Charlie Tann was a remarkable savior to hundreds of ‘lost’ youth in Winnipeg and beyond. Charlie’s qualitications were 26 years in a collage of Canadian preisions -. Charlie noted with pride that he was never violent – but sad that he had wasted almmost all of his life – when he was diagnosed with a collection of terminal illnessses – and the opportunity to ‘spend his remaining time repaying society for his sins.
Charlie could communicate with troubled youth because he loved them unreservedly – and he had been there. He got a ‘job’ through Frontier Colege – to visit youth in the Juvenile Detention Center. Hi His appraoch was sime\pole. He announded that he was their self appointed friend – and he would be there for there without reservation. In court, in the street – wherever youth were – Charlie stretch hiss six month prognosis into five years of remarkble support for youth who needed someone to lov e them.