Greater Expectations

Allan Ronald Manchester was born April 29, 1955 in Arnprior District Hospital. Raised on a small dairy farm between Carp and Stittsville, just outside of Ottawa Ontario. Primary education was in Carp Public School that became Huntley Centennial. Secondary schooling was through Almonte District, Bell High, and Earl of March Secondary. Drifting through, he managed to graduate grade 12. School normally bored him, and his goal was to attain an average of 55 to 65%. Married at 18 to his 16 year old sweetheart of 2 years, Irene, he then attended and graduated two year Business Administration at Algonquin College in Ottawa. Shortly after his graduation, he failed his first business venture of Country Kitchen Donut Shop in Smiths Falls Ontario. A year later he attended Eastern Pentecostal Bible College, graduating with a theological degree. Two years out of college he felt that his superiors in the church had dealt seditiously with his congregation, and he felt that he could no longer support the organization.