My Beautiful Home, Vancouver: Jack Roche, 91, writes his first song Stay at hospice inspires longtime Vancouverite to pen an ode to the city he loves: This is where I am meant to be.
Author of the article: Gordon McIntyre
Publishing date: May 02, 2021 • May 2, 2021 • 2 minute read • Jack Roche, right, listens to Josh Denny-Keys, a certified music therapist, play and sing My Beautiful Home, Vancouver, which Roche wrote to express his gratitude to staff at St. John Hospice and his love of his adopted hometown. Photo by Francis Georgian /PNG
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Vancouver, he is back; to his city by the sea he is back, he is back.
The story of the 1921 Drishanebeg Train Ambush marking its centenary is available in print and on a new Information Board erected outlining details of the Ambush and key events during the War of Independence.
Owing to Covid restrictions, events marking 100 years of the Ambush on February 11, 1921 have been put on hold yet splendidly captured in the publication Worth the Wait and a colourful Display Board in place just in time for the Centenary.
President of the Drishanebeg Ambush Commemoration Ambush Project Committee Tom Meaney spoke of the event as one of the most successful engagements against the Crown Forces by the Millstreet Battalion Volunteers in a meticulous planned operation.
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Good day, and welcome to the Hanover Insurance Group s Fourth Quarter Earnings Conference call. My name is Sarah, and I ll be your operator for today s call. [Operator Instructions]
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By Jane Sumner
Special to the American-Statesman
Those of us who gathered to say goodbye on the grassy slope of Republic Hill at the Texas State Cemetery on May 12, 2009, thought we’d heard the last from legendary author Edwin “Bud” Shrake. We were wrong.
Eleven years later, Shrake, dubbed “the lion of Texas letters,” has come roaring back with a crisp, wild and witty novel inspired by his real-life manic adventures as a screenwriter in 1970s and ‘80s Tinseltown.
A riveting read, Hollywood Mad Dogs is the same kind of “eyewitness fiction” as his superb incendiary novel Strange Peaches, about the right-wing hate and hysteria in Dallas before and after the Kennedy assassination.