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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
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Diyo’s Closet is just about full for grads By Jim Windle SIX NATIONS Family members of the late Jewel Candice-Lin Monture, who was also known as Diyo, acted as volunteer models and make up artists during a dress rehearsal at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena Banquet Hall last week. Diyo took her own life two and a half years ago after being the victim of a vicious and heartless bullying campaign. The family came together to help Diyo’s mother Janie Jamieson fulfill one of her
daughter’s ambitions; to help to provide nice cloths for Six Nations Grade 8 grads. Anyone needing formal wear for their Grade 8 graduation is invited to come, Friday, March 15th, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena at 3201 Second Line Road, and select from a huge inventory of new and gently used formal wear donated by the community and abroad. News of the Diyo’s Closet initiative spread quickly and the response has been overwhelming. “My initial goal was to get
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maybe 50 to 70 dresses,” says Jamieson. “So far I have received more than triple that amount. We’ve gotten donations from as far away as New Mexico.” The response for new and gently used formal wear has been so good, Jamieson is now looking at expanding her target beyond the Six Nations community its self. “My next step is to reach out to urban Native centres for off-reserve Natives as well,” says Jamieson. Invitations have gone out to all the local schools and appropriate agencies on the reserve to inform the graduating kids from Six Nations and New Credit about Diyo’s Closet.
“I’ve sent out requests for finger food, fruit and veggie trays, sandwiches, bottled water and that kind of thing for the day when people come to select and try on their clothes,” (this Friday from 10 am ‘til 2 pm) she says. “We are hoping to start at 10 am that day so she would like people to drop off the food donations earlier that morning.” Jamieson is also canvasing for gift certificates from local florists or hair stylists and other businesses to be given away as door prizes. “I’m looking for anything and everything that will make these kid’s mid-June graduation memorable and with less stress on the families,” says
Jamieson. She is very appreciative to everyone who has contributed to Diyo’s Closet, but is especially thankful to her family who have rallied around her since the tragedy of Jewel’s suicide.
“My cousins, my sister, my niece, are all helping make all this happen,” she said with eyes welling up. “This is exciting. I can’t even explain how it feels to have my daughters last dream become a reality.”
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