Nakusp resident Glenn Koenig lost his wife in August after a tragic car accident on the Monashee Pass. Diane Koenig had lived in Nakusp since 2004 and had worked at Dogsense Boutique and most recently at Home Hardware, as well as offering bookkeeping services. Diane was an avid pet lover and is missed by her canine companions.
She was a loving wife and mother of three girls. Her family originally wanted to place a bench along the waterfront walkway in her honor near the end of Third Avenue because the Koenig home is visible from this location. Widow Glenn would really like to see a picnic table instead, and has been in conversations with the Village about it.
“I was down there with our daughter the other day having lunch and there aren’t any tables to eat on that (the marina) end of the waterfront,” Glenn told the Arrow Lakes News.
He has been doing research on what the cost of a picnic table would be over a bench, and has considered things like the labour to install it and the concrete pad to set it on. The folks at Home Hardware have offered to donate the supplies, and Koenig is waiting to see what the Village says about his idea.
For anyone wishing to lend support for the project, the Nakusp CIBC is accepting donations to the Branch #00670 Account #7554796.