The Williams Lake Hospice Society will once again be holding their Memory Tree celebration this Holiday Season.
“It’s the 30th annual,” Executive Director Daphne Johnson said, “and it’s a service of remembrance and healing. It will be held tomorrow (December 7) from 3 pm to 4:30 pm at City Hall and everyone is welcome.”
Johnson said over the past couple of weeks they have been collecting names of loved who have passed away and we read the names out of our Memory Tree book.
“After the ceremony is completed we go and turn on the Hospice tree outside City Hall. The names we have collected get put onto ornaments on the tree that will be there until the end of the month.”
Johnson said the Memory Tree Celebration is a time for people to gather with others that have had the same type of experience, you’ve lost someone, and you can just share your stories and be together.
“I’ve been with Williams Lake Hospice for 12-years and in the beginning there was probably about 60 to 75 people and last year we had 85 to 90 come to this event.”
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