STURGIS, Sask., —Staff and students from the Sturgis Composite School and invited guests paused from their busy day to remember the fallen soldiers and surviving veterans through their annual Remembrance Day Service held on Nov. 10.
Allie Babiuk was the master of ceremonies for the program. Sherry Lesser sang O Canada followed by Babiuk reading the Treaty acknowledgement and playing the Last Post and the Reveille.
Babiuk also recited the Act of Remembrance and the Commitment to Remember. Eva Romanchuk recited the poem, In Flanders’ Field.
Other poems were recited were, Brea Babiarz (Grade 12); Makayla Johnson and Autumn Rose (Grade 11); Cooper Stack and Avery Mitchell Grade 9); Austin Jansen and Macey Johnson (Grade 8); Zia Dela Torre and Stanley Prokulevich (Grade 7); Jacob Seghers and Will Prestie (Grade 5 and 6); Aspen Zilch, Chance Will and Hailey Seghers recited letters that their Grade 3 and 4 class wrote to service members and the Grade 1 and 2 students performed the song, A Song For Peace.
The laying of the wreaths participants were, Tristen Beatty, Brea Babiarz (high school students), Cruz Jaeb and Dakota Maier (elementary students), Kelsey Newman (staff), Austin Jansen and Drae Peterson (SRC).
Sherry Lesser concluded the program by singing God Save the King followed by the exit of guests.
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