The Doerksen Page

Calgary, Alberta


 

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Welcome to our home on the Net. We're happy to have you here. Look around, try some of the links, and just have fun. If you did, let us know about it and sign our guestbook. 

While I am sure the Tourist Bureau would disagree, the fact is Calgary has 8 or 9 months of winter and 3 or 4 months of bad motorcycling weather. But when the weather’s good, it’s spectacularly so, inviting you to hop an inner-tube and float the Bow River’s clear, cool waters. If you haven't been here before, Calgary is less than an hour's drive from the spectacular Rockies, and host of the famous Stampede and  site of the 1988 Winter Olympics. Until recently, Calgary had been considered by some to be a one-horse town (a two-headed horse named "GasnOil.") But lately things have been changing around here. The city has attracted head offices from other industry sectors, and is home to many thriving and imaginative high-tech companies (as well as the usual unimaginative and low-tech companies, which are also doing quite well.) 

Though we bill ourselves as a cowtown, Calgary offers a highly diverse population, fine restaurants of all types, and a home-grown arts community that does us proud. Visitors to our city often wonder why we are so modest.

 

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John and Helen Braun

Long-time Calgarians

 

 

 

Who we are and what we do
 

In his more lucid moments, Dennis works as a troubleshooter*/consultant/trainer for MicroNiche Computer Consultants. Too absent-minded to be trusted at the controls of a real aeroplane, Dennis has survived hundreds of crashes in Microsoft's® Flight Simulator. They really should get that program fixed! Tired of hearing about his aerial exploits, Kyle bought him Microsoft Golf, a computer golf game for Christmas. To everyone's horror, Dennis discovered online play, and work is a quickly fading memory. Fly fishing is his latest foolishness. He has yet to catch a fish, and has been heard asking how fish know there's a fly on the snow, and how do they break through the ice to get it!

 

Ellie is employed by ConocoPhillips as an office administrator. After she was born in Sunnyslope, Alberta, the town was closed permanently, the last of the horse thieves and railroad men driven off for good. Some time later her reed boat washed up on the banks of the Bow River. She was found by the local milkman who took her to his cottage where he and his wife raised her as their own daughter. Although a sparkling administrator and devoted wife and mother, she undergoes a frightening transformation when she bolts on her downhill skis.

 

Kyle (age 26), the smart one in the family, graduated from Stanford in the spring of 2004 with a self-directed degree in Neuro-Engineering at Stanford in 2005 in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis on Smart Product Design. He is currently engaged as an engineer with a design firm and enjoying the California life. His parents are unabashedly proud of him.


*Someone who finds troublemakers and shoots them.
 

Some people's kids:

 

I had been teaching my three-year old daughter, Caitlin, the Lord's Prayer. For several evenings at bedtime, she would repeat after me the lines from the prayer. Finally, she decided to go solo. I listened with pride as she carefully enunciated each word, right up to the end of the prayer:

"Lead us not into temptation," she prayed, "but deliver us some E-mail.  Amen."

 

 

 

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