Special Features - Remembrance Day 2013

Remembrance Day History Military Profiles Photo Gallery Events of the Day Parade Schedule Readers Remember

A Special Supplement to

The Free Press We will remember them.

Remembering those who have served us.

From the staff and management at Cummins in Sparwood.

Every Solution. Every Time.

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Remembrance Day services Monday, November 11, 2013 Royal Canadian Legion Branch #36, Fernie

Remembrance Day Parade 10:30 am Parade forms up at the Legion 10:40 am Parade marches to the Cenotaph 10:55 am Cenotaph Service begins 11:00 am 2 minute Wave of Silence begins 11:20 am Parade forms up again and marches back to the Legion.

An Ecumenical service will follow in the Legion Hall.

Royal Canadian Legion Branch #81, Sparwood

10:00 am Service at the Senior Citizens Drop in Centre

Parade formation after service 10:40 am Parade to the Cenotaph After parade Youth and adults invited to meet at the Legion

The City of

Royal Canadian Legion Branch #279, Elkford

FERNIE

10:00 am Service at the Elkford Alliance Church 10:45 pm Parade to the Cenotaph 11:00 am Cenotaph Service

salutes our veterans

The Royal Canadian Legion Branch #36 promotes the nationwide Two Minute Wave of Silence.

It encourages members of the community at 11:00 am to stop what they are doing (where safety and practicality permit) and observe the silence for two full minutes.

501-3rd Ave, Fernie 250-423-6817 www.fernie.ca

Remembering our Veterans this Remembrance Day

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Facts on Remembrance Day Free Press files

• Remembrance Day commemorates Canadians who died in service to Canada from the South African War to current missions. It is held every November 11.

• The first Remembrance Day was conducted in 1919 throughout the Commonwealth. Originally called Armistice Day, it commemorated the end of the First World War on Monday, November 11, 1918, at 11 a.m.: the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.

• From 1923 to 1931, Armistice Day was held on the Monday of the week in which

November 11 fell. Thanksgiving was also celebrated on this day.

• In 1931, MP Allan Neill introduced a bill to hold Armistice Day on a fixed day - November 11. During the bill's introduction, it was decided the word "Remembrance" would be used instead of "Armistice." The bill passed and Remembrance Day was first conducted on November 11, 1931. Thanksgiving Day was moved to October 12 that year.

• The poppy is the symbol of Remembrance Day. Replica poppies are sold by the Royal Canadian Legion to raise money for Veterans.

Remembrance Day celebrated around the Valley Elkford

Fernie

Sparwood

Remembrance Day Services Monday, November 11

1701 – 9th Ave., Fernie, B.C.

Come out and honour our veterans

Sparwood, BC

Royal Canadian Legion Branch #81 10:00 a.m. Church Service, Seniors drop-in centre at 101 Pine Avenue 10:45 a.m. Parade formation after service 10:55 a.m. Cenotaph Ceremony, march back to the seniors drop-in centre, hot chocolate for the participating youth. A hot meal at Michel-Natal Branch 81, 117 Centennial Square.

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Remembering those who sacrificed for our freedom

From Pierre, Kristine, and all the staff at Timmies in Fernie.

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Harold Travis S.S.M. & Bar: C.D. & Bar:

Harold Travis served from November 19th, 1949 until July 11th, 1972. Plus seven years in the reserves.

He started as an armourer, commissioned from ranks in 1952 and studied as a Navigator; he ceased training (released) and re-enlisted in 1955 as a flight engineer.

Harold flew DC 3's, Albatross, Buffalo, Argus and many others.

Served in Bermuda, Belize, The Golem Heights, Britain, Ireland, France and Germany.

Also Gibraltar, Cyprus and of course Canada's north country. Comox, Trenton, Winnipeg, Greenwood and Halifax.

He recently passed his 85th birthday, and is looking forward to many more.

Bernie N Kabel

Bernie Kabel was born June 12, 1934 in McCreary, Manitoba.

He enlisted November 1953 and Retired after 25 years on December 4, 1978 from PPCLI, Shilo Manitoba.

Bernie Kabel Now resides in Fernie at Rocky Mountain Village.

Master Corporal Jeff Rygaard

Aaron Kozler

Master Corporal Jeff Rygaard has currently served four years service.

He is based in Shilo Manitoba. Jeff Rygaard just came back from Afghanistan.

He graduated from Fernie Secondary Jeff Rygaard is married and has a little girl.

Aaron Kozler is currently based in Gagetown New Brunswick serving with the Royal Canadian Regiment 2nd Battalion and is a hometown boy from Sparwood B.C. He joined the military in 2008. He completed one tour in Afghanistan in 2010. He is the son of Scott Kozler of Sparwood B.C. and Cheryl Oczkowski of Coleman AB.

A day to remember...

Thank you to those who sacriďŹ ced for our freedom.

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COURAGE

Remembered in honour of those who served.

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A Soldier’s Prayer

he following verse was written on the back of a cigarette carton by a soldier shortly before he was killed on the field of battle in World War I, and found by a stretcher-bearer

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Lest We Forget

Look, God, I have never spoken to You, But now I want to say, “How do You do?”

You see, God, they told me You didn’t exist, And like a fool, I believed all this.

Last night from a shellhole I saw Your sky.

I realized right then they’d told me a lie.

Had I taken the time to see things You’ve made, I’d have known they weren’t calling a spade a spade.

I wonder, God, if You’d shake my hand?

Somehow I feel You would understand.

Funny I had to come to this hellish place Before I had time to see Your face.

I suppose there isn’t much more to say.

But i’m glad, God, I met You today.

I guess “Zero Hour” will soon be here.

But I’m not afraid, since I know You are near.

The signal: Well, God, I’ll have to go.

I like You a lot, and I want You to know.

Look now, this will be a horrible fight.

Who knows? I may come to Your home tonight.

Though I wasn’t friendly to You before, I wonder, God, if You’ll wait at Your door?

It’s not a matter of worry or tears; I just wish I had known You all these years.

Well, I have to go now, God. Goodbye.

Strange- since I met You, I’m not afraid to die.

Your Love One Never Leaves Our Care Email: cmfs@shaw.ca www.cherishedmemoriesfs.com

Phone: 250-423-7944 891 4th Ave, Fernie BC

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Remembrance Day 2013 Teachers and students will be honouring sacrifices of the past and working for peace in the future.

In Remembrance 816 Michel Rd. Box 340 Elkford BC V0B 1H0

A message from the Fernie District Teachers’ Association

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REMEMBRANCE DAY

From generation to generation may we always remember those who served and continue to serve.

(250) 423-6868 www.ferniechamber.com

Thank you to all those who have made sacrafices for this country; never forget.

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Fernie's Honour Roll (as it appears on the Fernie Cenotaph) WWI

J.C. Deed David Logan Frank Townsend Frank Herron Adam Howieson Andrew Cameron Garfield Mitchell James Scott J.J. Hixon T.J. Smith L. Tebo Thomas Wakelem John F. Annan G. Chedgy Joe Dingsdale Robert Connell William Fitzgerald Walter Harrison William Forsyth T.S. Ingram Pete Kennedy Harry James Thomas Martin Jock Kellog James Hixon Harry S. Branch John Myers N. Alke William Prince William McArthur Harry Zuince Hugh McLarkey Leonard Richardson Thomas Sowers Nathan Riley James Steele James Harrison Norman McBean J. Steele Robert J. Black John B. Cartmell Joseph Fearon James Corrigan Robert Forsyth James Gorrie Kenneth C. Carson R.R. Henning

Angus Dunlap Charles Hunnable Thomas Martin Stewart G. Corsan Joseph Leyland Peter Joinson Hector Murray Murdock McKay Thomas Shields Pasquale Perri William Peet Holden D. Stewart William Richardson William Wilson J.J. Martin Sam Poxon Charles Young Richard Strain John Anderson Thomas Dixon J.M. Murphy Arthur Slade Earnest Wilson George Evans John T. Dixon Jock Anderson John Appleby T.W. Stephens Cecil Holmes William McGuire Arthur Hopwood John Bough T.A. Fitzgerald James Corrigan Peter Green Sydney McHugh Alex Bunch William Phillips Thomas Wood F.M. Whitlow Charles Clarke Thomas Phillips James Raven John Gaskell A.G. Smith William Grant

WWII

Ronald Brewer Frank Corrigan Thomas FitzPatrick Paul Frayne William Gill James Howell Leslie Hunter Frank Ingram Peter Kane William Klauer William Mahoney Jack McCluskey James McLean Peter Stefik John Swope Alex Swiderski Frank Townsley Earl VanBuskirk Dean Washburn Fred Worth

Korea 1950-1953 Vincent Liska

“Lest We Forget Erected to perpetuate our honoured dead and those who carried on in the Great War from Fernie and District.”

This saying is found on the Cenotaph in Fernie, which was erected on Victoria Day- May 24, 1923. The Cenotaph is still standing tall today in front of the Courthouse in Fernie.

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Red and white poppies

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earing a red poppy for Remembrance Day on November 11 has been a tradition in this country for 90 years now.

The white poppy, dating from 1933, has recently resurfaced, however. It is a way to remember the civilian victims of war. The two complement each other: the red for those who died for their country, the white for the hope of peace.

Did you know that behind these poppy campaigns, both past and present, are some very committed women? The adoption of the poppy as a symbol of remembrance has international origins. The first person to use it in this way was Mrs. Moina Michael, a staff member of the American Overseas YMCA, during the last year of the First World War. In April 1920 she led a stirring campaign to have the poppy recognized as the official symbol of remembrance by the American Legion. At the same time, Mrs. Anna Guérin, from France, became an ardent defender of the poppy as the symbol that would help all citizens remember those who died in the war.

The efforts of these two ladies were not in vain. The first “poppy day” was held on November 11, 1921, in France as well as in Commonwealth countries.

Ninety years later, the poppy is still a reminder to us all. But we mustn’t forget that on November 11, 1933, the Women’s Cooperative Guild in the United Kingdom launched the white Guardian First poppy campaign, Aid Service LTD symbolizing the will Phone: 250-865-2650 Cell: 250-425-5946 to work towards Fax: 250-865-2652 creating a world Email: guard1fa@telus.net without violence, to resolve conflicts peacefully, and to remember civilian victims of war.

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We’ve got good news.

(Celebrating 115 years of serving the Elk Valley.)

From the day we printed our very first paper — back in 1898, The Free Press has reported on events, stories and legends of the Elk Valley for over 115 years.

We are one of the oldest newspapers in Canada.

We have followed stories from the spectacular to the every day, we’ve printed it all, each week: our politicians’ plans, the public’s questions, main street businesses on their way up and local careers on their way down, the hottest days of summer and deepest snows of winter. We’ve followed crimes and punishments, performances and players, our hometown teams’ victories, overseas wars, Canadian news, and B.C. views. We’ve celebrated community underdogs who’ve won and mourned lost loved ones.

After more than a century we’re still doing our very best to be the Elk Valley’s newspaper.

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