www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Thursday, January 7, 2016 | 8 Calderone remembered for being a friend to those in need continued from p.1 He had been working in risk investments at TD Bank in downtown Toronto, but had a love of financial trading and ultimately wanted to enter that field. "He was such a smart kid, but he didn't show it. He was really very humble," said Joe. "He liked helping people. He liked being with his friends. We have a cottage up north and on the weekends he'd have five or six friends there watching football all day long." While Calderone knew how to have fun with his friends, Lorie said her son also knew how to be there for them whenever they were in trouble. She noted Calderone would drop what he was doing and leave, sometimes in the middle of the night, to do what he could when someone needed him. As Calderone was a very private person, according to his parents, it was only after his death and friends started coming forward and opening up about how the 23-year-old had helped them that Joe and Lorie discovered what their son had been doing. "He wasn't the type that wanted recognition. He would just do this out of the goodness of his heart," said Lorie. "He was very shy. Michael hated attention. When he graduated from university, we wanted to give him a party, but he didn't want one. "The first day of his visitation, we got that snowstorm, the first snowstorm we've had. We were saying that's just Michael's way of having less people come out to give him that attention." Longtime family friend Michael Ellerson also talked about Calderone, who he had known "virtually his entire life." "I remember him more as a little kid. When we would go over to visit the family, I would actually play with Michael and the young kids. We would play hockey in the basement," said Ellerson. "We'd play with a real puck and we'd shoot holes in his dad's fiberglass. We'd say `Just don't tell who did it and they'll never know.'" Ellerson said Calderone's love of hockey never went away as he grew up, stating his life was all about sports and his family. He also called the young man an achiever who always tried to do better. Lorie said she talked to Calderone the day of the accident. She had been visiting with friends for Christmas and had called her son, who had just returned from work, to ask if he would be joining them. Calderone said he couldn't because he was leaving to play hockey. Lorie ended the call by telling her son she loved him. A short time later, Calderone drove his SUV to pick up high school friend Boissiere for their hockey game. He had asked a few other friends if they wanted to participate, but none had been able to. At 9 p.m., a transport truck and a car collided in the eastbound lanes of the QEW just east of Trafalgar Road. Shortly after that, police said, the SUV and a flatbed transport truck crashed into the existing accident. Fuel from the vehicles resulted in heavy smoke and flames. Calderone and Boissiere were pronounced dead at the scene. The cause of the collision remains unknown and members of the Burlington OPP Detachment are investigating. Witnesses to the collision are being asked to come forward and contact Provincial Constable Rob Conant at 905-681-2511. Calderone leaves behind his parents and his sister Larissa. "We're going day by day. The shock is starting to wear off, but it is very hard," said Lorie. "He has a sister who is getting married next year. That is going to be hard because he was part of her wedding party and that wedding is the same week he would have turned 24. It is just very hard." Lorie and Joe said the community support in the wake of this tragedy has been phenomenal. Joe noted it seemed like half of Calderone's class from Holy Trinity attended his funeral or visitation along with university friends and others. "We were shocked by the support," said Joe. "We knew Michael had friends, but we didn't know he had this many friends." Ellerson said the outpouring to the family from people living on their street has also been amazing. "Different people have been going through Lori and Joe's house for the last few days.... There was a huge outpouring of people today.... People on their street are leaving them food every day," he said, noting some who didn't want to disturb the family knocked at their door and left food at the doorstep. "That's been amazing and I've never seen anything like it." The Calderone family said they have also been in touch with the Boissiere family. Boissiere's mother and sisters could be seen embracing Lorie and Joe at Calderone's funeral. Lorie said her family would be attending Boissiere's visitation on Dec. 30. 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