Remembrance Activities

2022 REMEMBRANCE POSTER & LITERARY CONTEST WINNERS

Saltcoats - Kayden Burman placed 1st in the Jr. Poem category. Congratulations, Kayden!


Saltcoats - Ashley Coy placed 1st in the Intermediate Black & White Poster category. Congratulations, Ashley!


Yorkton Regional High School - Tiana Bobb-Leonard placed 2nd in the Sr. Colour Poster category, Alexander Todd placed 3rd in the Sr. Colour Poster category and Summer Stoyand placed 1st in the Sr. Colour Poster category. Pictured above with YRHS Art Teacher, Jana Martinuk. Congratulations!


St. Michael's - Kira, Danica, Olyvia, Yianni, Ella and Olivia with their certificates! Congratulations to all of you! Thank you for participating in our Remembrance contests. 


M.C. Knoll School - Lerien Pretorius placed 1st in the Junior Black & White Poster Contest. Blake Kulcsar placed 3rd in the Junior Black & White Poster Contest. Congratulations Lerien and Blake!

2022 REMEMBRANCE DAY SERVICE
This year's service was held at the Flexihall Friday, 11 November 2022. If you missed the service, please copy and paste the following link into your browser to view the entire service:

https://youtu.be/0fsp86xRisI 

Thanks to Al Stupak for filming the service for us again this year. Much appreciated.

For more pictures from Remembrance Day and Remembrance Week, go to our Facebook site. It can be accessed through "links" on the left-hand side of this page, near the bottom.

SILVER CROSS MOTHER

Saturday, 29 October 2022, our Silver Cross Mother, Bonnie Rushowick, received the first poppy. Above are Branch President Ken Gordon, Comrade Bonnie Rushowick, and Bonnie's husband, Comrade Geoff Rushowick. 

TAG DAY

Saturday, 29 October 2022 was Poppy Tag Day! It's the first we've had since 2019! It was very successful. Our cadets, scouts and Blue Jays basketball volunteers brought in just over $6,000.00 in poppy donations!


More tag day.

RAISING OF THE VETERANS FLAG 




Saturday, 5 November 2022 at 1000 hours, the Veterans Flag was raised at the Cenotaph on Darlington. This marked the beginning of Veterans Week which is always November 5th to November 11th.

CANDLELIGHT TRIBUTE CEREMONY
Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 1600 hours our Candlelight Tribute Ceremony was held at the Cenotaph on Darlington. 

Candlelight ceremonies began in the Netherlands to show thanks and to honour those who liberated the country and its people from German occupation during the Second World War. In 1995, the people of the Netherlands held a special ceremony to commemorate their liberation by Canadian forces fifty years earlier. Dutch children placed lit candles on the graves of Canadian soldiers and the candles remained lit overnight in silent tribute. Residents were drawn to the cemeteries by the soft red glow of the candles burning in the dark. As a result, commemorative candlelight tributes have now become annual ceremonies in the Netherlands and other European countries. Similar tributes take place across Canada in both public and private cemeteries. Encouraging youth, their families, Veterans and Canadian Forces (CF) members to interact with one another is an important element of the commemorative event. (Veterans Affairs)

OCT 1, 2021 TO DEC 31, 2021 POPPY CAMPAIGN REPORT
Dominion Command voted to change the Poppy fiscal year from October 1st to September 30th of the next year to January to December of the same year. Therefore, three months have been reviewed form October 1st to December 31st 2021. 

INCOME
Wreath Donations                                         $ 9,914.99
Poppy Donations                                          $17,575.80
TOTAL                                                         $27,490.79   

EXPENSES
Administration 
    Advertising                                                       125.77
   Postage/Office Expenses                                     383.74
   Bank Charges                                                      52.61
Total Administration                                               562.12

Poppy & Wreath Supplies                                     5,249.87
Poppy/Wreath Storage                                           600.02
Nov 11, Tag  Day & Color Party Expenses                188.70
Poster & Essay Expenses                                     1,454.40
Veterans Assistance                                            1,000.00
TOTAL EXPENSES                                            $9,055.11

NET INCOME                                                   $18,435.68

The financial report for January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022 will be done shortly and will be posted here.

Lest We Forget