Candles still burn at Jaxsn Cahill鈥檚 memorial in West 麻豆精选.
The 15-year-old drowned in Okanagan Lake at Gellatly Bay Park on Aug. 17.
The community has since set up a memorial site for Cahill on the main wharf at the park.
Skateboards, hats, flowers and touching letters fill the wharf left there by friends, family and the community.
鈥淚mmortal in everyone鈥檚 thoughts,鈥� says one message at the memorial.
鈥淵our energy and spirit will continuously be felt and carried through all of us,鈥� says another.
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The skateboard-loving teen is described at the memorial as 鈥渙ne of the realest and truest friends鈥� and as a 鈥渂est friend and a brother.鈥�
Cahill had jumped from the wharf dock in the early morning last Saturday and did not resurface.
Emergency responders pulled him from the water and attempted CPR at the scene, then rushed him to 麻豆精选 General Hospital.
He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
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