Excerpt from “COFFEE BREAK: Trading a cruise for a Bill Clinton speech”
Cornwall Standard Freeholder
11 December 2010
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Two positive additions to our community were the arrival of Bishop Paul-Andre Durocher (2002) and Police Chief Dan Parkinson (2004).
Both came at a time when a black ominous cloud was hanging over the diocese and police service.
The two institutions were crippled by innuendos and rumours.
They shepherded their institutions through the rough waters, and both bodies have improved immensely under their guidance.
In short, they were the right people for the time … and remain so.
No bishop or police chief has been more committed to making Cornwall a better place to live.
“innuendos and rumours”?
What can I say?
I actually soloed “O holy night” in front of Durocher one Christsmas eve in a small church in Markstay, Ontario where he said midnight mass. One of those items on my bucket list aand one of the last times I actually went to church.. but midnight mass has always been a special melancholic time for me and my faith. I just love music.
Innuendoes and rumours… more like diclosures, trials, convictions and sentences and a lot of disrespect in general for their offices their community and their most vulnurable children, an ominous cloud of their own making from what I understand.