What a beautiful weekend it was. The sun was shining and warm and the sky was a shade of bright blue we havent seen in some time. To bad this week its supposed to get all cloudy, but thanks for the small miracles that was this weekend.
Yesterday was also The Celebration of Life that was Bert Day. Bert, who is the father of ward one councillor Rick Day died recently in a tragic housefire here in Milton. Both Pat and I were honoured to be invited to the memorial at Country Heritage Park where we celebrated his life and his family.
As the people got up to speak and told stories of Berts past in the military, his life as a father and a husband and the impact he had on so many people, it was very easy to astertain that Bert was definatly one in a million. The barn was packed to standing room only and people sat, listened and hung on every word of every story told. There were some tears from those family members still coming to grips with his passing, but mostly there were tears of laughter at all the memories of a great person who touched so many lives.
The day ended with 3 “national anthems” being sung. One was “Ise da By” for his Newfoundland roots. Being part of a newfie family, and hearing that anthem being sung many times in my youth, they hit every word in the entire song. Great Job! The other anthems were the Star Spangled Banner to honour the visitors from the US and ended with a nice rendition of OH Canada!
You could get lost in all the pictures of the family that hung around the entire barn and you could see that this was a very special family and we were very touched to be invited. Rick, Karen…thank you!