As a community and youth sports organization, Mission Soccer Club wants to acknowledge National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It is a day to recognize and remember the impact and the truth behind residential schools and the loss of Indigenous children.
To borrow a quote from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: "reconciliation will take many heads, hands, and hearts, working together, at all levels of society to maintain momentum in the years ahead.”
This weekend, if you are playing games, please consider wearing an orange T-shirt, or other orange clothing during warm up to recognize and honour this the third National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
If you are not playing games this weekend, I hope you and your family will take time to reflect and determine ways you can help in the healing process.
Thank you,
Doug McKellan - MSC President
Mission Soccer acknowledges that we play and live on the traditional, ancestral, and shared territories of the Stó:lō people; the Matheqwí, Se:math, and Leq’á:mel First Nations.