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The Electronic Recycling Association recently donated eight laptop computers to be used by our staff and writers to complete memorials of Canada’s Fallen Heroes. It is with this donation that we will be able to create more memorials to share with the soldier’s home community and family.

The Electronic Recycling Association (ERA) is a Not for Profit Organization that has been reducing unnecessary electronic waste since 2004. They reduce adverse environmental contribution through recycling, repurposing and donation of electronics and other IT Equipment. With a number of drop off locations around Canada based primarily out of Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Saskatoon, Toronto, and an electronic pickup service the ERA provides a meaningful way for organizations and individuals to deal with their old computer equipment in a safe and secure manner that matches or exceeds government standards. We invite you to visit their website at www.era.ca.

Everyone at the Canadian Fallen Heroes Foundation thanks ERA for their donation! It is truly appreciated by all of us!

The Canadian Fallen Heroes Foundation would like to extend its sincerest thanks to the Kootenay Savings Technology Solutions Department for their generous donation of eight flat screen monitors. These monitors will be a great help to our researchers and writers as we work to create a lasting tribute for all those who served and never made it home. Everyone at the foundation appreciates that we can count on great local sponsors to help us fulfill our mandate.

From all of us at the foundation, thank you to the staff and members of Kootenay Savings Credit Union!

From the desk of Alexis Buzzee, Cardston & District FCSS

“When we began working with the Canadian Fallen Heroes Foundation nearly four years ago we were eager to have a memorial completed for each one of the 68 names on our cenotaph. It has been a long journey for those of us involved and we are very happy to now have all of the memorials complete. Researching each of those 68 names was at times slow and difficult work but none of us would exchange the experience if given the choice. It is truly amazing when you start with only a name, and through a process of hard work and lucky breaks you end up piecing together the person behind the name. The project has been greatly supported by the Community with many individuals related to our Fallen Heroes stopping by to look at the memorials that are on display in our Town Council Chambers. We used various resources when gathering our information and without the people that put together local history books, archivists across Canada and over seas, family members and friends of the Fallen Heroes, we would not have been able to complete this project. The memorials play a pivotal role in our Remembrance Day Ceremonies, no longer are the names on the cenotaph the names of people whose stories have been slowly forgotten, because of this project each of the 68 fallen heroes stories will be remembered for generations to come.”

Pictured from left to right: Cammi Bevans, Tim Court, and Alexis Buzzee