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Central to the output of a prism, this acronym helps students identify primary and secondary colors.
What is ROYGBIV?
Home of the Pronghorns, Maclean’s 2024 rankings put Lois’ alma mater at #6.
What is the University of Lethbridge?
Transporting more than 25 million passengers per year in over 100 destinations, Lois hopes to become a frequent flyer on this local airline.
What is West Jet?
This common saving program is amongst Canadians to help plan for their Golden Years.
What is a Registered Retirement Savings Program (RRSP)?
Played on a 15x15 board, containing 225 squares, Lois will spend retirement mornings training this popular game.
What is Scrabble?
“Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
from teaching Lois fled,
Shelley, up next is you!”
follows this rhyming scheme.
What is the ABAB pattern?
Smaug, Puff, and Mushu are all cousins to this school’s mascot.
What are the Red Deer Lake Dragons?
According to Guinness World Records, this city is one of Latin America's fastest-growing communities and surely to be an imminent destination for Lois’s retirement travels.
Where is Playa Del Carmen?
With 311% increase in participation, this fastest growing sport in America is becoming a “big dill” amongst retirees.
What is pickleball?
Much like Lois, Monica from FRIENDS has 11 categories of these, including guest, fancy, and fancy guest.
What are towels?
Great, King, African, and Macaroni all dive into this category.
What are types of penguins?
Tactfully retiring before an impending strike, Lois says goodbye to this provincial union.
What is the Alberta Teacher’s Association?
Also known as the “Trunk 30”, this 298 kilometer trail is the destination of Lois’s October getaway.
What is the Cabot Trail?
Also known as Anne Murray's 1969 song, this term describes retirees who spend their summers in Canada, and winters south of the border.
What is a snowbird?
This swimming stroke is universally known as the hardest stroke.
What is a butterfly?
In Charlotte’s Web, this anthropomorphic comic relief rat helps the clan on the Zuckerman farm in exchange for food.
Who is Templeton?
Known as "The City of 100 Hellos", this former village was the start of Lois’s teaching career.
Where is Brooks, Alberta?
The color of an airplane's "Black Box".
What is orange?
Before retiring, this music legend sang, "I left a good job in the city. Working for the man every night and day."
Who is Tina Turner?
Finland claims the highest consumption per capita of this delight.
What is coffee?
tAUGHt dAIly in Grade One through Letterland, a grapheme describes this linguistic concept.
What are the letters that spell a sound?
Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston’s wedding, the Sydney Olympics, and the beginning of Lois’ teaching career with Foothill’s School Division are all major highlights of this milestone year.
What is the year 2000?
While firing up your taste buds with delicious camping recipes, Lois’s retirement will be spent watching Sid fiddle with this component of a trailer that connects with the tow vehicle.
What is the tongue?
Much older than our dearest Lois, the average age of retirement in Canada in 2025.
What is 65?
The author of Along Came a Spider, 1st to Die, and Cross.
Who is James Patterson?