Tag: Veterans
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.
Remembrance Day: Why some get the day off, but you don’t
While Canadians will take part in ceremonies and moments of silence, by noon it will mostly be business as usual in London.
New legion in Hepworth a ‘cornerstone for future generations’
A place to feel you belong. That’s how legion president Jim Copp described Royal Canadian Legion Branch 586 at its grand opening Saturday in Hepworth. It’s been nearly three years since the old legion building burned down, taking with it irreplaceable local war memorabilia and the collection of the Bruce Grey Music Hall of Fame, […]
Reader to Reader: November 2, 2024
Readers are thankful for great care and faster service at London’s hospitals
Remembrance Day service in Lucknow
Join the Lucknow legion in honouring Canada’s veterans. This Remembrance Day, Nov. 11, all are invited to attend the church service at Lucknow United Church, beginning at 10 a.m. Branch 309’s Colour Party will parade from the legion to the church for the service. Shuttle by bus is available, leaving the legion at 9:45 a.m. […]
St. Mary’s Mustangs win 10th-straight BAA championship
Never in doubt. At least that’s how St. Mary’s Mustangs wide receiver Ryan Irwin felt with his Mustangs down 7-3 in the fourth quarter of Thursday’s Bluewater Athletic Association championship football game. The Owen Sound District Wolves looked primed to snap the Mustangs’ run of nine-straight championships, but dynasties don’t fall without a fight. On […]
Remembrance services in Kincardine, Tiverton
Join the Kincardine legion in honouring Canada’s veterans. On Nov. 10, all are invited to attend a service at the Tiverton cenotaph, located in Tiverton Lions Memorial Park, beginning at 2 p.m. On Remembrance Day, Nov. 11, a service is being held indoors at the Kincardine legion beginning at 10 a.m. before moving outdoors to […]
Honouring our Local Veterans ceremony brings family together
West Coast artist Helen Downing-Hunter was just a newborn when the RAF Lancaster her father James Downing was piloting crashed in July 1944 while conducting nighttime air operations against Stuttgart, Germany, during the Second World War. But now, some 80 years later, it is through her late father’s war heritage that she has reconnected with family in Owen […]
Owen Sound Little Theatre opens 2024-25 season with The Prom
The director of Owen Sound Little Theatre’s opening production of its 2024-25 season hopes everyone who sees it rethinks what they consider to be normal. The Prom, which opens at the Roxy Theatre on Nov. 14, is a musical with tonnes of humour and great music, but Corry Lapointe said the love story being told […]