“I’m going so high,” yells one girl to another across the air between their swings.
“Let’s see who can go the highest,” the other calls back.
The swing set they’re playing on is part of Sarah’s Place. These sisters never met the bubbly, blonde three-year-old the playground was named after — but they know it was Sarah’s, and they know she was loved.
“When she was asked what she wanted, she said that she wanted this, she used to say ‘a park at mine house.'” said Sarah’s mother, Anne Van Donkersgoed, in an interview this week with CBC’s Island Morning. “She didn’t say ‘my,’ she said ‘mine.’ So I always call it her park at mine house.”
The play set was built 10 years ago as part of Sarah’s request through the Children’s Wish Foundation, …