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Listen to these 3 students read their Remembrance Day poems

Three students who won the junior poem category of the 2021 literary contest through the Royal Canadian Legion Ontario Command read their poems for Remembrance Day.

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Three portraits of young people: girl, boy, boy. The middle boy is wearing a poppy.
The three students who won the junior poem competition of the 2021 Royal Canadian Legion Ontario Command literary competition are (from left) Julia Mederak of Kitchener with first place, Zachary Lou of Richmond Hill with second place and Reid Gordon of Richard's Landing with third place. (Photos submitted by the families)

Take a listen as three Ontario students read poems they wrote in fall 2021 for the Royal Canadian Legion Ontario Command's literary contest.

Julia Mederak of Kitchener won first place in the junior poem competition.

Zachary Lou of Richmond Hill won second place in the junior poem competition.

Reid Gordon of Echo Bay won third place in the junior poem competition.