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4-OrOSIO weêkly imes, Wednesday, Mav 15, 1985 lst annual student Art Show at Clarke Student Art Show at Clarke High Y Jenniter Garland îng and painting - and Clarke High School held its featured work from grades 9 rst Annual Student Art* -13. riow Wednesday evening, According ta Amy Hoad, lay 8, fromi 7-9 p.m. and head of the Art Department bursday, May 9 tram 9 a.m. at Clarke, "We had a very 4 p.mn. Refreshments were favourable turnout, wh o rved ta those attending. seemed ta be very pleased The show is part of the art with the work presented". rogramn at Clarke based on She bopes ta have another e fine arts approach - draw- show next year. NEW PRODUCT. Opportunity to buitd a lucrative distribùutorShip with a fabutous, made-in-Canada nutritional produot. Part time or fuit time. For fuit detaits cati (416) 983-9544, between 7:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.mri. or write to: ArDor Enterprises, Box 514, R.R. Orono, Ontario LOB iMO.. Ottaw? Report bY Hon. -AHan Lawrence, M.P. (Durham-Northuinberland) This past week was a time of historie remembrance for Canada, as we com. memorated the 40th anniver- sary of the end of the Second World War in Europe. We remnembered V-E Day, when the victory that once had seýmed uncertain was finally won ovetr fascismn in Europe. It was a great victory that meant more than we can ever imagine for each of us personally, for Canada, and for our world.' When you read this 1 will be in Europe. with a dele&a- tion of veterans vaying bornage ta those thousands of Canadian servicemen who were killed wile figting ta free the world of Naziism. Forty years is a large part of anyone's lifetimne, andI mnemories grow dim. Now there arc generatians of adults for whom World War Il can't mean much at al. They know of it, but it's out- side their framne of personal experience. I many repects that war was a unique experience for Canada, It was time wbeni, as a still young nation, we had .,,sd flex aur muscles, and when we discovered to aur surprise just bow strong they could be. Canada bas îneyer Lbeen militaristic, and mnost of us hope and pray it neyer will be. Yet in 1945 Canada fieldI- ecd a full-scale armny on the European continent, an army fondly reemlbered forr as Tale in iberatinig lHllanci a. Belgium. In 1945, iii terms of the size of aur air force and navy, Canada ranked among the very top world powers. That was an incredible ac- complishmnent for a country wýhich, only six years previously, had a negli gible navy, no first-line aircraft, and nat a single tank for its army. We proved then that, while we aren't a war-like people, we do have the will ta detend ourselves. Regrettably several tbousand young Canadians also had ta prove that they were prepared ta sacrifi4. their lives when their prin- ciples and tneir way of ife were threatened. More than 2,300 of those Canadians wba, are bured at Groesbeek, ýin the Netberlands, were honoured in a special ceremnony there last week. Hundreds of Cana- dian veterans made a special pilgrimage, and the warm hospitality of the Dutch peo- ple slowed they. have not forgotten nor bas their ap- preciation lessened for that Canadian assistance 40 long years ago. Another delegation of veterans is visiting Sicily and Italy, where Canadians form- ed an important segment of the Allied invasion forces. During that 20-month cam- paign Canadian units sut-, fered 25,264 casualities, of whom 5,900 were killed. The naines of those Italian battlefields - Ortona, Cassino, andI the Moro River where 1,375 Canadians lie buried - stili bring vivid, lurid memories ta the men who fought there. As your representative it bas been a very great honour for me ta participate in these remembrance ceremonies. They were a gripping reminder of what those men suffered on aur behaif. V-E Day in 1945 was an ex- tremnely significant event for everyone who remembers it. All of us -wbo were alive then, have aur awn distinct memories. It was a time when, suddenly, the future really did look brighter, and almost anything seemed possible. For many of us, it meant we were through forever with uniforms and military routine, that we could return ta pick up where we had leftt off in aur civilian lives. But Our mnemaries must also include those thousands who were flot able ta return, -who lie buried in Canada's military cemeteries in Europe. They were in their day among the best and the brightest yaung people that aur nation hiad ta offer. We miîss them, Canadi is indebted ta them, and we çan neyer, ever, afford to forget them and what their sacrifice meant.