Memorial Archives - KCAW https://www.kcaw.org/tag/memorial/ Community broadcasting for Sitka and the surrounding area Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:37:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Sitka Counseling and HOPE Coalition create space to mourn overdose deaths https://www.kcaw.org/2025/08/27/sitka-counseling-and-hope-coalition-create-space-to-mourn-overdose-deaths/ https://www.kcaw.org/2025/08/27/sitka-counseling-and-hope-coalition-create-space-to-mourn-overdose-deaths/#respond Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:21:26 +0000 https://www.kcaw.org/?p=274869 The current image has no alternative text. The file name is: IMG_5839-scaled.jpg

This upcoming Sunday is International Overdose Awareness Day. Michelle Kavouras from Sitka Counseling speaks with KCAW for the Morning Interview about an upcoming memorial event to honor loved ones who died from overdoses, as well as strategies and resources to help prevent overdoses in your community.

The event will take place at Totem Square from 6-7:30 p.m. this Sunday, Aug. 31, 2025.

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Coast Guard helicopters fly over the crowed at the 9/11 memorial in downtown Sitka (KCAW/Tash Kimmell)

This Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In Sitka, first responders gathered together in a public ceremony to commemorate the nearly 3000 people who lost their lives that day. KCAW’s Tash Kimmell brings us this postcard featuring the voice of Coast Guard Commander Brian McLaughlin. Listen below:

A crowed assembled at Totem Square on the 20th anniversary of of 9/11 attacks (KCAW/Tash Kimmell)

Members of the Coast Guard from Air Station Sitka listen to Capt. Brian J McLaughlin give a speech commemorating the 2,996 lives lost in the 9/11 attacks (KCAW/Tash Kimmell)
The Sitka Fire Department departing Totem Square following the 9/11 memorial (KCAW/Tash Kimmell)
]]> In Sitka, an impromptu memorial honors mass burial discovered at B.C. boarding school https://www.kcaw.org/2021/06/01/in-sitka-an-impromptu-memorial-honors-mass-burial-discovered-at-b-c-boarding-school/ https://www.kcaw.org/2021/06/01/in-sitka-an-impromptu-memorial-honors-mass-burial-discovered-at-b-c-boarding-school/#respond Wed, 02 Jun 2021 01:38:07 +0000 https://www.kcaw.org/?p=162721
(Tash Kimmell/KCAW)

Last week (5-27-21) the remains of 215 children were found in a mass grave on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. Once the largest residential school in Canada, the site was operated by the Catholic Church until 1969. For over a century the Canadian Government forced Indigenous children from their homes and into boarding schools. Many children went missing without explanation. After years of searching for answers, Chief Rosanne Casimir of the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation reported that the burial sight had been discovered through the use of ground-penetrating radar.

In remembrance, an anonymous artist placed 215 eagle and raven feathers on the lawn of Sheldon Jackson Campus. Sheldon Jackson was a boarding school from the late 1800s well into the 20th century.

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