{"id":78705,"date":"2016-07-18T03:07:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T07:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=78705"},"modified":"2016-07-18T03:07:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T07:07:11","slug":"baby-girl-bubbles-sparklers-vigil-slain-woman-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/07\/18\/baby-girl-bubbles-sparklers-vigil-slain-woman-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"‘For you, baby girl:’ bubbles and sparklers at vigil for slain woman, daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Missing<\/a>
Slain five-year-old Taliyah Marsman (Facebook photo<\/a>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

CALGARY\u2014Bubbles floated into a grey sky and sparklers crackled as hundreds gathered in a northwest Calgary park Sunday evening to pay tribute to Sara Baillie and her five-year-old daughter Taliyah Marsman.<\/p>\n

Baillie’s close friends organized the vigil nearly a week after the 34-year-old woman was found dead in her home and an Amber Alert was issued for the little girl.<\/p>\n

Police found Taliyah’s body late Thursday in a rural area just east of Calgary.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Vonavka described Baillie, her long-time friend, as a hard-working, fun-loving woman with \u201cout-of-this-world\u201d dance moves.<\/p>\n

Vonavka said Baillie would have appreciated the choice of venue for the vigil.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe would have wanted to be celebrating somewhere happy and that’s what parks are for. Parks are for families,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Vonavka recalled hanging out with Baillie at a bus stop across from the park after a party when they were teenagers.<\/p>\n

It’s also around the corner from a Dairy Queen that Baillie and Taliyah liked to visit\u2014the same one where security cameras captured the pair a day before Baillie failed to show up to her restaurant job and worried relatives called police.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s event began with organizers handing out candles and bottles of bubbles with Baillie and Taliyah smiling on the labels.<\/p>\n

The group said the Lord’s Prayer with their heads bowed.<\/p>\n

Then, a toast.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor you, baby girl,\u201d one woman said as she popped the cork of a bottle of bubbly, unleashing a torrent of fizzy liquid.<\/p>\n

Children were asked to gather together to light sparklers and cheer for Taliyah.<\/p>\n

Tanya Kruger, Taliyah’s godmother, said it was a fitting way to remember her friend, whom she met working at a Boston Pizza about a decade ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was a happy-go-lucky, loving, amazing young woman. Beautiful soul, could light up a room. Made everyone laugh,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Kruger said she knows nothing about Edward Delton Downey, the man facing two counts of first degree murder in the deaths. Police have said Baillie knew him.<\/p>\n

\u201cSara and I were friends for many years and I didn’t know anything about him. I’m learning as well,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s hard for us to accept. Maybe there’ll never be answers. But I’m just going to leave it in the Lord’s hands now and it’s up to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vonavka said she’s also struggling to make sense of what happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s not fair and I can’t wrap my head around it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a beautiful little girl and she deserved so much more than that. And all we can do now is just pray that there’s justice served and nobody else has to go through this ’cause this is not anything I would wish on my worst enemy. This is horrific.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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