Creative

On February 8th Bell launched a campaign to raise awareness for Mental Illness. You probably saw some of the ads featuring spokesperson Clara Hughes. A one hour feature aired on CTV called Darkness and Hope, it featured Clara and other athletes including Micheal Landsberg, the host of 'Off the record'.

On Monday January 23rd my wife Victoria Duncan gave birth to Lotus Joy Glanville making me a very proud father. Lotus is happy and healthy weighing in at 8.2lbs. Vicki is well and recovering nicely.

This article appeared in the January 21 edition of The Barrie Examiner. According to a post on Nov. 26, 2011 by the Drug Prevention Network of Canada, alcohol kills 9,000 people a year while smoking kills 37,000, with absolutely no mention of deaths attributed to marijuana use.

To film a particular scene in the movie Vanilla Sky the producers had to enlist the help of The New York Police Department to keep Times Square vacant for approximately 1 hour. It was a big deal coordinating solitude in the city that never sleeps. However, you would never have that problem here. This part of town is vacant.

Monika Carless (Head Coach Steve Carless's partner) has written a series of children's books titled Tessa & The Fairies and is delighted to extend an invitation to her book signing at Chapters Book Store in the south end of Barrie. Join Monika for a signing and reading of Tessa on Saturday February 4th, 11-3pm at the Mapleview location. To rsvp contact Monika at mccoyote1@gmail.com

This article appeared in the January 6 edition of The Barrie Examiner as the latest entry of Johnny Glanville's THE INSTRUCTOR column. It is an article about the benefits of therapy, especially as a preventative means. One of my favorite moments of being a tennis coach is the moment at the end of someone’s first lesson.

My socks are old and the elastic has loosened. They hang over my shoes and the sweat from my legs runs straight down to the soles of my feet. In the toes the moisture fills, it makes me want to air them out, to change socks every lesson, but there isn’t time for that. Instead I block it out of my mind and keep chasing tennis balls.

Three hockey players in as many months took their own life this summer. Jerry West, a Hall of Fame Laker player and general manager recently wrote his memoir, West by West,

Billy’s tall tale was the only tall thing about him. Standing more than 6 inches shorter then the already shortest girl in his class Billy was the smallest kid in town by a long shot. At 10 years old he looked more like he was 8,

My wife is six months pregnant as she asks me how she looks. "You look normal and healthy, like you're pregnant," I reply. Wrong answer. She already knows this (the pregnant part) and for her, this is a bad thing; she wants to have the baby without actually looking like she's having the baby.