On Monday afternoon residents of the Battlefords paid their respects to the family of Colby Cave.
The Edmonton Oilers forward died Saturday after suffering a brain bleed earlier in the week. In a post on the Battlefords North Stars website, friends of the family asked people who wished to pay their respects to form a line of vehicles on the shoulder westbound on Highway 16 starting at Redhead Equipment and Ritchie Bro’s Auctions.
People were urged to come out and wear their hockey jerseys or hold signs in support of the Cave family – Al, Jennifer, Taylor and other family members - as they returned from Toronto. RCMP and the North Battleford and Battleford fire departments led the family from that point across the bridges to the Kramer Cat building in Battleford, from where they were to head home.
Hundreds of vehicles lined the Hwy 16 all along the route waiting for the convoy to come by. When semis driving from the opposite direction saw the convoy coming, they pulled over, too, to honour Colby. Though there were only a couple of vehicles that didn’t slow down when they saw everyone parked on the side of the road, all the others did to make it safe for everyone.
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