Estevan was home to another No Stone Left Alone ceremony today, with community representatives and students coming out to the Souris Valley Memorial Gardens Cemetary.
Fewer students than usual attended, with the majority of schools either having conflicting events or cancelling due to a lack of students.
Spruce Ridge School saw a pair of grade 8 leadership group students attend the ceremony to help with laying the wreath as well as poppies on graves.
Elyse Mantei organized the event and said that the ceremony is so that students can learn about the importance of veteran's sacrifices.
"We hold a small ceremony to talk about Remembrance Day, talk about veterans, learn about the sacrifices that veterans did for our freedom and our livelihood and everything. Then we lay poppies on the gravestones of veterans who have passed on."
During the ceremony, Constable Craig Bird, a veteran and current member of the EPS, talked about some of the sacrifices that local veterans had made and showed some pictures of those who gave everything for their country.
Even with just a couple of students, Mantei says that it's important to get the message out there.
As a member of a military family, she says that the message resonates strongly with her.
"I'm military born and raised. My dad was in the military for 40 years, so learning about veterans and about Remembrance Day is a big part of my life really. So having other people learn about Remembrance Day and learning about what families and what soldiers all went through is an important factor."
Cheri Haberstock, the principal of Spruce Ridge School, was in attendance and says the event helps the younger generation understand more about the past.
"We're just really, really excited to come. We already are doing our own Remembrance Day ceremony at the school, but this just takes us outside of our school to the actual place where many of our veterans are buried and it's just really meaningful for us."