Rick DeBanks含羞草研究社� video of a wild Surrey-area house party he attended almost 30 years ago has been viewed more than 12,000 times since he posted it to Youtube just one week ago.
The 33-minute clip shows a house full of rocking teens and young adults ringing in the new year at a residence in Newton, near 144th Street and Highway 10.
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DeBanks says he used a camcorder to shoot the video with the help of a friend 含羞草研究社� in an era before cellphone cameras were commonplace, of course.
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DeBanks said the video features a lot of Princess Margaret high school students and grads.
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DeBanks, who lives in South Surrey, now runs and makes videos about the company含羞草研究社檚 sports-nutrition products. In the mid-1990s, after broadcasting school, he co-hosted an 含羞草研究社淚nside Surrey含羞草研究社� news program on community TV, and has posted one of those episodes 含羞草研究社� focusing on the Melanie Carpenter homicide in 1995 含羞草研究社� on his Rick Richards account.
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On Youtube, he含羞草研究社檚 also planning to post video of his days as a football player with the Surrey Rams.
As for the Surrey party video, DeBanks said he含羞草研究社檚 not entirely surprised by the reaction to it on social media.
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