‘She’ll always live on’: Montreal father remembers daughter Ava after LaSalle tragedy - BERITAJA

Just 1 time earlier tragedy struck, young Ava Ciampini was celebrating her 3rd day pinch dozens of family and friends astatine her father’s Montreal-area business.

Now, 1 week aft her death, her begetter is sharing memories of the small woman he says could ray up immoderate room.

“She was conscionable truthful typical to america and everybody that crossed paths pinch her,” Luca Ciampini said. “She conscionable had truthful overmuch character, truthful overmuch spunk. She was really the ray and joyousness of each day.”

On Sunday, May 31, Ava was enjoying a organization arena pinch her family astatine a parkland successful Lasalle erstwhile the bouncy castle she was playing successful was swept up by beardown winds. Witnesses described a chaotic segment arsenic the play building roseate dozens of feet into the aerial earlier being thrown backmost to the ground.

Urgences-santé said 11 group were injured. Six were transported to hospital, including 2 children. Ava was critically injured and later died. Another three-year-old remains successful captious information successful hospital.

The incident occurred during a organization ceremony organized by the Madre dei Cristiani church. Environment Canada reported upwind gusts of 50 kilometres per hr successful the area astatine the time.

For Luca, it’s a reality that’s still intolerable to comprehend.

“It’s conscionable unimaginable,” he said. “We’re still waiting to aftermath up from this nightmare. It conscionable doesn’t consciousness real.”

As family and friends struggled to process the loss, support began pouring successful from crossed the country. A GoFundMe launched by Luca’s champion friend and business partner, Stefano Giliati, has raised about half a cardinal dollars. The response, they say, has been overwhelming.

“I conscionable dream they cognize that they don’t person to spell done this alone,” Giliati said. “(Luca) has a immense support organization – group that emotion him – and that we’re each pinch him – we’re each location for them.”

Now, Luca says he visits the parkland wherever calamity struck each day. Flowers, teddy bears and handwritten notes people the spot wherever hundreds person came to honour Ava.

Even now he says, she continues to make a difference. Her organs were donated this week helping prevention 4 different lives – thing he calls her last enactment and her top superpower.

“That was the determination we had made because we cognize she’ll unrecorded life done others – by redeeming lives,” said Luca. “She’ll ever unrecorded connected and create a legacy.”

A nationalist memorial is planned for Tuesday astatine Ouellette park.