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"There is a town in north Ontario..."
By Roderick Benns ·
December 01, 2017
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"There is a town in north Ontario" where Neil Young will be tonight, one of Canada's most legendary singer/songwriters -- and it's Omemee in Kawartha Lakes.
Young will play here at Coronation Hall, a venue which seats at most 225 people.
The acoustic concert will be livestreamed by CTV at 8 p.m. ET on various platforms, including CTV.ca, iHeartRadio.ca and on Facebook internationally.
On Friday, CTV said proceeds from the show would go to Scott Young Public School, named after Neil's father who was a novelist, journalist and early host of Hockey Night in Canada.
Publisher and Writer-at-Large
Roderick Benns grew up in Lindsay's east ward. In the 1990s he won a first-place national newspaper award through the Canadian Community of Newspapers Association in the category 'Reporter Initiative.' He has interviewed former Prime Ministers of Canada, Cabinet Ministers, Senators, and Mayors across Canada and had written op-eds for the country's major newspapers. Roderick is also the author of several books, including one on Basic Income. A father of two, he returned to his hometown in 2017 to start The Lindsay Advocate magazine and has since grown Fireside Publishing House into a multimedia enterprise.
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