Remembrance Day poem wins Sask. student national award [Video]

A Grade 12 student from the town of Sturgis has been recognized nationally for a poem he wrote in honor of Remembrance Day.

Jake Soltys, from the Sturgis Composite School, won first place in the poem category of the 2024 National Youth Remembrance Contests – organized by The Legion National Foundation with the support of The Royal Canadian Legion.

“I don’t think I have ever won an award for one of my poems, or anything before hand, it came as a shock, but a good surprise,” Soltys said.

He shared how his poem “A Tribute to the Brave” was created about two years ago.

“Two summers ago, I got a job at the museum in town here and my boss, Myrtle Boychuk at the time, she told me if I wanted to, I could look around the museum and read if I liked anything,” Soltys explained.

“I found the, ‘In …