Hero at Dawson Collage

[John McGillivray]

Mike,

Michel the salesman at work told me the story about Yves on Friday afternoon. I told him that he must do something because his friend deserves to be recognized for what he did. Michel said that he would think about it over the weekend.

When I got home the story was already on CTV news net. They reported that a staff member was wounded in the shoulder saving a student from the gunman. I made the post on MLU and forgot about it for the weekend.

I think someone read my post, because on Monday morning I received a phone call at work from a reporter from the Journal de Montreal asking if I knew Yves Morin. He had first phoned my house and got my work number from my daughter. I told the reporter to talk to Michel and gave him his cell number.

On Tuesday the Journal de Montreal had several pages about the happenings at Dawson College, including more than half a page with a picture, about Yves Morin and his heroics last Wednesday.

Michel told me that Yves is a little POed about all the attention he was getting.

To show what a small world it can be; Michel told me that another friend of Yves and himself was to do some contract work at a house on the west Island. He phoned the owner and told him that he couldn’t make it that day because he was going to pick up his friend at the hospital. He started to explain the details, but the home owner cut him off and said, “ I know all about it, the girl your friend saved is my niece”.