CJNU Nostalgia RadioCommunity Newsletter

November 28 to December 21, 2018 ~ Winnipeg Harvest

CJNU/Winnipeg Harvest

Nostalgia Notes

We are thrilled to be back with our remote studio this December at Winnipeg Harvest. This place is

beehive of activity at any time of the year but over the holiday season it seems more pronounced.

I think the season of giving back makes it hit home for me that there are so many peo-ple in need in our province and this place is truly the front line in that fi ght.

Some of the statistics are rather daunting. More than 64,000 Manitobans receive food from food banks each month and Winni-peg Harvest moved more than 11.3 million

pounds of food through their warehouse last year. I for one can’t even fathom these num-bers. They share food through the Manito-ba Association of Food banks and through nearly 400 agencies, including soup kitch-ens, food banks and youth programs.

I ask each and every one out there in radio land to think about these horrifi c numbers this holiday season and give what you can. As you wonder through the grocery store getting food for your table remember there are people in the province that cannot. Drop a donation into one of the Harvest bins on your way home.

I am knitting up a storm using up my bits of yarn for mittens for the MITTEN TREE at Harvest. It was a great success last year and I’m hoping for even better this year. Not only do some of these folks have empty bellies, they also have cold hands. I am challenging all my knitting friends to get clicking and dust off that stash of yarn. Let’s fi ll the tree with warmth and care.

I’m wishing you, one and all, a happy hol-iday season. Remember moderation in all things holiday is the key with the possible exception of short bread. �

~ Helen Harper

December: Season of Giving Back – Winnipeg Harvest has been a warm place for us to be in the seasonal sense for some time. We continue to make Harvest the focus of the Season of Giving Back.

Broadcasting from Wednesday Novem-ber 28 to Friday December 21.

December 22 to Wednesday January 2, 2019 at Lombard studio

January 2019: Reh-Fit CentreFebruary: Deer LodgeMarch: Kildonan PlaceApril: Lombard PlaceMay: TBC

June-July-August: CityPlaceSeptember: Victoria HospitalOctober: TBDNovember: RiverviewDecember: Winnipeg Harvest

Host Sponsorship, as an Operating ModelFrom time to time everyone associated with CJNU asks why we move so often. The an-swer is buried in the history of CJNU, or rather CKVN. Bruce Down designed the Host Sponsor system, essentially as a re-sponse to the need for the station to fi nd

space to work from, and to off er our pres-ence on site as a boost to the feature sponsor for the month.

In a broad sense for the last 3.5 years we have sought a partner that was of suffi cient size and sophistication to sustain develop-ing the messaging and providing the guests that a host sponsorship off ers. Hospital Foundations, major charitable foundations such as the Winnipeg Foundation and those in the tourist industry have been wonderful partners.

CJNU charges each host sponsor for our presence and their messaging on air twice per hour. We have been very fortunate to have a constant stream of agencies and foun-dations that enjoy our presence. �

Host Sponsors in 2018

Calendar of Events: DATE EVENT LOCATIONto Jan 5 Canada Inns Winter Wonderland (CJNU Promotion) Red River Ex ParkDec 1 Argentina Calling 7:30 Grant/Wilton Coff ee HouseDec 1-2 Asper Jazz: Raul Midon Trio Rady JCCDec 2 Manitoba Chamber Orchestra Ceyson, Hoeppner & Yoo 1 pm & 7:30 Westminster United ChurchDec 4 The Barra MacNeils: East Coast Christmas 7:30 pm Centennial Concert HallDec 6 Cirque Musica Wonderland The BurtDec 8 CJNU We Care Walk for the Core Main Street & HigginsDec 8 Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra: Charlie Brown Christmas WAGDec 9 ECCO Singers: Starsong 7 pm Crescent Fort Rouge United ChurchDec 15 Fred Penner Concert for the Season 3 pm The BurtDec 16 Tre and Tyla: A Saute to Conway and Loretta The BurtDec 20 CJNU Live Harvest Bus Run to Murdoch MacKay and Garden City Collegiates Nostalgia CruiserDec 20-Jan 6 Munschtopia PTEDec 26-30 Merlyn Productions: The Beggar and The Wolf Forrest Nickerson TheatreDec 31 Forever Young New Year’s Eve Dance Shrine Temple (Wilkes)Dec 31 New Year’s Eve Gala (Frank Stecky Emcee) RBC Convention

Brett Buckingham has been involved with the entertainment industry main-ly as a hobby since he was a teenager.

He got involved with theatre in high school and university winning best actor award at the university of Winnipeg in 1967.

He pursued the acting bug after univer-sity out in Vancouver where he auditioned for a movie McCabe and Mrs. Mills staring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie of which he was off ered a speaking part.

He had a regular job at the time and turned down the part.

He moved back to Winnipeg in the early 70s where he became involved with the the-atre school associated with Rainbow Stage .

He auditioned for his fi rst show at Rain-bow 1980 and got a speaking role.

He played various speaking roles at Rain-bow… in 10 shows in the 80s and early 90s.

He left the bank profession in 1982 and landed a radio job at CKRC in 1983-84.

CJNU Personality CornerIn 1989 he left CKRC. He pursued a career in fi nancial planning

until 2001.During this time from about 1995 to the

present he became interested and involved with nostalgia radio.

Brett was there at the beginning of nostal-gia radio in 1995 with its many forms and radio frequencies.

He was asked by Gary Robertson to come on board to form CJNU.

He helped with fi nancial support and vol-unteer support.

Which brings us to today.Brett volunteers and hosts Bucky’s Bal-

cony every Wednesday and Saturday after-noon and hopes all the listeners will con-tinue to enjoy and support our little radio station that could.

“I love being part of the CJNU family and the wonderful camaraderie I’ve experienced as a result of my involvement.” �

CJNU’s Artist of the Month for December

ative people always in the spot light with the media and tabloid nonsense, it was a dif-fi cult time ending in just six years.

They have remained friendly and in 2015 started the Andrew Lloyd Webber Founda-tion Sarah Brightman Scholarships to sup-port students in their post graduate studies at the Royal Northern College of Music on the two-year Masters Programme.

Sarah’s list of awards both musically and personally are pages long and way too many to list here. She is a committed humanitar-ian, being appointed UNESCO Artist for Peace from 1012-14. She has been involved with charitable work throughout her artistic career, promoting cultural dialogue and ex-changed among cultures.

The most interesting thing I found while researching this article was that in 2014 Sar-ah began training for a journey to the Inter-national Space Station. Although she post-poned her fl ight until further notice citing personal reasons, I can only think how won-derful it would have been to hear her soring soprano voice fl oating through the heavens as the space station circled our planet.

Stay tuned to CJNU Nostalgia Radio 93.7FM for the month of December and en-joy, as I will, the talented and gifted Sarah Brightman. �

~ Helen Harper

This classical crossover soprano, singer, songwriter, actress, dancer and mu-sician has had and is still having an

amazing career. From humble beginnings in Little Gaddesden, England it was noticed early on that she was a talent, taking dance and piano lessons at age three. She has gone on to be one of the world’s greatest known voices, singing in English, Spanish, French, Latin, German, Turkish, Italian, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese and Catalan.

For me her role as Christine in Phan-tom of the Opera is my all-time favorite. I wonder what she thought having Andrew Lloyd Webber writing this role specifi cally for her only to have the Actor’s Equity As-sociation balk at mounting this production on Broadway because of their rules that a non-American must be an international star. Lloyd Webber worked out a deal with them casting an American in the lead role of his next West End production. In January 1988 Phantom had its opening and as they say “the rest is history.” The recording became the biggest selling cast album of all time, hitting charts worldwide and exceeding for-ty million in sales.

Ms. Brightman has had two rather short marriages. The fi rst was to Andrew Gra-ham-Stewart whom she divorced to marry Andrew Lloyd Webber. For two very cre-

Bob Nolan

The Sons of the Pioneers—Nolan bottom left, Rogers centre

Recently a friend asked me who I thought was the greatest songwrit-er to come from Manitoba. Names

like Neil Young, Burton Cummings, Randy Bachman, Loreena McKennitt, Terry Jacks, and Daniel Lavoie immediately sprung to mind however my answer surprised him: Bob Nolan. Bob is acknowledged as one of the greatest American songwriters.

Born Clarence Robert Nobles at 53 Lans-downe Avenue on April 13, 1908, Bob’s father Harry worked as a tailor while his Irish im-migrant mother Flora was employed by the Manitoba Government Telephone Company. The Nobles lived hand to mouth moving fre-quently. At age 8 Harry abandoned the family to move to Arizona. Bob joined his father in Tucson in 1921 where his name was changed to Nolan (Harry had joined the US army un-der that name in 1917). Bob later reversed his fi rst name to Robert Clarence Nolan.

In 1929, Bob relocated to California in search of a career in music. Teaming up with Tim Spencer, Leonard Slye and three others they formed the The Sons of the Pioneers, releasing their fi rst recordings in 1934. The group’s success lasted well into the 1950s

becoming the fi rst country & western act to appear at Carnegie Hall. They even sold out Madison Square Garden. Leonard Slye changed his name to Roy Rogers and he and Bob appeared in some 80 movies together.

Bob composed over 1200 songs, however his best-known compositions are Tumbling Tumbleweeds and Cool Water both recorded by The Sons of the Pioneers. The Smithsonian Institute recognizes these as two of the great-est cowboy songs of all time. More than 100 artists from Hank Williams, Frankie Laine, Bing Crosby, Marty Robbins, Eddy Arnold, Perry Como, The Boston Pops Orchestra, The Lennon Sisters, Lawrence Welk, Willie Nelson, and Johnny Cash to Joni Mitchell, The Supremes, Don Everly, ex-Monkee Mike Nesmith, and the King himself, Elvis Presley have covered them. The Coen Brothers’ 1998 fi lm The Big Lebowski included Tumbling Tumbleweeds while the animated Rango in 2011 featured Cool Water.

Honoured by more than a dozen institu-tions including the Country Music Hall of Fame, Bob Nolan passed away in 1980 at age 72. �

~ John Einarson

Congratulations to Kevin Klein, newly elected city of Winnipeg councillor for Charleswood-Tuxedo-Westwood ward

and also appointed chair of the police board.Proud to have Kevin as one of our CJNU board

members! �

Did you know that CJNU 93.7 FM can be tuned into your vehicle radio (in most modern cars) even after the sig-

nal fades away when you are out of range?This is all you need to do…CJNU.ca is available on the World Wide

Web so as long as you have internet data available on your smart phone, you can go to our site and click on “listen live”. (Pull over to the shoulder of the road fi rst!)

Then plug in your charging cord to your vehicle’s USB port, or in some vehicles, the auxiliary input of your radio and you will receive CJNU radio through your speakers.

There! And as long as you have an internet connection, you will always have CJNU on your highway travels!

Happy motoring! �

CJNU Far and Wide

Mitten TreeIt’s time to dig into your yarn stash

and knit some mittens for those less fortunate. Join Winnipeg Harvest and CJNU

and help ll our Mitten Tree.

Mitts of all sizes needed.

Drop o at Winnipeg Harvest, 1085 Winnipeg Avenue, or CJNU Remote Studio.

It’s the season of giving back.

Mitten Tree

Around Our CJNU CommunityCJNU radio works closely with community groups to provide

public service announcements (PSAs) throughout the broad-cast day. In May we helped promote numerous events at non-

profi t and charitable organizations , in addition to providing personal CJNU representation time permitting. Here’s just a sample of these activities. �

Dress rehearsal for our Christmas show (November 17)

McClure Place Bake Sale (November 24)

McClure United Church (November 24)

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Trivia

Answers CJNU Music Trivia

1. D 2. I 3. F 4. J 5. H 6. A 7. B 8. L 9. K 10. E 11. C 12. G

Match the artists to the All Time Seasonal Hit Song by Tom Dercola

1. Jingle Bell Rock2. Feliz Navidad3. Run Rudolph Run4. Blue Christmas 5. Christmas Time Is Here 6. Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree 7. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 8. It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year 9. Santa Baby 10. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 11. The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) 12. All I Want For Christmas Is You

A. Brenda Lee B. Jackson 5 C. Nat King Cole D. Bobby Helms E. Judy Garland F. Chuck Berry G. Mariah Carey H. Vince Guaraldi Trio I. Jose Feliciano J. Elvis Presley K. Eartha Kitt L. Andy Williams

Unitarian Church Holiday Market (November 24)

Deer Lodge Foundation Trivia Night St. James Legion (November 24)

Good crowd at Deer Lodge Trivia @ St. James Legion… our team Merry-Sue, Rosie, Chadd and Tom decimated by illness… Gord Fardoe was quizmaster.

Concert in Gratitude Bethel Mennonite Church (November 19)

Top: Leo Gosselin on the Chapman Stick Bottom: Tom Dercola introduces Th e Golden Chordsmen

Around Our CJNU Community

Peak of the Market Charity Fundraiser Dinner RBC Convention Centre (November 16)

Hosted by Shelley and Larry McIntosh. Proceeds to CancerCare ManitobaFive CJNU Board members on hand James Pappas (ll), Jan Currier (lr) Tom Dercola (ul), Wayne Rogers (ur) Kevin Klein not shown

Craft Sale John Osborn Army and Navy (November 18)

Luncheon and Sale St James Legion (November 3)

Around Our CJNU Community

Sisters of the Holy Rock (November 10)

The High Steppers Club, a seniors group that provides its members with the opportunity for socialization, recreation and activities, hosted the Sisters of the Holy Rock. There were 200 to 300 there to enjoy the afternoon.

Enhancing your digital photography lecture Temple Shalom (November 7)

John Einarson “made in Manitoba“ music history presentation Lions Place (November 12)

Fall Supper Headingley United Church (November 4)

Around Our CJNU Community

West Etsy Market Franco Manitobaine Centre (November 3)

St. James Legion Flag Ceremony (November 3)

Santa Claus Parade (November 17)

Christmas Presents Gordon-King Memorial Church (November 4)

Art Exhibition Forum Art Centre (November 29)