The Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Park is now open, only the second of its kind in Canada.
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It's a park intended to do more than add a bit of green to the city.
The Cancer Survivors Park is a place that cancer patients and survivors can go to think and make tough decisions.
The new park includes a waterfall that flows onto stones. The rocks below the waterfall represents hope, with the idea that someone can take a stone for someone who's fighting cancer, and if that person makes it through, they can bring it back for others to use.
The park also has more than a dozen plaques that give advice for those who have just been diagnosed with cancer.
The idea for the park caome from local Lawyer Chuck Merovitz and his wife, who saw a similar one in Florida.
The park is also home ot the Mary Eagan Garden, a project of Boston's Terry Eagan, who lost his wife Mary to leukemia in 1992.
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