Community holds benefit to support farm family devastated by fire

Supporters from across the region are expected to attend a benefit in North Gower Saturday night in aid of a Barrhaven family who lost tits barns and most of its dairy herd in a fire last month.
The Ruiter family’s three barns were destroyed in the fire at Black Rapids Farm on Sept. 8. Eighty Holstein cows and calves perished in the blaze, which wiped out most of the herd. However, farmer Peter Ruiter still had 10 cows in a pasture across Prince of Wales Drive and another six in a neighbou