Who is dave dutton

Though in his 60s, Dutton would finish his Friday night shift, trailer up his Kawasaki ZX7 and head for the track. It was after one of his racing weekends in July that Dutton returned to his log cabin home after a storm had battered Lanark County.

The power was out, so Dutton lay down on the sofa for a nap while he waited to be able to cook dinner. He awoke to the bleating of smoke alarms with the house full of smoke and his kitchen in flames. He barely escaped with his life. The cabin burned to the foundation, incinerating a lifetime of possessions and memories.

For a year-and-a-half, Dutton lived in a trailer on the site while workers reconstructed his home. He moved in after retiring from Postmedia in October, just weeks before his 69th birthday. He planned to enjoy his new home, tinker with his motorbikes and spend more time visiting Rachel and his granddaughter.

Then, in the week before Easter, Dutton began feeling unwell, something he passed off as allergies. Then he began to have stomach problems and grow weak. By Easter Sunday, he had fallen several times and Rachel, alarmed, arranged for an ambulance to come for him.

Dutton lived alone, wore a mask, practised physical distancing and was a searing critic of his pandemic-denying MPP, Randy Hillier. I have covered this pandemic daily. Today it hit very close to home with the loss of Dave Dutton, newly retired from the OttawaCitizen night desk. A loveable curmudgeon with so much to look forward to. We are all broken-hearted. He remained there, intubated and on life support, until Rachel and her family had arrived from the U.

He died Friday, with Rachel and his sister, Lisa, present. Always an ardent user of social media, Dutton made his final Facebook comment on April 14 from his Perth hospital bed. Dutton is survived by his mother, Gloria, his daughter, Rachel Simon, and her husband, Carl, granddaughter Liliana, and his sister, Lisa, and brother Phil. Friends have begun a GoFundMe page to assist Rachel and her family. But that's not the first time Dave has played a role in one of our favourite soaps, he's also had five different roles in Emmerdale too.

But lets take a look at what on-screen alter-ego's he's had in the past in the Cobbles Dave played the role of Eric Priestley in February as a guest cast member which focused around Sally Waterman resigning from her role in the Weatherfield Recorder after the Gazette offer her a job. One of his longest roles in the soap, Dave played Bert, Jack Duckworth's pal who sold him a dog called Boomer.

However little did Jack know that Boomer was short for Boomerang - and he always ended up back with Bert no matter who he sold him to. Then four years later he returned to the Cobbles as an insurance man who tried to help Sally and Kevin Webster when their kitchen was set on fire by Bill.

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