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City staff to help cemetery visitors on Mother’s Day |
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Written by Citizen staff
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
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The move comes a year after an information session was held last year for the newly-opened mausoleum.
"I found out that Mother's Day is a really busy day," said Sandra Hewitson, administrative co-ordinator in the city's development services department. "And I found there were a lot of people who were looking for gravesites."
This year, city staff will come armed with maps and the book listing the locations of all people interred at the cemetery.
Information will also be available on the many options the cemetery offers for interment, from standard burial to columbaria, plans for an ossuary and scattering garden as well as a green-friendly burial area at the end closest to Cowart Road.
"It's for people who want to be buried in an environmentally sensitive way," Hewitson said. "The plots are a little bit bigger than average, the person is buried in a biodegradable shroud or coffin without being embalmed, and they have the option of a tree being planted at the site."
The plots would remain in place in perpetuity, Hewitson said.
"In Prince George, we're fortunate in that we have a really big area that can still be developed," she said. "We have enough to last us many, many years."
City staff will be at the cemetery from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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