Cornwall Standard Freeholder
29 May 2010
Standard-Freeholder associate editor Claude McIntosh has shone the spotlight on many a local politician or issue in his 40 years at the newspaper, but in a couple of months, the spotlight will be directly on the scribe.
McIntosh will be the guest of honour for this year’s kickoff Dinner and Roast for the Celebrity Walk and Breakfast campaign scheduled for Sept. 8.
The Celebrity Walk is the largest annual fundraising event held by the Children’s Treatment Centre.
Never one to withold his opinion, McIntosh has been a mainstay in the Standard-Freeholder newsroom for the past four decades.
Love him or hate him, there are few readers who pass by his column without taking in at least a few paragraphs.
“It’s often said actions speak louder than words,” said Sean Adams, chairman of the dinner and roast committee. ” But Claude’s words often speak louder than the actions he skewers. His witty and perceptive columns are a tremendous service to the community.”
Politicians often feature prominently in his Coffee Break column, which runs on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, and a number of local representatives, present and past, are lining up to join the roast. The lineup includes MP Guy Lauzon, MPP Jim Brownell, Mayor Bob Kilger, Acting Inspector Bob Burnie of the Cornwall Community Police Service, Art Buckland, trustee for the Upper Canada District School Board, and Milton Ellis, publisher and general manager of the Standard-Freeholder.
Emceeing the event will be former MP and mayor Ed Lumley.
The dinner starts at 6 p.m. at the Best Western Parkway Inn. Tickets are $100 and a tax receipt for $48 will be issued. Contact the Children’s Treatment Centre at 613 933-4400 613 933-4400 or ctcsdg@cogeco.net.
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Post #1 By junglelord
What an intriguing collection of names. And to think that Ed Lumley – who pulled strings for Bishop Eugene Laorcque to ensure that convicted American clerical molester Carl Stone could stay in Cornwall – is emcee. For an event for the Children’s Treatment Centre.