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Youth Bridges Releasing Celebration

Marquette, Michigan May 7, 2008

The Youth Bridges program at Youth Services held a releasing ceremony yesterday. Roughly twenty seniors and youth clientele participated in the event that involved two weeks of preparation. In the sessions preceding the celebration the two groups worked together to make carefully crafted miniature baskets. The baskets symbolically would hold any pent up emotion that had held them down. On the day of the event the group blew up helium filled balloons and tied on the small cradles that would hold the strong feelings. Many smiles could be seen as the groups worked together.

The wind blew strong on that cool spring day and helped to quickly whisk away the multi colored vessels that carried away the emotional cargo that had burdened each of them. Senior and child alike glazed into the open sky until the colors had disappeared completely. This first time ceremony of the bridges program was sure to become an annual event.

GLRC is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Rehabilitation Facilities

GLRC is supported in part by the United Way of Marquette and Chippewa Counties