Eli Young was swept into a ditch on Thursday in a Wolfville park during flash flooding that caused extensive damage across western Nova Scotia
An online fundraising page has identified the victim of last week’s flash floods in western Nova Scotia as 13-year-old Eli Young.
“What we have, and always will have, is Eli’s spirit, a spirit that will be fixed in our memories forever.” In a letter to mayors and wardens sent Tuesday, John Lohr, minister of municipal affairs, said that normally alerts, which are sent to wireless devices, televisions and radios, must come from the municipalities because they are best positioned to decide how messages are worded.
Zach Churchill, the leader of the Liberal Opposition party, said in an interview the Progressive Conservative government has been too slow to help create a modern ready alert system, and hasn’t provided sufficient funding for training and support for local emergency officials. The Nova Scotia Emergency Management Office said in an e-mail that Lohr – who lives in one of the communities hit by last week’s storm – had called the provincial co-ordination centre at 7:15 p.m. requesting officials “activate” the office. A spokeswoman for the office said she couldn’t immediately say why the provincial alert didn’t go out until 8:30 p.m.
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