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The outpouring of care and concern for the hard-working Shim family is proof positive that the warmth of the people of this city is not reflected by the icy bureaucracy at Calgary City Hall.
Many hundreds of emails flooded my inbox with countless people seeking some way to help John and Wendy Shim, the franchisees of a Dairy Queen that burned down on Oct. 8, 2019.
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After reading about the family’s plight in my Postmedia column, Jonathan Denis, a former attorney general and justice minister for Alberta, has offered his legal expertise for free to the hard-working Korean immigrant family who lost everything when their restaurant on Centre Street, just two blocks north of 16th Avenue, burned to the ground following an electrical fire some 18 months ago.