The pipes have been calling out in support of health care workers.
For the past few weeks the 4900 block of 47A St. in Ladner has had the sounds of bag pipes play out during the nightly 7 p.m. salute to health care workers.
Quinn Provost, a first responder and area resident, is a retired member of the Delta Police Pipe Band.
“I just decided one night that it might be nice for people stuck in their homes to hear a little tribute to health care workers, so one night I came marching out of my garage and went up one way of the laneway and back. Everyone comes out and listens and claps. My son, Alistair, who is four, comes out with me and he dresses up in a costume every night. It’s been very cool. My wife is part of a local Facebook page and people have been volunteering to temporarily donate costumes for my son to wear every night.”
On Sunday night Alistair dressed up as a Mountie in a tribute to the fallen officer killed in the shooting rampage in Nova Scotia.
“I intended originally to play them for one night, but then neighbor Laura Mantle texted me saying her daughters had gone to bed and missed me playing that first night, so I played the next night and more neighbours came out and it’s kind of become this thing that I play every night,” he said. “I guess other people in the community have heard as well. I forget that it’s just not my neighbourhood that hears it. The fact that the community comes together with providing the costumes through the Facebook page. It’s a cool thing to be a part of and just a small token to the health heroes.”
Mantle said it has been extremely uplifting.
“It brings us together every evening. We are truly in this together,” she told the Optimist.
