WE HAVE TO remember the many who died of COVID-19 and a memorial is planned. Courtesy photo.
The installation of a lovely memorial to mark and remember hundreds of South Etobicoke residents who passed away from COVID-19 in our community is being looked at.
The memorial, which is in the early stage of development, will be placed in New Toronto at the south east corner of Lake Shore Blvd. W., and Fifth Street, where a fountain previously stood.
The flag is lowered to half-mast / half-staff as a sign of distress, mourning or respect.
Chris Korwin Kuczynski, Chair of the Board of the Lakeshore Village Business Improvement Area, said it will be simple memorial to remember those who died in our community.
“It is being looked at,” Korwin Kuczynski said. “We are trying to honour our dead.”
He expects the monument to be installed sometime next year if approved.
Members of St. Margaret’s Anglican Church New Toronto held a well-attended memorial service for those who passed from the pandemic last summer.
There are more than 500 members of our community who some officials say passed away due to COVID-19 related illness. The pandemic has killed more than 10,000 people in Ontario.
Some guidelines to fight the pandemic are finally being lifted as restaurant limits and vaccine passport.