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OBITUARY: Crossroads and Yes TV founder Rev. David Mainse


BURLINGTON, ON - The Reverend David Mainse, founder of Crossroads Christian Communications and the first host of religious talk show 100 Huntley Street, passed away Monday after a five-year battle with leukemia.  He was 81.Under Rev. Mainse's leadership and direction, what began in 1962 as a weekly 15-minute broadcast that aired after the nightly news on a small Pembroke, ON television station grew to become an expansive family of not-for-profit ministries that included international multimedia programming, an international relief and development organization, a broadcast school, and a national prayer centre with more than 100 volunteers who field 30,000 calls each...