Your parents didn't really go out back in the didn't have heated seats and heated steering wheels and remote starts. And I tell everybody, and I don't know, there's no scientific data to actually back this up, but I tell people it's because in the heart of the Edmonton winter, when it's 35 or 40 below and there's huge snow drifts and you're a kid, you're not going out. People in the US talk a lot about how there's a lot of Canadians who are very funny and they're in the arts. I was the son of performers and coincidentally became a performer myself. And I got to hang out with All these amazing old performers, the Eric Nevilles and the Ed Kays and anyone from Edmonton who knows broadcasting would go, my God, those are amazing names from the past. Whether it was behind the scenes of Popcorn Playhouse or the CFRN News or hanging out in the green room where all the jocks I mean, all the jocks used to be live. I was the annoying little kid who was saying, look at me. I would run around behind the scenes when everyone was doing everything else. I was the kid who grew up, literally grew up in the television station. So he was always a big part of broadcasting and he never stopped singing. He was a theater critic on CKXM, which I think became the Bear, I'm pretty sure and he was the color and play by play guy for the Edmonton Drillers and the NASL. He started working there in the 50s and he never got rid of that performance bug. So my parents, obviously a fairly theatrical family, but once they came to Canada, my father was also a sign painter in Manchester, England, and came over and they needed an artist at CFRNTV, now, CTV Edmonton. But before they came over, my father sang opera and my mother was a Chorus Line dancer. So my parents emigrated from England in the 50s. So my home is Minneapolis, but I grew up in Edmonton. I always tell people where my home is, is wherever my wife and family is. We've seen where your friends used to live. And now my daughters are like, no, we're good. And it got to the point where we would visit Edmonton and I'd say, hey, let's drive around the old neighborhood. Every time we would go back with my daughters for something to go and see family, we'd go around the neighborhood. I think it's going through a bit of a gentrification. So it was one of those neat, cool neighborhoods and now it's kind of one of, the neighborhoods that I think time is sort of forgotten. I grew up in a Rio Terrace, which back in the day was I think it was developed when I was born in the mid 60s. Information about his age and birthday will be updated as soon as it’s available.Yeah, I grew up in the west end of Edmonton, a neighborhood that borders the North Saskatchewan River right there near the Quenell Bridge. However, it’s not clear when he was born although he was born in the United States of America. How old is Ian Leonard? Ian is around 57 years old as of 2023. Through all this, he has been able to raise over $20 million for Special Olympics Minnesota in the past 14 years and doesn’t plan to stop anytime soon. He makes this possible with his annual Polar Plunge in the winter and his Bad Pants Open Golf Tournament in the fall. He further works tirelessly for the over 8,000 athletes of Special Olympics Minnesota all year along. In the past years, Ian survived cancer, finished the Lake Placid Ironman 140.6, and learned to empty the dishwasher at home. Leonard lost a third of his lower lip to squamous cell cancer in 2016. For over 20 years, Ian has been used to the phrase, stay aware of the sky, which highlights the weather forecast. His career has taken his places running from Alberta, Canada to Mississipi, Lowa, and finally Minnesota where he is working for FOX 9. He lives his life to the fullest describing in one sentence “I love my life, love my wife, love my daughters, and love my dog…kinda like the cat.” Ian Leonard is a Chief Meteorologist currently working for Fox 9 in Minneapolis since 2006.
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