{"id":26633,"date":"2024-09-18T23:13:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T03:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=26633"},"modified":"2024-09-18T23:17:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T03:17:39","slug":"richard-wolniewicz-richards-park-mississauga-who-was-richard-wolniewicz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=26633","title":{"rendered":"RICHARD WOLNIEWICZ – RICHARD’S PARK , MISSISSAUGA: WHO WAS RICHARD WOLNIEWICZ?"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 1,105;    WHO WAS RICHARD WOLNIECWIZ?  (RICHARD\u2019S PARK, MISSISSAUGA)<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
sept. 17, 2024<\/div>\n
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AN EMPTY BEACH ON LAKE ONTARIO  NORTH SHORE<\/div>\n

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\u201cALAN, you need to walk more.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI do walk.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cnot enough,according to the therapist.   So today we are going for a walk at Richard\u2019s Memorial Park\u2026.smAllest parl<\/div>\n
on Mississauga lakefront.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWho was Richard?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u2018Bit of a mystery\u2026not much is known about him except that he was 14 when he died.<\/div>\n
\u201cWhy is the park named after him?”<\/div>\n
\u201cBecause the boy\u2019s heart was transplanted to Mayor Robert Speck ,mayor of Mississauga<\/div>\n
back in 1971.  Mr. Speck wanted something done to remember Richard Wolniewicz\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhat is known about the tragic death of Richard?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cNothing that I can find.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cIsn\u2019t that strange\u2026the boy has one of the nicest parks in Mississauga named after him but<\/div>\n
there is no record of why he died at age 14\u2026just before his 15th birthday.”<\/div>\n

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RICHARDS MEMORIALPARK, MISSISSAUGA<\/div>\n

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So, on September 17. 2024, Marjorie took me to Richard\u2019s Park.  Hardly<\/div>\n
anyone was there. The sun was shining and the beach was inviting so we<\/div>\n
stripped down to our underwear and waded in.  We we\u2019re almost alone<\/div>\n
\u2026one man doing excercises on the beach and another swimmer so far<\/div>\n
out in Lake Ontario that he or she was only a bobbing speck.<\/div>\n

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These two humans took no notice of  two underwear clad 80 year old<\/div>\n
citizens.  The water was delightful\u2026soft sand\u2026the water  gradually<\/div>\n
got deeper. I was helped by my wooden can.  We left the walker on<\/div>\n
the beach.   We had the whole park to ourselves really.  It was wonderfull<\/div>\n
and  we plan to go swimming every day until fall turns to winter.<\/div>\n
Next swim we will have bathing suits.  <\/div>\n

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**Please obey all signs posted at the beach and take caution if it has rained in the past 24-48 hours.**<\/p>\n

Richard’s Memorial is the smallest of Peel’s three lakefront beaches. It has picnic areas and BBQs as well as a mostly sand beach. The park commemorates Richard Wolniewicz, a fourteen year-old boy whose heart was donated to Mayor Robert Speck in 1971. The Park is also home to a five-foot tall peace monument, bearing the inscription “Planet Earth is our Home, Humanity is our Family.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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RICHARD WOLNIEWICZ<\/h3>\n
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  1. Mayor Bob Speck’s heart donor was to turn 15 on Tuesday<\/u>. Mississauga News<\/i>, December 22, 1971<\/li>\n
  2. The generosity of a family is honoured in Lorne Park<\/u> [Richard’s Memorial Park]. The Booster<\/i>, January 4, 2006<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    EPISODE 1,105;    WHO WAS RICHARD WOLNIECWIZ?  (RICHARD\u2019S PARK, MISSISSAUGA) alan skeoch sept. 17, 2024 AN EMPTY BEACH ON LAKE ONTARIO  NORTH SHORE \u201cALAN, you need to walk more.\u201d \u201cI do walk.\u201d \u201cnot enough,according to the therapist.   So today we are going for a walk at Richard\u2019s Memorial Park\u2026.smAllest parl on Mississauga lakefront.\u201d \u201cWho […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}