COLLINS – A year of momentous loss

Posted on January 9, 2017 in Columns // 0 Comments

I HAVE SEEN so many surveys over the past couple of weeks asking viewers, readers and listeners, depending on your medium of choice what the biggest loss was in 2016.

Certainly last year was a sadder year than normal when looking at influential people who passed away. Much has been made of all the entertainers who passed on, but I believe there are several who were not entertainers in the traditional sense of the word whose passing should be remembered.

For me, the biggest loss was the death of Muhammed Ali.

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