Anyone who's lost a loved one would give anything to be able to hear their voice again, and while a new wind phone in Deer Lake won't enable them to have a two-way conversation, it is helping to bring comfort to grieving people.
Sterling Goulding says the wind phone on a nature trail in Deer Lake makes him feel closer to his wife, who died in 2020, and his daughter, who died in 2021.
When Natasha Lavers lost her father to suicide four years ago, she honoured his wish to be cremated and not have a gravesite or headstone. Natasha Lavers, right, is pictured with her father, Laurence, and sister, Shanda-Lee. Laurence Lavers died in 2018.The wind phone in Deer Lake is a vintage rotary dial phone mounted on a wooden housing and located on the Humber River Trail. It's a project of the town council's new health and wellness committee, chaired by deputy mayor and family physician Melanie Young.
It's common for people to grieve long after an initial mourning period, said Young, and private grief can be very isolating. "I'm still grieving a lot, and I find it comforting to go there, just by myself, nobody around, and listening to the wind and the trees blowing, I feel that I'm in their presence," said Goulding.
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