ENFIELD:<\/strong> Students at Enfield District heard all about the sacrifices members of Canada\u2019s military made to have the opportunities they do today during the schools Remembrance Day service on Nov. 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The school had approximately 20 guests which included Legion members, an RCMP member, and student family members in military service or retired from military service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The music teacher at EDS, Ms. Andrea as was relayed in information about the service to The Laker News, prepared the Grade 4-5 students to sing O Canada and The Strangest Dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate group=”2′]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”111″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Guest speaker was Perry Colley – Chief Petty Officer – 2 \u2013 Retired, who calls Enfield home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He is well known and loved at EDS by staff and students. His children attended EDS, and he is also currently the African NS Student Support Worker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Students learned about and shared information on the No.2 Construction Batallion which included many African NS soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ms. Wallis’ grade 2 class shared the meaning of In Flanders Field. One of the grade 3 students presented on that his great, great uncles is one of the 12 veterans from WWI and II from Enfield.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”84″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”67″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n There was also a guest trumpeter from the services to perform the Last Post and Rouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Legion members brought pictures of the Enfield veterans from WWI and II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These were placed on display during the Roll Call by the students in Ms. Wilson and Ms. Jardine’s grade Primary\/1 class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Principal Heather Von Kintzel said it was a wonderful ceremony of remembrance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”190″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”115″]<\/p>\n\n\n\n [adrotate banner=”105″]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [adrotate banner=”78″] [adrotate banner=”111″] (NOTE: We only received permission to run this story and the couple of photos from the service on Nov. 15 from CCRCE) ENFIELD: Students at Enfield District heard all about the sacrifices members of Canada\u2019s military made to have the opportunities they do today during the schools Remembrance Day service on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,957],"tags":[1871,196,2822],"class_list":["post-40494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-news","tag-ccrce","tag-east-hants","tag-enfield-district-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/unnamed2-1024x768.jpg\")