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No, no, no, I’ll shovel snow, he said.
A few hours later, Kostuk and volunteer Gil Clelland went outside the Y’s Centre Branch on Waterloo Street in downtown London to check on him, but couldn’t see him or the shovel.
“A little while later, Brayden entered the building covered in snow and smiling. For the past three hours, he had shovelled the entire parking lot and all the sidewalks around the Y,” Clelland said.
Pellett was always trying to come in out of the cold, always trying to find his place with people.
“He was just trying to fit in everywhere he went,” his mother, Tanya Burke, says.