Kevin Rollason

@KevinRollason @WinnipegNews A Winnipeg icon! Condolences to his family and many many friends.

@KevinRollason @WinnipegNews A homage to Mr. Cantafio's success ... the Winnipeg Fury winning the 1992 Canadian Soccer Championship in Vancouver, BC .. snaps taken for the @wpgfreepress by moi ... my condolences to the Cantafio family and the Winnipeg Soccer community ☹️

@KevinRollason @WinnipegNews RIP Ralph, gave me my first professional sports med work with the Fury, kind, generous and a great Corydon community man

Ralph Cantafio was a tailor - and the father of modern soccer in Canada. He founded the Winnipeg Fury, was a leader of the Manitoba and Canadian Soccer Associations, was inducted into Halls of Fame, and has a soccer complex named for him #RIP @WinnipegNews passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-detail…

@KevinRollason @WinnipegNews Steve was my mother-in-law's uncle and he was such a nice man. He always had time to chat and was genuinely interested in the people around him.

Steve “Vita Steve” Derewianchuk is still the only NDP MLA elected in southern Manitoba and that was 1973. He was Reeve and councillor in the LGD of Stuartburn, a staunch volunteer, and is in the MB Baseball Hall of Fame for his skill #RIP @WinnipegNews passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-detail…

Lena (Fung Ha) Yee was born in China and joined her husband here to make tofu at a relative’s grocery. The couple opened Yee’s Grocery in Chinatown in 1979 and she later helped her kids at their 4 Seasons Chinese Food restaurant #RIP @WinnipegNews passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-detail…

@KevinRollason Oh my goodness. She sounds like such a lovely human. What a profound loss. My condolences to her family.

@KevinRollason An amazing young woman who surely left the world a better place. My heart is with her family and friends 💖

Alexandra Mason wasn’t a teacher but she taught hundreds of elementary students how to fight climate change during her too short of life. Read about her life - and others - in my latest free Passages newsletter winnipegfreepress.com/briefings/educ…

While living in Alberta, Barb Pink’s job with an architectural firm was on the Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump centre. In Winnipeg, she worked at James Richardson and would take great pics of sunsets from the top floor of the building #RIP @WinnipegNews passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-detail…

Garry Brickman and Leon Mercury were both honoured as Queen’s Counsel. Brickman also served as special counsel to then Premier Sterling Lyon while Mercury appeared at all court levels including the Supreme Court #RIP @WinnipegNews passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-detail… passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-detail…

Larry will be missed by all of us that knew him. Rest In Peace my friend 😢

Larry Kimacovich was the first propane BBQ hot dog vendor in North America before becoming an award winning realtor selling 100s of homes. With his brothers, he helped save the Dauphin Country Fest. He died in a collision in Texas #RIP @WinnipegNews passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-detail…

Dianne Bain got her grandfather’s bagpipes and worked to become a piper. She played with several pipe bands and, after encouraging former police chief Herb Stephen to let women join the police pipe band, she became its 1st female member #RIP @WinnipegNews passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-detail…

Thank you for sharing my Aunt’s legacy. She was special.🙏🏾

Lyn Lessard’s husband, Harold, was one of two firefighters who died fighting a house fire in 2007. She continued to support firefighters and co-founded the Lessard Nichols scholarship fund to help fire and paramedic training grads #RIP @WinnipegNews passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-detail…

@KevinRollason @WinnipegNews My condolences to her family

Elsie Thiessen helped organize the 1967 Pan Am Games here and was a timekeeper at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico. She and her husband loved to travel so it might not be surprising that together they bought U.N. Luggage in 1987 #RIP @WinnipegNews passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-detail…

Rob Schurko pushed the boundaries of science. Born and raised in Winnipeg, he got his degrees in chemistry here and his PhD at Dalhousie. He developed magnetic techniques, with MRI and NMR, to help scientists explore the molecular world #RIP @WinnipegNews passages.winnipegfreepress.com/passage-detail…