Ramp ceremony for Canadian soldier

By News Staff

Posted May 5, 2010 05:36:41 AM.

This article is more than 5 years old.

Petty Officer Craig Blake is being remembered as a
dedicated family man and a gifted athlete with a passion for hockey.

Over 15 hundred troops attended a ramp ceremony this morning at the Kandahar airfield.

The 37 year old was a native of Simcoe.

He was killed Monday by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

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