Annual Homeless Memorial in Muskoseepi Park set for May 31
The third annual Healing Hearts Homeless Memorial is taking place at the end of May in Grande Prairie.
Homeless Initiatives Supervisor with the City of Grande Prairie Katherine Schmidt says the event is meant to help bring awareness to people that are experiencing homelessness.
“The community perception at times is that it’s a choice. We want to make the education piece pretty strong on the fact there is a high percent of people actually dying from it,” said Schmidt.
She adds it started as a grassroots movement and this is a topic that’s often overlooked.