“I know I could have made the big leagues but I didn’t know how long it would take,” he said. “To make a long story short, I was screwed.” Schnurr didn’t even live in Walkerton when he encountered his kryptonite there. Photographer Steve Russell spent three weeks covering the Walkerton water crisis in 2000. He didn’t know why he was sick, even as an ambulance eventually took him, in blood-soaked clothes, to the hospital. “I’m going, ‘What’s going on?’ (A hospital worker) said to me, ‘You haven’t heard about the E. coli epidemic in Walkerton?’ Bang.
Source: thestar May 11, 2018 09:00 UTC