For generations, in good times and bad, people have broken bread together to share feelings and to support each other.

That was very much the goal today of the Knights of Columbus pancake breakfast in Humboldt at the St. Augustines Hall.  We spoke with Fred Staniek, one of the event organizers.

"It's healing.  It's going to take a long time to get over this kind of a tragedy, it's going to take forever.

"It's stuck everybody so bad, so many people knew them. They are all billeted out and all the billets are just like their family".

Staniek said the support the breakfast has received is typical of the outpouring of love that has been shown over the last two days.

"It's (talk of the breakfast) been all over, on the radio and through social media, everywhere".

The breakfast is one of several events happening around town to bring people together.  Grief counsellors remain available at the Uniplex and a public vigil will be held tonight at 7 pm. that service will be broadcast live on Bolt FM.

Paul Vokali (foreground) and Alex Kuz flip the flapjacks at this mornings breakfast