{"id":879,"date":"2013-09-28T11:15:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T15:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/?p=879"},"modified":"2014-07-18T12:16:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T16:16:30","slug":"breakfast-speaker-may-17-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-speaker-may-17-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast Speaker May 17, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dorothea-Helms-200.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"989\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-speaker-may-17-2014\/dorothea-helms-200\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dorothea-Helms-200.jpg?fit=200%2C302&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"200,302\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dorothea-Helms-200\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dorothea-Helms-200.jpg?fit=200%2C302&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-989 alignleft\" alt=\"Dorothea-Helms-200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dorothea-Helms-200-198x300.jpg?resize=198%2C300\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dorothea-Helms-200.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Dorothea-Helms-200.jpg?w=200&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>Dorothea Helms&#8217;s work includes regular features on Canadian celebrities, and she has been privileged to interview and write about over 50 well-known professionals in the entertainment, sports, media and arts worlds. Dorothea has sat in the living rooms of Pinball Clemons, the late Timothy Findley, George Fox, Ronnie Hawkins, Roger Ashby, the late Ben Wicks, Jeff Healey, Sandy Hawley, Alannah Myles, Dinah Christie, Bruce Good, Ted Barris, Bill Lishman, Kim Mitchell, Neil Crone and many other reader favourites and written on their lifestyles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Dorothea\u2019s articles have appeared in local, regional, national and international magazines and newspapers, including <strong><em>Chatelaine<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>lichen literary journal<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Stitches: The Magazine of Medical Humour<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Popular Woodworking<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Woodworker<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Big Buck<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>The Business and Professional Woman<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Real Estate Magazine<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Homes &amp; Lifestyles<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Today\u2019s Homes<\/em><\/strong>. Dorothea\u2019s humour also peppers the many articles she provides for the <strong><em>Toronto Sun<\/em><\/strong> Special Sections such as \u201cCareer Connections\u201d and \u201cDriverSource Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dorothea teaches Creative Writing at the college level and offers a fresh perspective that defies typical journalism styles. She offers topnotch writing and editing services for everything from small ads to technical websites and books. Currently, she is the editor of numerous magazines and special sections for Metroland Printing and Publishing and York Region Newspaper Group in the Greater Toronto Area. Dorothea recently started a second writing business that focuses on humour in a series of books, keynote speeches, workshops and courses. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewritingfairy.com\/\">The Writing Fairy<\/a> for the opportunity to purchase her new book on writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorothea Helms&#8217;s work includes regular features on Canadian celebrities, and she has been privileged to interview and write about over 50 well-known professionals in the entertainment, sports, media and arts worlds. Dorothea has sat in the living rooms of Pinball Clemons, the late Timothy Findley, George Fox, Ronnie Hawkins, Roger Ashby, the late Ben Wicks, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/breakfast-speaker-may-17-2014\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Breakfast Speaker May 17, 2014<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breakfast-speakers-2014"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8RivX-eb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":992,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wenetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}