A couple of the boys played for the YMCA on Sundays, so I went along, and played there up to under-17s.
I played union at West Park Grammar School. The first team I played for was St Helens YMCA. I remember Cliff Watson and Tony Karalius. My dad and grandad were from St Helens, so I used to watch them. I’d left Saints the previous summer, and Alex Murphy really slagged me off, so it was a good feeling. Saints people will hate me even more, but I’ll go for the 27-0 Wembley win in 1989. If you could relive one day from your career, which would it be? He is the brother of Duncan, who played for Widnes, Oldham and Leigh.Īfter his career ended, he moved with his wife to Australia, where they still reside. He later enjoyed stints at Auckland Warriors, Widnes, Salford and Workington, where he was player-coach.
He won numerous medals and was man of the match when the 1992 Lions hammered Australia in Melbourne. (This year’s Balloons, Blues, and BBQ will be October 28th and 29th next to the old town community center.)īesides the Peabody award Joe received in 1967, he has also been presented South Carolina’s highest public service award, the Order of the Palmetto, by three of our state’s governors for his tireless efforts helping to make South Carolina a better place to live.Andy Platt was one of the best British forwards of the 1980s and 1990s, representing St Helens, Wigan and Great Britain with distinction. This year, I hear we are going to be better prepared with more food vendors, and that’s good for me and my quest for EATS, and because the balloon count is going from five last year to twenty this year”. Regarding “29016” event planning, Joe says “The town is doing a great job of bringing in these wonderful events but we were a victim of our own success at last year’s balloon festival. He says he has no doubts that the new park will help bring more people, money, and needed businesses to Blythewood. Joe added that he hopes SCE&G’s new power lines go underground and that he soon sees more trees and landscaping around town. He added that when he puts his roots down, “I become a supporter.” He is a big fan of Blythewood’s master plan and is looking forward to it “coming to fruition”. “I attend church in Blythewood, I eat at the restaurants, this is my town,” he beams proudly. Joe says that although he does not live inside the town’s official borders, he feels as many do, that living in “29016” is “living in Blythewood”. He is also a member of the Media Club, Some Legendary Old Broadcasters (SLOBS), Greater Columbia Community Relations Luncheon Club, Friday the 13th Club, Trinity United Methodist Church choir in Blythewood, and of course, Bravo Blythewood (the town’s cultural arts association). His other civic activities include serving on the boards of weatherandkids, the Voice of AGAPE, Statewide Integrated Services for Senior Citizens, South Carolina Safe Kids, and as an ambassador of Honor Flight SC. He thoroughly enjoys his MC duties for the town and says he naturally feeds off the crowd at each event, being “in my element!” Joe also serves as narrator and Master of Ceremonies for the youth concerts of the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra and is on the Philharmonic’s Advisory Council. When he moved to the Blythewood area many years ago, Joe says he immediately found that he loved saying “Blythewood, 29016”, and it remains a favorite to this day, stretching that trademark smile of his from ear-to-ear every time he says it. Joe is probably the station’s best-known on-air staff member, and although now semi-retired, he still provides weather reports and feature segments on the WIS Friday midday newscast. Knozit for 37 years, with the show airing its final episode in 2000. Four years later, the show would receive the Peabody Award for excellence in children’s programming. In 1963, he joined WIS-TV and soon became a weatherman and host of its long running children’s program, “Mr. Joe began his career interacting with the public back in the 1950’s at radio stations in North Carolina, Florida, and South Carolina. If you have attended any of Blythewood’s events over the past several years, you know the town is lucky to have Joe Pinner as its official Master of Ceremonies.
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