David Duncan was really impressed with the celebration that the city of London threw for our Olympic heroes. He was a guest of honour at the JLC event, which saw hundreds of people cheering and supporting our local athletes.  Duncan summed up the whole event perfectly, “Too often we don’t stop and reflect. Myself as…

Joe Barker is a swimmer who specializes in the breaststroke. He achieved a Canadian Record at the German Open Swimming Championships in Berlin in 2008 for 50m Breaststroke with a time of 39.96 . He represented Canada at two Paralympic games. He was recently honoured at the John Labatt Centre along with several other Olympic athletes.…

Darda Sales has competed in the last three Olympic games. She helped to bring home a Gold Medal for Canada in the Sydney 2000 Summer Paralympics. Her relay team also broke a World Record in the 4 x 100m medley at the games. She was back at the 2004 games in Athens and captured a…

Joe Bartoch does what is arguably the most difficult stroke you can do in the pool. “I do the 100-metre butterfly, that’s my specialty and I’m also part of the Canadian relay.” He was just one of the athletes that the city of London honoured last week at the John Labatt Centre. There were a…

I’ve been fortunate enough to conduct a lot of interviews over the years. I’ve met and talked with some pretty famous people who I really admire. You’d think, by now, interviewing celebrities would be a piece of cake for me, wouldn’t you? Unfortunately, that is not the case. This interview in particular was a bit…

This February people all over Canada were electrified by the energy and excitement of The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. It was amazing to see so many of our athletes put in stellar performances and take home some medals in the process. London, Ontario had more than its fair share of medal winners. I especially loved seeing Christine…