Service planned for homeless man who died in Windsor, N.S. [Video]

WINDSOR, N.S. –

A Nova Scotia support agency for homeless people is holding a memorial service on Dec. 11 for a man found dead last week at the site of an ice fishing tent where he lived in Windsor, N.S.

Leslie Porter, director of the Windsor-West Hants Caremongers, says the man in his early 50s was a regular at a warming centre her group operates, adding that her community located 55 kilometres northwest of Halifax doesn’t have services, including addictions treatment, that could have helped him.

Connie Pollock, a volunteer at Caremongers and a friend of the man, identified him as William (Billy) Walsh and says that prior to becoming homeless he was a welder and — as a younger man — an avid motocross racer.

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Pollock says Walsh was one week away from being placed in an affordable housing unit in Yarmouth, N.S., when …