For weeks, Heather Parkes couldn’t bring herself to move the seven-foot balsam fur Christmas tree on her porch inside her home.
Usually, she says, her husband George would do it.
“He would be out there and it would have been in when we got it,” she said.
For Parkes and their six adult kids, celebrating Christmas this year has felt impossible. It’s their first year without Delroy — better known as George — Parkes after the 61-year-old was killed this summer in a mass shooting at an Etobicoke high school.
