Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Sue Montgomery
Publication Date: September 2, 2025 - 16:53
Sun Youth co-founder Sid Stevens provided vital services for Montrealers in need
September 2, 2025
If there was a fire, a flood, kids in need of skates or a hungry family in Montreal, Sid Stevens could be counted on to organize help.
For seven decades, his name was synonymous with Sun Youth, the community organization he founded with his friend Earl De La Perralle when they were both barely into puberty.
“A dollar a day keeps the doctor away,” Pika, one of my girls, said as she nibbled an afternoon snack at the kitchen table.
I wondered at the way she had mangled the “apple a day” aphorism. The original, “Eat an apple on going to bed and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread,” came from Wales. It took a day before I could ask Pika about the origin of her saying.
She had picked up her dollar-centric version from classmates: “That’s what they all say!”
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This week, the study was retracted by a major medical publishing group after “multiple analytic errors” were identified, and more than a year after it was originally published, along with a press release.
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