A memorial bench recognizing one of the former Corridor Minor Baseball Nationals players gone far too soon was unveiled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before a large crowd of friends, community members, and family, the Nationals unveiled the Braeden Bannister Memorial Bench.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The bench is situated on the third base side of the George P. Horne Memorial Field (big one) at the Enfield Legion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Braeden was a true teammate on and off the field, a coach\u2019s dream and his smile lit up every dug out he entered, said Jackie Dobbin in her speech at the ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”115″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”2″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lantz Fire was in attendance for the bench unveiling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Braeden was a volunteer firefighter with the department when he died during a family outing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He was an accomplished athlete, an honours student, a volunteer firefighter with Lantz Volunteer Fire and an amazing human being with a strong desire to give back to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The memorial fund started by his parents in their sons name has been able to help countless other athletes and local organizations because of the communities support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”190″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”87″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ball coach Gary Redden, who was unable to attend, passed along a few remarks that Dobbin read. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “Braeden\u2019s commitment to his community matched his passion for sports. As a junior firefighter with the Lantz volunteer fire Dpt, he exemplified a desire to help others and a willingness to contribute selflessly,” read Dobbin from Redden’s email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “He was a budding community volunteer whose legacy of kindness, dedication and spirit will forever be remembered. He is dearly missed.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n On this night, the memorial bench became a reality because of MLA John A. MacDonald; Sangsters Automotive; and Shooters Bar & Grill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The organizers wished to thank them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYour kindness and generosity is beyond measure, thank you for your generous giving spirit,\u201d Dobbin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”218″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”93″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”111″] [adrotate banner=”78″] ENFIELD: It was an emotional night at the ball field in Enfield on Thursday night. A memorial bench recognizing one of the former Corridor Minor Baseball Nationals players gone far too soon was unveiled. Before a large crowd of friends, community members, and family, the Nationals unveiled the Braeden Bannister Memorial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12,21],"tags":[6529,2552,390,2511,1204],"class_list":["post-46045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","category-sports","tag-braeden-bannister","tag-corridor-minor-baseball","tag-enfield","tag-enfield-legion","tag-lantz-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/cbJahZWZ-1024x971.jpg\")
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