Members of the Virtues and Community Belonging Project on the site where the teepee will be built. (Facebook/Onion Lake RCMP)

By Keaton Brown

Community Outreach

Teepee monument, giant wind chime coming to Onion Lake

Jun 11, 2019 | 5:01 PM

The sounds of silver spoons will be representative of community identity in Onion Lake.

The Onion Lake community is coming together, with the support of the Virtues and Community Belonging Project, to build a teepee monument that will play host to a giant wind chime made of household spoons in the center of the community.

Peggy Harper, Brenda Rediron-Chocan, Aron Strumecki, Laz Masson and Nelson Carter from the Eagleview Comprehensive High School are teaming up with Program Officer Laili Yazdani of the Onion Lake RCMP with the support of Terry Clarke from the Department of Education will spearhead the project.

The idea is to have local residents bring a spoon from their household to the information booth set up on Treaty Day and engrave it with their name and a family virtue.

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These spoons will then become part of a giant wind chime that will be a part of the teepee being built at the centre of Onion Lake.

“We plan for the structure to accommodate a few generations” Yazdani said. She said that they will be building the chime to be big enough to add more spoons in the next few years.

“The real goal of the project is to bring people together from the community, to foster a sense of identity and community belonging with families,” she added.

The spoons represent a household item that everyone will have access to as well as fostering a sense of family and community.

The idea for the project came from Yazdani who saw a similar project on a television show called Escape to the Country.

“Peggy Harper, she had the idea to adapt that idea into the teepee structure. The significance of that is it is something that people are choosing to participate in and contributing something from their home” she said.

The area the teepee project will be built in is called the four directions and is owned by the R.M. of Frenchman Butte. Yazdani said they received permission from the R.M. to build the monument on their land.

They hope to collect the spoons and complete construction by the end of this summer.

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