OK, I'm tearing up just reading this far and feeling the amazing vibe. This family hosted a breakfast in their massive garage many months later, which we attended. Same energy. They fed a giant group of people very nicely, had amusements for the kids, and generally did what trucker families obviously *can* do: make it all work. Good humour, gettin' it done ~ don't they make the managerial elites look just as incompetent as they have turned out to be. Love them all.
I remember the first time I met them with their zillions of kids running around :) thinking to myself these guys will carry Canada into the future one way or the other.
One of the greatest chapters in the story. The Jonkers are the backbone of this country!
OK, I'm tearing up just reading this far and feeling the amazing vibe. This family hosted a breakfast in their massive garage many months later, which we attended. Same energy. They fed a giant group of people very nicely, had amusements for the kids, and generally did what trucker families obviously *can* do: make it all work. Good humour, gettin' it done ~ don't they make the managerial elites look just as incompetent as they have turned out to be. Love them all.
I remember the first time I met them with their zillions of kids running around :) thinking to myself these guys will carry Canada into the future one way or the other.
I attend a fundraiser for Harold Jonker and Tamara Lich in Vineland this summer.. lovely to find out more about this man..