Gary Tompkins, Bio Page

[Zonker] Gary, aka Zonker

My real name is Gary Tompkins, but I've been known as Zonker in Montreal BBS circles for many years. The alias actually began while playing NTN Trivia in a bar even before I started BBSing in 1990. We were just picking names from Doonesbury, Phred was already taken, and Zonker stuck! [grin] I ran an old fashioned free BBS in Montreal called "The Crypt" for years, it finally went down in 2007. You can e-mail me on the net. I moved in 2000, e-mail me for my new address or phone number if you'd like it. I'm also a cat lover, and here's my Babe!
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Click here to read about what I've been up to lately. Well, maybe not lately, I don't update it that often. (Zonker's Online Journal) My blog at MySpace might be more up to date (or might not be!). Search for me on Facebook.

After many years in the plumbing and heating industry in Montreal, I now work at John Abbott College, located just west of Montreal in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Qu�bec.
I have also worked for the United Church of Canada as a professional Youth Worker and continue to do volunteer youth and church work.

I've been leading youth groups and doing other youth work for over thirty years, it keeps me young at heart! Lately I've been working with the youth at Trinity United Church, where I'm now teaching a senior Sunday School class and confirmation and helping to lead the youth group. The old youth group webpage is here, lots of pictures that haven't made it to Trinity's new site yet. Here are some pictures of the youth group I used to lead at Verdun United Church.

I'm proud to be a board member of the St. Lawrence Optimist Club, one of the few English language Optimist clubs in Qu�bec. Our biggest event of the year is an Easter egg hunt for children at Carrefour Angrignon on Easter Monday, which attracts well over 200 kids. Another major project is supplying school bags and school supplies for kids who can't afford it. For more information on the club, e-mail me. Click here to see our club's webpage.

Nesbitt School
Rosemount High School
St. Lawrence College (Cornwall campus)
John Abbott College

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