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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Simon McCarthy

Meet the 97-year-old Toronto man who rides 20 kilometres each day to buy the newspaper

At 97, Lenny Wilton rides around 20 kilometres each day on his bicycle to fetch his copy of the Newcastle Herald. Picture by Peter Lorimer

Lenny Wilton is a man of steady habits. He wakes up each morning and breakfasts on four Weetbix. Lunch is baked beans and four good slices of toast. And dinner is almost always meat and three vegetables.

He doesn't drink or smoke, and at 97, he doesn't concern himself too much with birthdays, though he remembers his ninth birthday, in particular, because his mother sent him a cake that disagreed with his constitution.

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