Wheat Kings Talk Distressed Man Off Bridge
STORY WRITTEN BY PERRY BERGSON (BRANDON SUN) » EDITOR’S NOTE: This story contains content that may be upsetting to some readers. Four Brandon Wheat Kings successfully interceded to help a distressed man who was contemplating suicide on the First Street bridge Tuesday evening. After volunteering at Samaritan House earlier in the evening, Brandonites Calder Anderson and Nolan Ritchie were showing British Columbia products Jake Chiasson and Ben Thornton around the city when Ritchie spotted the man standing on one of the cement abutments for light poles between the north- and south-bound bridges around 9 p.m. Ritchie, who was driving south,…
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