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Chase’s community paper for over 25 years! Issue for the week of Friday, June 18th, 2021 • Vol. 26, Issue 24
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Walking Our Spirits Home – A Sad But Necessary Event
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By Carolyn Parks-Mintz, Author, Journalist & Freelance Writer
t started where horrific abuse of Indigenous children started in the City of Kamloops—the residential school. Planned by the Adams Lake Indian Band (ALIB) to honour their members who had attended there and also as a healing experience for those whose relatives did not return, Walking Our Spirits Home, June 11-13, was arranged to spiritually return those lost to their resting place, and also to offer some restorative help to the many who have lived with trauma and hurt since leaving residential school. The event began at the Kamloops Industrial School (as it was called in 1890) which was under Roman Catholic administration and housed in a wooden building that subsequently burned down in a 1923 fire. Rebuilt as a brick structure, it would become the largest residential school in Canada, with a peak enrollment of 500
children in the 1950’s. The federal government took over the Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS) from the Catholic Church in 1969, and utilized it as a residence for First Nations students attending local day schools, until it was closed in 1978. A touching and emotive monument has been constructed directly in front of the main entrance to this former institution by a survivor of its many decades of operation. Upon receiving his Residential S c h o o l Settlement, (the late) Kenneth “Manny” Jensen eventually decided to use those funds in a concrete way. His family reports that Manny cared deeply about recognition of residential school survivors, although it took many years for him to speak of his own experience and the suffering he lived with. Continued on page 5...
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Chase Secondary Grad 2021
Car Parade
Saturday June 19 3pm start Please come out to cheer the Graduating class of 2021 when the parade passes your neighbourhood, while maintaining social distance. Thank you to the Salmon Arm Vintage Car Club and Garrick Automotive
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