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Bagpipes for a piper at West Lincoln Memorial Hospital

Veterans band piper performs for fellow veteran piper and patient at hospital

By Mark NewmanReporter Grimsby Lincoln News
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John Dinsmore and piper

Jim Yates, a piper with the veterans’ band of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, plays the bagpipes for another veteran piper, John Dinsmore, who is a patient at the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital.

 Mark Newman Metroland

It brought a grin to John Dinsmore’s face and a twinkle to his eye.

Dinsmore, a 83-year-old Grimsby resident and patient at the West Lincoln Memorial Hospital, is a longtime piper and honorary colonel with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada.

Mark Newman
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is a reporter/photographer with Niagara This Week.

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