DON'T GO AWAY, TOROLA'S, ONLY A WEEK OR TWO LEFT OF PHOTOS OF OUR REUNION

YLITALO'S, HYRKAS'S...(TAKEN AT DONELLE AND JIM'S THIS PAST SUMMER...MOST WERE AT THE REUNION)

LANA'S TURN TO TELL TALES OF THE FAMILY
LOTS OF LAUGHS FROM EVERYBODY'S STORIES!

ELLEN AND CHESTER'S FAMILY (FROM SUMMER PIC)  PHIL AND KIM WERE NOT AT OUR REUNION...ONLY IN SPIRIT.  JOJO AND TIM ARE  MISSING FROM THIS PICTURE

PEG (TOROLA) AND JEFF LEUDEMAN

DISCUSSING DIS AND DAT:  NANCY KAUPPILA, NED MILLER, DAVE TOROLA
KEN HYRKAS, EJ TERVO

HUMUNGOUS SAUNA, HOLDS 20

GREAT BEACH AND LITTLE ISLAND FROM THE DOCK
SANDY BOTTOM, WARM WATER

more reunion 2015

FEW OLDSTERS, CANES, WALKERS, ETC.  AIN'T GETTIN' OLD GRAND?
BILL, MAIJA (GETTING UP TO TELL A MUMMU/VAARI STORY), ELLEN Y.

FEW MORE CANES...BOB AND LORRAINE TOROLA

FEW OF PETE TOROLA (ELLEN) FAMILY...HELMINEN'S (MARGIE) AND SPOUSES AND ME

MORE OF MY FAMILY....DAVE AND  ANN  MINUS A FEW KIDS
PETE, MADDIE AND LIZZIE

MORE GAGA FUN (CLICK TO ENLARGE)

                                  GALS IN THE GAGA PIT......

LISTENING TO STORIES OF MUMMU AND VAARI, ETC.

JO JO (YLITALO) AND BOB JACKOLA...GOT THE RE-GIFTED YOUNGEST BABY AWARD FROM OUR PREVIOUS REUNION

ELAINE LEUKUMA (KATIE'S), KAYLA TAIVALKOSKI (JOANNE'SO), CLAIRE KORKKO (BARBARA) AND LEA TERVI (KRISTEN'S)

LEO TOROLA CHUGGING DOWN THE ROAD WITH HIS MANDOLIN SO HE CAN PLINKUTAA WITH THE REST OF THE JAMMERS

MORE REUNION

MY TWO SPECIAL PETER TOROLA'S AND I

AL AND MARIA TOROLA FAMILY

BOYS...HYRKAS, HELPPI, HILL,ETC.

COUSINS GABBING...JOHN & TRACY TOROLA, KORKKO GIRL, BRIAN AND JEAN TOROLA AND MUGGA HILLSTROM (ANOTHER EMCEE}

ANOTHER FORM OF VOLLEYBALL?

GORDON AND PAULA LEPPANEN

MORE CATCHING UP GABS

(hope I got the right girls names here, with all my chunks of paper of who's who)
Heidi Leudeman, Kara Kivisto, Lela Torola, Joan Leudeman, Carrie Torola, Rhea Torola

Me, GRAVEL GERTIE HERSELF (WET SWIM SUIT, HAIR, ETC.), READING A LETTER FROM VAARI, MY NOTES FROM THE LACLABELLE REUNION IN 1998, RE-GIFTING THE YOUNGEST BABY AWARD FROM THAT REUNION, REMEMBERED A COUPLE OTHER  FUNNY THINGS FROM LACLABELLE, THEN WE PLAYED BARNYARD...MOO, MOO, CLUCK, CLUCK, OINK, OINK, ETC.

LITTLE BIT JAMMING GOING ON...LEO SITTING ON LEFT, DAVE, ADAM?, STEVE, TERRY, EDNY, TIM

JANIE TOROLA AND KARL HELPPI HAVING A CHAT BY THE SHORE

JOHN AND TRACY TOROLA, FROM OLATHE, KANSAS

TOROLA REUNION

BOB AND LORRAINE'S FAMILY

LANA HEINONEN'S FAMILY

leo and esther's family:  Kathy and Steve Tarnowski family right/top
Denise and Steve johnson middle left, Barb and Tim korkko middle-right, John and Tracey bottom left, Steve and Mary right

JOANNE T., LIZZIE AND ANN TOROLA, PEG LEUDEMAN

CAROL AND DOUG CLINE

OUR WUNNERFUL RECPTIONIST,  DONELLE AH0

THIS GAME BELOW IS CALLED "GAGA"....IT WAS GOING FROM MORNING TILL NIGHT, ALL AGES LOVED IT.  YOU GOTTA HIT THE BALL AT YOUR OPPONENT, BUT IF YOU GET  HIT ON THEIR KNEES OR BELOW, YOU'RE OUT.   KIDS CAME OUT OF THERE, SWEATING BULLETS AND PUFFING LIKE MAD, RED FACES!!!

                                         AND DON'T ASK ME WHY IT'S CALLED "GAGA"....SHEESH!

TOROLA FAMILY REUNION, SEPT. 2015

253 OF US RELLIES GATHERED, CAMPED, STORIED, MUSIC, SWAM, PLAYED GAMES, TALKED ABOUT OLD TIMES....A GREAT TIME WAS HAD BY ALL.!

PAUL TOROLA WAS THE ONLY ONE OF US OLDIES THAT WASN'T THERE. (PETE DIED IN 2010, AND EVA IN 2011)  THIS WAS THE MESSAGE FROM PAUL AT THIS TIME:

"WISH I WAS THERE AT THE REUNION. MY HEART IS THERE AND I KNOW IT WILL BE, (IS) THE BEST REUNION EVER!"

PPAPA

Vaari's letter is now on the Torola Reunion page.

Trudi Haataja will be teaching chair yoga at Park Ave. where I live, (Ellen)   Starting sept. 10, she will teach a "trial run" chair yoga for FREE for anyone interested.  It will be 9:30 AM on Thurs.

You will use the "high-rise" entrance, go straight ahead to the community room on the left of the hall, where there will be chairs.

Trudi will do warm-up stretches, then yoga strength postures for the body, followed by flexibility and relaxation for the body.  Mostly, she will do this class while seated, but for those who want to stand for strengthening of the body, we will offer some standing options.  It will be 45 to 50 min. class.  with yoga, trudi  incorporates breathing more deeply for More energy, better release of muscle tightness, or body stress.  Trudi says she often gets this comment after yoga : it feels the same as after a massage. :)

If there is enough continued interest, Trudi will continue the class, and a fee will be charged...the more people, the cheaper the class.  4-6 people=$4 each,  7-9 people= $3, 10 or more, $2

Also, note that it's possible to adjust the time or day if it works better for the class.