Community mourns loss of teacher, students from WDCS

May 29, 2025 @ 7:59 amNews, Walkerton Herald-Times

Hundreds of staff, students, families and community members attended a candlelight vigil in front of Walkerton District Community School Sunday evening, to grieve the loss of four students and a teacher from the school, killed in a car crash on May 23. (Pauline Kerr photo)

WALKERTON – The entire community is in mourning following the fatal collision near London the afternoon of Friday, May 23, that claimed the lives of four student-athletes, Rowan McLeod, Kaydance Ford, Danica Baker and Olivia Rourke, and popular teacher and coach, Matt Eckert, from Walkerton District Community School. They were on their way home from…

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Pauline Kerr is a Local Journalism Initiative Reporter with the Walkerton Herald-Times. The Local Journalism Initiative is funded by the Government of Canada.