Reconciliation Week plans set – Lethbridge Herald

September 15, 2017

The first Lethbridge Reconciliation Week will begin Monday and run through next Saturday.

The week-long event is organized by Reconciliation Lethbridge, which is comprised of the Lethbridge Indigenous Sharing Network and the City of Lethbridge. The purpose is to foster education, awareness, and relationship-building with the focus on reconciliation.

An official launch and flag-raising ceremony will take place on Tuesday at city hall. It will kick off with a pipe offering at 8:30 a.m., followed by welcoming remarks from dignitaries at 9:30 a.m., a Healing Dance and Honour Song, and the flag-raising ceremony.

A Reconciliation Walk will follow at 10:45 a.m. from city hall to the Galt Museum, where the presentation “What is Reconciliation” will take place with Beverley Jacobs, former president of the Native Women’s Association of Canada.