Residents of damaged Calgary communities celebrate Neighbour Day
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Calgarians came together on Neighbour Day to celebrate community ten years after the floods of 2013.
Hundreds of people came to celebrate Neighbour Day across Calgary on Saturday.
One of the biggest parties was in Sunnyside, a community that was heavily impacted by the 2013 floods.
Neighbour Day was established following the Calgary flood to celebrate the support and generosity of people in the community.
Christie Page had a one-year-old baby at home when she was forced to grab whatever she could and evacuate from her home in Sunnyside.
“Our whole street was underwater. We had five and a half feet of water in the basement,” recalled Page.
That baby is now 10 years older and joining the Neighbour Day parade in the northwest inner-city community.
“I was just amazed at the amount of volunteers who showed up and got dirty cleaning up my mess. Everyone did so much,” Page said. “I believe in humanity so much and it just proved it that day that people are good,”
Calgary’s former mayor launched Neighbour Day in 2014. He joined the party in Sunnyside on Saturday.
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