POPPY CAMPAIGN
Our Poppy Campaign is conducted from
September 15th to November 11th each year.
The first day for wearing the poppy is the last Friday in October as
set by dominion convention.
During the 2006 Campaign sale of
wreaths and donations realized a total of over $44,000.00. Some of
these funds have been dispensed for Veterans Comforts, College
Bursaries and Alta/NWT Command Poppy Fund. Funds donated are held
in a Poppy Trust and help support Canadian and Allied Verterans as
well as pay for the purcahse of personal or community medical
supplies and for the provision of bursaries to the children and
grandchildren of Veterans. For every donation received, a symbol of
Remembrance is provided either for persoanl or public display.
These symbols inclide lapel poppies and stickers, and wreaths and
crosses which are displayed or laid at cenotaphs’ and other
memorials across the Country and overseas.
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Total Sales and
Disbursements from Poppy Funds as of Septemeber 30,
2006:
Balance as of September 30,
2005.........................................................................
2005Campaign.......................................................................................................
Disbursements
Wreaths and Poppies...............................................................................................
Poppy Campaign Costs............................................................................................
Literary & Poster Winners.......................................................................................
Medicine Hat College Foundation
Bursaries...........................................................
Veterans Assistance.................................................................................................
Medicine Hat Regional Hospital
Foundation..........................................................
Alberta N.W.T. command Central Poppy
Fund......................................................
Royal Commonwealth Ex-Services
League............................................................
Service Officer Expense..........................................................................................
Total Disbursements................................................................................................
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$7,707.35
$41,370.39
$49,077.74
$8,862.54
$4,614.60
$330.00
$2,000.00
$1,804.00
$16,000.00
$2,000.00
$1,500.00
$506.69
$37,617.83
$11,459.91 |
Our Poppy Office also house a library
of Canadian and British military history, which is available for
anyone to use. We also have some VHS tapes and DVD’s.
LITERARY AND POSTER CONTESTS
Each year our Branch is part of the
National Literary and Poster Contest. Students from all schools are
encouraged to enter this contest. Students who participate in the
contest assist the Legion in one of our primary goals..... fostering
the Tradition of Remembrance amongst Canadians. School children
also receive a poppy each year.
2006 LITERARY AND POSTER CONTEST
ROBERTSON MEMORIAL BRANCH #17
Medicine Hat, Alberta
POSTERS
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Grade 1, 2, 3 - Colored Poster
1st Sidney Weimer
St. Francis Xavier Grade
3
2nd Abigail Sophia Robinson
Crestwood School Grade 3
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Junior Grade
4, 5, 6, - Black and White Poster
1st Reed Stang
Notre Dame Academy Grade 5
2nd Kera Lynn Whitten
Notre Dame Academy Grade 5
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Junior
Grade 4, 5, 6 - Colored Poster
1st Carlye Marshall
Notre Dame Academy
Grade 5
2nd Gwen Ough
Notre Dame Academy
Grade 5
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Intermediate
Grade 7, 8, 9 - Black and White Poster
1st Allan Wong
Cornerstone Christian School Grade 8
2nd Brandon Dueck
Cornerstone Christian School Grade 8
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Intermediate
Grade 7, 8, 9 - Colored Poster
1st Steven Leibel
Cornerstone Christian School Grade 8
2nd Rashni Augustine
Cornerstone Christian School Grade 9
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Junior Grade
4, 5, 6 - Poem
1st Travis Lukacs
Notre Dame Academy Grade 4
2nd Madeline Wandler Grade 5
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Intermediate
Grade 7, 8, 9 - Poem
1st Hannah Dueck
Cornerstone Christian School Grade 7
2nd Rashni Augustine
Cornerstone Christian School Grade 9
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Senior Grade
7, 8, 9 - Poem
1st Bryon Peterson
Crescent Heights High Grade 10
2nd Reilly Verhoeven
Crescent Heights High Grade 11
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Junior Grade
4, 5, 6 - Essay
1st Ciara Bonogofsky
Crestwood School Grade 4
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Intemediate
Grade 7, 8, 9 - Essay
1st Kali Michaluk
Crescent Heights High Grade 8
2nd Shannah Heilman
Crescent Heights High Grade 8
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Senior Grade
10, 11 , 12 - Essay
1st Robert Lee Harnish
Crescent Heights High Grade 10
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All certificates have been presented.
We have a great team of volunteers
who assist in stuffing envelopes, phoning businesses, getting trays
ready for distribution, getting poppies ready for distribution to
local schools, sitting at tables in the stores and malls and
counting the donations as they come in. No one in the team is
paid. We owe it to the Veterans to aid and assist them in any way
we can under the strict guidelines as set forth in the Poppy Manual
for Dominion Command.
Annetta M. Lozo
Poppy Chairman |
