Children have been swinging, sliding and climbing on a playground built to honour one of the victims of a mass stabbing two years ago northeast of Saskatoon.
Chelsey Erickson, who organized the playground project, says Wesley Petterson’s name is to be emblazoned on a metal sign at the structure in the village of Weldon.
In 2022, Myles Sanderson killed 10 people and injured 17 others on James Smith Cree Nation before fatally stabbing Petterson, who was 78, nearby in Weldon.
Erickson says flower beds have been placed around the playground to remember Petterson.
She says he was heavily involved in the community and would cut the town’s grass and gather people for coffee.
“He was such a kind man. He’d give you the shirt off his back because that’s the type of person he was. I knew him my whole life because our families spent a lot of time visiting …