Cleaning out a tattered notebook…
1) On Monday, in a Pennsylvania court room, all those trumped up “assault” charges against former Winnipeg Blue Bombers head coach Mike Kelly will be formally expunged. The charges have already been dropped. Monday, officially, Kelly can say nothing ever happened.
The fact is, nothing happened in the first place, it just takes this kind of baloney to ruin someone’s life. What happened to Kelly is sad and sick and there are people in Winnipeg who should be ashamed of themselves.
2) I see that my friend, radio talk-show host Marty Gold at 92.9 KICK FM, has “an official document that was sent to Lyle Bauer reporting on the state of the Blue Bombers at the end of last season.” Apparently he acquired it from a Bomber board member.
Don’t know what it is and don’t know what he’s going to do with it, but whatever happens, it will make for very interesting radio.
3) Had a nice chat with Premier Greg Selinger at the Volunteer Manitoba Awards Dinner at the Convention Centre on Tuesday night. A very enthusaistic Premier said, “The 2012 World Indigenous Games, the first ever World Indigenous Games, are coming to Winnipeg. We got ‘em and they’ll look good in that new stadium if we can get it finished.”
According to the Premier, Sport Minister Eric Robinson is presently at the United Nations with WIN president Dr. Willie Littlechild putting the final details together for these first World Indigenous Games. Good for Winnipeg.
4) Giuseppe Denatale’s CFC 5 will be held June 4 at the Winnipeg Convention Centre. The very popular Joe Doerksen is the headliner.
Dwight Sutherland from Peguis is also on the card. Should be a great night.
5) There are people in Winnipeg who love the Chicago Blackhawks because of the presence of Jonathan Toews, but the Nashville Predators are really Winnipeg’s team.
With Jordin Tootoo, who spends much of his off-season in the ‘Peg, along with Colin Wilson and Dustin Boyd, Barry Trotz’s Preds have the biggest group of Manitobans in the NHL. Of course, if Wilson continues to play as well as he did against the Red Wings on Tuesday night, he just might single-handedly lead the Preds into the second round.
6)Went to the launch for Jerrad Peters’ new book, We Call it Soccer, at the Round table on Wednesday night. Fun book written by a great guy, Peters is the editor of ChristianWeek Magazine.
Published by Studio Publications (Full disclosure: Glen Tinley’s company published three of my books: Home Run, The Winnipeg Jets and In Search of Friends) the book is available at Chapters for only $12.95.
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