Barris speaks at Take A Vet To Dinner

MCing last year’s Centennial College Remembrance Day event.

At the eighth annual “Take A Vet to Dinner,” this year, Ted Barris brings his unique storytelling to enhance the event. The author of 16 bestselling, non-fiction books will addresses the dinner about the job of getting veterans to do what they pathologically cannot – talk. Based on his bestselling book, “Breaking the Silence: Veterans’ Untold Stories from the Great War to Afghanistan,” Barris offers some insights to a few of the nearly 4,000 interviews he’s done with Canadian veterans.

When: 5:30 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012.

Where: Best Western Mariposa, on Memorial Drive, Orillia, Ont.

Contact: Dick Johnston, 705-325-9018, johnstonwendy44@hotmail.com


About Ted Barris

Ted Barris is an accomplished author, journalist and broadcaster. As well as hosting stints on CBC Radio and regular contributions to the national press, he has authored 18 non-fiction books and served (for 18 years) as professor of journalism/broadcasting at Centennial College in Toronto. He has written a weekly column/webblog - The Barris Beat - for more than 30 years.

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