Battleford pays tribute to veterans with annual poppy flag raising
The iconic symbol of the red poppy first immortalized by physician, poet and soldier John McCrae on the field of Flanders once again flies outside of Battleford Town Hall.
“It’s like the icing on the cake,” said Paula Kulyk, Royal Canadian Legion Branch 9 President at the small ceremony Monday morning that also included some veterans.
“Besides the actual Remembrance Day Parade and the service, I don’t know how much more tribute we could do,” she said.
Last Friday, the Town of Battleford supported the initiative to have the crosswalk at Second Ave. W. painted with a memorial, bearing a stencil of a soldier and an inscription “Lest We Forget.”