Minor places second
South Surrey's Dan Minor (right) came in second in the National Senior Star contest.
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Updated: October 29, 2009 3:33 PM
He's a senior star nationally – as well as in his own backyard.
South Surrey resident Dan Minor, 69, demonstrated his winning singing and tap-dancing style on the theme from Cabaret, to claim second place at Chartwell Seniors Housing's 2009 Senior Star national competition, Oct. 19 at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto.
Minor, who won first place in the Peninsula competition in June at the Wheelhouse Theatre, was among 10 winners from 70 regional competitions to be selected for the national finals.
He was competing against mostly Ontario residents – but the grand winner was also the only other B.C. resident in the nationals, singer Jeanne Rodrique from Kamloops.
This was the second year Minor had claimed the top spot in the local contest, but the first time he was selected to go on to the nationals.
Minor, who was long involved in community theatre, has also appeared in the Theatre Royal troupe in Barkerville, and has been a regular participant in White Rock Come Share Society sing-alongs.
