Newspaper clippings of Gord !

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[charlene]

re: Article about Illness..- I remember speaking with Barry before the show in Orillia at a side door where he was having a butt with some venue staff a couple of hours before showtime. He told me that Gord wasn't feeling well and had driven himself up to Orillia from home and was in a lot of stomach pain when he got out of the car in the Opera House parking lot. Barry thought it might be food poisoning because he wasn't feeling great himself..they had taken him over to the Orillia Soldier's Memorial Hopsital to be checked over..
We went down the street for dinner and came back about 45 minutes before showtime..Shortly after that a staff member of the Opera House came out and announced the show had been postponed due to illness..We milled around for quite a long time with a few other fans..sort of in shock and worry..forms were handed out in case we wanted to submit them for ticket refunds..when it got dark we headed back home to Whitby...oblivious to what was really happening..

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It was a very sad time for all of Canada in my opinion. The other day I listened to that 590 interview Gord & Barry Keane gave just before the holidays. And to hear Barry Keane say that one nurse told him when they lifted him for Hamilton Ontario, she didn't think he was gonna make it to Hamilton... Thank goodness he battled it.

Char on the photo of the Auditorium in Orillia, is it that the building that today is named after Gord ?

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[charlene]

Inside the Opera House is the Gordon Lightfoot Auditorium..
http://www.operahouse.orillia.on.ca/naming.htm

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Thanks Char.

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pics-June 16-2002-Rideau Hall, Ottawa, Ontario with Gov.General Adrienne Clarkson..

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I have that entire program on VHS tape, who would have known ! When you look at that first pic you can see the "Happy Face" sticker that was place there by his daughter if Im not mistaken, am I right Char ? And also what looks like a wooden patch or something that we had a discussion about some years ago as exactly what is it for.


Great pics Charlene, thanks for posting them.

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yes - he told the audience at Massey that Meredith put that HAPPY FACE sticker on his guitar..
I have no idea about the black patch..perhaps I'll remember and ask him in May..
or not remember..
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That patch, most likely, is to keep his belt buckle from digging into the wood on the guitar. I've seen other guitar and banjo players use them for just that purpose.

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