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On the extreme left is the Rondel house (which is still there) and the large building to the far right is the old hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d34ea6e4b04baeaff5e47c/1440289819834-ZU3DFXC2IY0ENJ4QPW7U/Unknown107i.jpg Photos - Photo courtesy of Sande Jenkins Sandbom Lake McMurray School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d34ea6e4b04baeaff5e47c/1440289876665-LDPUG05HJKYK34P1VAU4/Unknown118i.jpg Photos - Photo courtesy of Sande Jenkins Sandbom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d34ea6e4b04baeaff5e47c/1440289936303-5B0HEW45CPOTG4612UJU/Unknown119i.jpg Photos - Photo courtesy of Sande Jenkins Sandbom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d34ea6e4b04baeaff5e47c/1440289983098-SJS8JCN26LMOG6M8ZG2M/eventsBig.jpg Photos - Photo courtesy of Sande Jenkins Sandbom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d34ea6e4b04baeaff5e47c/1440290013134-AO0WUPD1B9X86D58EQ3J/Bud_Tommy_Dorothy_Class_Photoi.jpg Photos - Photo courtesy of Sande Jenkins Sandbom Tommy, Dorothy, and "Bud" are children of Charles Jenkins and Pearl Laflamme Jenkins, while Jack is the son of John Van Sinderen and "Babe" Laflamme Van Sinderen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d34ea6e4b04baeaff5e47c/1440290071396-5GM9EQX9CYCSI8D5QWZE/Freida__dick_per_vi2.jpg Photos - Photo courtesy of Sande Jenkins Sandbom Richard (Dick) Cantlin and wife Freida - newlyweds ca.1930s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d34ea6e4b04baeaff5e47c/1440290198628-QU6MJKC5SAC07CIFRZOJ/Laflame_or_Thomas.jpg Photos - Photo courtesy of Sande Jenkins Sandbom I am not sure who this is, but we think it is either John Van Sinderen (l) and Charles Jenkins (r) or Charles Laflamme (r) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d34ea6e4b04baeaff5e47c/1439913369275-3XCOGJM41ENDE24RFFQC/Alice.jpg Photos - Photo courtesy of Sande Jenkins Sandbom Aunt Alice Thomas Slater (tallest). I am not sure who the gal is on the far left (Alice's friend Vienna?), but the young gal is Alice's daughter, Flora Mavros, and the boy is my uncle, Larry Thomas. I am not sure, but I think the dock they are on is the public access one that was across the highway and down a dirt road from the Big Lake Tavern on Highway 9 near where the Thomases lived. Given the age of Larry and Flora, I would think these photos are from around 1943-1945 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d34ea6e4b04baeaff5e47c/1440290266934-LA1ZSRU29DMFF256OAXI/Gramma_Thomas.jpg Photos - Photo courtesy of Sande Jenkins Sandbom is L to R, back: Violet Thomas Jenkins and her mom Hazel Thomas (my mom & grandma). In front of Violet, on left is Larry Thomas. I believe next to Larry, the gal in the middle (with the hat) is Larry's niece/my cousin, Nancy Thomas. I don't know who the others are. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55d34ea6e4b04baeaff5e47c/1439913373629-F8ZINR7W7U7DSUFZELNY/Big+Lake+School+Pic--Viola.JPG Photos - Photo courtesy of Sande Jenkins Sandbom Viola Jenkins Ebel Savage (who now resides in Anacortes) is the second girl from the right, second row back. 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