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Halifax
A horse with no name Police
Police hope kids across Halifax Regional Municipality can help them solve their problem of a horse with no name. Halifax Regional Police (HRP) have recruited a rookie fourlegged officer to replace Patrol Cruiser, also known as Cruise, who retired last October. But before he can “become a full-fledged member of our mounted unit,” he needs a new name, police said in a news re-
Officers ask children to help style their new stallion Kristen Lipscombe
David Smith and Sarge the horse watch as participants of the Walk So Kids Can Talk head up Citadel in 2013. Jeff Harper/Metro
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lease issued Tuesday. Garran, as he is currently called, came from a farm in Wilmore, Ky., and has been in training since mid-July. But police want to give him a new title “in keeping with the long and proud tradition of the HRP Mounted Unit.” “We knew we’d found the right horse for the job when we saw the white mark in the middle of his forehead that re-
sembles a police badge,” the force pointed out. The contest is open to students from Primary through Grade 6. Kids are welcome to email hrppublicrelations@halifax.ca with their suggestion, which should be no longer than six letters and one syllable; the reason for choosing that name; and the child’s name, age, phone number and email. The contest closes Nov. 16.
Remembrance Day
Memories of a N.S. junior commando Hands trembling, she holds out the fraying pieces of cloth. Though faded, the stripes and letters “J.C.” are still clear. It is almost all Vivian Williams has left of a turbulent time in her life and is a reminder of the role Canadians — even children — played during the Second World War on the home front. It was 1942. The war had been raging for more than two years, and the U.S. had just entered the battle on the side of the Allies. She was just a little girl, but eight-year-old Vivian wanted to help. At the time, she was living in Yarmouth with her mother. Determined to assist in the war effort, she became a junior commando — part of a squad of young people who collected metal that could be reused in the war effort. Vivian recalls people in her neighborhood in Yarmouth’s north end giving her old pots and pans and digging out more metal from backyard dump sites. The iron, aluminum and brass was taken to a collection centre to reportedly be turned into ships, tanks and planes. And the youngster knew what was going on. The war was all around her. The highpitched whine of air-raid
sirens outside her bedroom window still resonates in her memories. “It would go off and we would have to have the blinds pulled quickly,” she recalls. She remembers with pride the special armband she was given as a junior commando. She recalls winning a drawing contest and accepting her prize: a Little Orphan Annie embroidery kit. It was from Little Orphan Annie comic books that the idea of the junior commandos was first introduced. The idea caught on across the U.S, and Canada, and soon there were thousands of real junior commandos. A year later, Vivian would leave Yarmouth to return to Sable River with her mother, where the war continued to touch her life. Her much-loved uncle, M. Gordon Giffin, left for the battlefields of Europe. The family received a telegram months later, saying he had been shot in the chest by a sniper. He returned to Shelburne County with injuries that would plague him for the rest of his life. The war, so many years ago, is usually far from her thoughts. But when sorting through old boxes, if the armband falls out, the memories flood back. Yarmouth Vanguard
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Left: Vivian Williams, 8, pictured the year she joined the Junior Commandos. Right: Williams holds the armband and stripes she wore in 1942. Left: Contributed; Right: Greg Bennett/Yarmouth Vanguard