Upper Nicola Band to host healing walk
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KAMLOOPS — The Upper Nicola Band will host the “Calling our Spirits Back” healing walk this weekend.
The journey will start at 9 a.m. Friday with a ceremony at the old Kamloops Indian Residential School building and continue on to its communities at Quilchena and Spaxomin.
Survivors or intergenerational survivors of residential schools will take part either by walking, running, canoeing or riding on horseback. Others who have been impacted directly or indirectly by residential schools are invited to join and hand drummers are also invited to drum at designated locations along the way.
Motorists are advised that the Red Bridge on Mt. Paul Way in Kamloops will be closed to traffic for about an hour between 11 a.m. and noon Friday for the walk. During the closure, motorists can cross the South Thompson River via Highway 5. The bridge will remain open to pedestrians and cyclists.
