WEYBURN — A group of Weyburn artists, including Regan Lanning, curator for the Weyburn Arts Council, Elizabeth Lambe and Colleen Tait, combined their abilities and love of pottery to create a special project.
The trio planted a field of 100 ceramic poppies around Weyburn's cenotaph late Wednesday, so they were in place for Remembrance Day on Thursday.
This year marks the 100th year for the poppy to be used as a symbol to remember those who served and died in wartime, based on the famous First World War poem, "In Flanders Fields".
Lanning said the process of hand-making each of the 100 poppies, firing and glazing them, took several months to complete. In addition, they spent a whole day attaching each of the poppies to their stems to be set up at the cenotaph.
The artists have given them to the Weyburn Legion, who in turn may be able to sell them as a fundraiser, and a number of them may also be given to veterans in thanks for their service to Canada.
