Community Corner

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation If able, please wear an Orange Shirt on Sunday, September 27th. For the past several years people have begun to wear orange shirts on September 30th to remember the children who went to Indian Residential Schools and especially to honour those who did not return to their families. Why an orange shirt? There was a little girl named Phyllis whose grandmother saved up her money and bought Phyllis an orange shirt. This was the shirt she wore to her first day of residential school and it was the shirt that was taken away from her and never returned. A residential school survivor group in Williams Lake, BC heard Phyllis tell this story and came up with the idea of Orange Shirt Day: Every Child Matters for the end of September; because every child matters, every one of them.