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THE HERALD Wednesday January 11 Page Dave Bootle returns from adventurous life down under By BRIAN MacLEOD Herald Staff After three years of singing and dancing tickling the ivories in cocktail bars diving off cliffs and throwing himself through plate glass windows the lure of a white Christmas brought Dave Bootle home from the land down under And the few inches of snow which fell on Christmas Eve made the Dec 3 trip across the world worth while The Georgetown native headed for Australia with his new wife in the fall of 1965 after a year of jumping off a ship and do ing crazy things like that at Canadas Wonderland In Australia the pair performed similar stunts and eventually Dave drifted into a singing and dancing rock and roll revival show at a theme park called Australias Wonderland Both are physically talented peo ple Dave was a gymnast at Georgetown District High School and Kathy was on the Canadian gymnastics team set to travel to Moscow for the 19B0 Olympics But Canadas boycott that year at tributed to the Soviet Unions inva sion of Afghanistan ended any hopes of an Olympic performance After two seasons there Dave decided it was time to put his musical talents to a different use Using an extensive keyboard set up including synthesizers he per formed Top40 hits interspersed with much of his own material in various nightclubs throughout Sydney was getting quite a good reputation around Sydney he said People were enjoying my origianl stuff just as much if not more than the Top40 With music in hand Dave ap proached Warner Brothers Publishing about a possible recor ding contract They liked his music but with no band the deal fell through Ive always stayed away from bands In a band you have to worry about a whole bunch of other people said Dave So in November of Dave got a band together and gigging around Sydney near the Kirribbilli district where the pair lived After a few months of perform ing Dave who said his music is Bootle finds Aussies laid back Of all the different characteristics Dave Bootle en countered in Australia the most distinct was the relaxed at mosphere I think its too relaxed for me he said Sydney they say is a very fastpaced city com pared to Toronto I think its a quarter of the pace The service is very slow Peo ple there will pick up the phone and wait 10 to 15 minutes on hold because thats the way it is there he said Its all no pro blem everything will be okay at titude Musically homegrown rock bands and Midnight Oil are as big there as they are half a world away he said But watch out for a band called the Cockroaches theyll be big in North America one day he add- what of everyones favorite Aussie Paul A majority of the country is just loving it The Americans are eating it up But there are Paul Hogan fans that dislike his movies he said They preferred his old television show which was much like the Benny Hill show More families enjoy Christmas By RICH FLAHERTY Herald Special Almost families felt the spirit Christinas giving in Georgetown a result of the generosity of the community and the volunteer ef forts of the Lioness Club the Salva tion Army and the Kinettes It was a lot of hard work said Joyce Gosling cochairman with Madeline Collier of the Good Neighbor Service recently taken over by the Lioness Club of Georgetown The Lioness Club followed the usual system of organization for the collection and distribution of canned food hams and turkeys for their hampers There were over people sorting and compiling the packages and about 15 including members of the fire department who helped out with the distribu tion Applying for assistance was not difficult in Christmas of 1988 If they the applicants fill out the form we dont check them said Ms Gosling Many of the ap plicants for food hampers depend ed on the good faith of the Good Neighbor Service The Lioness Club did not notice an abuse of the service in thiB respect They managed to reach families in the Georgetown area The Good Neighbor Service also received assistance from the welfare department in determin ing the needs of the families receiving aid On plans for the new year Ms Gosling feels There is no reason to change It People over the years have perfected it Ms Gosling said and she feels confident that the ser vice will run successfully Similar goals were also achieved by the Salvation Army who hand ed out large hampers in Georgetown and about the same in the Acton area Working with St Vincent Paul the Rotary Club and the IODE the Salvation Armys an nual Christmas hampers included toys clothing and food The quali ty of the donations this year were very good many containing hand- Sons of Scotland help overseas The local Sons of Scotland Benevolent Association could follow the trend of its countrywide counterparts and donate money to the survivors of the recent plane disaster in Lockerbie Scotland Association organizer Alice Gray of Georgetown said the local Sons of Scotland contacted the Toronto office which said it would donate Mrs Gray said she talked to two or three people in the local association who agreen that of the groups account should go to the survivors But we have to have a meeting said Mrs Gray The Association meets again the se cond Friday of January But Mrs SPECIAL Gray was optimistic that the donation would go through after she spoke with the associations chief and its treasurer Its a jol ly good idea she said The Dec 21 plane crash killed 259 aboard a Boeing 747 departing from London and heading for New York near the border of England and Scotland after a bomb explod ed on board Chapters of the Sons of Scotland around the country will donate funds to the survivors of the tragedy said Mrs Gray knitted clothes and good quality toys Applications for the Salvation Army food hampers were similar to that of the Good Neighbor Ser vice Were here if anybody is in need said Ms Williams concern ing the Salvation Armys efforts for the new year The Kinette toy drive aside from the food hamper service also brought happiness to kids in Georgetown It went great said organizer Jane Leonard We had enough toys The quality of toy donations also improved over previous years The number of new toys was the highest ever received About of the kids who received gifts at Christmas were teens The monetary donations of were used to finance their gifts Five Kinettes and two Kinsmen devoted their time to the toy drive The Kinette Club Toy Drive is an established project in Georgetown Weve been doing it for 1015 years said Mrs Leonard On plans for future toy dnves Mrs Leonard says that they will follow the same system of organization as in the past The on ly suggestion she made was that people save their gifts over the year until next Christmas as storage space is limited GEORGETOWN SPAS FITNESS CENTRE EXCLUSIVELY YOURS 8771924 PAPER FOP QUALITY PRINTS 1 lit HONOLULU SPECIAL INCLUDES V BBQ Chicken Aloha Special Sauce C Bun Fresh Cut Fries A REAL FULL MEAL DEALI 232 Street Georgetown David very much in the pop vein and his band recorded a demo tape in hopes of getting a recording con tract But a decision he made on Christmas to return to Canada for a white Christmas the next year cut short those plans During his threeyear stint it was only supposed to be six months Dave got more adventure than he bargained for He played Billy Joel and Frank Sinatra numbers in piano bars and rocked nightclubs but there was another side to the Aussie ex perience Drawing on his ex perience doing stunts on the ships at the two Wonderlands Dave got into stunts for movies and com mercials He rode a bike off the end of a plank flipping onto a stack of boxes did a suicide dive off a platform into Sydney Harbor for a beer commercial dove threw a plate glass window for a mini- series called Richmond Hill got hit by a car for a television series call ed Down and Under and was hang ed as a stunt double for a television movie called The Long Way Home in North America the show was aired under the name Dada is Death He played the man who was hanged along with his partner for drug smuggling in Thailand Hes appeared in many magazine advertisements for soft drinks and in the music video Crazy performed by the rock group Ice House In one incident Dave broke his ribs while performing the flying fox stunt for a live television broadcast In that stunt he held onto a sliding device which allowed him to glide down a wire The wire collapsed and he fell 15 ft lan ding on a steel railing belly first The couple were married just two weeks before they left for Australia in We decided to get married just for fun It was a marriage of convenience It really worked well parents are Australian and the marriage allowed both to work in the coun try They have now purchased a house in East York Dave is star ting up a music career in the Toronto area but has dreams of parlaying that into acting Ultimately I would like to be an actor If it turns out that I become prominent in the music business and if I have a choice between that and acting possibly Ill choose ac ting he said The first thing Ive got to do is make some money To that end be knocked on a few doors and he has already set up a solo gig at Mulligans on Dtmdas Street In Mississauga on Jan 14 His father Fred a former singer and dancer is his manager Citing the importance of good guidance Dave said I dont think you could ask for a better manager than your father He looks out for your in terests Careless charge An Acton man is charged with careless driving after his Nissan struck a parked car on McDonald Boulevard in Acton early Friday afternoon Police say the Nissan was westbound on a long curve when it went out of control on the slush and hit a 1984 owned by an Erin man Infant saved Halton Regional Police say a restraining seat saved the life of a baby in an OakviUe accident Sun day afternoon Two cars collided at Ninth Line and Burnhamthorpe Road at about 4 pm and were demolished An Oakville man 33 is in hospital in critical 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