Remembering Burlington's Bruce McKenzie: 'He Just Never Stopped Drumming'
To those who knew him longest, Bruce McKenzie had always been a drummer. The youngest of 11 kids, Bruce was born six months after his father, Harold, drowned in Burlington Bay; he was raised by his mother, Lennie, and his eldest siblings, sister Thelma and brother Joe. It was Thelma who first noticed her baby brother's inherent sense of rhythm: He would keep time with a knife and fork on any surface he could find.
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