Friends of Bouchie Milburn Society invite everyone to a special event planned for tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon.
“We are very excited to recognize all the community members that made the completion of the new cenotaph happen.” Cindy Rodgerson said, “We put a call out in the Spring and it was amazing who came and helped. We had Eh Team Concrete and we told them what we wanted and they said ok. We had the cement donated by Quesnel Sand and Gravel and now it’s standing there beautiful and we’re so excited about it. As our appreciation on Saturday we’re going to recognize them as the community owes a great deal to them for making this happen.”
The 2 decade project to enhance the cenotaph was so community members could observe Remembrance Day without going into town.
“During the pandemic in 2020 there was a small Remembrance Day observance, I think there was maybe a dozen ore more people there, but it was just a cenotaph with nothing on it. In March of 2024 Friends of Bouchie Milburn reformed and we managed to get a beautiful plaque put up and that Remembrance day we had I think 70 people from the community show up and it was amazing. We just want the community to know that this cenotaph is there for them, that it belongs to all of us.”
The cenotaph is set up in Six Mile Park outside of the Elementary School.
“The PAC is very excited to have this opportunity to literally walk the students across the street and have a ceremony or join us depending if Remembrance Day is on a weekend or not. The community is ecstatic that it’s finally complete. Our next goals are to beautify the Park, we have fundraising to do for that, and we also have what’s called a Century Family project that we’re doing that we’ll be putting up for century families from 1925 to 2025.”
This special recognition event for the completion of the cenotaph will start Saturday afternoon at 2 at Six Mile Park
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