HALIFAX –
A spot of reflection alongside the Dartmouth waterfront shall be a sea of yellow subsequent spring.
Volunteers planted 13,000 daffodil bulbs alongside the Dartmouth waterfront on Saturday, every representing somebody who has been touched by most cancers.
Cheryl Waterfield and her daughter Becky Phillips spent a part of a sunny Saturday morning planting bulbs within the Daffodil Backyard for Most cancers Survivors.
“About three years in the past this Christmas, I went in for my biopsy, and I’ve been launched from the Most cancers Centre, so undoubtedly a survivor says Becky Phillips.
The concept for the survivor’s backyard got here from Judi Edgar and her husband Jim, who had moved from an space in Ontario that had an identical backyard, and had been impressed to copy it to honour a trigger near their hearts.
“We moved again to Nova Scotia, and we each have been recognized with most cancers. We missed not having this place to go to, so we determined we might create one,” says Judi Edgar.
By fundraising efforts, their group bought 6,500 daffodil bulbs, and a provider generously matched that quantity, bringing the whole variety of bulbs to 13,000.
“Within the spring, it’s going to be a sea of yellow daffodils,” says Jim Edgar.
Dozens of volunteers turned out to plant bulbs on Saturday morning.
“Most of them are most cancers survivors themselves. Some are relations of most cancers survivors or relations of people that have misplaced their battle,” says Edgar.
That is the third yr for the mass planting occasion, which has turned the land alongside the waterfront into a spot of reflection.
“It was very emotional for me, in fact being a mother of a most cancers survivor, and there’s no phrases to say how a lot this place means,” says Cheryl Waterfield. “I feel for me it’s an indication of hope, it’s an indication of life.”
With this yr’s effort, there have now been greater than 20,000 daffodil bulbs planted right here alongside the Dartmouth waterfront, every one in every of them representing their very own private story of somebody’s battle with most cancers.
