{"id":8773,"date":"2017-12-14T10:24:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T15:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=8773"},"modified":"2020-03-09T13:33:33","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T17:33:33","slug":"sjd-remembrance-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/14\/sjd-remembrance-day\/","title":{"rendered":"SJD &#8211; Remembrance Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Dec 14, 2017 @ 10:24<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SJD-RemembranceDay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8774\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SJD-RemembranceDay-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SJD-RemembranceDay-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SJD-RemembranceDay-485x600.jpg 485w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/SJD-RemembranceDay.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has been a long standing tradition for Sir James Dunn School staff and students to honor the veterans during a Remembrance Day service held in the gymnasium.\u00a0 This past November 10th, the ceremony was started off by a very moving presentation by Mr. Poldmaa, the principal. \u00a0He spoke to the audience <em>about<\/em> his family\u2019s experiences (as teenagers) during the war.\u00a0 During his talk you could not hear a pin drop.<\/p>\n<p>Each year students write poems and essays to be entered into the Royal Canadian Legion Remembrance Day contest.\u00a0 We thank the Legion for continuing this worthwhile educational learning opportunity. Many students, ranging from ages 8-12 read their poems and essays during the ceremony.\u00a0 Ms. Portis is the organizer of this service and she has each homeroom classroom lay a wreath in remembrance of the sacrifices the soldiers made for our freedom.\u00a0 We thank her for her time and dedication that she puts forth for our staff and students each year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 14, 2017 @ 10:24 It has been a long standing tradition for Sir James Dunn School staff and students to honor the veterans during a Remembrance Day service held in the gymnasium.\u00a0 This past November 10th, the ceremony was started off by a very moving presentation by Mr. Poldmaa, the principal. \u00a0He spoke to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":8774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[537],"class_list":["post-8773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-sir-james-dunn"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 21:00:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8775,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8773\/revisions\/8775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}