Lucy van Oldenbarneveld has been a familiar face 카지노 게임 컬렉션 and an engaging personality 카지노 게임 컬렉션 on CBC television news programs for more than three years now. First, she served as host of the flagship daily newscast at 6 p.m., and since November 2009, she has been co-host of additional newcasts at 5 and 6:30 p.m..
Lucy was also well-known to radio listeners, from 2003 to 2006, as a field reporter and Friday host of CBC카지노 게임 컬렉션s popular Ottawa Morning show, where she was an empathetic interviewer with a sense of humour and with what one fan described as 카지노 게임 컬렉션her sass and her wit.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Lucy is so comfortable as a broadcaster that you might be surprised to learn she only got into broadcasting by chance in 1998. It happened in the Yukon, where she lived and worked for eight years.
After graduating from Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s in 1989 with a BA in Political Studies, Lucy had some difficulty deciding on a career. Her frustration level grew as months went by, working as a bartender in Kingston. In the end, recalls Lucy, 카지노 게임 컬렉션I just wanted to do something, to go somewhere.카지노 게임 컬렉션 She resolved to take whatever jobs were available until the 카지노 게임 컬렉션right one카지노 게임 컬렉션 came along.
But first, where to go? Lucy chose the Yukon, after some friends told her about their own fond memories of living there. An adventurous soul, Lucy had spent the summer of 1988 hiking around the South American country of Ecuador. Then Canada카지노 게임 컬렉션s north beckoned, and in April 2000 she packed a tent, a sleeping bag, and a mat and lit out for Whitehorse by bus and ferry 카지노 게임 컬렉션 traveling via Vancouver, Bellingham, Washington; and Skagway, Alaska.
She arrived in Whitehorse to find snow still on the ground. No matter, Lucy pitched her tent and slept in the Great Outdoors for several weeks 카지노 게임 컬렉션 not out of bravado, but because she had almost no money left after an unexpected, ruinously expensive taxi ride to reach Bellingham before the ferry left. Unable to afford a cabin on the ferry, she spent three bone-chilling nights sleeping on deck in her sleeping bag.
In Whitehorse, Lucy borrowed a bike and soon found a temporary job as a bartender (카지노 게임 컬렉션It was quite lucrative,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she notes with a knowing smile.). In May, fellow Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s alum Dr. David Skinner, Artsci카지노 게임 컬렉션66, Meds카지노 게임 컬렉션71, 카지노 게임 컬렉션got me out of my tent,카지노 게임 컬렉션 as Lucy says. Skinner asked her to house-sit his log home for a month. 카지노 게임 컬렉션He helped create my love affair with the Yukon that lasted 10 years,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says.
However, to this day, she regrets killing off some of the plants that the good doctor had asked her to water in his absence.
Over the five years Lucy spent in the Land of the Midnight Sun she worked at a succession of short-term jobs.
카지노 게임 컬렉션That카지노 게임 컬렉션s how life in the Yukon works, you dabble here and there,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Lucy. She worked for the women카지노 게임 컬렉션s directorate in the territorial government, helping to organize a federal/provincial/territorial conference. Then she caught on at the Yukon Council for the Economy and the Environment, where she helped write some reports. And for 18 months she put her Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s Policy Studies training to use with the Council of Yukon First Nations, assisting former MLA Norma Cassi in her fight to save the Porcupine caribou herd. 카지노 게임 컬렉션What I was doing was partly speech writing, partly policy work,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Lucy.
While the work was interesting, Lucy decided it wasn't what she wanted as a career.
She had other talents, including theatre. Lucy acted in several little theatre productions, plays for children, and in dinner theatre with a Yukon group called the Rendezvous Comedy Review. 카지노 게임 컬렉션We sold out the show for 10 nights,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Lucy. Later, she auditioned for--and landed--a small speaking role in a 1996 American television movie-of-the-week production about a dog-sledding murder mystery. Cold Heart of a Killer starred Kate Jackson and Corbin Bernsen.
After spending the 1996-97 school year teaching English as a Second Language in Beijing, China, Lucy returned to Whitehorse. She had concluded concluded that teaching wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션t her calling. Instead, she decided to become an actress. A friend had written a one-woman show, and in 1998 the two of them performed it at Fringe Festivals in Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria, and San Francisco, ending up after two months on the road with a final staging in 카지노 게임 컬렉션 where else? 카지노 게임 컬렉션 Whitehorse. The experience convinced Lucy of something: 카지노 게임 컬렉션I decided I wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션t very good at acting, much as I enjoyed it, I had to find more sustainable work카지노 게임 컬렉션.
It was at that point that Lucy chanced to meet CBC카지노 게임 컬렉션s regional director, based in Whitehorse. He asked her to fill-in for an absent radio newsreader for three weeks, and as soon as she started doing so she knew broadcasting was her thing.
Lucy landed a job as host and producer of the local afternoon radio program, The Late Edition. One thing led to another, and in 2000 she persuaded CBC to send her to Yellowknife, NWT, to learn about becoming a television news anchor. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I took myself so seriously back then,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says with a laugh.
European broadcasting beckoned in 2002, and Lucy took a year's leave of absence from CBC to accept a one-year contract as an English-language host, producer, and reporter with Deutsche Welle World Service Radio, based in Cologne, Germany. Lucy카지노 게임 컬렉션s parents were Dutch immigrants to Canada 카지노 게임 컬렉션 as you might have guessed by her surname 카지노 게임 컬렉션 and Lucy is 카지노 게임 컬렉션moderately fluent카지노 게임 컬렉션 in Dutch. She also speaks what she describes as 카지노 게임 컬렉션basic German카지노 게임 컬렉션.
Several high-profile European stories broke in 2002, and Lucy covered them for Deutsche Welle and for the CBC. Among her assignments were covering the discovery of Al Qaeda cells in Hamburg, the occupation of the Iraqi embassy in Berlin by an Iraqi group calling for the ouster of President Saddam Hussein, and the murder of a prominent Dutch right-wing politician and party leader nine days before the Dutch general election. Lucy was also Deutsche Welle카지노 게임 컬렉션s radio and television correspondent at the G8 summit hosted by the Canadian government in Kananaskis, Alberta, that year.
After her return to CBC and her move to Ottawa in mid-winter 2003, Lucy카지노 게임 컬렉션s international horizons expanded. She accepted two invitations to teach broadcasting skills in Africa in 2003 and 2006.
The 2003 invitation came from Lucy카지노 게임 컬렉션s former colleague and good friend, Nigerian journalist Willy Aeodele Thomas, who had headed Deutsche Welle카지노 게임 컬렉션s African programming section. On returning to Africa, Thomas established a network of radio stations. He asked Lucy to spend a month in 2003 teaching broadcasting skills to journalists at the AFRINET stations.
Lucy recalls these East African journalists in Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya as truly courageous people. "They believed they were there to shine the light on what카지노 게임 컬렉션s going on in their country, and to hold decision makers responsible, whether they are government or business people, in a climate not very welcoming to journalists,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says.
Lucy subsequently accepted another invitation from Thomas, this time to spend two weeks in Nigeria, helping Nigerian journalists strengthen their radio skills.
In 2006, Lucy helped Carleton 카지노게임사이트 journalism professor Allan Thompson in his efforts to teach radio skills and standards for a month in the National 카지노게임사이트 of Rwanda카지노 게임 컬렉션s journalism program in Butare. Coverage of the 1994 Rwanda genocide by mainstream western media 카지노 게임 컬렉션 which ignored or misconstrued the massacre of 800,000 people 카지노 게임 컬렉션 and Rwandan radio stations카지노 게임 컬렉션 inflammatory broadcasts inciting it, were deeply troubling. This prompted Thompson to establish links between the two universities카지노 게임 컬렉션 journalism programs, with support from the Canadian International Development Agency.
One of her most moving experiences in Rwanda was a five-hour trip to the village of Kinihira in northern Rwanda. She and her colleague Peter Bregg, chief photographer for Maclean카지노 게임 컬렉션s, went to deliver $3,000 to the village school. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Hundreds of children came running from every direction to greet us,카지노 게임 컬렉션 Lucy recalled.
Students at St. Luke카지노 게임 컬렉션s School in Ottawa raised the money after hearing a talk by General Romeo Dallaire. He told them about visiting the Kinihari school twice, before and after the genocide.
The once-thriving school in its beautiful setting, that he saw on his first visit, was just an empty shell on his return. It broke his heart to know that the reopened school now had no basic supplies 카지노 게임 컬렉션 no desks, chairs, books, paper, pencils, or even blackboards for teachers to write on. The Ottawa children had raised the $3,000 to buy all these things and more that teachers needed. They also sent personal letters and photos to the Kinihari children.
Lucy told the moving story of her Rwandan visit and many others to the Ottawa Over-50s group, as the guest speaker at a November 2009 luncheon meeting. Her talk was titled "Working on Four Continents: North America, China, Europe and Africa."
If all goes as planned, Lucy says she may soon return to Nigeria, where she hopes to help more journalists hone their radio skills.
Jean Bruce is an Ottawa freelance writer.
