Vavenby resident Chuck Pollard wears a Vancouver Canucks jersey and has a hockey stick hood ornament on his truck on Thursday, April 12. He noted that they are burying the first of the boys in Humboldt today. "I know what those parents are going through. I lost a son of my own, 23 years ago. God bless them all," he said.

Vavenby resident Chuck Pollard wears a Vancouver Canucks jersey and has a hockey stick hood ornament on his truck on Thursday, April 12. He noted that they are burying the first of the boys in Humboldt today. "I know what those parents are going through. I lost a son of my own, 23 years ago. God bless them all," he said.

Honouring the Humboldt dead

North Thompson residents join Canadians across the country in wearing hockey jerseys

Vavenby resident Chuck Pollard wears a Vancouver Canucks jersey and has a hockey stick hood ornament on his truck on Thursday, April 12.

He noted that they are burying the first of those killed in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash today.

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“I know what those parents are going through. I lost a son of my own, 23 years ago. God bless them all,” he said.

Canadians across the country put on hockey jerseys on Thursday to honor the 16 people killed when a bus carrying a hockey team collided with a semi-trailer on Friday, April 6 near Armley, Saskatchewan.

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