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Remembrance Day ceremonies take on an extra significance SCOTT BARBER With Canadian Forces launching an airstrike campaign in the Middle East, and the killings of soldiers in Ottawa and St. Jean sur Richelieu still fresh on our minds, Remembrance Day holds extra significance this year. “It is a good time to remember and I think this year because (an attack) happened on our own soil it is more important than ever,” Elmira Legion president Karen Schieck said. In celebration of Canadian service men and women both past and present, the members of the Elmira Legion will march alongside their counterparts from around the region on November 9 in parades at the Linwood Community Centre (1:15 p.m.) and the Elmira cenotaph (3 p.m.). “It’s important because it helps people, and especially the kids, remember how we came to have the freedoms we enjoy,” Schieck said. “Sometimes in school
you just get the American history, as opposed to the Canadian involvement.” The event is held on the Sunday in advance of November 11 so that veterans and spectators can celebrate at home, in Elmira, as well as at some of the larger activities throughout the region on Remembrance Day itself. “We are very fortunate on a few counts,” Elmira Legion past-president Sandy Pember said. “One, we are able to get the Waterloo Region Police Band, and it also allows other communities that have their parade on the 11th to come here, like Drayton, Elora, Kitchener and Waterloo, and the Navy Club and the Air Force club are able to send people here and we in turn are able to reciprocate on the 11th. That makes as all feel good.” The Legion is also participating in a number of annual events including the poppy campaign, REMEMBRANCE | 2
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Don’t panic, this is only a test WHITNEY NEILSON When the siren sounds and six fire trucks go racing though Breslau next Thursday, don’t panic. On November 13, the Township of Woolwich, the Region of Waterloo, the Region of Waterloo International Airport, the Waterloo Regional Police Service and the City of Kitchener Fire Department will be participating in an emergency exercise. The exercise will simulate an emergency situation involving a passenger aircraft and the Safety-Kleen industrial site in Breslau. Woolwich Street in Breslau will be closed from 8:43 a.m. to 11 a.m. for the exercise. Dale Martin, Woolwich deputy fire chief and community emergency management coordinator, said they’re mandated by the province to do the exercise annually, but this year they expanded to test the Woolwich plan and regional plan along with the airport and Safety-Kleen. He said Safety-Kleen has just redeveloped their plan so they want to make sure that it works. “We’re also testing our emergency
Veterans were honoured and fallen soldiers remembered at Breslau’s annual Remembrance Day ceremony held at Memorial Gardens Nov. 1. Remembrance Day ceremonies are planned for Sunday in Linwood and Elmira. [SCOTT BARBER / THE OBSERVER]
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