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REMEMBRANCE DAY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11

Legions across northern Wellington hosting Remembrance services COMMUNITY NEWS STAFF WELLINGTON COUNTY - One of the first 2022 Remembrance services in northern Wellington County was held in Clifford on Sunday.

The Nov. 6 service at the local cenotaph was held by the Harriston Legion Branch 296 of the Royal Canadian Legion.

Services will continue this week on Remembrance Day, Nov. 11, in local communities.

Drayton The Drayton Legion Branch 416 will hold a Remembrance service at 2:30pm on Nov. 11 at the cenotaph in Drayton.

The Legion parade will form up at the legion at 2:15, then proceed along the parade route to the cenotaph for the service.

Palmerston The Palmerston Legion Frank Lambier Branch 409 will hold its annual Remembrance Day Service at the cenotaph at 11 am on Nov. 11.

Legion members will parade from the Palmerston branch, up Legion Drive, west on Main Street, south on William Street, west on Bell Street to the ceno-

taph. A short ceremony will take place at the cenotaph with a few guest speakers.

“Due to the ages of many of our veterans and the increasing attendance by public school students, the length of the ceremony will be much shorter than in the past. We expect the ceremony at the cenotaph to be approximately 30 minutes.

We will then parade west on Bell Street, north on James Street, east on Main Street back to the Legion,” officials state.

Everyone is welcome to attend a light lunch at the Legion after the cenotaph service. A Remembrance Dinner will be held at 6pm. Tickets, can be purchased for $20 at the Legion or by calling 519343-2004.

Every year, the Legion conducts the Poppy Campaign to honour those who serve, and to raise funds in support of veterans and their families.

The Palmerston Legion campaign is underway and runs to Remembrance Day. Anyone wishing to make a donation should send a cheque payable to Poppy Fund to Palmerston

Legion Branch 409, 260 Daly Street, Palmerston, Ontario, N0G 2P0.

Harriston Harriston Royal Canadian Legion Branch 296 will be holding their annual Remembrance Day Services on Nov. 6 (Clifford) and Nov. 11(Harriston).

The 2022 format will be similar to last year with outside services only, although Legion members will be on parade this year, with the school children joining in.

Following the Harriston service, the public is invited to the downstairs of the branch for social time. Refreshments will be available and the Memorabilia Room will be open.

The Harriston branch is thanking all who supported its Poppy Campaign in past years, by sponsoring a wreath.

“Your continued support would be appreciated again this year,” branch officials state.

“We are asking those who usually purchase a wreath to still do so at a cost of $50. A large wreath has been purchased for the cenotaph once

again this year. All names will be recognized and published on Facebook.”

Donations should be made to Branch 296 Poppy Fund and sent to Royal Canadian Legion Branch 296, 53 Elora Street, South, Box 118, Harriston, ON. Receipts will be issued.

“It is our duty to remember those who have served or are currently serving our country today! Our support of veterans and their families is essential at all times. ‘We Will Remember Them,’” Harriston branch officials state.

Mount Forest Mount Forest Legion Branch 134 held a Remembrance service on Nov. 6 at the Mount Forest United Church at 11am and a service at Holstein cenotaph at 2pm.

On Nov. 11 at 10:45 Remembrance Day service starts at Mount Forest cenotaph. There will not be a parade.

Arthur Arthur Legion Branch 226 will parade from legion to the cenotaph for service on Nov. 11 at 10:45am.

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Newly unveiled street signs commemorate families’ war sacrifice JORDAN SNOBELEN REPORTER PALMERSTON – Some residents of the Creek Bank Meadows subdivision may have peered through windows late in the morning on Oct. 29 to see a large group of people surrounding a sign post draped with a Town of Minto flag.

Sign posts are not ordinarily a draw for attention, and yet around 40 people mingled and chatted amongst themselves on the lawn of a WrightHaven Homes model home and a grass boulevard as the clock drew closer to 11am.

Members of the Bridge and Stephenson families were there, along with local dignitaries, including outgoing Minto Mayor George Bridge, mayor-elect Dave Turton, PerthWellington MP John Nater and MPP Matthew Rae. Bridge took to a microphone and called on Palmerston Legion Colour Party members, who marched down the roadway before coming to a stop

Big reveal – Minto Mayor George Bridge, left, looks on as people remove a flag revealing two newly installed street signs – Stephenson Way and Bridge Crescent – in the Creek Bank Meadows subdivision in Palmerston on Oct. 29.

Photo by Jordan Snobelen behind the sign post, its newly installed street signs shrouded behind the flag.

Relatives of the Stephenson and Bridge families stood near,

awaiting the moment when newly installed street signs bearing their familial surnames would be revealed.

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local veterans by naming new streets in their memory since 2015, but rarely do two families have as many members who served.

Stephenson Way and Bridge Crescent commemorate the lives of eight men between the two families who served in the First and Second World Wars.

William Bridge, a 29-yearold farmer in 1918, was drafted and stationed in Ottawa before succumbing to illness the same year.

Four other members of the Bridge family served in the Second World War. Rob Bridge enlisted in 1941 and saw fighting with the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. He later served as Palmerston Legion Branch 409 president.

Clayton Bridge, too, served as branch president upon returning to Canada from service with the 81st Canadian Artillery in United Kingdom, the Mediterranean and Europe.

Norman Bridge enlisted in 1942 and fought with the Hussars in France, Belgium, and Holland before being injured in Germany. After recovering, he served with the Perth Regiment

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Milton Bridge became a pilot and flew bombing missions in Africa, Italy, Corsica and Sardinia. Much like his relatives, he served as branch president and was also a local politician, serving as deputy reeve and reeve of the former town of Harriston and also as Wellington County warden.

Elroy Stephenson enlisted in 1942 and headed for England, setting up a hospital at Abbotts Langley Hertfordshire. There he served as a personal assistant caring for visiting officers and looking after officer quarters.

In 1944, he travelled to France and set up a hospital at Bayeux.

He also worked at hospitals and casualty stations in Belgium and Holland before returning in 1946 to Palmerston, where he served as Legion branch president.

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Trumpet Tradition – For more than 25 years, Judy Dirksen has played The Last Post and Reveille at both Clifford and Harriston Remembrance services. Haunting and beautiful, The Last Post was originally used as a signal to mark the end of the day in British Army Camps in the 1790s. The tune indicated that the last sentry post had been inspected, and the area was secure for the night. It was also used to communicate the end of a battle, so that soldiers would know that it is now safe to move around and retreat.

Over the years, it has become a final farewell; a symbol that a soldier’s duty is over, and they can rest in peace. At our present day Remembrance services, once the final note of The Last Post sounds, two minutes of silence begins. The trumpeter then sounds the end of silence by playing Reveille, which used to be the first bugle call of the day in camp, but which now symbolizes a soldier’s rebirth into eternal life. Dirksen, right, plays at the Remembrance service in Clifford on Nov. 6.

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Victoria Cross staff ensures local veterans are honoured year round KELLY WATERHOUSE REPORTER MOUNT FOREST – Remembrance Day will be marked at schools across Wellington County.

For the students and staff at Victoria Cross Public School in Mount Forest, their school’s name is just one way they uphold their commitment to honouring local veterans in a way that ensures their legacy is not forgotten by future generations.

Kindergarten teachers Lisa Weber and Melody Elvidge credit a retired colleague for setting the bar high by incorporating the act of remembrance into lesson plans for approximately 20 years.

“Every single year, we have a Remembrance Day assembly and each year we change it up, but there’s the main things that stick and this stems back to a teacher named Donna McFarlane,” Weber said.

“She led us at the old building, and she continued to lead us here. So now that torch continues.”

Initially, McFarlane was responsible for dedicating each Remembrance Day ceremony to a living veteran in the community, inviting their family to join in to meet the students.

“The children would learn all about this veteran throughout the week, and they got to meet the veteran, and then we held a reception with this veteran and their families,” Weber

Victoria Cross remembers – The main hallway of Victoria Cross Public School in Mount Forest includes a large mural to honour veterans of the past and present. It also includes this personal memorial to the local veterans who have visited the school’s Remembrance Day Service in past years. Staff say these veterans, now gone, were like family to the school community and will be remembered.

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One of McFarlane’s lasting efforts was the creation of individual crosses that represented local veterans for the school’s annual Remembrance Day ceremony. The crosses are still used today.

“She made a cross for every soldier that did not come back to Mount Forest, that did not come home during World War One, World War Two and the Korean war,” Weber said.

“Each one represented former students and townspeople,” Elvidge added.

Weber explained that over 50 crosses were created, bearing the name of veterans on the roll call that is read at the Remembrance Day ceremony.

Junior grade students are chosen to hold the crosses.

“As the roll call is read, they stand up with the cross representing one person that didn’t come back,” Weber said.

“When the roll call is finished and there’s the minute of silence, the students’ job is to look around, and whoever is reading the roll call will say to the students, “this repre-

sents the number of men and women that died at war from our community.”

It was an impactful moment the first time it was done decades ago, and Elvidge and Weber agree it’s just as impactful today.

New name, veteran stories The pair say McFarlane was also instrumental, as part of a committee, in the renaming of the school in 2005, the year the Mount Forest Public School moved into the former high school building on Durham Street.

A decision was made to rename the school Victoria Cross Public School in recognition of two local veterans who posthumously received the Victoria Cross medal: Captain Frederick W. Campbell (June 1915) and Lieutenant Samuel Honey (September 1918).

It so happened that 2005 also marked “The Year of the Veteran,” so a group of the Victoria Cross teachers joined Mount Forest Legion Branch 134 members to conduct a special project, interviewing local veterans about their service experience and asking them to provide a message to students.

“They wanted to pass the torch to the people of Canada so that the memory of their sacrifices would continue and the values that they fought for would live on in all of us. They highlighted the promotion of peace,” notes a school history of the event.

“We interviewed them all and we provided a recording for all their families to listen to,” Weber said.

“For most of them, the families were so thankful because a lot of these veterans had not spoken of war since they had come home.”

Those stories not only benefited the veteran’s families, but helped when the school decided to dedicate a classroom to each of the living veterans.

“We decided it would be incredible if we dedicated a room to each living veteran, then as the children went

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through from kindergarten through to grade eight, they would come to know all the living veterans in our community,” Weber said.

“We had a picture of them when they were young, a wartime picture, with a little write up who they were as a human being, how many children and grandchildren they had, and everything else. And then we had their present-day picture.”

A mural of honour The school created a veterans hallway, with pictures and artwork plus donated memorabilia, but over time, it felt dated and both Elvidge and Weber felt students and staff didn’t have the same personal connection to the stories.

It was time for something fresh and significant.

“The principal at the time, her name was Karen Sims, it was her idea to do a mural,” Weber said.

In 2017 artist Cliff Smith painted a large mural in the main foyer of the school, thanks to a donation from the Mount Forest Legion.

The images depicted include an homage to both men and women veterans from the Canadian Navy, Army and Air Force, as well as peacekeepers. Veterans are depicted passing their messages on to children, and students are seen reading about history.

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New streets honour veteran families » FROM PAGE 6 in 1939 and served with intelligence units in Canada and the United Kingdom. After recovering from health problems, he served as a military construction worker for over 27 years before being discharged.

Lyle Stephenson enlisted in 1941 and fought with the 54th

Artillery in France, Belgium and Holland before being discharged in 1946.

“Not only did they serve their country, but when they returned to Canada, they continued to serve their communities,” Nater remarked.

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Local resident pens poem of Remembrance Note: The following poem of Remembrance was submitted to the North Wellington Community News by Dennis Bridle of Mount Forest.

We remember them To those who answered the call to duty When their country called upon them To join up and serve, our freedom to preserve We remember them.

They gladly traveled to foreign lands Into harm’s way they went To deliver a blow, that would vanquish the foe Of this, they would never relent.

To those who made it safely home Into the arms of loved ones Have nary a fear, for they’d quickly volunteer Once again, to take up their weapons.

We are a grateful nation Of this there is no doubt We’re thankful they served, our nation preserved We remember them.

To those who did not make it home Who paid the ultimate price Our gratitude won’t cease, may they ever rest in peace We remember them.

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Victoria Cross Public School staff making recognizing veterans a top priority Traditions of Remembrance carried on through the pandemic » FROM PAGE 8 when Somerville Nurseries donated 150 red oak trees that are descendants of acorns gathered after the Battle of Vimy Ridge and planted in Canada

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The program repatriated Vimy oak saplings to Vimy Ridge in 2018 and also distributed them across Canada.

Students at Victoria Cross Public School planted a tree next to the school’s Canadian flagpole, and then fundraised the sale of the remaining saplings to raise $1,000 for the program, which supports the maintenance of the memorial site.

Each class read the book, The Vimy Oaks by Linda Granfield to understand the significance of Vimy Ridge and to understand the importance of the tree itself.

Vice principal Carol-Anne Sloan, who has been at the school for three years, said she

is impressed by the spirit of her colleagues to continue to honour local veterans in special ways.

“Cathy Turner, one of our research teachers, spearheaded the planting of the Vimy oak tree,” Sloan said, expressing gratitude for the commitment of students, staff and the community to fundraise.

“We have a Vimy oak out front, and we have a plaque commemorating it.”

Two weeks prior to Remembrance Day, that oak tree bore its first oak nut, which caused some excitement amongst staff.

“Out of that Vimy oak, there this beautiful little ancestor to the original one. We’re kind of proud of that,” Sloan said.

School community Planning their Remembrance Day events this year, staff talked of the challenges and concerns to make this year’s event relevant to stu-

dents.

“We were reminiscing, of course, how it’s had to change because we lost our veterans, and that was firsthand information for the children, that these are real people that went and did this,” Weber said.

“And then our conversation is always where do we go from here? How do we make this relevant? How do we make this day not scary?”

Given the news of present day, Weber and her colleagues know that students are exposed to images of war.

“If we talk about relevance … you think about what’s happening in Ukraine, and how we do have some soldiers that are in a role in the Ukraine, as well as other places around the world,” said Sloan.

She noted it is important for her colleagues to make sure there is an understanding and acceptance of the need for inclusion around

Remembrance Day. “I’m talking about the impact of Indigenous Peoples, the Metis, the First Nations, and the Inuit had in the war.

And I think it was one of those forgotten stories for many, many years,” Sloan said, noting it’s important that students learn the diversity of people who contributed to the war effort.

“And women’s contributions ... as well, which we know, historically have been the forgotten piece of the war ... We talk about that, especially when you get into the junior and the intermediate grades.”

Sloan adds, “We do lots of work on kindness and talking about compassion and talking about empathy and all of those things. And that ... generally really comes to focus in November, when we’re talking about why it’s important.”

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“In the primary grades, I’ve always kept it about peace and kindness to others,” she said.

Elvidge added the school’s remembrance service includes all grades and each year adds something fresh from the students, like the performance of a tableau, song, or poem, and the Mount Forest Legion Colour Party attends.

Even through the pandemic, the traditions of the Remembrance Day event carried on.

“The last two years, our Remembrance Day assembly, we did it outside in the back of the schoolyard … It was amazing,” Sloan said, noting officials honoured the event just as they had in previous years.

“We had family that would come and watch from the sides. But it was so beautiful. It actually made the hair on your arm stand up.”

Teaching new generations of students about Canada’s role in conflicts is important, but to the staff at Victoria Cross, it’s also personal.

It’s community.

The lesson is one of gratitude.

“I think that talking about history and talking about sacrifice, and talking about how men and women went over to fight in a war so that our country could have freedom and peace to live the way that we’re

Vimy Oak - Cathy Turner, a resource teacher at Victoria Cross Public School shows off the first oak nut bore by the Vimy oak tree in late October. Turner was instrumental in planting the tree at school in 2018.

Photo by Kelly Waterhouse currently living, and to pay a homage and say thank you to the veterans,” Sloan said.

She noted staff focuses more on those aspects than bringing forth the gruesome details of war for children too young to comprehend them.

“It’s more about the sacrifice and taking a minute and showing gratitude for the things that you have,” she said.

“That we’re able to walk down the street and know that we’re safe. And that we live in a country that allows us to be able to do that. “

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Remembrance – Veterans, Legion members, county staff and local dignitaries gathered together on Nov. 3 during a Remembrance ceremony held in advance of Nov. 11 at the front steps of the Wellington County Museum and Archives.

Photo by Jordan Snobelen Remembrance services – Hank Reinders laid a wreath on behalf of the Dutch community in Mapleton at the 2021 Remembrance Day ceremony in Drayton. BELOW: The Harriston Legion Colour Party leads to the way to the cenotaph for the 2021 service in that community.

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