Pride Month begins in La Ronge with rainbow flag raising
The rainbow flag has been raised in La Ronge’s Patterson Park and residents can look forward to several family-friendly events in the coming weeks.
Close to 60 people gathered Tuesday to raise the flag to officially mark the start of Pride Month. The flag raising included speeches by La Ronge Mayor Colin Ratushniak, along with other invited guests. The rainbow flag is currently at half-mast, however, and two minutes of silence was observed to remember the 215 children recently discovered in a mass grave at Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Ratuskniak announced the Lac La Ronge Regional Pride committee is planning a festival and pride parade in the beginning of July.
“Our festival is going to be happening on Saturday, July 3 in Patterson Park,” he said. “We are sort of still working out the details of what COVID is going to present with that, but we’re going to be having music, performers and different activities.”