As part of Creative Communications (a program designed to prepare students for careers in advertising, journalism, media production and public relations) at Red River College in Winnipeg, MB, students must write a Remembrance Day story for the first-year journalism course.
The students with the top marks on this assignment not only get it posted online on our website, but also receive a one-year subscription.
Congratulations, Trevor Hnatowich, Michael Wilms and Alex Hamade! Check out their stories and a photo gallery below:
Trevor Hnatowich provided two submissions. The first is a story about 93-year-old Lawrence Hnatowich who was 20 years old when he volunteered with the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1941 during the Second World War. The second submission describes a Remembrance Day ceremony Trevor attended this year.
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Michael Wilms's Remembrance Day story centres around 85-year-old Harry Giesbrecht's experience growing up in Ukraine under Nazi occupation.
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Alex Hamade's submission is from the perspective of a Teri Hamade who is now in her 70s, but was a child when she and her family were sent to a Japanese internment camp.
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