Career
He has been the club"s official anthem singer since 1994, and is familiar with at least 13 national anthems. Slewidge typically ends an anthem with a salute, a wink and a thumbs up sign. (or, in the playoffs, with waving a towel)
Slewidge spent his childhood in Sault Ste.
His career in police work began there in 1975.
Prior to moving to the Ottawa area, he lived in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario where he first sang national anthems for the Sault Ste.
Marie Greyhounds. He has last been stationed in Smiths Falls at the OPP"s Eastern Region Headquarters.
In 1992, astronaut Roberta Bondar arranged for Slewidge to record the American and Canadian national anthems. She took the recordings aboard her flight on National Aeronautics and Space Administration"s Space Shuttle Discovery (mission STS-42).
Bondar"s home city is Sault Ste. Marie, where Slewidge was stationed at that time.