Parksville Legion #49 LA Executive

Front Row: Left to right
2nd Vice Myrtle Krog, 1st Vice Merle Fahner, President Leila Palmer, Sec. Betty Auringer
Back Row: left to right
Sgt at Arms Joyce Deas, Past President Muriel Jowsey, Executive Members Gladys Reesor, Marie Mercier, Color Party Janice Hunter, Treasurer Rhonda Morrison, Color Party Dorthy Johnson (missing Freda Dixon, Marion Smyth)

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North Shore Branch 60
Candlelight Tribute

This year, the North Shore Candlelight tribute will celebrate it's 8th anniversaryand teh theme will be "Freedon Through Veterans". Click on the link below.

http://www.westvan60.com/candlelight.html

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Vernon Branch 25

Ms Hazel Attridge generously donates $2,000.00 in honour and memory of her father, Sergeant Frank Wilson Thorpe, a World War 1 Veteran with the Lord Strathcona Horse Regiment and Life Member of the Vernon Branch 25 of the Royal Canadian Legion. Accepting on behalf of the legion, is Legion Branch President Gary Caswell.

Mr. Thorpe passed away in November, 1991 after having retired to Vernon in 1959. He was very active in the Boy Scout movement as a youngster in England, having assisted their founder, Baden Powell get started and was in the first troop of Boy Scouts formed in England. He had also attended King Edward's Jubilee as a Scout. Mr Thorpe spent four years overseas during the 1st World War and served in the trenches and on horseback. He saw action at Vimy Ridge when the Canadians were successful in taking the Ridge from the Germans.

A.E. "Sandy" MacDonald
Public Relations Co-ordinator
Vernon Royal Canadian Legion Br 25
legion25@telus.net

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Branch #49 Parksville

Vancouver Island's largest Canada Day Parade is held in Parksville . Parksville Legion #49 Colour Party proudly leads the way in the parade.

Publicist Nancy De Gagne

Fred Purchase(left) and Pres Tom Lewis(right) pledge in Isabell Sculthrope (86) an ex corporal in the army WWll who is legally blind. She joined in 1940 and served for 7 years. She is pleased to now have joined Branch #49 Parksville Legion.Welcome Isabell.

Parksville Branch #49 Birthday club On June 14th donned their t shirts in support of our troops

Nan De Gagne Publicist

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Vedder - Golden Banch 280

Our Past President Comrade Bill Higdon came up with the idea that we should do something on Mothers Day to benefit a local charity, and so the following events got underway.

First of all President Al Rusk contacted The Chilliwack Hospice Society and we set about getting donations from local businesses for food items so that we could put on a Mothers Day Brunch from 10am until 2pm.

Not content with that, Bill then said “why not make a day of it, I’ll volunteer to get my head shaved for donations”, and so it began…..

Well, we ended up by cooking 153 breakfasts at $5.00 a plate with the entire proceeds going to the Hospice and that figure being matched by the branch. Our Ladies Auxiliary dressed the tables beautifully with tablecloths and fresh flowers on each table, plus they made up a basket and raffled it off collecting over $400 for the Hospice.

We had three ladies, one from the R.C.M.P. dispatch office, a member, and a friend of a member all get there heads shaved, along with six male members, one of which is an R.C.M.P. member as well – he actually came into the branch to get a pledge sheet and I got him to sign up for membership too!

After the head shaving, which began shortly after 2pm, we had music and dancing compliments of Jerry Solowan (Solowan Sound) who donated his time and equipment.

The day ended shortly before 7pm and was a huge success with 100 percent of all monies, over $7,200.00, being given to The Hospice Society.

Attached are some of the head shaving photos.

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South Similkameen Branch 192

South Similkameen Branch 192 in Keremeos recently presented a cheque to the Keremeos Volunteer Fire Department to assist in the funding of a new Jaws of Life. Left to right are Past President Diane Prescott, Fire Chief Jordy Bosscha, Fire Department memebr Ed Minshull, Branch President Gloria Shiels.

Victoria Day long weekend in Keremeos was highlighted with the Elks Rodeo. South Similkameen Branch 192 came away with 2nd prize for this float entry. Special thanks to members Ed Shemilt and Carol Kirkpatrick for the work they put into building the float.

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Comox


Branch President Dave Parkin(right) presenting a donation of $ 1000.00 to Fred Lefle(left) of the Masonic Lodge Cancer Van Project.

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Newsletter Contest 2005

Winners and Runners-up

WINNING BRANCH:
VEDDAR GOLDEN BRANCH #280
ISOBEL RUSK, Editor

FIRST RUNNER-UP:
SOUTH VANCOUVER BRANCH #16
Bev Croft Editor

SECOND RUNNER-UP:
TRAFALGAR/PRO PATRIA #292

The names of the remaining seven branches for honourable mention are as follows in ALPHABETICAL order

Castlegar #170
Duncan #53

Esquimalt #172

Kamloops # 52

Kelowna #26

Trail #11

Vancouver TVS #44