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Butte honors its early Chinese residents with ancient tomb sweeping ceremony
Ancient tomb sweeping ceremony honors the dead amongst Butte s Chinese community
By: John Emeigh
and last updated 2021-05-17 21:10:55-04
BUTTE â Butteâs often overlooked Chinese residents were being memorialized on Saturday in an ancient ceremony that honors the dead and ancestors known as a tomb sweeping ceremony.
A Qingming Festival was held at Mount Mariah Cemetery in Butte that includes burning fake money to speak with dead ancestors, sweeping the graves and placing willow sprigs at the headstones. Many people from Butteâs early Chinese community were buried in the corner in the back of the cemetery.
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Butte rings in Year of the Ox with blessing of good fortune
John Emeigh
and last updated 2021-02-15 12:51:46-05
BUTTE - Butte celebrated the Chinese New Year in a scaled down way by performing a blessing for good fortune for Uptown businesses.
The ritual was held outside the Mai Wah Museum Saturday morning in which the head of the dragon chases the pearl of wisdom in recognition of the year of the ox.
Organizers usually hold a parade through Uptown but canceled it due to pandemic. However, they felt it was important to perform the blessing.
âItâs especially important this year, we want to say goodbye to the year of the rat and scurry it out the door and welcome in the year of the ox and kind of march forward strongly and steadily and recover in all kinds of ways,â said event organizer Pat Munday.
We re in love, said Velma Meredith, 64.
Her living room in Elgin is now filled with new furniture from Austin s Couch Potatoes. She and husband, Cline, 67, can sit comfortably in oversized recliners and a new couch.
Cline, who has kidney cancer that has advanced to his brain, can now rest easily in one of the recliners, on the couch or in a new bed provided by Factory Mattress.
The Merediths and the two teenage grandsons they are raising can gather around a new kitchen table with new chairs that haven t had to be reinforced with extra screws and bolts to keep them together.