From addiction to recovery: Calgary man dedicates life to helping city's most vulnerable

It’s not his day job, but Randy Cotterhill spends almost all of his spare time helping Calgarians in need.  “I changed. They can all, we can all change,” he said.   Randy, 60, struggled with drug and alcohol addiction most of his life.  “I isolated, hid and just lived to get high. I didn’t have a reason to live,” he said.  Early in his recovery, Randy would work nine hours in construction then drive around the city handing out food, clothing and other essential items bought with his own money. “In my recovery, I learned that it wasn’t about me anymore,” he said.  Angels in Action is a Calgary volunteer group that helps the city’s most vulnerable.Now three years sober, Randy leads a volunteer group called Angels in Action. In the past few years, it has grown to more than 700 members on Facebook.  Even though the group is not a registered charity or non-profit, local agencies still chip in with donations. Randy says it’s especially important this time of year, with cold weather posing a threat to the city’s most vulnerable.   “We don’t call them homeless, we call them our street-level friends, because after a while they start talking to
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