Eighteen members of the Canadian Coast Guard Atlantic Region were awarded Exemplary Service Medals last week at Government House in Halifax by lieutenant governor J.J. Grant.
The Canadian Coast Guard Exemplary Service Medal is part of the Canadian Honours System and recognizes Coast Guard employees who, in the course of their duties, provide exemplary service in difficult or critical situations.
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Fatal Crash
A Nova Scotia man has been committed to stand trial on four charges stemming from a fatal single-vehicle crash in Inverness County.
On Friday morning in Port Hawkesbury Provincial Court a judge ruled that a jury could convict 22-year-old Scott Nicholas Lundrigan, based on the available evidence.
Lundrigan has been charged with impaired driving causing death, impaired driving causing bodily harm, dangerous driving causing death, and dangerous driving causing bodily harm.
Nineteen-year-old James Daniel Poirier died in the crash on Route 19 in Newtown in October 2015.