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Manage Print Subscription. Main Menu Search winnipegsun. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. This week, avid Virgin It got cancelled in favour of an infomercial about beds. LTI stands for Lloyd the Intern. He noted that the emphasis on community outreach permeates throughout the station now. Morning radio was whacky.
It was populated by shock jocks or built around edgy pop culture. That was the ticket to grab the ears of the coveted to year-old demographic. He just built this whole brand that centred around community and helping people and being positive.
A lot of things you see on the news are negative. Gets them in the right mind frame. He started out writing and producing commercials. Then Vic Grant, the station manager at the time, gave the young wannabe his own one-hour show, which was supposed to be about pop culture. Thank goodness I got to do it.
He was down to earth from the moment I met him. He was just Dave Burpee. The biggest mistake the station made, said Grant, was letting Burpee get away. Just a few months later, he accepted an offer from Power 97, a hard rock station, working evenings and weekends. One of his first ideas was to start a fishing derby to raise money for CancerCare Manitoba. Besides, Burpee loved fishing. He hated cancer.
And it would be a lark. Once I realized that you can make people happy from it… that was a bigger payoff than I could ever have known. Within four days, Burpee was marrying a couple on the frozen Red River, after getting not for the first time a one-time certificate to serve as a marriage commissioner. Burpee says producer and 'schedule keeper' Amber Saleem 'can make anything happen. It could be the craziest stuff. Burpee sums up his train of thought in two succinct sentences: "I just love that my whole life is ideas.
A few years back, he was babysitting his young niece for his sister, Susie. Home alone, he was trying to watch the World Junior hockey tournament on TV while drinking a beer and doing a crossword puzzle. He thought: How do people with a baby do anything? So he designed a hoodie that also serves as a baby pouch. Al and Jane Burpee prepare for cross-country skiing at their farm near Cooks Creek. Naturally, the quickest way to find out why Burpee is always trying to dream up the next big thing is by speaking to the couple who invented him 43 years ago.
I think his brain was going in a thousand different directions. Burpee would spend hours skating on the creek, often alone, emulating his favourite NHL player.
He called it a "classic" Canadian childhood, spending the bulk of his time outdoors. He felt the need to fill the dead air, and it was always with humour. During his senior year, Burpee was elected high school president. Everybody loved him. The speech he made in the gymnasium had everybody rolling. Burpee excelled in sports, setting provincial records in the metre and metre races in high school. B team. More on that later. Their son often tagged along to their respective jobs.
Somehow, I know both sides. Get the f out. In life or whatever. They sent Burpee a picture of the dog. He drove straight from reading to students in La Salle to the humane society and adopted "Bally" on the spot.
Some attitudes are just baked in. And she never felt sorry for herself once for having to do 50 things in one day. He took his father, an avid salmon fly-fisherman, to cast in Iceland and Norway. He took his mother to Somerset, England, where she was born, to meet family and friends. It was lovely.
He just has a way of rallying our spirit to make a difference. Walker dots the conversation with words such as "creative," "fun," "caring," "inclusive" and "passionate. Burpee has been doing appearances for the United Way for more than a decade. Same goes for the Alzheimer Society of Manitoba. Annitta Stenning, president and CEO of CancerCare, said Burpee has hosted their major events for more than 10 years: from major galas to day-long events such as the Challenge for Life walk every spring.
During that time, Stenning said Burpee has helped, directly or indirectly, to raise "millions and millions" for CancerCare. So while his dress may change, his personality is so present. He makes it about the cause. His shoutouts are to the cause. The two men also have something in common: They are metalheads from way back, once attending a Judas Priest concert together.
Every workday, he sets his alarm for exactly a. But the thought of saying turning down an event, when asked, is too overwhelming to contemplate.
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