{"id":144662,"date":"2023-10-03T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/rwddev\/?p=144662"},"modified":"2023-10-03T20:10:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T00:10:27","slug":"tree-of-hope-to-be-planted-at-river-mill-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/tree-of-hope-to-be-planted-at-river-mill-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree of hope to be planted at River Mill Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sandhill Nursery has donated a birch tree which will be planted in partnership with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hopearises.ca\/\">Hope Arises Project Inc.<\/a><\/span> the Town of Huntsville<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">,<\/span> and the Huntsville Public Library at River Mill Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased to accept a beautiful donation from Sandhill Nursery of a young birch tree. I went out and picked this specific little girl and believe that she was the one for us to bring forward today,&#8221; said Joyce Johnathan Crone with Hope Arises at the Huntsville General Committee meeting held on September 27. &#8220;Birch trees have a very significant background to Indigenous, specifically First Nations People so that is why I chose a birch tree.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johnathan Crone also said that she has learned over time that people&#8217;s connection to the land and how it sustains life, &#8220;we should no longer from Mother Earth refer to nature as it, so she, our little birch, is a symbol of life and hope and trust and she represents the lives of those lost,, as we know, as we&#8217;re leading into September 30th (National Day of Trutch and Reconciliation) and the hope of reconciliation for the future for our town and beyond and the trust and alliegance that we have had and continue to establish together as settlers and Indigenous people living in this community.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She asked that the birch tree be named Hope and be planted &#8220;in a place of respect and honour with an eyesight for our community and tourists to be able to see and to be able to see her grow. She will grow. She does need to get into the ground as Sandhill Nursery advised&#8230; the ask, as you know, is part of not only the truth but part of our new way of knowing, being and doing as you are all very aware as a Town Council.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jonathan Crone asked Huntsville Mayor Nancy Alcock to symbolically place on ribbon on the tree with the name of a child who passed away at a Canadian residential school. &#8220;These are the documented children and there are undocumented children of those children who are still to be found over the next generations or years.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alcock thanked Jonathan Crone for everything she and her organization does to educate others.<\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandhill Nursery has donated a birch tree which will be planted in partnership with Hope Arises Project Inc. the Town of Huntsville, and the Huntsville Public Library at River Mill [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1904,"featured_media":144663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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