While you are visiting this cache, weather permitting, take a
refreshing dip in the Magnetawan River at the park. This is a busy
little oasis in the summer months so some stealth will be required.
Parking is available across the road from the park.
As this cache is very small, please bring along your own pen or
pencil. You may wish to visit a couple other team Royal caches in
the area... GCWPT6, GCXV0P, GCT6P2 & maybe GCW14W.
Richard Malcolm Thomas
An excerp of the story that appeared in the Almaguin news the
week after his death. Please go to
http://www.hips.com/armour/Richard_08.htm for the entire story.
Richard Thomas was best known locally for being the Reeve of
Armour Township and for nearly denying former premier Ernie Eves
his political destiny. Blessed with a golden voice and an unabashed
boldness to question what had come before, Thomas left a mark on
the world with his generosity and intellect.
Richard Malcolm Thomas was born February 4, 1932, in Toronto,
the youngest of nine children. Thomas left home to blaze his own
trail as a very young man, travelling and working in what would
become his natural field - radio. He found early success in the
radio field in which he excelled not only as an on air personality,
but a writer, producer and programmer - often wearing all of those
hats at once.
Despite that success, Thomas took a step back from broadcasting
in the 1960s and moved back to Almaguin Highlands, where he had
spent a great deal of time as a child, to raise his family with his
wife, Jenny. They settled in Kearney where Thomas built and
operated a recording studio while continuing to do voice-over work
for radio and television.
It was during this time that he started to take action on one of
his firmly held beliefs that society’s dependence on crude oil for
fuel is harmfully foolish. By the late 1970s Thomas had built a
still and was producing ethanol fuel that powered a converted 1970
Volvo. He fed the still sugar mangels and Jerusalem artichokes,
which proved very efficient at releasing natural sugars for the
production of alcohol.
... follow the link above to read the entire story.
