‘We want to be as respectful as we can’: Dauphin mayor on plans to memorialize crash victims – Winnipeg | 24CA News
Civic leaders in Dauphin, Man., are mulling concepts about the best way to formally memorialize the 15 members of their neighborhood killed final week in a devastating freeway crash.
Dauphin mayor David Bosiak informed 680 CJOB’s Connecting Winnipeg that it’s a matter of balancing the wants of everybody affected by the tragedy.
“Primarily our concern is focused on the family of survivors, and secondarily the rest of our community,” he stated.
“We wanted to continue to be considerate as a council, we wanted to be compassionate towards those that have been directly and indirectly affected by this accident, and we also wanted to continue to be as respectful as we can with any of the plans that we’re trying to put in place on what we do next.”
Bosiak stated one of many causes there hasn’t been a large-scale public occasion in Dauphin is as a result of quite a few different neighborhood members — 10 in whole — stay in hospital.
“We must be really considerate of those families and citizens who have loved ones who are still in critical care in the hospital,” he stated. “So it’s this balance of what are we going do about those we know are deceased, but those who are still living and may be in a precarious state of health.
“Probably one of the more complicating factors is how do we continue with our regular day to day business as a municipality … and at the same time be compassionate and considerate about this tragedy that’s impacted us?”
Among that common business: a highschool commencement is developing this weekend, and Dauphin’s marquee annual occasion, CountryFest, is scheduled to carry 1000’s of concertgoers to the realm the weekend after.
An anticipated public announcement by RCMP confirming the names of those that have been killed is prone to be the subsequent “key variable” the neighborhood considers earlier than transferring forward with any plans, as is the results of a Tuesday assembly of the native ministerial affiliation.
So far, although, Bosiak stated Dauphin’s residents have been taking consolation within the outpouring of help from well-wishers from everywhere in the map.
“We have received messages from all over the world. It’s been a flurry of information sharing, and so that’s been very heartening, and I think that’s one of the things that’s making our situation somewhat unique … it might be part of the reason why there hasn’t been this public expression of a more community-sized gathering.
“It gives us some comfort that we know we’re not in this alone, and it’s tremendously difficult for many in our community right now.”
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