Hero diagnosed with brain tumour, friends turn to community for help

Friends of a man hailed as a local hero are hoping the community will rally around him and his family as he battles a brain tumour.
When a fire broke out at the Oliver Place apartment building at 11740 Jasper Ave. on Jan. 19, as people rushed out to escape the blaze, local pizza shop owner Riza Kasikcioglu rushed in, knocking on doors to wake sleeping tenants and carrying a woman in a wheelchair on his back down the stairs from the seventh floor.
“He is the kind of person that jumps i