Newspaper clippings of Gord !

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Hey dad2mak (Don)

Thanks, that may well be the reason for that patch that was given when we first discussed it some time ago.

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Originally Posted by Rainbow Trout

Thank you so much for all your wonderful articles, it has been such fun reading all that you have posted! Please keep them coming! You are a treasure.

So sorry Rainbow Trout, I was too busy posting these posts that I had not seen your post before this morning, 04/11/2008. Thanking you very kindly but believe me Im no treasure.

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A few pages on the "House Of Gord" !

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[TC]

Hey Jesse Joe! Many thanks again for posting all of your Lightfoot articles. This has greatly added to my "Gord" collection. I should say that it's adding to my Gord collection because you seem to have an endless collection.



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Thanks TC {Tony} and you are most likely welcome !

It is really your thread, since it was your idea for these articles. Last checked 1907 views... Maybe wasn't a bad idea after all...

Im happy if some of you guys enjoy them. I have been collecting anything I was ever able to find about this great Poet Genius since discovering his music in 1969. "Black Day In July," is the first song I heard of him, and was hooked.

Before owning a computer and discovering this board, I really thought I was the only big fan he had, pretty crazy since Gordon sang all over the world. Made an Axx of myself because of it. Thinking no one else could possibly know as much about Lightfoot than me.

This group which I think is like a family of Lightheads is really wonderful, and they have taught me a whole lot about ~gl~ that I did not know. Great people fine folks, all sharing great admiration for this super Canadian singer songwriter.

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Hey Jessie Joe, do you have the publication (the sounding board) from Martin Guitar that features Gords D-18GL?

Tony

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Yes I do Tony ! However the entire publication is not about the D18-GL signature guitar, if that is what you meant. The one I have only has a small article on that particular guitar, which I posted a few pages back, page # 4 to be exact.

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Jesse Joe, I did see that article on page 4. What I have shows Gord on the front page along with George Jones. Then page 9 is all Gord and the D18GL. The reason I'm asking is that I have an extra copy of it. If you do not have it and would like me to send it to you, PM me your address.

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Carry On Scouting & Front Page Challenge ! !

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Lori Ewing
The Canadian Press

TORONTO
When Canada decided to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics, Jay Triano couldn't fathom the thought of another four years spent sweating in the gym to get back to the Games.
So he returned to Simon Fraser University -- to play football.
Triano, now an assistant coach with the Toronto Raptors, and Leo Rautins, Canada's national men's coach and a Raptors TV analyst, were both members of the Olympic men's team that never made it to Moscow.
The decision to stay home became a defining moment in their careers. Rautins would never play in an Olympics. Triano lost interest in basketball for a while.
Now, amid rumblings about boycotts of this summer's Beijing Olympics, both say they believe skipping Moscow may have been the wrong call.
"It served no purpose,'' Rautins said. "In my opinion, it accomplished nothing. The athletes basically became the pawns and it really didn't do anything. Everything we did for four years was to gear up for that, and then all of a sudden it was gone.''
Recent bloodshed in Tibet has human rights activists and some politicians calling for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics.
Pro-Tibetan activists held a rally on Parliament Hill demanding a Canadian boycott, although Canadian Olympic Committee officials have said they're not considering it.
The Belgian government, though, has said it wouldn't rule out a boycott, while French president Nicolas Sarkozy suggested boycotting the opening ceremonies was a possibility.
In 1980, U.S. President Jimmy Carter led calls for an international boycott of the Moscow Games to protest the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. Canada's then-Liberal government supported Carter along with the opposition Conservatives, and on April 23, then-external affairs minister Mark McGuigan told the House of Commons that Canada would not participate in the Games.
"We were at the qualifying tournament in Puerto Rico when we started hearing about the different rumblings,'' Triano said. "I think it was right before our final game, and we had already secured a spot (for the Olympics), when we heard there was a good chance we would not be going.
"The thing that bothered me is . . . the Afghanistan athletes (11 of them) went to the Olympics in Moscow,'' Triano added. "We thought what (the Russians) were doing was wrong, but the country they were doing it to didn't think it was wrong enough not to send their athletes to the Games.''
Men's basketball, coached by the late Jack Donohue, was the only Canadian team that qualified for Moscow. When the Canadians pulled out, Brazil was bumped up to take their spot.
"By many accounts, that might have been one of the best teams Canada's ever had, so we were pretty optimistic that we could win a medal,'' Rautins said.
"We peaked at the right time, we had gone to Puerto Rico for the Olympic qualifying tournament, got on a little bit of a roll,'' Triano said. "Who knows what would have happened? We definitely had something pretty special at the time.''
Instead of battling for a medal in Moscow, the Canadians were flown to Toronto and put up at the Royal York Hotel for two days. They were feted with a dinner, offered tickets to a hockey game and attended a concert in their honour featuring Gordon Lightfoot and Harry Chapin.
Small consolation

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