Quilts and Reconciliation
Ground penetrating radar searches will begin this summer at the site of the local previous residential school. This is a difficult time for survivors and their families. The local bands are planning a ceremony to mark the beginning of the search for unmarked graves and as part of the ceremony they will wrap everyone who attended the school with a quilt. The local guild has been busy making quilts for them. This is my top.
This is separate from the Quilts for Survivors which is a Canada-wide initiative from which quilts are provided.
I think that pouring ourselves into quilts for our local residential school survivors is truly an act of reconciliation.