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Remembering their sacrifice
Pictures, letters home and a rescued diary help tell one man’s tale recalls the time some shrapnel whistled past By Jennifer Lang Art Heming spent five years in the army his ear. It was so close, he could feel its heat. They slept in slip trenches they dug themduring the Second World War. He was born in Moose Jaw, Sask., to a family selves. “There was dirt, dust and worms.” They slept in their uniforms and when they of seven boys – four served overseas. The youngest was shot down over the got to shower, which was rarely, it was with cold water. French/German border. Heming had a camera, and today has a stack “I never did see him anymore,” says Heming, of photos he took during the war, 94, pausing at a memory that still including a picture of the Bailey stings, bringing a rush of emotions bridge they constructed at Nijmeto the surface all these years later. gen, in the Netherlands. They’d been close; sleeping in Others show Heming and other the same bed as kids. smiling young men in and out of Heming enlisted in 1941 at the uniform. age of 21, and served with the Roy“I had a lot of buddies who al Canadian Army Service Corps, were killed in the war,” he muses the administrative and transport as he flips through the stack. corps of the army. “It was all censored,” he says. “I His first posting was Victoria, had to be careful.” and he went overseas in 1943, first His pictures show German vilto England, then Europe. lages that were utterly destroyed, “We were on the beaches a month after D-Day,” he says, land- A war diary nearly lost. and scenes of everyday life in Holland, where civilians had no ing at Normandy just behind the choice but to carry on. initial invasion of June 1944, following the Heming points out a photo of a young Dutch troops through France and Belgium. “I was in charge of vehicles, dispatching girl who had a toothache. He had a full bottle of Aspirin and handed it to the girl’s mother, them and that sort of thing.” In Normandy, there was bombing every who put a tablet directly on the her afflicted night. Daytime, too, because Germans were tooth. See CENSORS / Page 7 still flying squads over the Allies in France. He
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Art Heming, 94, has a treasure trove of souvenirs from his days in the army, including this picture. He’s on the left, posing with members of an advance party atop the rubble in Germany. We’ve profiled local veterans in today’s Remembrance Day edition of The Reporter. For more, turn to page 11.
Surrey civic candidates spar in Cloverdale
Mayor hopefuls Linda Hepner and Doug McCallum.
By Jennifer Lang It took awhile for the subject of Cloverdale to come up at last week’s Surrey civic election forum at Shannon Hall, but once it did, the historic town centre remained a hot topic. Organized by the Cloverdale Community Association, the Cloverdale BIA, and the Cloverdale Chamber of Commerce, the Oct. 22 all candidate’s meeting drew a nearly full house to the hall, located on the city-owned fairgrounds, another subject that dominated the event.
Six of seven mayor candidates (independent Vikram Bajwa was absent) turned out for the meeting – the first of its kind organized by the three groups. A majority of council candidates also turned out for the event, attracting 26 of the 35 candidates who have put their names forward on the ballot on Nov. 15. Mayoral candidates were allowed a threeminute opening statement; council hopefuls had two minutes to state their case.
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After that, the forum was opened up to questions, guided by moderator Gary Hollick, who directed questions to various candidates at his discretion, and permitted candidates to make rebuttals. Off the top, all six mayor candidates in attendance said they’d support building phase two of the Surrey Museum. Surrey First’s Linda Hepner said phase two See DISASTER / Page 7
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