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48 FOCUS - NOVEMBER 2015 Lake Scugog Historical Society Meeting Thursday November 19 2015 730 pm Guest Speaker BARBARA DICKSON Author of Bomb Girls St. Johns Presbyterian Church 319 Queen St. Port Perry Please join us ... Maintaining Remembrance Days poignancy and profile remains one of the Royal Canadian Legions most impor- tant and one of its proudest functions. The Port Perry Legion which will celebrate its 70th anniversary next year continues to raise awareness with its annual poppy drive. And well be back this year at the LCBO Beer Store Vos Independent Shoppers Drug Mart and Walmart says Legion President Dave Durham. We sell about 50000 poppies every year in Scugog. The peak of Remembrance Day events comes not surprisingly on November 11th. We lay a wreath at the library then parade from there to the municipal office. This annual tradition Dave says is well respected and well attended. Well see a couple thousand people at the downtown service he reports. The public is well aware and also very respectful of the occasion. Dave draws special attention to a local teacher Laurie Low who has contributed her own tradition to the memorial. Her students recite In Flanders Field. Thats how the younger generation learns to honour the spirit of Remembrance Day. The Legions members conduct the November 11th ceremonies with dignity providing a formal opening and closing of the events. We open with reveille read the veterans names from the cenotaph and finish with last post. The Port Perry Legion is propos- ing a new initiative which Dave feels has the potential to become its own annual tradition. The idea of downtown banners showing vets names and faces start- ed in the Maritimes then spread to Ontario centres including Uxbridge where theyve hung 67. Were using their example as we move forward. Time wont allow the projects com- pletion in time for Remembrance Day 2015. Our executive has to buy in of course and then we need approval from the Region Township and the BIA Business Improvement Area . The IA owns the brackets on the downtown hydro poles. Daves enthusiasm bubbles close to the surface dis- cussing the possibility. Wed hang our banners between October 1 and November 12 right at poppy time. Its a great way to raise public awareness because people will be able to relate to Remembrance Day through those pictures. Maintaining long-standing traditions and imple- menting imaginative new ones by simply fulfilling its role the Royal Canadian Legion will ensure that the sacrifices of our servicemen and women are honoured and never forgotten in generations to come. By Scott Mercer Focus on Scugog EXPANDING HONOURED TRADITIONS Legion Blends Old and New to Honour Vets Dave Durham President Port Perry Legion T here is streng th and power in numbers.