Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Sadly, Richard died the very day that I was released from the Ottawa Heart Institute after undergoing my planned Quintuple Heart Bypass after my 6 small heart attacks in October 2021. .... Ah Memories of Richard!! .... I first met Richard in September of 1975 while he was in the second year of a Two Year Associate Diploma in Community And Regional Planning at the then Mount Royal College (now university) in the City of Calgary, Alberta. When we Graduated together in April 1976, in the 65th Year of Mount Royal College, Richard and I were two of the three students hired for 10 weeks by the then Saskatchewan Department of Municipal Affairs' Community Planning Branch. And so off to the City of Regina, Saskatchewan, we both went. After my 10 weeks with the branch, I returned east to the City of Ottawa as my living near that city mother was then in year 8 of her 21 year losing fight with MS from which she died in 1989 at 64. Meanwhile Richard later moved over to the Saskatchewan Department of Health and he remained in the City of Regina for the remainder of his life. .... A specific incident that stands out for me in that Summer of 1976, was the day that Richard bought his giant convertible car that summer; we headed straight to a gas station to fill that giant gas guzzler up with gas. We never made it! We had to push the gas empty monster to the gasoline pump, ... uphill! .... I remain 100% convinced that this little experience had touched Richard deep enough that he would become even more sympathetic to the aims and the goals of the Green Party! .... Watch over our environment from up there Richard!! Maybe you might even do something for down here's environment. It was a nice time together down here in 1975-1976 with Richard. Bet that Richard can make it a nice time together up there!!!
