With The Forks not hosting its usual New Year’s Eve festivities this year, Winnipeggers may be looking elsewhere for some celebratory fireworks to ring in 2024.
WINNIPEG -- Residents at Riverview Health Centre in Winnipeg are being treated to a private display of fireworks on New Year's Eve in memory of one of the residents who died at the centre this year. Patricia McGarry died in October, and while her death was unrelated to COVID-19, the pandemic meant only four of her six children were able to attend the funeral. "My mom was a very social person, she loved family gatherings," said McGarry's youngest child Martin. "Her own ideas about her own funeral were not what transpired." Martin, who is the CEO of Cushman and Wakefield, said when his company heard about his mother's passing, they wanted to do something special for Riverview Health Centre, where McGarry had been a resident.