A big Christmas hello to everyone and a big thank you to all the people who are making this thing happen all the time.....mostly Jodi and Kelley..just a few words about what is going on in the Kent household.

We read the e-mails all the time from everyone and try to keep up with you all...Glad to hear that Suzy is doing well and think about her and will keep her in our prayers....

I'll try to keep this brief as it is hard to fill in 20 years in 20 minutes ....Janine and I have pretty much kept the same pace up since we left Uwp...doing approximately 100 dates ayear with our band Double Exposure....mostly casino, corporate and resort work as well as working full time jobs...me with Air Canada and Janine as a sales rep for various builders (over the years) selling new homes.

We have three beautiful daughters Lynzie now 18 and at university in Toronto, Brittany 15 and Kendall 12. We have a great life, have been very fortunate and feel blessed. This year has been the most difficult for us as we found out that our 15 year old Brittany had kidney failure and requires a transplant.

Needless to say things have slowed substantially at the Kent household, but you know sometimes God has a way of telling you it's time to slow down... Brittany is doing great on dialysis (10 hours each night) and goes to school like regular kid and we just found out that I am a match and we should be doing a transplant by late May or early June next year...

Normally in the summer time we live at our cottage and do gigs 4-5 nights a week at local resorts but this past summer we actually had a family vacation and took 11 days to go to Italy....we had such a great time (dialysis fluid and all) that it really reminded me of our tour of Spain and has renewed our interest in travel....in past years we would do sun vacations to get away from the cold but the kids are at a great age for travel now and are interested in doing Europe again...by the way on one of those sun vacations, we got to meet up with Anne Hirschfeld in Mobile and enjoyed their southern hospitality....we would like to invite anyone to come visit in Canada at the house or cottage ...its cheap here and we'd love to have you...just call ahead as we never know what we are going to be up to...also saw dave Broesch in Fla...many years back...

Oh almost forgot... all our kids are heavily into music...go figure ..and our oldest Lynzie has just released a Christmas CD to benefit a local charitable organization that has helped us with Brittany's situation...I've attached a picture of her and of Janine and I just before Britt's problems started ..we have a little more gray now....A merrry Christmas to all of you and hope to see some of you in the north country in the next few years.

Love to all,

Bill and Janine and kids

Bill and Janine Kent

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