Réal Simard (hosted by fellow comedian Ivo Graham), each broadcasting from their respective homes. The broadcast was a light-hearted “look back at their life, work, loves, regrets and cans”. This became a regular live stream gig. Awards. The show won the Chortle Radio award on 20 March 2017. In 2020, the show won a Gold Award at ARIAS in the category of 'Funniest Show'. Elis James and John Robins The Elis James and John Robins show is a weekly radio show presented by British comedians Elis James and John Robins. Formerly broadcast on commercial radio station Radio X, the show now 	Elis James and John Robins
20505655	Parish Apartments Parish Apartments Parish Apartments, also known as the Sigma Pi Fraternity House and the St. Thomas More Parish Center, is a historic building located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Located in the Manville Heights neighborhood, it was built as a fraternity house for Sigma Pi in the 1929. The design for the three-story stone Tudor Revival structure is attributed to Madison, Wisconsin architect Myron Edwards Pugh. It was built at the height of fraternity house construction at the University of Iowa. The Xi Psi Phi fraternity joined Sigma Pi in the house in 1936, and Psi Omega joined 	Parish Apartments
20505656	two years later. The residency of these other fraternities was most likely due to a decline in enrollment during the Great Depression. It was not enough, however, as First Trust and Savings Bank of Davenport acquired the building at a sheriff's sale in 1943. In 1945 the property transferred to the Catholic Diocese of Davenport for use as the Catholic Student Center and Newman Club for Catholic students who were enrolled at the University of Iowa. Edna Mahan, a University of Iowa graduate and president of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, was instrumental in securing the building. Bishop 	Parish Apartments
20505657	Henry Rohlman had established the student center in 1944 with Rev. Leonard Brugman as the first director. Under the patronage of St. Thomas More, the building housed a chapel until 1947. A Quonset hut was used as a church from 1947 to 1965 when a new church was built on Riverside Drive under the direction of Rev. J. Walter McEleney. This building remained the student center until 1969 when the Rev. Robert Walter moved it to the former school building at St. Mary's Church and St. Thomas More became a territorial parish the following year. The parish continued to 	Parish Apartments
20505658	use the building as a parish center until it moved to Coralville in 2009. The former church building was sold to the university for an organ and music concert hall, and this building was converted into 16 one-bedroom and studio apartments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013 as the Sigma Pi Fraternity House. Parish Apartments Parish Apartments, also known as the Sigma Pi Fraternity House and the St. Thomas More Parish Center, is a historic building located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Located in the Manville Heights neighborhood, it was built as 	Parish Apartments
20505659	Réal Simard Réal Simard Réal Simard (born January 7, 1951) is a French-Canadian from Montreal known for being a hitman for Frank Cotroni of the Cotroni crime family, who later turned informant. Early career. In Simard's early days, he robbed banks with childhood friend Raymond Martel, but Martel was caught in a heist, while Simard avoided arrest. Another bank-robbing accomplice of Simard, Jean-Paul Saint-Armand, was arrested and turned informant, which sentenced Simard to six years in prison. Simard is the nephew of Armand Courville, a long-time associate of Frank Cotroni's older brother Vic Cotroni. While 	Réal Simard
20505660	Simard was in prison, he met leader of the family, Frank Cotroni, acting for his brother who was ill with cancer; he would become Frank's driver and eventual hitman upon their release in 1979. Simard considered Frank an uncle figure. By his own admission, a morally weak character who was emotionally needy and felt a desperate need to feel important, Simard stated that he became a hitman for Cotroni because it made feel like he was somebody powerful. Simard stated he found from Cotroni the love, attention, friendship" that he never experienced in the broken home he had grown  up in, adding "I had to take care of him. I was with him everyday. I was protecting him". Mob hits and turning informant. Simard's first hit was on Michel "Fatso" Marion in January 1980, who was ripping off Frank's rackets. Simard killed Marion while he was eating breakfast at a diner, giving the coup de grâce on Frank's order. Simard carried out another hit later that year. In June 1981, Simard murdered Giuseppe Montegano, a low-level cocaine dealer in Montreal, at Frank's son Francesco's private club, as he was suspected of being police  informant and had hostilities with Francesco. Simard then killed Michel Pozza in his driveway while he waited for him to come home in September 1982; Pozza was a reputed money launderer for the Cotroni family, but could no longer be trusted after shifting allegiance to the Sicilian Rizzuto crime family. In July 1983, Simard moved to Ontario where he met with Johnny Papalia in Hamilton on behalf of Frank Cotroni. Simard seized the Ontario market, bringing Quebec strippers to Toronto clubs, where he allowed Papalia to put his pinball machines in his clubs. He became known as "David". Simard has  been linked with Toronto mobster Paul Volpe's November 1983 murder, but no charges were laid. Also in November 1983, Simard and associate Richard Clément killed Mario Héroux, but unknowingly only severely wounded Robert Hétu, in their Toronto hotel room after they conspired to kill Clément. Hétu testified against Simard and Simard was arrested and convicted, until he became informant against Frank Cotroni and the family; this resulted in an eight-year sentence for manslaughter against Frank, Francesco and two associates in 1987 for the Montegano murder. Life after the Mafia. To reward him for his testimony, the Crown ensured  that in prison Simard had his own cell complete with a microwave, telephone, an exercise bike and a TV, giving by the standards of Canadian prisons a very luxurious lifestyle. After being released on early parole in 1990, Simard went into witness protection as the Cotroni family had put a price on his life. In his 1987 biography, "Le Neveu" ("The Nephew"), Simard told the book's author, Michel Vastel, that he was deeply moved by reading in French translation "Out of a Limb" by the American actress Shirley MacLaine, which convinced him that he had a soul and of  the reality of reincarnation. Simard stated: "Whatever action one takes will ultimately return to that person-good or bad-maybe not in this life embodiment, but sometime in the future. And nobody is exempt".  In a television documentary produced by Vastel about Simard, one reviewer wrote that Simard "has the charm of a gigolo and looks like a cross between heartthrob actor Armand Assante and singer Gino Vannelli." After being admitted on day parole in 1990 followed by full parole in 1994, Simard became active in Quebec separatism, serving as the campaign manager for a Bloc Quebecois candidate in the  1993 election. Subsequently, Simard turned to welfare fraud to support himself, cheating the Quebec government of some $13,000, which led to his parole being revoked. After being arrested in 1999 on charges of welfare fraud, Simard escaped and was discovered in 2004 to be working as a security guard at the Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, one of the most prestigious Catholic private schools in Quebec. Simard went back to prison for violating his parole for committing welfare fraud in 2004, and his attempts for parole have since been consistently refused by the parole board. Réal Simard Réal Simard (born