Nathan Weber helps fill a cart with fertilizer as he and other neighbours of Eric and Wade Donovan, and Denny Loree, who were killed in a May 12 plane crash, prepare to seed 600 acres of canola on Donovan’s land near Mossleigh, Alta.  |  Barb Glen photo

Tragedy spurs town to action

Community supports victims’ families | Seeding bee is ‘a way of farmers giving flowers’

MOSSLEIGH, Alta. — One of Mossleigh’s primary landmarks is owned by the man the community now mourns. Eric Donovan, 38, who died May 12 in a plane crash along with his 11-year-old son, Wade, and his friend and pilot Denny Loree, 59, owned the northernmost of three old grain elevators that are the town’s landmarks […] Read more