Community volunteers spent several hours Friday moving the many items of remembrance left in the small community of Portapique, N.S., in honour of the victims of last month’s horrific shooting.
The items had been left at a large makeshift memorial at the mouth of Portapique Beach Road. It’s down that road where the shooting rampage began the night of April 18. The killer murdered 13 people in Portapique and torched several homes and properties in the community.
That was the first step this week in removing some of the reminders of the tragedy, to help people in the community move forward.He had started his own memorial site down the road shortly after the shooting began, at the old Portapique church. That is where the items from the roadside memorial have been relocated.
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