The Williams Lake Daybreak Rotary Club installed a wind phone at the Sugarcane Cemetery on Tuesday, June 3.
With a sign that reads "This phone is connected by love to everywhere and nowhere but will never ring," the wind phone provides a space for visitors of the cemetery to connect with the loved ones they have lost.
"Pick up the handset and let the wind carry your words to those you have loved and lost," the sign says.
This is the second wind phone to be installed in the Williams Lake area, the other placed in the Williams Lake cemetery. The idea for both was brought forward by Kay Knox with the Williams Lake Daybreak Rotary Club.
"We're really, really thankful," Knox said while expressing her gratitude for Willie Sellars, Kúkwpi7 (Chief) of Williams Lake First Nation, for carrying the idea on to the nation's council and for the council's approval of the project.
Knox moved to Williams Lake just a few years ago. Before that, she was in Clearwater, where a wind phone had been installed on a trail behind the hospital.
"All of this was happening around the time my husband died," Knox said, explaining that she used the phone to connect with him.
The idea for a wind phone in Clearwater came from the novel Phone Booth at the Edge of the World, written by Laura Imai Messina and inspired by the first phone booth of its kind in Japan.
The wind phone at Sugarcane Cemetery was built and donated by Randy Isfeld and it was installed by members of the Daybreak Rotary Club.
