For many years the Royal Canadian Legion has offered an opportunity for young people in Canada to use their talents in art and writing as part of their Remembrance Day Contest.
Locally the programs have usually been brought forward through the local schools but with the strike earlier in October, it hampered their typical delivery. Debbie LaPlante, one of the organizers with the Drumheller Legion shares that they have now opened it up publicly. “We’re opening it up to the public so that they can have students who are registered in school, Grade 1 to 12, apply to do their entry. This year, we understand with the volume of information that the students have to learn in a very short time, the schools won’t have time to put this in their curriculum as an activity.”
LaPlante shares the details on the program. “Students have the opportunity to put in a black and white poster, a colour poster, do an essay, or do a poem, and submit it to the Legion’s National Youth Contest.”
There are some great opportunities for the kids as there are numerous levels that they may be able to win prizing according to LaPlante “We (judge) the first level at the Legion in Drumheller, where they can win a prize. Once the committee has judged it at the local level, it would go to the district level. There would be a judging committee that judges those entries.” There is an opportunity for the kids to win on the district level, the provincial level, and the national level.
In years’ past, we have had some success within our local schools. “It was the first year, in several years, that these winners came out of the essay and poetry contests at the senior high school level. We were so ecstatic when we found out that they won at the local level, never mind the district and provincial level.”
The program is open to all kids that are going to school in Canada but locally the ones that would be judged in Drumheller would have to attend one of the Drumheller schools. To find out more about entering, all the details can be found at www.remembrancecontests.ca. Reach out to the Drumheller Legion for the deadlines to enter locally
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