On Saturday, I received a text from my sister-in-law, saying there had been a bad car accident involving people from my hometown, Walkerton.  This small-town community of 5,000 people had just marked the 25th anniversary of the Walkerton water crisis that had claimed lives and made many people ill over contaminated drinking water.

This car accident occurred on Friday, and it involved 4 teenage girls (two were 16 and two were 17) and their teacher/coach, who was driving the SUV home around 4:30 p.m. from a baseball tournament hosted in Dorchester, Ontario.