Happy Easter

Bailey is Lost

This is Bailey, a black Shar Pei, 9 years old male. Was staying at Bekker's Kennel in Richmond and got loose on Sunday March 28th, last seen near the Huntley Road area. If you have any information, please call 613-314-5365, 613-695-3916 or Bekkers Kennel, 613-838-4478.

Fur Ball - $175,000 raised!!!!!

Friday morning on 'Stuntman and the Shark' we could not believe our ears: our auction for the Humane Society raised $6,400!! Thank you so much to Dave and Wendy Smythe of DS Plumbing, and Howard Yegendorf and Associates, who EACH paid $3,200 to have the 'Stuntman and the Shark' radio show broadcast at the location of their choice. The $6400 total will go a long way for Ottawa's animals.
And on Saturday, it was a gorgeous evening all around at the glamorous 80's themed Fur Ball! $175,000 raised for the Ottawa Humane Society with the help of honorary chair Mrs Laureen Harper, Minister Baird, Mayor O'Brien, Jim Watson, too many dignitaries and supporters to mention here- phew! I had a couple of small wardrobe malfunctions with a dress that would probably have fit me in the 80s, but my husband and I had a great time. Congratulations to Ashley McCormack, Rob McCulloch, Anna Silverman and of course executive director Bruce Roney! Can't wait for that spring day when the shovel goes into the ground for the new shelter!!

A New Journey Begins....

It was a bittersweet day on Friday, when Max Keeping joined us in the studio to chat about his final 6 pm newscast on CTV Ottawa. He was as humble and gracious as ever, choosing to steer the conversation away from himself. Max only wanted to thank the people of the Ottawa region for 37 years of support in this community, and the promise that, in his new role as ambassador, he will continue to raise awareness for those less fortunate. Especially children in need. CHEO's 'Max Keeping' wing is a testament to the tireless efforts from a man who gave so much to children, to the elderly, to all of us.
Local singer Maureen Hogan from the band Good2Go recorded the song 'To Max With Love' with producer Chris Knowles. Take a moment to check it out, but might want to grab a kleenex first... thanks to Andy Smith for assembling this for Youtube.

We love you Max!!

Thank you Max

For being a part of our lives for 37 years. For the millions of dollars you have raised for children in need. For your class, your generosity, your love of life and your desire to make the world a better place. You may have been born in Newfoundland, but Ottawa has claimed you as one of ours. After all, people like you only come along once in a lifetime.
You are giving up the 6 pm post but we look forward to your role as 'ambassador'.
Here's to you, Max Keeping. See you at the next Metallica concert.

CAN WE COME TO YOUR HOUSE?!

THE '939 BOB FM STUNTMAN AND THE SHARK BROADCAST FROM YOUR HOUSE AUCTION' in support of the Ottawa Humane Society.
Ok- the name is a bit lengthy but we like it!

Next week on 939 BOB FM's 'Stuntman and the Shark' morning show, we are having an auction to raise money for the Humane Society.....the auction prize?
Stuntman Stu and Sandy Sharkey will take their morning show to the top bidder's house! At a mutually agreed-upon date (could be sometime this spring, or summer) Stu and Sandy will show up with the broadcast team and do the 939 BOB FM 'Stuntman and the Shark' radio show, 5:30 am to 9 am, from the top bidder's living room, or backyard, or whatever. The entire neighbourhood could be invited, if the top bidder chooses the 'more the merrier' idea. Neighbours could 'pool their resources' and have everyone chip in. Or, it could be just the bidder's family on hand, whatever! We'll also bring breakfast and prizes, etc.

We are going to take online bids beginning Monday March 22nd. Anyone can bid by emailing us, mornings@939bobfm.com. Throughout the week on BOB FM, we will update our listeners as to what the highest bid is at any given time.
Then, on Friday March 26th, we will start taking the FINAL BIDS 'live' on the air, beginning at 8 AM. From 8 AM to 9 AM, listeners can call us with their bids at 613-750-4262.
The '939 BOB FM Stuntman and the Shark Broadcast From Your House' auction will be won by the highest bidder at the close of the show just before 9 am on Friday March 26th.

We would love to come to your house! p.s., we promise to remove our shoes and we won't look in your medicine cabinet

Help us spread the word....and help us help the animals!

Locks For Love

Rhiannon with her new 'shorter' hairstyle!

Locks of Love is a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children under age 21 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis. Huge congratulations to Rhiannon Cluff, who was so enthusiastic about helping this wonderful cause. Rhiannon had l-o-n-g hair until yesterday! Not only did she donate her hair for 'Locks of Love', she also raised over $250. Way to go Rhiannon!

Feel Good Story!

At BOB FM, we love getting emails from listeners! I had to share this letter I received from Ottawa resident Loralei Shwaylyk:

I am an avid listener of BobFM and know that the station is a very pet friendly venue. I have an amazing story that may interest your staff or even listeners.

I work at a car dealersip. A short while ago, on a Friday morning, I had a technician walk into my office with a small white furrball tucked into his arms.

The story began north of Gatineau, where one of our customers drove in, that chilly morning, with their car exhibiting engine issues. They actually were stuck in traffic and took an hour and ten minutes to reach Bytek. The car remained in our back lot for over an hour, before my technician took it for a test drive on the 417. He returned with the vehicle, put it up on the hoist, and removed the oil pan. To his shock, something moved. He had everyone in the shop come and see, and tucked way back inside was this little white, blue eyed, terrified! kitten. They managed to safely remove him and bring him to inside to the office. The technician told me that, had he been a half a centimetre in any direction during his nearly hour and a half in a running vehicle, he would definately not have survived.

Since we had no idea if the kitten had crawled in here, in our lot, or elsewhere, I had the Advisor call the customer, already then at work, and ask if they or any neighbors had a white kitten.. They stated they had two. The Advisor then, said one had gone for quite a wild ride. During the course of the conversation it became apparent that they had no intention on keeping either of the two kittens and they asked if anyone wanted him. Well, I have sucker written all over me. I have three animals already, all rescue, one 7yr old Golden Retriever, one 14yr old cat and another 8yr old cat.

We kept the little guy in my office in a box. At lunch I picked up a tin of kitten food, that was gone in seconds. We really have no idea how long he had been in the car. At the very least, close to three hours, if not, perhaps overnight!

The next morning I took him into my local vet and had him very closely checked. Incredibly he had no injuries at all.

Not only is he incredibly lucky due to all the above, but he is also 99.999 % white with blue eyes. I had asked the owner if he was deaf (majority of white cats with blue eyes, are) and she said no, but both his brother and mother, were. Vet also confirmed. Another lucky strike!

After he was cleaned up on the Friday he was found, we could not seem to get a tiny little grease smudge off the top of his head. The next day at the Vet's, he told me it was actually about 15-20 hairs of grey fur, not grease. It is like a permanent grease mark identifying him as the little guy that lived to come out of an engine.

He was found in a Jetta Diesel, so his name is Diesel. He thinks Maggie, my Golden is his mother. He kneads and curls up and sleeps on her (see pic).

Perhaps, I have taken up too much of your valuable time, but this is such an amazing "feel good" story with an incredibly lucky ending, I had to share. Diesel has, kind of, become our company mascot. The tech's have pictures of him up on the wall in the garage.

Hope you have a great day, and thanks again for listening to Diesel's story.

Lorelei Shwaylyk

Its Our Turn to Help Ottawa's Amazing Oni!!!

There are people put on this earth to change the world for the better. Oni the Haitian sensation is one of those people. She is an artist, a poet, a musician, a philanthropist, a director of the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights, among other achievements. I have known Oni for years and she is a tireless supporter of women's issues, particularly the empowerment of women- not only in Canada but around the world. Oni was an invited guest in the Mandela family home in South Africa and has opened a dialogue to work with women in rural areas, with the focus on education nd HIV prevention. Read a link to her visit with Nelson Mandela and his family here:

www.canada.com/news/Breakfast+with+Mandelas/2434956/story.html

Two weeks ago, Oni was once again invited to join the Mandela family in South Africa on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's release from prison. On this trip Oni will continue her humanitarian work and further discussion on women's empowerment, with the attention of the Mandela family- following her trip, she will return to Ottawa and host some events to share her experiences.

In the past couple of months, Oni has helped to raise $100,000 for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. She is suffering from donor fatigue. It is our turn to help Oni! She needs to raise $6000 to accept the invitation to join the Mandela family in South Africa to continue her humanitarian work.

Every little bit helps. If you can donate, please do: Call Oni at 613-247-9285, or email sendoni2southafrica@gmail.com. for more information, call Jenn Farr at 613-797-0399

You can also walk into any TD Canada Trust and deposit your donation or any money you’ve collected from friends and colleagues. Just give the bank this information and your deposit will go directly to Oni’s travel fund!

Transit: 05336

Bank: 004

Account: 83876458859

Lets help get Oni to South Africa!

The Partridge Family in the News! (sort of)

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The Partridge Family members reunited on 'The Today Show' yesterday. David Cassidy still looks great!
link to story here: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/35663539/ns/today-today_entertainment/

What a Great Ride!!

Canada closes out the Vancouver 2010 Olympics with 14 gold medals, the most ever won by any country in an Olympic games. And we won the 14th gold medal in the most dramatic fashion imaginable: beating the USA in the mens hockey final. An entire country watched, cheered, held its breath then cheered again...for 2 days! A moment that will never be forgotten.

Here is an excellent article summarizing the final day of the Olympics, from Sports Illustrated's S.L. Price:

'Closing Ceremony is Unparalleled'

The reasons we watch the Olympics are apparent during the closing ceremony.
They begin the competition as solemn athletes, they close it in brotherhood.
IOC president Jacques Rogge: "These were excellent and very friendly games"
There's a reason we come, despite the nonsense. There's a reason we come to the Olympics still, every two years now, despite the fact that sometimes you get WilliamShatner or the odd, massive inflatable moose. What with all the overdone stagecraft and security hassles, the butt-covering parsing of words or the smugness of IOC officials who speak of an "Olympic movement" that never moves quite far enough when it comes to abuses committed under those oh-so-hallowed rings, it's easy to forget.
But the reason rises most clearly, every time, at the end.
It rises during the closing ceremony, at the moment when stagecraft fades and the simplest of human acts begins. The athletes walk in.
That's it: They walk into some stadium, as they did again Sunday evening at Vancouver's B.C. Place to end the 2010 Winter Games, and the clearest picture of what the Olympics means emerges. Young people who have spent the months serving as civic heroes, national symbols, stand-ins for millions, become young again. Unlike the opening ceremony tradition of marching in national delegations in strict order, under a flag, at the closing men and women who have sweated against each other for weeks, sometimes years, walk out in an easy jumble, and soon mix, stand and dance until all national colors and flags become irrelevant.
It happened again Sunday. There the athletes were, smaller and more real suddenly, snapping pictures like tourists, waving to cameras -- "Hi, Mom!" -- milling aimlessly, mashed together in the most accomplished mosh pit in history. Canadians, Americans, Russians, Finns: all the stiffness, posing, pre-competition jitters was gone, dissolved in a moment of pure fun. There's nothing else like it in sports.
We didn't get that in Beijing. Organizers at the 2008 Summer Games ran a minutely-controlled and choreographed farewell that looked great on TV, but killed any hint of spontaneity; the athletes were all but herded into pens. But Canada is no China; it's the land of half the world's great comedians. When a faux-repairman, giant screwdriver on his belt, kicked off Sunday's festivities by "fixing" the same arm of the cauldron that so infamously failed to rise at the opening ceremony, allowing speedskating legend Catriona Le May Doan to finish the torch-lighting ceremony she missed a fortnight ago, we knew we were in good hands. Nothing is so endearing -- and rare -- as an Olympic host that can laugh at itself.
Then again, Canada could afford such looseness. The same Olympics that had begun with disaster, with the death of a 21-year old Georgian luger on the morning of the opening ceremony, and spent its early days focused on weather problems, a massive ticket cancellation, and the seeming underperformance of Canada's Olympians, had ended in triumph.
A late surge by Canadian speedskaters and curlers pushed the host nation to a best-ever medals showing at a Winter Olympics, and the ice hockey team's rapture-inducing, overtime victory over the U.S. Sunday pushed Canada to its 14th gold medal, the most ever won by any country at a Winter Games. Coming in, Canada had spent $110 million on athlete support and vowed to "Own the Podium" by winning the overall medal count. It didn't come close. But after Kid Canada, Sidney Crosby, scored the golden goal in overtime, it didn't matter a bit to anyone north of the 49th parallel.
"Alexandre," VANOC Chief John Furlong, said during his speech to moguls skier Alexandre Bilodeau, "your first gold medal gave us all permission to feel like and behave like champions. Our last one will be remembered for generations."
Furlong's delivery may have been stilted, but the response was not. The crowd of 60,600 rose to its feet, unscripted, and stopped his closing speech cold for a good minute, cheering the biggest win in Canadian hockey history. Such chesty flagwaving was seen across Vancouver and Canada throughout these games, but hit new levels in the aftermath of the hockey win -- horns beeping, men hugging, a once-shy country openly reveling in its success.
"That quiet, humble national pride we were sometimes reluctant to acknowledge seemed to take to the streets as the most beautiful kind of patriotism broke out all across our country," Furlong said. "So many new and dazzling applications for the Maple Leaf."
But other flags had their moments in Vancouver, too. Norway, a country of just 4.7 million, finished fourth in the medal count with 23, and produced the most accomplished male athlete in cross-country skier Petter Northug, who finished with two golds, one silver and one bronze medal. The USA's 37 medals set a record for success at a Winter Games, and came amid the most controversy-free American performance in decades. With skier BodeMiller redeeming his cavalier performance in Turin, Team USA kept as low a profile as an athletic superpower can, predicting no wins, displaying no arrogance, celebrating with class. It was a switch no one predicted: The Canadians acted more like out-there Yanks, and the Americans acted like humble Canucks. And it helped set, for these games, a graceful tone.
Indeed, though the first official response to the death of NodarKumaritashvili -- both VANOC and the international luge federation placed the blame on the 21-year old Georgian while making adjustments to the wall, ice and start of the notoriously fast track -- was both cold and absurd, the remainder of the 2010 Olympics was all but free of controversy. For the first time since the bombings of Sept. 11, an Olympics went off without terrorism casting a pervasive shadow, without the intrusion -- if you except Canada's genial border "war" with the USA -- geopolitical themes of any kind. Unlike Beijing or history-laden Athens, these were a Seinfeld Olympics, about nothing, really, except great competition.
"These were," declared a visibly relieved IOC president, JacquesRogge, "excellent and very friendly games."
That should be the case for the Summer Games in London in two years, but 2014 is already taking on curious dimensions. Like the Chinese did with the Summer Games, Vladimir Putin's government has made clear that it plans to use the Winter Olympics in Sochi as a coming-out party for the new Russia. No shock there, but it does assume the task with far less momentum than Beijing. Team Russia, after all, was the most glaring disappointment in Vancouver, its 15 medals (three gold), a steep decline from the 22 it took home from Turin. Meanwhile, its most popular star in the West, hockey player AlexOvechkin, came into Vancouver an Olympic hero for claiming he'd play in Sochi even if the NHL didn't release its players -- and went out in shame.
Not only did Ovechkin fail to produce during Russia's ghastly 7-3 loss to Canada in the quarterfinals, but he also shelved his usually gregarious personality in Vancouver and proved a gloomy, surly presence, snubbing the media and shoving to the ground one eager fan with a YouTube ready camcorder. Of course, when he popped up onstage Sunday night, Ovechkin was all smiles again, posing as one of Sochi's welcome ambassadors with three cute children, and lending athletic, gap-toothed form to Churchill's famous formulation about Russia -- "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma".
Canada -- its people, its athletes, its lovely host city -- was hardly that the last two weeks. The country made itself known. Here's betting that, come 2014, it will be missed.