A society focusing on keeping Sara Corning’s memory alive in Yarmouth has big plans.
The Sara Corning Society wants to erect a bronze statue of the Cheggogin native, and develop a festival next September.
They also are exploring building a peace park in her name.
The ten member group asked the federal and provincial governments for funding, and made a presentation to Yarmouth Town Council last night.
Society member Jennifer Rodney Chown says a festival would bring those from Greece and Armenian communities who know Corning’s contributions.
“We traveled to Greece last year and Turkey as well. Those who know about the atrocities of those times connect to her story.”
Corning was a nurse who traveled abroad in the early 20s to help nearly 5,000 orphans escape the Ottoman Empire, now Turkey.
The Cheggogin native also offered assistance to those wounded in the Halifax Explosion in 1917.
She was awarded the Silver Cross Medal by King George II of Greece in 1923.
