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I am heartbroken to need to announce that Peter Kidd died January 2 of a
massive heart attack.
Peter was a noted environmentalist who gave tremendous amounts of effort
to the successful campaign to stop the incineration of waste in the
Halifax region and instead to manage the material as a resource
increasingly. He was a crucial campaigner in this effort over at least 8
years. Without him, it is unlikely that this herculean labour would have
been accomplished. Peter was also a core activist in convincing the NS
government to adopt resource management perspective to what we were
formerly wasting. Our municipality, our province and our world are all
much richer for the generous and courageous achievements of this noble
rainbow warrior.
He was my best friend for many years.
Peter was involved as a community activist in many other areas where he
will be sorely missed as well. I am including his obituary from the
Chronicle Herald.
KIDD, Peter J.
KIDD, Peter J. - Age 58, died Saturday, January 2, 1999, in his home
in Halifax. He spent the last 20 years quietly changing the world
around him, subverting the status quo and defending the ideals so
important to him. He devoted so much of his time to the NDP, Amnesty
International, various waste management crusades, the Parkinson's
Foundation, and even tried his hand at municipal politics. He loved
pipes, books, tea and sweaters. He was an extraordinary father to four
children: two step, one adopted and one biological. Cameron, Kelvin,
Eddie and Kathleen will miss him very much. He will also be missed by
his sister, Catherine Champagne; cousins, Debbie and Judy Kidd; Mark
McDonnel and his extended family. A celebration of his life will be
held at Snow's Funeral Home, Windsor Street, on Wednesday, January 6,
at 11:30 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the
Halifax-Dartmouth chapter of the Parkinson's Foundation in the memory
of Peter's beloved late wife, Moira MacPherson.
Peter died without warning of a heart attack after shoveling snow.
Thankfully he suffered little pain.
Peter was kind, generous, intelligent, courageous and possessed with true
vision of how to help make the world a better place.
It is not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out
how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could
have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually
in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again;
who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends
himself in a worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the
triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, at least fails
while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those
timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
(1858-1919, Twenty-sixth President of the USA)
Peter's great enthusiasms, great deeds and valiant efforts were constantly
for the benefit of others, for the benefit of all.
You can learn more about Peter by visiting his web page at
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa163/peterkidd.html
Peter was proud of having been a very early supporter of the Chebucto
Community Net and of his very low address number of aa163.
Peter, we salute you and will miss you. You done well.
David Wimberly
* Compost Happens *
ag487@chebucto.ns.ca
Halifax, Nova Scotia
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/6847/
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