We recently presented 14 awards in Primary Color Poster, Junior Color Poster, Junior B&W Poster, Junior literary Poem, Junior Literary Essay and Intermediate Literary Poem to local students.
Although our focus is on Veterans, we also extend our help to Local, Provincial and National good causes.
In the first two months of 2025, we’ve donated a total of $2000 to the following organizations.
BC Arthritis Society - https://arthritis.ca/campaigns/bc
Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows Country Fest - https://www.mrpmcountryfest.com
Diabetes Canada - https://www.diabetes.ca
Food for the Soul Project Society, Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows - https://fftsp.org
We’ll be keeping you updated on our donation recipients as the year continues.
We’re pleased to be able to make a difference to the lives of Veterans and our Communities.
The Ridge Meadows Flames invited our Colour Party to the opening ceremony of their recent game vs Langley Trappers.
The Flames also donated $286 from their 50/50 draw to our Legion. Thank you!
Dan Lyvier, Ray Lyver and Ted Swuair who is in the picture came to the Legion to present this plaque in recognition of our outstanding support of the Military Police National Motorcycle Relay and the Military Police Fund for Blind Children in 2024. We're proud to be recognized and even more proud to support this fund raising event.
One of our veterans is behind a Branch donation, giving back to the Maple Ridge sports club where he found success as a teen.
Thanks to a request from Rob Seckler we donated $500 to the Maple Ridge Boxing Club.
Seckler, aka Punchy, was part of the boxing club as a teen. He fought out of the club for two and a half years from 1980 to 1983, and during that time he won the 106 pound division of the provincial Bronze Gloves championships in Cranbrook, B.C. when he was 14-years-old.
He would go on to win a handful of fights out of the Maple Ridge Club before moving onto to other clubs , winning the bronze, emerald, and silver gloves at different provincial championships between 1983-84.
Seckler thought he would turn pro, but when a friend was injured in the ring, he had second thoughts, envisioning a life of multiple concussions and various other injuries.
So, he joined the army instead in 1985 when he was 17-years-old.
Read the full story at Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows News
We are so very thankful to be a part of this feel-good, full-circle, member's story and happy to help out all the very worthy community organizations!
