For the second year in a row, MPP Ernie Hardeman is proud to have a poppy donation box in his office.
Today is the first official day of the poppy campaign which raised over $45 000 for our local veterans in Woodstock last year.
For the second year in a row you can get a poppy at our local MPP's office. Last year Ernie Hardeman had his private members bill pass allowing them to be sold at MPP's constituency offices. He tells Heart FM what the poppy means to him.
"I came from a country that was liberated by those brave soldiers, -I immigrated to Canada from Holland and I suppose if it hadn't for the Second World War and not for our Canadian soldiers contributing to it, I guess I would have been born a German and chances are I would not have had the life that we have here in Canada."
The Woodstock Legion delivered a poppy donation box to Hardeman's office yesterday as a way to raise awareness and kickstart the campaign. At the ceremony in Woodstock veteran Ken MacGillivray tells Heart FM what it means to him when he sees people wearing a poppy.
"I think of the people I was with during the war, my comrades that didn't come back."

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