Fred Light Museum to run Honor Our Veterans program for a second year. (supplied photo/Bernadette Leslie)

By Keaton Brown

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Fred Light Museum expands Honor Our Veterans banner program in second year

Jul 9, 2020 | 1:08 PM

The Fred Light Museum will be running its Honor Our Veterans banner program again this year.

This will be the second year that they have run the program, which hangs banners on light posts around Battleford in honor of the community’s veterans.

Bernadette Leslie, manager at the Fred Light Museum, said the new banners from this year’s program will hang along 22nd Street in Battleford in addition to the banners from last year’s program.

“We are taking 50 applications again. It is open to all classes in the armed forces. They will be along 22nd Street again with the ones last year and the new ones this year from the town office possibly down to the museum here if we need additional posts,” she said.

The program has also expanded its applications for banners to include veterans from the South African War, First World War, Second World War, the Korean War, Peace Keeping missions and Afghanistan instead of just the Second World War from last year’s program.

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Leslie said expanding the program to include veterans of these conflicts made sense after the reception the program received last year.

“Last year we weren’t sure how this would be accepted so we just started with the Second World War veterans and we had such an overwhelming success that we decided to open it up,” she said. “Everybody was so pleased with it and how the banners looked and thought it was a wonderful program and were happy that we were expanding it.”

Leslie boasted the program was so well received by the community the North Battleford Legion Branch #70 reached out to the museum to see if organizers would be interested in running the program for North Battleford residents as well.

“They approached us and asked if we would like to spearhead it for North Battleford residents. They have had quite a few people inquiring if the legion in North Battleford were going to be running it,” she said. “Next year the legion will be running it on their own.”

In North Battleford, there are spots open for 50 applications. The banners will appear on light posts along 100th Street.

Anyone who is interested in honouring a loved one can contact Bernadette Leslie by calling the Fred Light Museum at 306-937-7111 or by email. Organizers will accept and process applications on a first come first serve basis.

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Keaton.brown@jpbg.ca

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