties down at the river – rarely at kids' houses - we weren’t afraid of the cold and preferred the privacy of a rocky beach over some mom and pops shag carpet rumpus room. Volleyball was my game and the trumpet kept me sane in the ole town - that I couldn’t get away from soon enough. Nice to visit though.