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Serving the Rivers, Rapid City and Oak River areas for 107 years
Volume 109, Issue 19
Sharing a lasting legacy By Martine Lépine Communications Manager People often can’t help but smile when they see six-year-old Kamryn Bond lay a wreath with her friend, Shannon Krasowski, 40, at their local Remembrance Day ceremony. Although an unlikely pair, they are both amputees and are part of a legacy that goes back nearly 100 years. Kamryn is a member and Shannon a graduate of The War Amps Child Amputee (CHAMP) Program. It was war amputee veterans who created The War Amps in 1918, its Key Tag Service in 1946 and later, CHAMP. Since 1975 thousands of child amputees across Canada have received financial assistance for their artificial limbs through CHAMP and attended regional seminars where they learn about growing up as an amputee. When Kamryn was 11 months old, both of her legs, right hand and several fingers on her left hand were amputated due to a respiratory illness. Shannon’s left leg was amputated when she was 13 years old, due to bone cancer. They met three years ago at their local Remembrance Day ceremony in Grande Prairie, Alta. That year, Kamryn watched Shannon lay a wreath on behalf of The War Amps Operation Legacy, but ever since, it has been a tradition they share. While growing up as a CHAMP, Shannon met many war amputee veterans and heard their first-hand accounts of the devastation of war. “They passed this legacy to us younger amputees and now it’s our turn to share their stories, so that we never forget their sacrifices,” she says.
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Kamryn Bond and Shannon Krasowski lay a wreath on behalf of The War Amps.
Although Kamryn is still quite young, her mom Dale says it is important for her daughter to lay a wreath on Remembrance Day. “It builds the foundation for her to understand how much our war veterans gave up for our freedom. We will always be appreciative of the work of the war amputee veterans and the message they have left for young amputees like Kamryn
to carry into the future. It is for this reason that she lays a wreath every year in their honour, and will do so for many years to come.” Order key tags and address labels at: The War Amps 1 800 250-3030 customerservice@waramps.ca waramps.ca Charitable Registration No. 13196 9628 RR0001 The War Amps does not receive government grants.
Rivers Police Service responded to a total of 61 calls for service this past month. Our police service had received numerous complaints of poaching in and around Rivers; a joint forces operation with a provincial conservation officer resulted in a male being charged with three counts of illegal possession of deer. We would also like to congratulate everyone for being so well behaved on Halloween; police had no Halloween-related calls that evening. Following is the October statistics. There were no violent Criminal Code crimes but we did open files in both property and other Criminal Code crimes. There were two charges of theft under $5,000 and two reports of property damage; these figures bring the year-to-date total of property crimes to 40. We had one drug charge, which falls into the Other Crimes section of the Criminal Code; there are now 24 cases in that section. Traffic statistics remain quiet with no federal charges (only one thus far in 2016) and only one accident (11 to date). There were 14 provincial charges, all in the other category such as speeding, driving an unregistered vehicle, driving without a licence, etc. In the 10 months that have now passed, Rivers Police Service has opened 120 provincial traffic files and there is a grand total of 133 traffic offences. The Liquor and Gaming Control Act (LGCA) was enforced twice, both for possession of liquor in an unauthorized manner. We were not called upon for breaches of peace or intoxicated person (IDPA)so our LGCA/IDPA tally thus far is 14. Members enforced the nuisance bylaw twice and the animal control bylaw once. We also enforce burning and traffic bylaws; to date these four bylaws have created 32 files for our records. Assisting the public continues to take much time with two calls for public, seven for other agencies and five to RCMP in the former RM of Daly. Our year-to-date total of assistance is 150 calls. But by far, our miscellaneous section outweighs all; its number now reaches 251 cases. In October we had 22 calls (lower than the monthly average of 25): two for mental health, two noisy parties/disturbances, two complaints against police (the first of 2016), one alarm and 15 other miscellaneous calls, including unfounded complaints.
PLAN AHEAD AND FALL BACK! Because Remembrance Day is Friday this year, an early deadline is necessary.
Please have all ads and stories for the Nov. 11 edition submitted by Monday, Nov. 7 at 5 p.m. Sunday, November 6 is a time for extra sleep because we fall back into standard time.
Please set your clocks back one hour before you go to bed on Saturday, November 5.