Pillar of Hope unveiled in Cottonwood Island Park
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PRINCE GEORGE – It was a humbling experience in Cottonwood Island Park Friday – a fitting culmination to what was an enlightening, but trying, four day gathering.
“The pillar of hope,” explains Mary Teegee-Gray, CAO of Carrier Sekani Family Services. “You’ll notice that there’s four seasons, and the four seasons are symbolic because before we raise a head stone in our way, we go through that first season, the first Christmas, the first spring, the first birthday without them. So we grieve that whole year and then the year after. When we raise the headstone, it’s when we let them go.”
Matilda Wilson, mother of one of the victims, Ramona Wilson, was in attendance for the unveiling. It was only fitting she joined other family members at the ceremony. She says the pillar is a healing step.
