(Photo: HeartColchester.ca)
The world will pay tribute Friday to the 22 victims tragically lost in Nova Scotia on April 18 and 19.
A virtual vigil called “Nova Scotia Remembers” will be held starting at 7 p.m. Atlantic Time.
“The concept behind the vigil is to at least begin that healing process by coming together and finding our strength in one another,” said Tiffany Ward, co-organizer of the event.
Ward says this is their way of doing that without physically coming together due to the restrictions of COVID-19.
It will be a night of music, poetry, artwork and prayer, or whatever the public needs to help to grieve, while also celebrating the ones who have been lost.
Ward says the planning all started Sunday afternoon
“There was this feeling of intense helplessness and I wondered what I could do to help. I am from the area. I live in Economy and I grew up in Five Islands. I know some of the victims and families affected by this tragedy. This didn’t start out as a national or international event, the original concept was to be in a place where the community would gather,” she said.
On their Facebook page Colchester–Supporting our Communities, there has been an outpouring of support from around the world.
“People expressing their condolences, showing what they are doing at home to show us that they are with us. The tartans and the hearts and the candles and all of those other things. For me, it is very heartening to see that the world is coming together to support us in the most beautiful way but under the most unimaginable circumstances. It is unfathomable what happened here. We’ve all lost something,” Ward says.
The vigil will be streaming live on the Colchester–Supporting Our Communities Facebook page, on HeartColchester.ca and YouTube.
Ward encourages everyone to take part in the vigil.
“Share the webpage, the Facebook page, drive traffic to the vigil and the fundraisers that will benefit the victims families. Express your feelings. Every person you touch will feel it. We have to find a way to grow from this to become stronger, bigger, better. We hope it is a place where people can begin to grieve together. It’s all, love right now, and that’s really what it should be because that’s really what this is all about.”
(Photo: Permission of Tiffany Ward, from Facebook)
