Scattering Garden Dedication Day

By Jon Alden

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The Scattering Garden is a safe, peaceful, beautiful, place for parents to go who have lost a child, to reflect, to plant, to remember. A Dedication Day for the Scattering Garden was at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at Beech Grove Cemetery, 947 Main Road. The garden was created and will be maintained for and by parents who have experienced the death of a child at any age. The garden will be a place to reflect, to remember and to honor their child. For those Westport parents who have a miscarriage, it is a place to scatter ashes. The dedication included a brief history of the creation of the garden, a view from parents who were able to assist in the creation, inspirational songs song by a father who has experienced the loss of a child, and a brief closing memorial service. All families who have experienced the loss of a child were welcome to attend, and many did. Contact Joseph or Melissa Pacheco at (508) 971-0773 or krp12102@yahoo.com for more information about the Scattering Garden. For directions of information in regards to utilizing the garden for scattering, please contact Wes Norman at (508) 636-1025.

Remembering All of Our Children

(A poem read at the dedication)

I’d like the memory of me to be a

happy one. I’d like to leave

an afterglow of smiles

when the day is done.

I’d like to leave an echo whispering

Softly down the ways,

Of happy times

and laughing times and bright

and sunny days.

I’d like the tears of those who

grieve, to dry before the sun, Of

happy memories that I leave be-

hind when the day is done.

by, Anonymous

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