Black Lives Matter picnic to be held in Chester
Posted Aug 29, 2020 03:22:00 PM.
After a group of family and friends experienced a racist noose-swinging incident in Chester Basin, two young locals are holding a Black Lives Matter picnic.
Lauryn Guest and Peter Fisk are organizing the event at Chester Basin’s Hutt Lake. It’s on Aug. 30 starting at 3 p.m. with a rain date on Aug. 31 also at 3 p.m.
“We decided that this is the best way to address this issue because we’re bringing people together,” Guest tells NEWS 95.7’s The Sheldon MacLeod Show. “We’re going to take a space that has been made to be uncomfortable and make it very welcoming, and just show that we support one another,” they say.