Man drowns trying to retrieve ball from Eastern Townships lake

A 24-year-old man drowned Thursday evening in an Eastern Townships lake in Mount Orford park, apparently while trying to retrieve a ball that had gone into the water.
Sûreté du Québec divers recovered the man’s body Friday at 9 a.m., 15 hours after he slipped below the water and two people tried to save him.
The incident occurred at Fraser Lake at 6 p.m., when the man made his attempt to recover a ball that had fallen in the water and began drifting away. Once in the wa