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Earl De La Perralle, the co-founder of Sun Youth and the impetus behind the community agency’s sports programs for decades, has died, the organization has announced.

“We wish to express our deepest condolences to Earl’s family and friends and will always remember the great man that he was,” Sun Youth said in a tweet.

De La Perralle is being lauded on social media by his former athletes, politicians and members of the community as a kind-hearted man and caring coach who dedicated his life to building football and basketball and other sports programs in the city.

De La Perralle was nine years old in 1954 when he and Sid Stevens, then 13, started a handwritten newspaper called The Clark Street Sun that they loaned to families in their neighbourhood.

They used the money to buy sports equipment and organize sports and recreation activities,  an endeavour that would eventually become the Sun Youth organization.

Sun Youth’s food bank provides free food items and other supplies to vulnerable people, a range of emergency services to people in need and runs a number of sports programs and day camps.

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