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By Jill Sperling

Kamloops Hospice

Celebrate a Life campaign aims to raise enough money for groceries for a year

Dec 4, 2019 | 4:29 PM

KAMLOOPS — The annual Celebrate A Life campaign is underway at the Northills Shopping Centre.

The craft sale and Memory Tree are part of a fundraiser for the Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Memorial Hospice Home.

People can make a donation in someone’s honour, writing their name on a memory card and switching a light bulb from white to red.

Kamloops Hospice Association Executive Director Wendy Marlow says staff and volunteers will hold a special ceremony in the new year to pay respect to the loved ones named on those cards.

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“We have a bin and we light a fire, and we read some tags and we put them in,” Marlow said. “In this ceremony it’s a time to reflect on all the lives that are being remembered. Then we take those ashes and we put them in our gardens and they become part of our beautiful gardens that people enjoy year after year.”

Crafters work all year long to supply the craft sale with homemade goods.

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There are also several raffle prizes available to be won.

The event is expected to raise around $20,000 for Hospice.

“This year what we’ve chosen that our funds will go to is our groceries for a year,” Marlow said. “So, I want to start by saying our heart and soul of hospice is our people, our staff and our volunteers, but right next is the food. When you walk into hospice, especially when you come in the morning you just smell that fresh baking, as we have volunteers baking every day so our visitors and families can have a treat and something to enjoy with their loved one.”