Milt Dunnell 100th Birthday

Former Toronto Star sports writer Milt Dunnell is 100 today. He was born on a farm near St Marys. He worked as a reporter on the St Marys Journal Argus in the late 1920s then moved to the Stratford Beacon Herald where he stayed for a dozen years. He joined the Toronto Star in 1942, became sports editor in 1949 and continued writing columns there until he was in his nineties.

In 1992 he was named St Marys first honorary citizen and earlier this month it was announced the Flats (where this year's light display continues until January 4) will be renamed Milt Dunnell Field.

UPDATE Milt Dunnell died January 3, 2008 at North York General Hospital at the age of 102.