No Stone Left Alone

On November 4, over 600 Grade 6 students from Transcona-area middle schools—Arthur Day, Bernie Wolfe, John W. Gunn, and École Regent Park—took part in an annual Canadian tradition called No Stone Left Alone. This is the eighth year River East Transcona has taken part in the program.

RETSD partnered with the Transcona Legion Branch #7 to hold the event, which saw students place poppies on the graves of veterans in the Transcona Cemetery Field of Honour. Every military gravestone was paid respects by one or more students, who saluted veterans during the ceremony. In the days leading up to the event, the students learned about the importance of remembrance and were visited by Peter Martin, Manitoba regional co-ordinator for No Stone Left Alone, so he could show them how to properly salute. 

Greetings were brought by assistant superintendent Mark Bruce, and Jelynn Dela Cruz, MLA for Radisson, recited In Flanders Fields, the poem written during the First World War by Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian poet and physician. Board chair Colleen Carswell and superintendent Sandra Herbst were also in attendance to pay their respects.

To learn more about No Stone Left Alone, visit www.nostoneleftalone.ca.