A few weeks ago, Jannine posted a message from the London Free Press titled “CP to Emcee Dinner,” which can be found at http://chrispotterpages.invisionzone.com/i...?showtopic=1254. It took a bit of time getting information on this event since our contact has been on and off sick and was waiting for confirmation on information herself.

For now, we have made special arrangements with the organizer of the 52nd Annual Sports Celebrity Dinner & Auction to reserve a couple of tables under the Chris Potter Official Fan Club for this event held on Monday, January 21, 2008, at the London Convention Centre.

The reserved tables will be held for us until Sunday, December 9th. The event has not been fully advertised to the public yet so we are getting first choice. After this date, any unsold seats will be made available to the public. We were told that this event usually sells out before the end of the year. We realize with the holidays coming up that it may be difficult to make plans but it may make a nice gift.

Tickets for CPOFC tables will not be through the Centennial Hall Box Office as advertised. However, if you have already purchased tickets for the event and would like to be included in the group, please inform us.

The event is to benefit the Thames Valley Children’s Centre and research at Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic as advertised on the TVCC website at http://www.tvcc.on.ca/51st-annual-sports-c...ner-auction.htm. Also, included is a list of the sports celebrities in attendance with CP emceeing the event. One familiar name is Doug Gilmour formerly of the Toronto Maple Leafs. He has appeared on Kung Fu: The Legend Continues episode titled “Shaolin Shot.” A clip of Doug training Peter Caine can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk-ylzwCZsE.

If you are considering attending, please write to Louise at lm@interchange.ubc.ca to be included on a private mailing list for information on London, ticket purchase, possible meeting place and other questions on the event. Please type “London Group” in the subject header of your message. You may forward this message to others that may be interested in attending.

Susan & Louise
CPOFC Presidents


P.S. Thanks to Jannine for the post. Thanks to Valerie for her resourcefulness in providing information on projects with CP. We will be posting another message once the newsletter is completed. In the meantime, CP’s current series, Heartland, has aired its first four episodes. If you have not seen the show, watch them under the “Full Episodes” at http://www.cbc.ca/heartland/. The next episode will air on Sunday, December 2nd, on CBC Television.

Hope a lot of members can attend the event and will have a wonderful evening. Of Course, I would love to come but there are sooooooo many miles between Germany and Canada. So I will wait for the photos

And here is another link where the event and CP are mentioned:

Meet celebrity athletes, support a good cause

It should be noted that this event is in London, Ontario, not London, England.

There was a bit of confusion about that from the event description, although the links are very clear.

I tried to view an episode at the link Louise provided, but I get an error message.
Did anybody else have this problem? Is it because I'm in the states?
Here's the link again.
http://www.cbc.ca/heartland

Pan

Pan I can enter the site okay without problems but when I try to view full episodes - It plays up and I cannot, but that's not unusual for me. Being in Aus, I can rarely watch things on-line.

But the rest of the site works fine for me.

Unfortunately, the episodes can only be watched within Canada. Hope they will change that soon.