The Voice, February 5 2020

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Illegal duplex vacated, but still remains page 3 Fenwick rail disaster, 40 years on page 6 Get sweetly pampered page 9 EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS

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Vol.24 No.5

February 5, 2020

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Column Six

The Kobe quandary Celebrity, and mourning people we don't know BY COLIN BREZICKI

Special to the VOICE

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’M NOT AN AUTHORITY on celebrities, living or dead. I checked a list of the 50 “most famous” who have died and recognized the names of ten. Had the list included James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley I’d have got 13. But I have heard of the most recent addition, Kobe Bryant, though I’d never watched him play the game he excelled in. On his death, social media outlets erupted with the inevitable tributes. We experienced grief on a global scale and watched another face being etched into the side of Mount Olympus. As is the way now, a celebrity death triggers fulsome accolades and a dust storm of universal mourning, with immortality secured when it settles. I wonder sometimes if these outpourings have less to do with the victim (one of nine in this case, including

Fenwick Flossie, the meteorological marmot, the weather-prognosticating woodchuck, emerged last Friday to find this trio of fans and many more. Story p. 3.

HELEN TRAN

EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS NRC REALTY, Brokerage 1815 Merritville, Hwy 1 FONTHILL, ON

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Pre-PLAN your funeral on your own terms,

at your own pace in the comfort of your own home or visit us at the funeral home. Call to make your plan today. Tina

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