Dena chiarcossi biography examples

I think I was born singing.  My older brother, Peter, remembers that as a small child, I would wake up early in the morning every day and immediately start singing. It drove him crazy!  I have had no formal music training, but have enjoyed singing as a way of expressing myself since early childhood.  I taught myself to play guitar at age fourteen.  Summers were always spent on Georgian Bay near the village of Pointe au Baril, Ontario where my parents owned an island and built a cottage in 1960.  One of my summer friends taught me my first few guitar chords.  Summers on Georgian Bay remain a constant in my family’s life, providing peace and spiritual renewal as needed.

One of my biggest influences in music was Gordon Lightfoot.  I learned to accompany myself on guitar and sing most of his early songs.  I loved to perform among friends whenever I had the chance. My wife Margaret remembers us camping at Killbear Provincial Park just north of Parry Sound about 35 years ago.  Among other things, I sang Lightfoot’s “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” at a campfire on the beach one evening, and the next day, we ran into one of my past University Professors who was camping elsewhere in the park.  He told us he had heard the singing coming from the beach the night before, and had said to his wife, “That’s either Gordon Lightfoot singing … or Reid Wilson.”  Folk legends Peter, Paul and Mary, and John Denver, also greatly influenced my style of singing and playing.   One highlight of the 1960’s for me was performing at a small club on Toronto’s Yorkville Avenue called “The Mousehole”, just down the street from the famous “Riverboat”.

I met Margaret in 1976 and we married on August 6, 1977.  Our son, Jason, was born in February 1979.  So, for the next 13 years or so, my life revolved around my profession as an Ontario Land Surveyor, and my family.  The guitar only came out a few times a year, mainly at the family cottage where our local

Ah, summer camp. Ah, movies that rip off movies about summer camp. Ah, movies that rip off movies about summer camp while also ripping off movies about singing, dancing high schoolers. And mean, snobby high schoolers who need to learn manners. Oh, and there’s a big wakeboarding competition, too. Buckle up, campers, because we’re about to take a flinchingly frank peek at the 2008 movie, King Of the Camp. 

It’s time for another summer at Camp Wahanowin, and the camp counselors and kitchen staff are the first to arrive. Everyone’s got their eye on being King or Queen of the Camp, which is sort of like Homecoming King and Queen, and it all comes down to who can win the camp tournament, including the big wakeboarding contest. Yeah. Wakeboarding is a thing for some reason.

Chase Gunn (Isaac Haig), whose dad owns the camp, shows up with his adoring girlfriend, Jackie (Dena Chiarcossi), who’s the yoga instructor, at the same time as Samantha (Tonya Harper), who seems to be a mixture of Sharpey Evans, Tess from Camp Rock, and Regina George.

Yep, Sammy is popular, she’s a social climber, she’s a diva, and she has an entourage of adoring fans, er, friends, er, toadies. Whatever they’re called, none of them have any original thoughts, so there’s that. Jackie is pretty territorial about Chase, though, and asserts herself quickly.

Once all the counselors have shown up, everyone does a hey-we’re-back song that looks a bit like“Brand New Day,” with very similar choreography, by the way, never mind that it’s two years before Camp Rock 2. After that it’s time to sit around and look haughty and compare rich kid notes while they wait for the campers to show up.

The only one who seems sort of down to earth is Cindy (Ashley Carter), who hasn’t even brought her makeup kit to camp because she’s there to do camp stuff and have a great time. Naturally, she’s prettier than

On September 14th, 2012, the Durham Region Unemployed Help Centre was thrilled to welcome Dini Petty, a Canadian Broadcast Icon, as the Keynote Speaker.

She spoke about Self-Esteem and the challenges that we face in life.

Motivational Speaker, Dini Petty, has a very long list of impressive accolades.

To name a few: Dini was the 1st woman in the world to fly a helicopter while broadcasting traffic reports for radio station CKEY; on City TV, Dini won awards for her documentary work, which she hosted, wrote and produced; for 11 years, she hosted the longest running talk show in Canadian television history, The Dini Petty Show; as well, Dini Petty is a successful writer and poet. Her children’s book “The Queen, the Bear and the Bumblebee” enthralls children and adults alike with its whimsical style and meaningful content.

Despite her incredible success, Dini Petty has faced significant struggles which she shared with the full house of attentive audience members including representatives from the Canadian Mental Health Association, Children’s Aid Society, Durham Workforce Authority, YMCA, John Howard Society, Centre d’Accès à l’Emploi COFRD, United Way of Durham Region, and many other community stakeholders.

Dini Petty refers to a very difficult 10-year period as “Climbing Out of the Rabbit Hole”. Within that time, Dini’s TV show was cancelled (despite a highly successful season), she was conned out of a great deal of money, had both hips replaced, and lost 12 individuals who were close to her.

In Dini Petty’s engaging, intelligent and humorous presentation she spoke about her role in a dysfunctional family and offered sound information and advice about loss of self-esteem, shame, the inner critic, destiny and fate.

Everyone faces challenges. As Dini Petty so aptly puts it: “You come to the realization that the only thing that you control in your li