Carl DeLine

Cohen’s joy totally unreserved

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[…] Just before dinner Sunday, Carl DeLine will stroll past the Chinese restaurant and auto body shop on the main floor, climb to an upstairs office known as the Peace Community Church and prepare to tuck in.

All the ribs won’t be on his place. Pastor Charles Claus says a little gentle razzing will be on the menu when the congregation of about 40 pays tribute to the Inter-Faith Food Bank boss.

DeLine, honored by this journal along with food-bank crony Louis Grenier as Calgarians of the Year for 1986, has been taking a fill-in turn on the church pulpit two or three times a month for the past year. The dinner represents a modest curtsy of thanks.

Even though the group has been forced to move, from cosy quarters in the city school to an upstairs walkup in the northeast strip mall, DeLine can expect a reception as warm as the casserole, all good-natured ribbing aside. […]


Originally published February 19, 1987 by the Calgary Herald (Calgary, AB), credited to Tom Keyser.