Get your $5 weekly tickets for Walkerton’s Catch the Ace while they last! Don’t miss out on a chance to be the big winner; the jackpot should be about $16,500 this Sunday. Sherry Siegfried of Formosa won the $756 weekly prize when her lucky ticket was drawn last week. She chose envelope No. 21, which revealed the 10 of Diamonds.
Tickets are available at the Legion, through members of Kinsmen Club of Walkerton, Walkerton and District Optimist Club and at our vendors: Holst’s Office Supplies (Walkerton), Walkerton Foodland, Kaufman’s Your Independent Grocer, Brown’s Guardian Drugs and Cargill Variety.
Have a lucky spin, or two, of the wheel at the Meat Draw on Saturday beginning at 3 p.m. And good luck to everyone participating in the Doug Hewitson Memorial Golf Tournament. It’ll be fun, as long as the weather co-operates.
Legion Week is next week and the 2022 membership renewal stickers are in. Early bird dues are $55, or $50 for veterans. You can win a free membership for the following year.
During the webinar I mentioned last week, Captain (Retired) Percy Purpura shared his thoughts on 9/11 and how those events impacted Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan. At one point, he talked about the repatriation of 158 Canadian soldiers killed there. I’ve had the honour of standing on those overpasses, paying tribute as their families accompanied the bodies along the Highway of Heroes. Not a sound could be heard, except the flags snapping in the breeze as the cortege passed underneath. We support our troops, lest we forget.
Proud member Ruth Critchfield told me her son, Pete, and grandson, Corbyn, climbed the equivalent of 110 storeys in full firefighter gear. They did this in support of a fund for families of 343 firefighters killed while rescuing people during the collapse of the World Trade Centre towers. I watched the 9/11 special last weekend; what true heroes those firefighters were. They knew they would die but they continued to climb in an attempt to reach those trapped in the floors above where the planes hit – and they were “still going up.”
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Jan Briggs-McGowan is a member of the Walkerton Legion. Her column appears here weekly.
