A Foreword by Niagara At Large publisher Doug Draper
A week ago this Wednesday, April 3, he went to Toronto to buy a cookbook, according to an April 1 story in The Toronto Star by my old colleague and friend Richard Brennan. Who would ever know, except maybe his closest friends, that such a rebel and juggernaut for the working class enjoyed collecting cookbooks?
Flowers left in cowboy boots – footwear that was a piece of the man’s character, left on the front porch of the home of Peter Kormos, where he was found dead at age 60 this March 30. Photo by Doug Draper
Yet that is what Peter Kormos was doing only three days before he was found dead in his Welland home, according to Richard’s story, when he collapsed there and was rushed to Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital. As the story goes on, the hospital wanted to run some tests on Peter to find out why he collapsed but he wanted to get back to his hometown of Welland. He wanted to get back to prepare a eulogy for a friend’s mother.
That was Peter – always putting others before himself. As Richard’s story suggested, who knows if he might still be alive today if he had of stayed for the tests and received whatever treatment that might of come out of them.
Richard’s story in The Toronto Star is a good one, well worth the read from a reporter who has been one of the best over the past three decades when it comes to covering provincial and federal politics.
You can read Richard Brennan’s whole story by clicking on http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/04/01/postmortem_exam_confirms_former_ndp_mpp_peter_kormos_died_of_natural_causes.html .
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