PHILIPSBURG:--- The annual National Remembrance Day commemoration ceremony took place at the New Testament Baptist Church followed by the formal wreath-laying ceremony at the Captain Hodge Wharf on May 4. Several readings in light of Remembrance Day were done in the Church, followed by a silent procession to the Captain Hodge Wharf.
During the church ceremony, the recipient of the Governor’s Youth Award Ms. Jamie Lynch read an excerpt from ‘Schoolboy in wartime, memories of my early years,’ a book written by the late Mr. Gerard van Veen. Recipient of the Governor’s Youth Award Ms. Faith Peterson rendered a reading ...
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