Two officers killed in the line of duty were remembered last week when Sudbury MPP Rick Bartolucci announced two highway bridges will be named in their honour.
Sgt. Rick McDonald Memorial Bridge, near the Four Corners, is near where the officer was killed.
His widow, Corinne Fewster said, “I think it’s a fitting memorial because that’s where it happened.”
Bartolucci introduced a private member’s bill in the legislature in 2002 to allow highway structures to be named after fallen police officers.
The Junction Creek bridge on Highway 17 has been been named for Const. Joe MacDonald. The Sudbury police officer was murdered Oct. 7, 1993, after pulling over a vehicle on a routine traffic stop.
Family and friends of the two police officers gathered at the Margeurite Lougheed Centre Friday afternoon to unveil the signs.
They were joined by dozens of police officers, Bartolucci, Transportation Minister Donna Cansfield and Community Safety, Correctional Services Minister Monte Kwinter and Greater Sudbury Mayor Dave Courtemanche.
Bartolucci said as member of the Police Services Board during the 1990s, he participated in job interviews for both police officers.
