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Terri Gale left her CTV morning gig as weather person to open Golden Hour Cafe & Bar with her husband, Rob Gale, the former coach of FC Valour and co-founder of the Northern Super League\u2019s Winnipeg franchise. <\/p>\n
\u201cI do love coffee and take mine black. Except because I hate burning my tongue \u2014 not a good thing when you speak for a living \u2014 I got into the habit of throwing a couple of ice cubes in my cup, to be on the safe side,\u201d Gale says, seated on the second level of their attractive, 2,100-square-foot premises, which officially opened in mid-September.<\/p>\n
And while Gale doesn\u2019t anticipate pouring latt\u00e9s and cappuccinos for guests \u2014 she promises to leave that to their expert 12-member staff that includes her 18-year-old son, Jack \u2014 she is looking forward to greeting her old viewers who happen by for coffee, tea or, later in the day, the locale\u2019s signature sangria.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll be here most mornings helping out with whatever and I\u2019m definitely looking forward to connecting with fans of the show I never had the chance to meet,\u201d she says, casually dressed in jeans and a collarless black top. \u201cI received so many messages after announcing I was leaving \u2014 all very sweet \u2014 so it will be nice to say hi to some of those people, and thank them for their support through the years.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\t\t\tSign up for Winnipeg Gardener<\/a><\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t Gale, born Terri Ivanochko, grew up on a farm near Preeceville, Sask. The majority of the kids in her community were heavily involved with sports \u2014 even the girls. She was more drawn to music, mind you, making her somewhat of an outcast. Fortunately, her parents\u2019 cows were a receptive audience, she chuckles, and, with no place else to showcase her talents, she regularly serenaded them with selections from Oliver! and Showboat.<\/p>\n Gale originally intended to follow in her mother\u2019s footsteps by becoming a school teacher. That changed the morning she went to enrol at the University of Regina, and spotted a hallway poster reading \u201csingers and dancers wanted.\u201d On the spot, she convinced her mom to drive her across town to try out for Saskatchewan Express, a touring company that to this day performs musical revues throughout Western Canada.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t JOHN JOHNSTON \/ FREE PRESS FILES<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Gale, left, stopped using her maiden name (Ivanochko) while working at CityTv because producers told her it clashed with the surname of her co-host, Jon Ljungberg, right.<\/p>\n She spent a year with the troupe, then two years studying theatre at Red Deer Polytechnic, in Red Deer, Alta. That led to a two-year stint acting and singing in light-hearted dinner theatre productions, first in Edmonton and Calgary with Jubilations, and later in Winnipeg, with Celebrations Dinner Theatre. (A move to Winnipeg in the early 2000s coincided with her marriage to her first husband, Randy Apostle, Celebrations\u2019 artistic director.)<\/p>\n One morning in 2002, Gale and her then-husband were watching The Big Breakfast, back when it was hosted by current SportsCentre personality Jay Onrait. The show was a mix of news and entertainment and at some point her husband remarked, \u201cYou know, you\u2019d be fantastic at something like that.\u201d She heeded his advice, soon earning a diploma from a local broadcasting academy.<\/p>\n Following a radio career that included stops at 92.1 CITI FM, KY-58 and 1290 CFRW \u2014 at the latter, she teamed up with legendary jock Don Percy \u2014 she successfully auditioned for a vacant on-air position in 2007 with Breakfast Television, The Big Breakfast\u2019s successor. Let us guess: she was an immediate hit with viewing audiences and everything went silky smooth, right? Wrong.<\/p>\n \u201cI was awful, just dreadful,\u201d she says, noting Citytv was where she ceased going by her maiden name in favour of Apostle, owing to producers instructing her that Ivanochko and Ljungberg, her co-host Jon Ljungberg\u2019s surname, was a poor fit.<\/p>\n \u201cI assumed I was to going to go there and get shown the ropes \u2014 or at least meet some of the staff \u2014 but they mic\u2019d me up on my first day and said, \u2018You\u2019re on in three minutes,\u2019\u201d she says, her eyes widening. \u201cI turned to Jon and asked, \u2018What do we do?\u2019 He answered, \u2018It ain\u2019t rocket science, kid. You look at the camera and talk.\u2019 All of a sudden, a voice was counting down from 10 and there I was, scared shitless.\u201d<\/p>\n Gale eventually got the hang of things, and began producing engaging lifestyle segments in addition to her regular duties. She\u2019d grown so confident in her abilities that upon being summoned to a meeting with management 18 months into the job, she showed up expecting to be offered a promotion. Imagine her surprise when she was informed that the station was moving in a different direction, and she was being let go.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t WAYNE GLOWACKI \/ FREE PRESS FILES<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Gale during her stint with the Canadian Traffic Network in 2011.<\/p>\n Gale didn\u2019t stay unemployed for long. Within a week, she caught on with the Canadian Traffic Network, delivering radio reports on construction zones and fender benders from a helicopter hovering 500 feet above the city. It was a dream job, she says, especially since her son was still in diapers.<\/p>\n \u201cIt basically allowed me to be a stay-at-home mom,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019d leave him with the sitter at 2 (p.m.) \u2014 his nap time \u2014 and be back by 6:30 (p.m.), after flying around for a few hours in my faux leather jacket and aviator sunglasses, I was such a poseur.\u201d<\/p>\n In June 2011, Sylvia Kuzyk let it be known that she would be retiring from her weather anchor position at CTV, a role she\u2019d filled for 38 years. Figuring \u201cWhat\u2019s the worst that could happen?\u201d Gale threw her hat in the ring to be Kuzyk\u2019s replacement on the 6 p.m. news hour. No sooner was she informed the gig was hers if she wanted it than the station introduced a new program to its lineup. CTV Morning Live, as it was then called, would air from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m., Monday to Friday. Gale inquired if she could possibly do that instead.<\/p>\n \u201cI was already used to mornings, from my days on the radio and at Citytv,\u201d she states. \u201cPlus, morning shows are more about levity. I liked to push the envelope a bit by not taking myself too seriously, and the evening newscast isn\u2019t the place for that. I say with great conviction that if I\u2019d been on at 6 p.m., I would never have lasted.\u201d<\/p>\n Gale says there were a number of factors that led to her decision to depart CTV in June. Firstly, she met her second husband, the father of two grown daughters, in the early stages of the pandemic and because a professional soccer coach generally leads a transient lifestyle, she wasn\u2019t certain how long they\u2019d remain in Winnipeg if their relationship blossomed. (The pair tied the knot in June 2025.)<\/p>\n Secondly, she had grown weary of seemingly endless layoffs in the media industry, and detested the nervousness she felt, wondering whether she\u2019d be the next one to get shown the door. Finally, she had become keenly interested in hypnotherapy, even spending parts of 2024 training online with an expert in the field to become a registered hypnotherapist herself.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t MIKE DEAL \/ FREE PRESS<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n The menu at Golden Hour Caf\u00e9 and Bar focuses on small plates.<\/p>\n \u201cThat got me thinking, rather than continuing to drive myself nuts worrying about layoffs, why not just do (hypnotherapy) instead?\u201d she says, adding she\u2019s also a couple of years away from a milestone birthday, so the timing seemed right.<\/p>\n Gale had already set the wheels in motion to join a St. Norbert-based wellness centre when Rob returned home in March from a men\u2019s league soccer game and broached the topic of opening a coffee shop at the suggestion of one of his team members, Jay Colosimo, the owner of Colosimo Coffee Roasters. She laughs, saying many\u2019s the time she has proposed this or that, and how Rob\u2019s response in every instance has been, \u201cGreat idea. Let\u2019s do it.\u201d<\/p>\n Given that, she felt it was her turn to utter, \u201cgreat idea,\u201d despite not knowing the first thing about running a caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n They received the keys to their space, most recently a hookah lounge, on May 1. The two of them spent the next four months doing renovations as well as developing a food menu focused on small plates such as avocado toast, beet-burrata salad and banana pudding. An expansive outdoor patio opened earlier this week to coincide with extended hours, from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.<\/p>\n \u201cThose hours are a bit of a work in progress. We\u2019ll likely see what the reception is like and take it from there,\u201d Gale says, noting her alarm presently goes off at 7:10 a.m., a luxury she\u2019s still getting used to.<\/p>\n Of her friends from television, Gale says a number of them have already popped by to check out her new digs, and catch up over a cuppa joe.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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