Category: Kentville

Kentville, New Minas; and Port Williams PTSD event

On July 7 to 9 in Kentville, New Minas; and Port Williams, the Kings County Fallen Heroes Softball Tournament will raise money for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Teams will play three games each in round-robin style, with single-elimination playoffs on Sunday, July 9.

There will be a “visible vault” at the Kentville Memorial Park on July 8, it will be unlocked with a six-digit combination.

200 tickets will be sold to guess the six-digit code.

The winner will receive $50,000 from sponsor Golding and Associates Limited.

$12,500 of the prize must be spent with that firm, and the winner gets to decide what to do with the remaining $37,500 in cash.

PTSD inquiry

The health authority has agreed to meet with Lionel Desmond’s immediate family next week.

The move comes almost six months after the former soldier klilled his family and himself in Upper Big Tracadie.

One of Desmond’s sisters, Chantel, confirms the authority will meet with them at St. Martha’s Hospital in Antigonish to review how the province’s health-care system dealt with Desmond before the killings.