Friends and family of the missing children from Pictou County gathered for an emotional ceremony. Angela MacIvor has the story.
Five blue balloons fluttered in light wind under cotton candy skies outside a Nova Scotia RCMP detachment on Wednesday evening as community members and friends and family of missing children Jack and Lilly Sullivan gathered for a candlelight vigil.
Children sat at a picnic table in Stellarton and decorated a card for Jack on his 5th birthday as the crowd of roughly 40 people listened to a prayer, poem and song for the siblings, who disappeared nearly six months ago.
Jack, 5, and Lilly, 6, were reported missing on the morning of May 2, when police received a 911 call from their mother, Malehya Brooks-Murray, saying they had wandered away from their home in Lansdowne, a sparsely populated community about 140 kilometres northeast of Halifax.
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