Dianne Pollock still has to pinch herself to confirm she isn91裸聊视频檛 dreaming.
Pollock is part of the special events committee for the Mountainaire Avian Rescue Society (MARS), the team responsible for getting Rick Mercer to Vancouver Island for a taping of his show.
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The MARS segment will be featured on the season premiere of the Rick Mercer Report, Tuesday, Sept. 26.
While the taping and subsequent airing took no time at all, the process of getting him to the Island took more than two years to come to fruition.
91裸聊视频淏ack in June 2015, at one of our meetings, we thought it would be a good idea,91裸聊视频� Pollock said. 91裸聊视频淪o I wrote out this long email telling him what we did. I threw in a few things I thought might interest him, and added that if anything went sideways we have a hospital nearby 91裸聊视频� we got a response back pretty quickly saying they were interested.91裸聊视频�
Pollock said despite the producer expressing his interest in the idea, she heard nothing else for a few months, prompting a follow-up email.
Another response from Mercer91裸聊视频檚 producer reaffirmed the interest on their end, but again, communication stalled after that.
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That time-frame fell through, because Mercer was so involved with his (a nation-wide competition among Canadian schools to raise funds for bed nets, in the fight against malaria, in Africa).
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Mercer and his production team spent the morning of Aug. 25 at MARS, filming, and the show will be aired Tuesday.
MARS founder, Maj Birch, was part of the June 2015 meeting. She lost her battle to cancer later that year. Pollock said seeing this process through was somewhat of a tribute to Birch.
91裸聊视频淚 hope so; I really hope so,91裸聊视频� said Pollock. 91裸聊视频淲e all miss her a great deal. We still consider that Maj is the one holding the umbrella and we are all just the spokes.91裸聊视频�
