KomiArcticOil World Wide Community

As many of you have already heard, plans are being made to hold the 2005 KAO Calgary Reunion around the time of the Calgary Stampede in July. We have heard that many of our Russian KAO friends plan to make the trip to Calgary for the occasion. So, this email is to make sure everyone on our current email list becomes aware of the event, and has time to plan accordingly for it. The basic planning has begun, but now many of the details need to be dealt with. Here is what we have done so far, and what needs to be done next.

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Photos from KAO Reunion in Calgary on Saturday, November 6, 2004.

(Direct link to photo album)

The world is truly a small place. Not many nights ago, I sat down for supper with Gerry Stoddart and Tim Van Goodouver. Last Wednesday, I ate my evening meal with Nona Kettlewell. And told them all about the last reunion with the employees and friends of KAO. It so happened that I had the same digital recorder with me and so played for Nona the special message from a friend she had first met in Kyrgyzstan!!! Within the same few days, I talked with Bruce who had worked with Jim Guthrie and Bruce Alexander in the Arctic so many years ago and will head back to the Arctic again this year, where I have no doubt he will report that all of us in Kyzylorda are doing just fine in another wild and crazy place.

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Letter from Dennis Knudtson

It has been a while since the last notice of the next KAO Reunion in Calgary. We have been updating our e-mail address list. We have had a lot of help from many of you for this; thank you. As will always be the case though, we are still missing several addresses, and more input is always welcome.
As mentioned earlier, the Reunion (11 Years) will be held on Saturday, November 9, 2002.
 
The location of the event will be at the Blind Monk Bar and Restaurant in Calgary. The address is 2500 - 4 Street SW, Calgary. This is the same location we used two years ago.

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Most you of already know that “KomiActicOil” has celebrated its 10th Anniversary this November. KAO people have celebrated this important date in Usinsk and Calgary. Thinking of those who weren’t able to attend to these parties, we are featuring two photo albums with pictures from these events on our site. By doing so, we hope that we can bring all KAO people together regardless where they might be on the map. Both galleries contain almost 100 photos taken at these parties and submitted to us by Jim Guthrie, Dennis Knudtson and Verna Perry.

See more photos in the ”Photogallery“.

Announcement! Announcement! Announcement!

At last we have selected the date for this extra special, most important social event of 2001. Holy Smokes!!! TEN years has gone by. So get out your pens and ink in the following info:

KAO Reunion will be held on Friday, November 16, 2001 at Hy’s Restaurant Cellar in Calgary. The festivities will start at 6 pm. So call your travel agents, look in your points budget, squeeze the old piggy bank, organize your time on rotation, plead with your boss, do whatever you have to do to make it to this great event!

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Happy Birthday Anna!!!

We had great fun! More photos covering this particular event will be added to this news section upon processing of the films and upon submission of the photo material to us by those responsible people. :)  If you wish to add your comments to this section, please feel free to send us your information via “contact us” page. Click on the photo to view the entire set of photographs.

(On this photo: Anna and Maria)

Click here to see all photos from this party.