Gallery: Vanderhoof commemorates Remembrance Day through poetry then and now
The annual Remembrance Day service began at Nechako Valley Secondarys auditorium with prayers led by [Vanderhoof] RCMP chaplain and pastor Shaun Wick. Nechako Valley Secondarys choir, conducted by band teacher Russell Larden and accompanied by pianist Kjerstina Crossley, sung In Flanders Fields, wri...
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| Published in | Omineca Express |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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Vanderhoof, B.C
Black Press Group Ltd
14.11.2016
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| Summary: | The annual Remembrance Day service began at Nechako Valley Secondarys auditorium with prayers led by [Vanderhoof] RCMP chaplain and pastor Shaun Wick. Nechako Valley Secondarys choir, conducted by band teacher Russell Larden and accompanied by pianist Kjerstina Crossley, sung In Flanders Fields, written by John McCrae at the battlefront of Yvres, Belgium, in 1915. Sgt. Michael Bleeker of the 899 Vanderhoof Air Cadet squadron next read to the audience The Final Inspection by Sgt. Joshua Helterbran, an American soldier who was receiving medical treatment in Oklahoma after deployment in Iraq when the words came to him. |
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