An activist who recycled discarded 91原创 election signs into planters has offered to donate them as memorials to residential school victims.
Gary Hee said he has offered the planters to local First Nations to be used for planting flowers in memory of the 215 children, students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School, whose unmarked graves were found on the reserve using ground-penetrating radar.
鈥淭hat would just make my day,鈥� if they said yes, Hee told the 91原创 Advance Times on Wednesday, June 30.
鈥淚 can deliver them.鈥�
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A former 91原创 council candidate, Hee recycled plastic campaign signs from the Oct. 24 provincial election sturdy planter boxes with one-inch thick walls.
Hee has also set up a GoFundMe page, to raise money to buy food gift cards for those who survived the school.
鈥淎s a small business owner in Surrey B.C. near the Fort 91原创 community and the Kwantlen First Nation Indian Reserve and having lived near the City of North Vancouver and near the St. Paul鈥檚 Residential school, home of Chief Dan George, I hope my humble participation will be multiplied by a thousand-fold,鈥� Hee said in the GoFundMe page.
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A business owner who lives near the Surrey-91原创 border on the Cloverdale side, Hee got involved in 91原创 politics when he began campaigning for improvements to the stretch of road that crosses the 91原创-Surrey border following a number of serious accidents in the area of 72 Avenue and 198B Street.
He鈥檚 also campaigned for free parking at 91原创 Memorial Hospital.
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