By Sheena Roszell

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Construction to start on Sisters Rock Memorial

Jul 2, 2019 | 6:48 AM

Work can now begin on the project ‘Sisters Rock.’ Almost $50,000 was received through the commemorative fund with the Murdered and Missing Indigineous Girls and LGBTQ.

The memorial will be created using a large rock donated by Grande Prairie Regional College. The spot is located near the walking trails by the college close to the water in Muskoseepi Park.

“Families feel that being close to the water is healing,” explained Miranda Laroche, Executive Director with the Grande Prairie Friendship Centre. “We are going to get some carvers to come in, we’re going to have a jingle dress dancer as the memorial monument.”

She says the monument is going to encompass all the different Indigenous peoples: First Nations, Metis and Inuit.

“I believe that there are many many people affected in every area in the province and in Canada with murdered and missing Indigenous women, either it’s a family member or a friend, or somebody that we know, like an acquaintance, a client…it’s hard to say how many people are affected,” she said. “For myself, personally, I had not been affected personally until this year. It brings kind of a little bit of a different meaning for me because now it’s hitting home a little bit more. You just never know. You just don’t know who it affects and when it affects somebody and how it affects people.”

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They hope to be finished construction before October 4, the date for the Sisters in Spirit Vigil and Walk across canada.

A ceremony is tentatively set for that day to unveil the memorial.