John and I worked together at the Resource Planning Branch of REAP for over a decade. We were blessed to be associated a remarkable “troupe” of professional planners and natural resource managers that not only worked hard in the public interest, but did so where innovation and fun were operative principles. Those days of comraderie, peronal and team growth and friendship are legendary. Each day was touched in many special ways by John’s passions: for family, at home and at work; for fair play, ensuring everyone was left better off working together than at cross purposes; and for open intellectual debate to make Alberta, his much cherished home province, a better place for future generations. John’s passing is to be celebrated for his wonderful accomplishments as a public servant, husband, father, grandfather and friend to all.
