Tag: death
Sad stories at overdose awareness event show it can happen to anyone
Angela Rennie stood on the 8th Street bridge Saturday morning and tossed a carnation into the river as a memorial gesture to her daughter. She stood with family and friends, some of whom held carnations and wore lanyards with cards featuring a photo of Brooklyn Nickle, who died at 22, of a fentanyl overdose in […]
TSB concludes investigation into Stratford crash that killed Sarnia pilot
John Allan Shelley Jr., 65, was flying a 1941 Grumman G-44 Widgeon Aircraft when it crashed in an open field near the Stratford Municipal Airport on August 23, 2022.
Man traded fentanyl to woman 90 minutes before her fatal overdose
A 40-year-old man pleaded guilty in Walkerton’s Superior Court of Justice Wednesday to trafficking in fentanyl to a woman who died of a fentanyl overdose. John Kevin McPhee, now living in Nova Scotia, was initially charged with manslaughter in 27-year-old Shawna Trivedi’s death. He admitted trading fentanyl on two occasions to Trivedi. But difficulties of […]
Public funeral service Wednesday for man who lived near rail trail
A funeral service for Wayne Milner, a well known local homeless man, whose body was found Jan. 9 by hikers near the rail trail south of Owen Sound hospital, will take place tomorrow, Feb. 22, at 11 a.m. Rev. David Shearman will officiate the public service at Tannahill Funeral Home, 1178 4th Ave. W. in […]
Death of elderly Waterford woman ruled a homicide
Marlene Wilson, 90, was found dead inside of a home at 224 Mechanic St. in Waterford around 8:20 a.m. last Sunday.