{"id":3524,"date":"2011-07-14T00:59:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T05:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=3524"},"modified":"2012-06-09T17:47:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T22:47:28","slug":"swan-valley-residents-meet-the-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2011\/07\/14\/swan-valley-residents-meet-the-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan Valley Residents Meet the Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>ValleyBiz Story, Pictures Submitted by Brenna Minish-Kichuk | <\/br>
\nBrenna Minish-Kichuk, along with several of her relatives were in Yellowknife last week for a special re-opening of the Lorraine Minish-Cooper Garden of Hope.<\/br>
\nThe ceremony was made even more memorable by the attendance of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge who unveiled a plaque and planted a tree. <\/p>\n

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\nClick the picture to read the plaque details.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Garden of Hope was opened in 2003 in memory of Brenna’s aunt who died of breast cancer nine years ago. Lorraine Minish-Cooper, who was born and raised in the Swan River Valley, was a prominent Yellowknife lawyer and avid gardener. This year the garden was expanded and a re-opening ceremony was held on July 5th.<\/br><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> During an unscheduled tour of the garden, Prince William and Kate chatted privately with Lorraine’s three daughters. Various reports have stated there was a real connection between Prince William and the girls as they discussed losing their mothers at a young age.<\/br>
\nLorraine’s daughters, Merrill, Megan and Margot.<\/em>
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\nAfter the tour, the Royals came over and shook hands with Brenna and her family along with many other people in the crowd. <\/p>\n

“They shook hands with everyone,” she said, “They were very down to earth and friendly and really seemed interested in what was going on. I did not expect them to be that approachable.” <\/br>
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\nEdith Minish shakes Prince William’s hand.<\/em>
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\nKate appears to be really enjoying herself as she admires Brenna’s daughter, Hallie.<\/em><\/br>
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\nPictured here: Hallie, Neil & Brenna Kichuk, Eric & Brittney Terleski and Edith Minish from the Swan River Valley, along with Brenna’s sister Deanne Sprott who now lives in Minto, Manitoba all made the trip to Yellowknife last week.<\/p>\n

Click any of the pictures for a larger version.<\/em><\/p>\n

The thing that really stood out for Brenna was the fact that, while not part of the official venue, the royal couple asked for a tour of the garden. “They had said no to attending many other venues. They wanted to attend events with young people who were ordinary, everyday people.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ValleyBiz Story, Pictures Submitted by Brenna Minish-Kichuk | Brenna Minish-Kichuk, along with several of her relatives were in Yellowknife last week for a special re-opening of the Lorraine Minish-Cooper Garden of Hope. The ceremony was made even more memorable by the attendance of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge who unveiled a plaque and planted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,16],"class_list":["post-3524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-coverage","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}