To celebrate Remembrance Day, several schools in the Battlefords held ceremonies or worked on special projects.
At Bready Elementary School, the Grade 6 classes participated once again in a Peace Poster contest, sponsored by the North Battleford Bonaventure Lions Club.
Grade 6 teacher Lynn Brisebois said, "Our school has been participating in the Peace Poster challenge for about the last five years."
Brisebois explained the theme for this year's contest was Visions of Peace, whereas last year it was Power of Peace.
"We talked about what peace would look like and feel like," said Brisebois.
Ashley Brown took home the first prize of $25 for her poster, which featured the world blossoming like a flower as the citizens of the world joined hands in peace.
"I was thinking about all the things that represented peace," said Ashley. "And the first thing I thought of was people of all races coming together."
Megan Friedrich won the second prize of $15 for her poster, which she created after searching for inspiration on the Internet.
Tanaya Robertson won the third prize of $10. Tanaya said she hoped one day there would be peace everywhere.
June Newsham, a Bonaventure Lions Club member, said selecting the winners was a difficult process.
"There were really some wonderful posters," she said, adding the club members all submitted votes for what they deemed to be the best three.
The awards were presented during the Remembrance Day ceremony, which included a first-hand account about serving in the armed forces from Brisebois's brother, Colonel Ron Brisebois.
Col. Brisebois is a surgeon in the Canadian Forces, having completed tours of duty in Golan Heights, Turkey, Northern Iraq, Bosnia and, currently, Afghanistan.
During the videotaped interview, he shared his experiences working without many of the technologies available in Canadian hospitals, talked about his role in the development of massive transfusion protocols and about leaving behind his wife and three sons while serving overseas.
"It's good for the kids to have something to relate to," said Brisebois, adding the brief overview of the First and Second World Wars presented during the ceremony are also important for students' understanding of the meaning of Remembrance Day.
