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Life Story of Rickard Earl Ward Chapter 1 - My Name is not Richard! The name Rickard is the Scandinavian variant form of Richard. Chapter 2 - I Was Born in a Ski Lodge It sounds like Grandpa Norris ended up in Sun Valley, Idaho just by taking jobs as they came until he was offered work at the lodge there. “I won a few bets. There were people in Sun Valley that believed that I wouldn’t go through with the marriage.” - Norris Earl Ward on his marriage Chapter 3 - Hall’s Cabins - My First Home (1955-56) I didn’t know Norris’s parents died when he was young They lived and worked at a ski lodge but didn’t ski Chapter 4 - My First House (1957-1961) Sue was born in 1957 so it was time for a bigger place They moved out of the cabin and into a little house on 4th Street East and Walnut Avenue Grandpa loved baseball an he pitched for the Sun Valley fast-pitch softball team for many years Every summer they drove or took the train to Richfield, Utah to visit Grandma Jeri’s parents Grandma and Grandpa worked for Sun Valley which was owned by UP Railroad so they got cheap tickets Dad attended kindergarten in a Quonset hut in Sun Valley behind the Challenger Inn Chapter 5 - First Through Eighth Grade Years (1961-1968) Ketchum Grade School In 1st grade Dad accidentally stepped on the foot of the new girl Conchita Gonzales so she slapped him in the face “One day I was outside the school at recess and we were playing a game where you would link arms shoulder to shoulder in threes. You would then say ‘hay, hay, get out of my way, I just got back from the USA’ and then run into other threesomes. We ran into each other and I fell to the ground and heard my lower right leg break. I yelled “I broke my leg”. The teachers came running and sure enough my leg was broken.” - Dad in 2nd grade His mom was the operator who took the call for the ambulance but had no idea it was for her sun until she got home from work That’s why his right shoulder is a bit lower! His right leg is slightly shorter than his left In 3rd grade his teacher wasn’t afraid of using the paddle or whacking kids on the knuckles with a ruler Grandma would take Dad and his siblings to church but Grandpa wouldn’t attend He did help build the church though Dad was baptized in the Sun Valley branch on August 3, 1963 I was baptized in the same place about 34 years later They used to get so much snow he’d jump off the roof into it Dad and his friends would have fun hooky-bobbing One time Dad and his friend Rob were hanging onto a Jeep and Rob accidentally took out the trailer hitch lights when he fell off The drive found them and punched Rob in the face In 5th grade they moved to a bigger house at the base of Knob Hill in Ketchum In 1964 when Dad was around 9 UP Railroad sold the Sun Valley resort to the Janss Corporation who proceeded to lay most people off and bring in their own people from California Grandma and Grandpa both lost their jobs Their dogs had free roam of the town during the day Pepper didn’t come home one day and they think a sheepherder shot her Scruffy was attacked by a big dog and died a few days later Dad started wearing 1st and 5th grade The city of Ketchum started off as a mining town called Leadville Dad went to the Sun Valley Opera House to see “The Alamo” with John Wayne He met John Wayne at the lodge when he was a boy and had to stand on a crate to shake his hand Dad was waiting in the car and touched his Dad’s fishing pole that had an automatic reel He got a fish hook through his little finger and had to go to the emergency room One of the kids in his 8th grade class was Margot Hemingway the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway Hemingway stayed in the Sun Valley Lodge in 1939 to finish his novel For Whom the Bell Tolls and eventually committed suicide in Ketchum in 1961 Also in 8th grade he ran against some of the 9th graders from the nearby high school and beat them all with a 5 minute mile Chapter 6 - High School Years (1969-1973) The Eye of the World - Book One of ‘The Wheel of Time’ book Title The Eye of the World Subtitle Book One of ‘The Wheel of Time’ Authors Robert Jordan Publisher Macmillan Published Date 1990-01-15 Pages 670 Language en Categories Fiction Print Type BOOK Isbn13 9780312850098 Isbn10 0312850093 Thumbnail Relates a tale of the bestial Trollocs, the witch Moiraine, and three boys, one of whom is fated to become the Dragon–the World’s only hope and the sure means of its destruction ...