Tag: Remembrance Day
Man arrested at Remembrance Day service was also cuffed at 2023 Christmas event
The arrest of a man amid a disturbance at a Sarnia Remembrance Day ceremony, one an outlaw biker club has since decried as unconstitutional, comes about a year after he was arrested at a community Christmas event in Point Edward following reports of kids being chased by a man with weapons.
Outlaws ‘wanted attention’ at Remembrance Day ceremony: Biker cop
Members of the Outlaws motorcycle club tried to lay a wreath during a Remembrance Day ceremony in Sarnia because they wanted to make their presence in the city known
Bikers crash Remembrance Day service in Sarnia: ‘Just wrong’
A disturbance involving two people wearing outlaw motorcycle gang colours at Mondayâs Remembrance Day ceremony in Sarnia is being condemned by the city’s mayor and police chief. Two people wearing outlaw motorcycle gang colours lined up to lay a black wreath with gang colours at the cenotaph Monday, Sarnia police said. Organizers asked the people […]
Owen Sound Junior Optimists sending out Kindness Cards
The Owen Sound and District Junior Optimists are teaming up with local legions to spread kindness to local seniors and those serving in the military. The youth are inviting the public to write to a member of the Canadian military in gratitude of their service or send a positive message to a local resident in […]
Vet gets his high school diploma â 82 years after dropping out to fight
In 1942, lifelong Londoner George Olley decided it was more important to pitch in with the war effort than finish his high school education. That missing piece was restored Monday when the 99-year-old Second World War veteran received an honorary diploma from his alma mater, H. B Beal secondary school, during Remembrance Day ceremonies. âItâs […]
City gathers to remember, hears about its first Second World War casualty
Hundreds attended the annual Remembrance Day service in Owen Sound Monday. Citizens stood silently and politely clapped as a parade led by the legion’s flag-bearing colour party approached the large stone memorial to the city’s war dead. The familiar bugler’s Last Post, the boom and flash of gunfire, recitation of In Flanders Fields, two […]
LIVE: Remembrance Day in London
LFP journalists are covering the Remembrance Day service at the cenotaph in Victoria Park
Remembrance Day: A banner salute to three London war veterans
Flags on lamp posts around downtown’s Victoria Park, home to the Cenotaph, honour 33 local veterans and salute their sacrifice.
