Pinning awareness (1)
Lana Parenteau, founder of the Takwihleew orange shirt pin initiative and Come Together CK executive director display 215 of the pins created to commemorate the lives of the children who died, as well as those who survived Indian residential schools. The effort was started when the bodies of 215 children were discovered at a former residential school in Kamloops B.C.
Pam Wright, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter