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  • Pat Nixon is leaving after 26 years as founder and chief executive officer of the Christian street ministry, which provides emergency shelter for homeless.
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  • Pat Nixon was once a homeless street kid in Calgary who begged for money and dealt drugs.
  • “The ravens are nature’s tattletales,” Bob Henderson tells me as we drive through the winter-parched foothills west of Sundre, Alberta. In December 2008, while leading a photographer through the area, he and his wife, Doreen, noticed a black cloud of birds farther up the road. They knew that another horse had been gunned down.

    Now, a year later, he stops his Suzuki Crossover where the skeletal frame of a horse still lies off the road, picked clean by scavengers, as dry and grey as the clear-cut forests in the distance. Then he leads me to the other side of the road, where a coyote dropped the horse’s tail.

    Some 300 free-ranging horses, possible descendants of domesticated animals used for logging a century ago, live in these foothills. Since 2002, at least thirty of them have been murdered with breathtaking cruelty. At each new killing, “Doreen bawls her eyes out,” says Bob, a retired Calgary police officer who with his wife co-founded the Wild Horses of Alberta Society after seeing a news report about one of the first horse slayings. “I get angry that someone would have so much contempt for nature.”

    One of the more savage shootings took place in April 2009, when two colts and a pregnant mare were sprayed with gunfire. One col

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  • 1. / 35May / June 2005 W hen Pat Nixon was a delinquent 15-year-old, he used to sit outside Calgary’s City Hall and “bum”moneyfrompassers-by.Now,as executive director of the Mustard Seed Street Ministry, Nixon still “bums” money, but on a much larger scale. “God was preparing me for His ser- vice in His kingdom,” says Nixon, who now oversees an annual budget of $5.7 million. The ministry served more than 450,000 meals to homeless people in 2004, and put up almost 28,000 over- night stays. That’s not to mention tran- sitional housing programs, community health care, industrials arts and literacy programs programs, and computer and job training. Over the past 20 years, Nixon has mobilized thousands of volunteers from local churches and businesses to help street people get back on their feet. This fall, the former street kid with a seventh-grade education who “broke every rule in the book” will be receiving the country’s highest honour, the Order of Canada. “Pat’s extremely deserving,” says Rick Tobias, executive director of Toron- to’s Yonge Street Mission. “He deserves it on the basis of what he’s done for the poor in Calgary. Obviously the city rec- ognizes his contribution by giving him the Citizen of the Year Award. Across the nationthere’shardlyastreetmin