Comments for The Yekepa Home on the Web http://yekepa.wordpress.com Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:21:03 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on About by Peter Thejll http://yekepa.wordpress.com/about/#comment-193 Peter Thejll Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:21:03 +0000 /about/#comment-193 #19: Thanks for the suggestion. I have put it on the site, but I am not shure. I went to the VTC once, as a kid, and it seems to me the VTC was a wider building? Anyone out there have a picture know to be of the VTC? #19: Thanks for the suggestion. I have put it on the site, but I am not shure. I went to the VTC once, as a kid, and it seems to me the VTC was a wider building? Anyone out there have a picture know to be of the VTC?

]]> Comment on About by Peter Gaul http://yekepa.wordpress.com/about/#comment-192 Peter Gaul Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:35:06 +0000 /about/#comment-192 Photo 16....could it be the entrance to the VTC (vocational training center) compound opposite area B ? Photo 16….could it be the entrance to the VTC (vocational training center) compound opposite area B ?

]]> Comment on About by Peter Thejll http://yekepa.wordpress.com/about/#comment-172 Peter Thejll Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:07:15 +0000 /about/#comment-172 Does anyone have a recording of that horn?? We would post it on the Yekepa home page! Does anyone have a recording of that horn?? We would post it on the Yekepa home page!

]]> Comment on About by R. Srinivasan http://yekepa.wordpress.com/about/#comment-171 R. Srinivasan Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:16:59 +0000 /about/#comment-171 The following is an account of a remarkable event observed along the railroad as a train composed of one Brandt truck and four Ballast Wagons performed its first trip from Tokadeh to Buchanan on Saturday, February 21, 2009. Throughout the train’s journey it blasted its loud horn as a normal practice.The Brandt truck horn sounds like a locomotive horn, the sound that people living along the rail road have not heard for many years, if at all. When people in the communities along the rail heard the blaring of the Brandt truck’s horn,they became excited and overjoyed.They stopped what they were doing just to watch the train pass by. The excitement of the Brandt truck’s journey culminated as it passed through Sanniquellie.On Saturdays,Sanniquellie normally has its market day,when hundreds of people come together to buy and sell merchandise.When the train passed by the town, the hundreds of people present heard the train blaring its horn.They stopped all of their activities to dance and chant in chorus, “Mittal Steel, Mittal Steel…”. The following is an account of a remarkable event observed along the railroad as a train composed of one Brandt truck and four Ballast Wagons performed its first trip from Tokadeh to Buchanan on Saturday, February 21, 2009.

Throughout the train’s journey it blasted its loud horn as a normal practice.The Brandt truck horn sounds like a locomotive horn, the sound that people living along the rail road have not heard for many years, if at all. When people in the communities along the rail heard the blaring of the Brandt truck’s horn,they became excited and overjoyed.They stopped what they were doing just to watch the train pass by.

The excitement of the Brandt truck’s journey culminated as it passed through Sanniquellie.On Saturdays,Sanniquellie normally has its market day,when hundreds of people come together to buy and sell merchandise.When the train passed by the town, the hundreds of people present heard the train blaring its horn.They stopped all of their activities to dance and chant in chorus, “Mittal Steel, Mittal Steel…”.

]]> Comment on About by Emanuel Sandberg http://yekepa.wordpress.com/about/#comment-170 Emanuel Sandberg Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:04:21 +0000 /about/#comment-170 Hello I am a frequent traveller to Liberia. I worked in the material administration department MAD June 1982- December 1985 (I was also the head of a Swedish relief organisation during the last part of the war (almost 3 years) before and after Taylors presidence since 1997 i have visited Liberia ,mostly Monrovia, at least 1 time a year I have just returned after a trip to Yekepa and Monrovia. It was sad to see Yekapa now and remember how it was during my time there. I really miss my time with Lamco.My family and I really enjoyed living i Yekepa. Hello
I am a frequent traveller to Liberia. I worked in the material administration department MAD June 1982- December 1985
(I was also the head of a Swedish relief organisation during the last part of the war (almost 3 years) before and after Taylors presidence since 1997 i have visited Liberia ,mostly Monrovia, at least 1 time a year
I have just returned after a trip to Yekepa and Monrovia. It was sad to see Yekapa now and remember how it was during my time there.
I really miss my time with Lamco.My family and I really enjoyed living i Yekepa.

]]> Comment on Lamco Nimba Swimming Club by Jens Alenius http://yekepa.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/lamco-nimba-swimming-club/#comment-169 Jens Alenius Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:46:15 +0000 http://yekepa.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/lamco-nimba-swimming-club/#comment-169 Check out more yekepa movies at my account in youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/jensiator Please contact me there. The sound from the pool movie clip if from another place and time. My father 8mm camera did not record sound. Check out more yekepa movies at my account in youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/jensiator
Please contact me there.
The sound from the pool movie clip if from another place and time. My father 8mm camera did not record sound.

]]> Comment on About by Randy http://yekepa.wordpress.com/about/#comment-168 Randy Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:18:25 +0000 /about/#comment-168 Randy Judd-Harrison, then Randy Harrison. 1973-1976, we lived on the Lutheran church compuound down the street from the international school where my brother and I attended class. At the time there were no other U.S. citizens attending school, so when the nationalities split up to attend classes (again) in their own venacular, my brother and I were assigned to the Brittish Venacular. That assignment left an impression on us to this day. Miss Catel, yes the Brittish Venacular instructor. I'm wondering if anyone of the same era remembers this instructor? or even better, Miss Catel herself, To this day, our family speaks very fondly of our time in Yekepa, spending Sundays at the pool, outings in the bush, and the mini bike mode of transportation for the school kids. It was a squadron of kids on mini bikes in V formation that escorted then President Tolberts Limousine during a Presidential Visit. I digress. Rj Randy Judd-Harrison, then Randy Harrison. 1973-1976, we lived on the Lutheran church compuound down the street from the international school where my brother and I attended class. At the time there were no other U.S. citizens attending school, so when the nationalities split up to attend classes (again) in their own venacular, my brother and I were assigned to the Brittish Venacular. That assignment left an impression on us to this day. Miss Catel, yes the Brittish Venacular instructor. I’m wondering if anyone of the same era remembers this instructor? or even better, Miss Catel herself,

To this day, our family speaks very fondly of our time in Yekepa, spending Sundays at the pool, outings in the bush, and the mini bike mode of transportation for the school kids. It was a squadron of kids on mini bikes in V formation that escorted then President Tolberts Limousine during a Presidential Visit.
I digress.
Rj

]]> Comment on Surfing Liberia by Julius http://yekepa.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/surfing-liberia/#comment-167 Julius Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:20:07 +0000 http://yekepa.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/surfing-liberia/#comment-167 yekepa was beautiful and we hope to see it that way again yekepa was beautiful and we hope to see it that way again

]]> Comment on About by Mike Moore http://yekepa.wordpress.com/about/#comment-166 Mike Moore Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:01:38 +0000 /about/#comment-166 Hi There, I am Mike Moore and I was the Chief Internal Auditor (Known as the CIA) I was there from 1980 to 1984 and from 1986 to 1990. I must say that we had a fabulous life and so very sad at what has happened. I feel deeply for the liberian People who have suffered incredibly since that time. I now live on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. Hi There,
I am Mike Moore and I was the Chief Internal Auditor (Known as the CIA) I was there from 1980 to 1984 and from 1986 to 1990. I must say that we had a fabulous life and so very sad at what has happened. I feel deeply for the liberian People who have suffered incredibly since that time. I now live on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia.

]]> Comment on Episode 1 Liberia by arcelormittal liberia http://yekepa.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/episode-1-liberia/#comment-165 arcelormittal liberia Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:46:02 +0000 http://yekepa.wordpress.com/?p=88#comment-165 [...] 1 Liberia arcelormittal has made a film about rebuilding a society.http://yekepa.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/episode-1-liberia/Liberia: Sea Erosion Threatens Buchanan City, Supt Expresses Fears AllAfrica.comThe constant threat [...] [...] 1 Liberia arcelormittal has made a film about rebuilding a society.http://yekepa.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/episode-1-liberia/Liberia: Sea Erosion Threatens Buchanan City, Supt Expresses Fears AllAfrica.comThe constant threat [...]

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