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Chuck Bastie interviews skater Violetta Afanasieva as well as her reasons for choosing the Humane Society of Kawartha Lakes as her charity of choice! Chuck also chats with Henny Venus, the Executive Director of the Humane Society of Kawartha Lakes about the wonderful partnership they have with Violetta!

At the age of five Russian born, Canadian resident Violetta Afanasieva was already figure skating. By the age of eleven she was competing nationally. A year later she retired from amateur figure skating to join the Moscow Circus on Ice with her family. At 14, Afanasieva debuted her hula-hoops act in Russia. She began skating with Holiday on Ice, where she met her future pairs partner and future husband, Pete Dack — a Canadian ice skater. The two have gone on to win the first-ever World Extreme Figure Skating Championship in 2006, and have toured in Canada, Europe, South Africa and South America.

A fan favourite for Seasons 2 through 4 of Battle of the Blades, Afanasieva was the first runner up in Season 4 alongside partner Jason Strudwick. She has skated professionally on ice for 25 years and now coaches at the Thornhill Figure Skating Club.

This season, Afanasieva rejoins her Season 2 partner, P.J. Stock. She is skating for the Humane Society of Kawartha Lakes — a charity that provides protection and provision for the humane care and treatment of all animals.

For more information about about Violetta's charity of choice, go to https://hskl.ca/

For more information about CBC's Battle Of The Blades and Violetta's profile, go to https://www.cbc.ca/television/battleoftheblades/skaters/violetta-afanasieva-1.5274494

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Chuck Bastie interviews skater Amanda Kessel as well as her reasons for choosing SickKids Hospital Foundation as her charity of choice! Chuck also chats with Colin Henniger, VP of Major Gifts of the SickKids Foundation about the wonderful partnership they have with Amanda!

Wisconsin born Amanda Kessel has always been a natural at hockey. Coming from a sports-oriented family, there is no shortage of talent across the Kessel board. Her father was drafted into professional football, and her brothers, Phil and Blake, are also professional hockey players.

Kessel played for four years at college level hockey, and helped her team win three national championships. In 2013 she was selected as the winner of the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award. Kessel has been on Team U.S.A. since 2008 and in the 2014 Sochi Olympics in Russia, she helped lead her team to a silver-medal win. Most recently, she helped her team win gold in PyeongChang, South Korea in 2018.

Outside of hockey, she runs her own clothing line, AK28, with Gongshow Gear.

She now devotes her time to supporting the growth and development of young women in hockey, and helping create opportunity for girls who have a dream of getting onto the ice.

For more information about CBC's Battle Of The Blades and Amanda's profile, go to https://www.cbc.ca/television/battleoftheblades/skaters/amanda-kessel-1.5272213

To reach Chuck, email him at [email protected], or phone the Listen UP Talk Radio contact line at 1-866-269-6155!

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Chuck Bastie speaks with former professional skater turned coach Sandra Bezic! Sandra is also the creator of CBC TV's "Battle Of The Blades".

To reach Chuck, email him at [email protected], or phone the Listen UP Talk Radio contact line at 1-866-269-6155!

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Chuck Bastie interviews skater Eric Radford, about his participation

on CBC TV's "Battle Of The Blades", as well as his reasons for choosing Egale Canada as his charity of choice! Chuck also chats with Helen Kennedy, the Executive Director of Egale Canada about the wonderful partnership with Eric!

The Manitoba-born figure skater is a three-time Olympic games medalist and has won multiple other titles with his skating partner Meagan Duhamel. Radford is the only openly gay male to have won an Olympic Games gold medal.

He is an advocate for the Canadian Olympic Committee's #OneTeam initiative, which supports LGBTQ inclusion and promotion in the sport.

Inspired by skaters such as Kurt Browning in the early 1990's, Radford began skating at the age of eight. He moved away from home at the age of 14 to pursue his figure skating career, and hasn't looked back since. He is a back-to-back world champion (2015 and 2016) and in 2018, he and Duhamel became the first pair to successfully complete a quadruple throw jump at any Winter Olympic competition.

Radford is competing with Amanda Kessel as his partner. He is skating for Egale — an organization dedicated to improving the lives of all LGBTQI2S people.

To reach Chuck, email him at [email protected], or phone the Listen UP Talk Radio contact line at 1-866-269-6155!

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Chuck Bastie chats with Amanda Evora and Scott Thornton, from CBC Television's "Battle Of The Blades".

American skater Amanda Evora and retired NHLer Scott Thornton have triumphed, winning the fourth season of CBC-TV's Battle of the Blades.

Evora and Thornton were declared champions of the televised skating competition Sunday night in Toronto, after earning the most public votes ahead of the season finale.

Evora is a two-time U.S. pairs silver medallist, while Thornton had a nearly two-decade long career in the NHL, playing in Toronto, Edmonton, Montreal, Dallas, Los Angeles and San Jose.

As part of their win, Evora and Thornton chose the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation to receive a $100,000 donation.

The pair beat out stiff competition from fellow finalists Violetta Afanasieva and Jason Strudwick and Marie-France Dubreuil and Mathieu Dandenault. All of this year's 16 skaters returned for Sunday's finale to perform in a group number.

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On show #5, Justin talks hockey and life with Philadelphia Flyer great Mark Howe!

Mark is one of only four Flyers to be inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame and his #2 hangs from the rafters. But what Mark Howe was as a player is second to who Mark Howe is as a person. That is the ultimate tribute to the people who raised him, Gordie and Coleen Howe. Listen as Mark reminisces about his career, speaks warmly about his legendary mom and dad and explains to us how Gordie’s biggest contribution to this world may not have been on the ice, but in the area of medicine!

Mark Steven Howe (born May 28, 1955) is a retired American professional ice hockey left winger and later defenseman who played sixteen seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and six seasons in the World Hockey Association (WHA). He is currently serving the Director of Pro Scouting for the Detroit Red Wings.[1]

He is the son of Gordie and Colleen Howe, younger brother of Marty Howe, and nephew of Vic Howe. Despite the enormous shadow cast by his father and splitting time between two leagues, Howe shone as one of the best two-way NHL defensemen of the 1980s, being a three-time runner-up for the Norris Trophy and making the Stanley Cup finals three times as a player. He is a member of both the United States Hockey Hall of Fame and the Hockey Hall of Fame in to which he was inducted in 2011.[2] The Howe family received the Wayne Gretzky International Award in 2000, for major contributions to the growth and advancement of hockey in the United States.

To find out more info about Mark, find him at the following:

Web: https://www.nhl.com/player/mark-howe-8448002

#PhiladelphiaFlyers #Flyers #Hockey #NHL #MarkHowe

https://www.nhl.com/flyers/ #HallOfFame

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On show #6, Justin talks NASA and the shuttle program with Rick Boisjoly, brother of Roger Boisjoly, who worked for Morton Thiokol, the manufacturer of the solid rocket boosters (SRBs) for the Space Shuttle program.

Join me and Rick Boisjoly as we discuss his brother, Roger Boisjoly. Roger was one of the only men with enough compassion and strength to try to stop the launch of the ill-fated Challenger launch in 1986. Hear the chilling story of this whistleblower who is a champion to anyone who believes that ethics matter.

Roger Mark Boisjoly (/boʊʒəˈleɪ/ boh-zhə-LAY;[2] April 25, 1938 – January 6, 2012) was an American mechanical engineer, fluid dynamicist, and an aerodynamicist. He is best known for having raised strenuous objections to the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger the day before the loss of the spacecraft and its crew in January 1986. Boisjoly correctly predicted, based on earlier flight data, that the O-rings on the rocket boosters would fail if the shuttle launched in cold weather.

To find out more info about Roger, find him at the following:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Boisjoly

#NASA #spaceshuttle #ChallengerDisaster #ORings

#solidrocketboosters #space

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On show #4, Justin talks hockey and life with Philadelphia Flyer great Reggie Leach! “The Rifle” was one of the greatest “snipers” in the history of the NHL. Join me on my skate with Reggie as he tells us about his career, his challenges and how his amazing work with First Nation youth makes him a Hall of Fame man!

Reginald Joseph Leach OM (born April 23, 1950) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey right winger who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Boston Bruins, California Golden Seals, Philadelphia Flyers and Detroit Red Wings. He is best known for his time in Philadelphia, winning a Stanley Cup with the Flyers in 1975 and being a member of the LCB line.

To find out more info about Brian, find him at the following:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/7rifleman1627

#PhiladelphiaFlyers #Flyers #Hockey #NHL #TheRifle #ReggieLeach

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On show #3, Justin talks hockey and life with Philadelphia Flyer great Brian Propp! You know him as a superstar hockey player. I have been fortunate to get to know him as a friend! Allow Propper to share with us his hockey career, his amazing comeback from a devastating stroke and how his brush with death has made him stronger and more charitable than ever!

Brian Phillip Propp (born February 15, 1959) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey left winger who played 15 seasons in the NHL from 1979 until 1994.

Propp was born in Lanigan, Saskatchewan, and grew up in Neudorf, Saskatchewan.

Brian Propp is a former National Hockey League All-Star, legendary Philadelphia Flyer, former sports broadcaster, entrepreneur, business relationship and development guru and a philanthropist in his community. Brian Propp is currently the Director, Strategic Relationships at Wolf Commercial Real Estate in Marlton, New Jersey. Wolf Commercial Real Estate is a full-service commercial real estate brokerage and advisory firm specializing in office, retail, medical, industrial and investment properties in Southern New Jersey and the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

To find out more info about Brian, find him at the following places:

WEB: brianpropp.com/

WEB: wolfcre.com

BLOG: phillyofficespace.com

Twitter: guffaw26

#PhiladelphiaFlyers #Flyers #Hockey #NHL #Propper #BrianPropp #Charity #Interview

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Todd Miller chats with legendary drummer for @PeterGabriel, Jerry Marotta, about his upcoming tour with @SecurityProject, playing Gabriel songs that Peter doesn't play! Plus some other great PG tunes, some Kate Bush perhaps. We also discuss Soul Redemption, The Marotta Brothers Band, Tony Levin, @Gowan and much more.

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