Who is dawna friesen

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Feature By Laura Ryckewaert. Plus, Kyle Harrietha has followed Jonathan Wilkinson from the environment portfolio to natural resources as deputy chief of staff and director of parliamentary affairs. Search Submit search Quick Search. Video link. Close X. Contact Dawna. Dawna Friesen. In her first attempt at anchoring Dawna Friesen did not show promise. I was so nervous. Her parents were Mennonites, cultural more than religious, and she was raised on a grain farm 40 minutes west of Winnipeg.

At 20, with her plaid blouses and layers of permed hair, she had the look of a rising country and western singer. She prefers asking other people questions. The shy prairie girl will be speaking to one million viewers every week night.

Her voice was good, slightly husky, with a depth that caught the ear of a broadcaster passing through Brandon. When Ray Erickson, general manager of CJLB in Thunder Bay, heard Friesen reading the noon-hour news on the radio, he stopped the car, called her at the station and offered her a job.

Just like that. He doubled her salary. That was enough to persuade her to get in her Dodge Omni and drive to Thunder Bay. That offer was the first; being noticed and recruited became a pattern in her life. Friesen chose NBC in , when she was offered a job based in London as a foreign correspondent.

The new job appeals, personally and professionally. Lucas began Grade 1 this month in Vancouver, where Friesen has taken up temporary quarters in a furnished apartment hotel until she settles on a house. Her phone rang during an interview in a boardroom over looking Bloor Street East.