Trinity Bay High ex-students to travel back in time for reunion

FORMER Trinity Bay High School students will have a chance to reminisce and relive the good old days when getting back together tonight.

Former students from all walks of life including doctors, lawyers, dentists, all forms of tradesmen, miners, teachers, bankers, real estate agents, novelists and small business owners will head to the Woolshed to take a trip down memory lane.

Any student who started their high school year at Trinity Bay High School in 1974 (Grade 8) and finished Grade 12 in 1979, including students who didn’t complete Grade 12, are welcome to attend.

So far 90 former students have confirmed attending the reunion to begin at 4pm on the second floor of the Woolshed.

Students from all Australian states, the United States and Singapore have already saved the date.

Leslie (nee Strange) Panting said former students would play in a band called The Marias in a ’70s/’80s themed evening.

“I am really looking forward to it. It should be a great night,” she said.

Ms Panting graduated Trinity Bay High School to work on the switchboard at the Cairns Post for two years before training as a chef and moving to Brisbane.

She married the skipper of a prawn trawler and had four daughters. Returning to Cairns in retirement two years ago, this time to the southern suburbs, Ms Panting said she had stayed in contact with a few close friends but was very interested to see how the lives of other school peers turned out.

Ms Panting said the plan was to head to the Jack after the Woolshed, where Justfa Kicks will be playing.

Any former student who is yet to register for the event is still welcome and can get in touch via the Facebook page.

For $35 guests receive canapes and discount drinks at the Woolshed on Shields St.