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Every Solution. Every Time.731 Douglas Fir Road, Sparwood • 250-425-0522
Remembering those who have served us. From the staff and management at Cummins in Sparwood.
Remembrance Day History
Military Profiles
Photo Gallery
Events of the Day
Parade Schedule
Readers Remember
A SpecialSupplement to
The Free Press
We will remember them.
Remembering our Veterans this
Remembrance Day
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792 2nd Ave Fernie(250) 423-4607
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Remembrance Day services
Royal Canadian Legion Branch #36, FernieRemembrance Day Parade10:30 am Parade forms up at the Legion10:40 am Parade marches to the Cenotaph10:55 am Cenotaph Service begins11:00 am 2 minute Wave of Silence begins11:20 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, Sparwood10:00 am Service at the Senior Citizens Drop in Centre Parade formation after service10:40 am Parade to the CenotaphAfter parade Youth and adults invited to meet at the Legion
Royal Canadian Legion Branch #279, Elkford10:00 am Service at the Elkford Alliance Church10:45 pm Parade to the Cenotaph11:00 am Cenotaph Service
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.
The City ofFERNIE
salutes our veterans
501-3rd Ave, Fernie 250-423-6817 www.fernie.ca
Monday, November 11, 2013
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Remembrance Day ServicesMonday, November 11
Come out and honour our veteransSparwood, BC
Royal Canadian Legion Branch #8110:00 a.m. Church Service, Seniors drop-in centre at 101 Pine Avenue10:45 a.m. Parade formation after service10:55 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.
1701 – 9th Ave., Fernie, B.C.
Remembering those who sacrificed for our freedom
From Pierre, Kristine, and all the staff at Timmies in
Fernie.
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
Fernie
Sparwood
Elkford
Thank you to those who sacrifi ced for our freedom.
250-423-92111492 Hwy. #3 FERNIE
A day to remember...COURAGE
Rememberedin honour of those who served.
Telephone Number: 1-855-278-EKSSEmergency Number 1-250-278-EKSS
www.eastkootenaysecurityservices.ca
Aaron KozlerAaron 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.
Bernie N KabelBernie 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.
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.
Master Corporal Jeff Rygaard
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 SecondaryJeff Rygaard is married
and has a little girl.
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On
A message from the Fernie District Teachers’ Association
Teachers and students will be honouring sacrifices of the past and working for
peace in the future.
RemembranceDay 2013
A Soldier’s Prayer
The 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
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 placeBefore 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.
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Lest We Forget
In Remembrance
816 Michel Rd.Box 340Elkford BC V0B 1H0
Est. 1898
Thank you to all those who have made sacrafices for this country;
never forget.Lest We
Forget741 2nd Ave, Fernie, BC(250) 423-4661www.salvationarmy.ca
From generation to generation
may we always remember those who served
and continue to serve.
(250) 423-6868 www.ferniechamber.com
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Angus DunlapCharles HunnableThomas MartinStewart G. CorsanJoseph LeylandPeter JoinsonHector MurrayMurdock McKayThomas ShieldsPasquale PerriWilliam PeetHolden D. StewartWilliam RichardsonWilliam WilsonJ.J. MartinSam PoxonCharles YoungRichard StrainJohn AndersonThomas DixonJ.M. MurphyArthur SladeEarnest WilsonGeorge EvansJohn T. DixonJock AndersonJohn ApplebyT.W. StephensCecil HolmesWilliam McGuireArthur HopwoodJohn BoughT.A. FitzgeraldJames CorriganPeter GreenSydney McHughAlex BunchWilliam PhillipsThomas WoodF.M. WhitlowCharles ClarkeThomas PhillipsJames RavenJohn GaskellA.G. SmithW i l l i am Grant
WWIIRonald BrewerFrank CorriganThomas FitzPatrickPaul FrayneWilliam GillJames HowellLeslie HunterFrank IngramPeter KaneWilliam KlauerWilliam MahoneyJack McCluskeyJames McLeanPeter StefikJohn SwopeAlex SwiderskiFrank TownsleyEarl VanBuskirkDean WashburnFred Worth
Korea 1950-1953Vincent Liska
Fernie's Honour Roll(as it appears on the Fernie Cenotaph)
“Lest We ForgetErected 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.
Wearing 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 poppy campaign, symbolizing the will to work towards creating a world without violence, to resolve conflicts peacefully, and to remember civilian victims of war.
Red and white poppies
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We’ve got good news.(Celebrating 115 years of serving the Elk Valley.)
Est. 1898
From the day we printed our very � rst paper — back in 1898, � e 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.Your newspaper
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