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Legion recognizes annual contest winners

The Estevan branch of the Royal Canadian Legion saluted the winners of its annual Remembrance Day poster, poem and essay contest on Thursday evening. The contest was held prior to Remembrance Day in schools in Estevan and surrounding communities.
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Sharren Dukart from the Royal Canadian Legion, left, presented a certificate to Cameron Milbrandt for his black and white poster, which took top spot in the province.

The Estevan branch of the Royal Canadian Legion saluted the winners of its annual Remembrance Day poster, poem and essay contest on Thursday evening.

The contest was held prior to Remembrance Day in schools in Estevan and surrounding communities. A total of 141 entries were received this year, including 107 posters and 34 poems and essays.

The Estevan legion branch presented awards in the primary, junior, intermediate and senior categories for black and white posters, colour posters, poems and essays.

Connie St. Onge, who chaired the local contest, noted that the crowd for Thursday’s awards night was the largest she had seen for the ceremony in many years.

“It’s very important to remember those who died for us, so that we can have our freedoms that we have today, and to remember those who are still fighting,” said St. Onge. “We have different things going on around the world where we have soldiers, we have reservists, so I want to commend the teachers for taking the time to have … the students, take part in this program.”

Those who finished first at the branch level then advanced to the district level. First place then moved on to zone, provincial and national competitions. 

Cameron Milbrandt, who is a student at Pleasantdale School, finished first at provincials in the primary black and white poster contest, and earned an honourable mention at the national level.

Rachel Duncan had a first place finish in junior black and white posters at districts.

At the branch level, in primary black and white posters, Cameron Milbrandt was first, Emilee Graham was second, Taylor Issacs was third, and Drake Maranchuk and Fan Nie received honourable mentions.

At the junior level, Rachel Duncan was first, Jenna Knibbs was second, and Madison Mack and Adyn Waloshin finished tied for third. Ava Laevens, Avery Bechtold and Lindsay Mack garnered honourable mentions.

Katie Milbrandt was first in intermediate black and white posters, Rebecca Duncan was second and Andrew SanJuan was third. Honourable mentions went to Brynn Holinaty, Raegan Walter and Jesse Toombs.

In the posters colour competition, in the primary division, Greycin Biette was first, Kirsten Ehla Domasig was second, and Sofiya Vlezko and Logan Folbar were tied for third. Zhireen Sales, Bentlee Fairbrother and Kasia Harding had honourable mentions.

Halle Shaver was first in the junior division. Randi Milbrandt was second, and Tyann Babyak and Faith Placer were third. Honourable mentions went to Addison Shiels, Angelina Gervais, Jaxon Cairns and Parker Barnstable.

In the intermediate division, Savannah Crouse was first, Rebecca Duncan was second and Arabella Boloto was third. Hyeser Montebon and Makayla Mitchell earned honourable mentions.

Jessica Goulet won first in senior. James Fullawna was second, Cynthia Goudy was third and Hannah Ashworth had an honourable mention.

In the poems division, Rachel Duncan was first in junior and William Duncan was second.

Katie Ostrander was first in intermediate, Taylin Tierney was second and Jennifer Wiebe came in third.

Brayden Weber was first in senior and Charitee Troendle was second.

As for the essay competition, Rachel Duncan was first in junior, William Duncan was second and Larry Kirkpatrick was third.

In senior essay, Caitlyn Ganson was first, Brooklyn Hayward was second, Peter Wiebe was third, and Emily Wiebe had an honourable mention.

A total of $865 in prizes was handed out to the branch winners.

Students who had top three finishers at districts were Brayden Weber, who was second in senior poetry, Caitlyn Ganson, who was third in senior essay, Jessica Goulet, third in senior colour poster, Katie Ostrander, third intermediate poems, Rachel Duncan, second in junior poems, and Rebecca Duncan, third in intermediate essays.