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Nova Scotia community looks forward to brighter year after 2018 marred by tragedy

Jan 1, 2019 | 10:31 AM

YARMOUTH, N.S. — A community on the southwestern coast of Nova Scotia is looking forward to a brighter 2019 after a difficult year that’s been bookended by tragedy.

In early January 2018, a blaze broke out at a home in Pubnico Head in Yarmouth County, N.S., and claimed the lives of four children, all under the age of eight.

And in late November, a four-year-old girl died after falling under the wheels of a float during the town of Yarmouth’s annual Christmas parade.