The poppy flag is now flying at the Legion, and Poppy banners will be displayed on Clock tower at Victoria Jubilee Hall. Please be generous when you see the poppy canvass volunteers throughout the community. Our thanks to the 812 Bucks’ Crossing Squadron of Royal Canadian Air Cadets for their assistance with Saturday’s canvass and with the Remembrance Dinner this coming Saturday.
If your seatbelt keeps stealing your poppy, the Legion has for sale a black centre which will lock on your poppy. Also available are “Lest We Forget” wrist bands and Poppy pins. New this year, you can donate by tapping your debit/credit card at the Legion. Tap $2, $5 or $10 amounts, and the funds will be transferred to Walkerton Legion’s Poppy Fund. Wreaths and crosses for Remembrance Day are available again. No money from the Poppy Fund can benefit the branch, everything is held in trust primarily for our local veterans or authorized organizations which support veterans and their families.
From 6:30–9:30 pm every night until Nov. 11, virtual poppies will be cascading down the Peace Tower and the Senate Building. Two large screens on Parliament Hill will show a Virtual Wall of Honour video with photos of Canadian veterans which have been submitted by people all across the country.
Go to www.mypoppy.ca and purchase a digital poppy on behalf of your favourite veteran, then share it on Facebook or other social media. This is a project of the Legion National Foundation, a charity which assists veterans and their families.
Once again Ruth Critchfield will have 102 Christmas cards addressed to our troops serving overseas, which you can personalize with a message of support and mail free of charge.
Catch the Ace is finished for this round. Derek Kuntz won the $1,500 weekly prize with a spade, but not the right one. It took 19 excruciatingly suspense-filled tries by President Rose Austin before Frank Trushinski’s ticket was drawn. He guessed envelope No. 50 but it had already been opened, so the next lowest No. 40, was opened to finally reveal the Ace of Spades. Frank won the jackpot $27,871. Congratulations Frank, we’re all envious!
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Jan Briggs-McGowan is a member of the Walkerton Legion. Her column appears here weekly.
