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La Ronge Post Office thanks emergency responders

Oct 5, 2018 | 12:00 PM

It was a special day at the La Ronge post office Thursday as Canada Post and the community came out to acknowledge the efforts made by emergency personnel.

The event was part of the nationwide initiative to honour Canada’s professional and volunteer servicemen and women, following the recent unveiling of five special stamps. They reflect paramedics, regular and reserve members of the Canadian Armed Forces, search and rescue, firefighters and police.

“It’s Canada Post’s way of saying thank you,” La Ronge Postmaster Nikki Bernatchez told larongeNOW, after hosting the occasion with coffee and cake. She echoed the purpose behind the stamps which  Canada Post said was to celebrate the tens of thousands of the country’s most can-do, committed and caring citizens.

“It was a great opportunity for us to present each of our local emergency personnel groups with a plaque from Canada Post,” she said.

Those plaques are a representation of the art work on the stamps which are now available in a booklet.

Each stamp portrays the respective emergency personnel in action: two paramedics giving life-saving treatment and an air ambulance; armed forces members working in natural disaster situations; search and rescue engaged in a mountain extraction; firefighters tackling an inferno; and a police officer imposed across a city skyline.

 

glenn.hicks@jpbg.ca

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