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Catherine Kitty Gosselin: Dollar Store

St. Patrick Dept: That would be St. Patrick s Day. Don t ever say St. Paddy s Day because she ll correct you. St. Patrick deserves his full due, says the 82-year-old native of Ireland, who still speaks with a brogue, according to The Star. So there she ll be in the special events area, down the corridor from the African shop, near the Vietnamese florist, close to the store selling Indian movies and Hindu religious art and in her kelly green coat and shamrock scarf, Catherine Kitty Gosselin, nee O Sullivan, doesn t stop at her favourite coffee shop or dollar store in her beloved Jane and Finch Mall. Her walking stick in hand, she heads straight to the main office to confirm plans for the big day. On that day, the fiddler s daughter, who wants to keep Irish music and heritage alive, will play her accordion and bodhran, a small goatskin drum, and Irish tapes and dance a jig in the busy mall as she s done for the past three years. I m not an entertainer, dear, she explains. I just hop around. Honest to God. Call it leprechaun-lite. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.