The Manitoba Home Builders' Association is celebrating 75 years.
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JUNE 2016 ❖ 15 A R R A N G E M E N T S STAY CLOSE TO THE HEART The heart of Winnipeg and the heart of the community, Saint-Boniface Cathedral is a place where family and friends close to your heart can gather to celebrate and remember. We invite you to consider our cemeteries as a final resting place for you and your loved ones. Columbaria niches and traditional plots for all cultures and faiths are available. Historic Cathedral Cemetery 190 de la Cathédrale Avenue Niches Saint-Boniface Cemetery 917 Archibald Street Niches and traditional lots Sacred Heart Cemetery 501 Plinguet Street Traditional lots Please contact us at: 204-233-7304 or info@cathedralestboniface.ca Our office is located at 190 de la Cathédrale Avenue 204-668-3151 mike vogiatzakis geNeRaL maNageR "TreaTing your loved one as we would our own" family owned and operaTed www.voyagefuneralhome.com be accompanied by a granite plaque just as a grave can be accompanied by a headstone or flat marker. There are additional options, Saxby says. "You can also create an opening in the ground to scatter the ashes into and then cover it over, or you can put the remains in a container that will biodegrade in six months or less. You can do it yourself, or have a grounds person do it for you." She adds that a new option is being introduced this summer at St. Vital Cemetery. "We're about to expand this summer, and one of the new features that's part of the expansion is an area where there will be rocks that you can attach plaques to, and then bury the remains of your loved one around the rock," she says. "Scattering gardens were designed to grown, and to have the flexibility to add different options at different times to provide people with more choices." The overall idea of scattering gardens, Saxby says, is to give people an effective – and affordable – means of memorializing a loved one in a beautiful, positive setting that, at least in a small way, helps soften the blow of losing someone special. "Not only are there so many memorialization choices – scattering, tall columbarium niche, or family niche – but these choices range from affordable to more comprehensive," she explained. "It helps that these options are available in areas designed to generate positive, rather than negative emotions." Just as important, scattering gardens provide an accessible spot where friends and family can attain ephemeral contact with a parent or favourite aunt or uncle. The beauty of the area only heightens that connection, Saxby says. "It's just so much better going there than to a stark area with a wooden box buried in the ground next to a headstone," she says. "People should be memorialized in the best way possible, as friends and family may want to visit on occasion. Or, future generations may want to visit so they can trace their family lineage. Going to an accessible, beautiful area makes doing that so much easier." And because the loved one has been lovingly memorialized in a beautiful setting, it's easier to remember them, or, in the case of grandchildren or great grandchildren, visualize who they were when they were alive. "Memorial plaques can have one line of text," Saxby says. "That line of text can tell a little bit about that person that brings them alive. Memorializing loved ones in such beautiful areas – with lots of options to choose from – creates positive memories. That's what scattering gardens are all about." ❖ Memorial plaques are available at all three City of Winnipeg cremation scattering gardens and can help bring a person's memory to life.