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Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk

Presents with Area Senior: Gilles Gibeau

Serving You Since 1937

musicals with an orchestra and were and one day when I was in shopping, Third Semester,” which did well
looking for people to fill the roles store owner Nathan Lang offered me for the first two years, until that
in the upcoming musical Bye Bye a job. I told him that I had no retail portion of Pitt St. was closed off
Birdie. One of my buddies dared experience, but he said he would to traffic, becoming a pedestrian
By Jim Riddell me to try out for it, so I did,” said train me. I was there for four years, mall. The Cornwall Square was
Gilles. “We also did Li’l Abner and and I have to say that Nathan Lang opening in October of 1979, and
“I was born and raised in
then South Pacific, where I had the was the best boss that I ever had. It Gilles got recruited by Sears for a
Cornwall, lived in the west end, and
lead role. We would sing and dance, was the most fun I had in retail, and management position. “I was there
was a King George Park rat,” Gilles
and that took all of the shyness out I learned a lot. I also became good when it opened,” Gilles recalled. “I
recalled. “There was a huge outdoor
of me. We would do three to four friends with Gary Bouchard, who was hired as a department manager
rink there; it was hockey all winter,
live performances a week in front of was the store’s shoe department for vacuums and sewing machines
softball and fastball in the summer.”
a full house at General Vanier. That manager at the time. Nathan was and finished my career as a store
Attending CCVS for his first two
was the time of our lives in high a nice man with a great family; his manager.” Gilles was with Sears until
years of high school, Gilles played
school.” kids used to come into the store, and they ceased operations in Canada,
various intramural sports, enjoying
his sons are now running Kastners.” spending over thirty years with the
volleyball in particular. In Grade 11, Following high school, Gilles
After four years at Kastners learning company. He spent twenty years
Gilles transferred over to General landed a part-time job as a cameraman
and gaining experience, Gilles and with Sears in Cornwall, another five
Vanier to major in Theatre Arts and with Cornwall Community 11 TV
a friend, Miles McIntosh, opened years in Ottawa at the Carlingwood
Architectural Drafting. “At GV, (now Cogeco). “I bought my clothes
a jean store on Pitt St. named “The
the school would put on full-blown at Kastners Men’s and Boy’s Wear, Continued on page 23

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