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Renovations Chicken wing celebrated cookoff at “Ribs & Ragtime” raises money for 1st Special Services memorial project
plan so far. Logan did note that the museum’s log cabin has received new For the 10th year, Amherstburg siding. Freedom Museum (AFM) celebrated “The impact of this Ontario Trillium African-Canadian heritage with Foundation grant cannot be underestiRibs & Ragtime. mated,” said Mary-Katherine Whelan, Hundreds gathered for the sold-out curator/administrator. “This grant has fundraiser. Windsor-based jazz band allowed much needed renovations to Black Orchid provided the tunes and be made. These renovations ensure the volunteers served the catered food. safeguarding of the museum’s collecDue to the number of attendees, AFM tions, historic properties and permapresident Monty Logan said the event nent galleries, all of which focus on underwent a reconfiguration. presenting and preserving the history “We had to move things around to of Underground Railway in Canada make room,” he said. “The band had to and legacies of those Freedom Seekers face the other way this year and we had and their descendants who built their to move some tables around.” lives in Essex County during and after The most noticeable of the changes that period. The OTF Grant allows PHOTO BY JONATHAN MARTIN was the placement of a large, plastic the museum to continue sharing this Lorita Mailloux, Richards, Vickithe Richards, cheque(From just inleft) front of the band. Ron Deslippe, historyBill and educating public on Darla Deslippe, Paul Owen, Wadeoverlooked Hutchens, Brenda Owens AFM Hutchens, received Karen $119,700 from the this often and important and Tom Mailloux hold up their victory banner at at the Royal Canadian Legion Ontario Trillium Foundation (OTF) historic movement in Canada and Fort Malden Branch 157 in Amherstburg on Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019. for earlier this year. Saturday, Logan Essex County.” Theoff winners, whomoney are members AMA Sportsmen showed where that went. of Amherstburg’s Amherstburg’s deputy Club, mayor, earned top prize for their chicken wings. “We got rid of the drop ceiling, got Leo Meloche, was one of the event’s rid of the clutter, added new lighting,” hundreds of attendees. and I was a soldier for 32capital years in the placed on a table toward the back of he said. “Essentially, this infra“Museums are very important to the Canadian Armed Forces. Ralph is a the hall. Attendees could symbolically structure funding allowed us to better fabric of our society,” he said. “We use huge of us who historical buy his information, unused admission ticket, utilizeinspiration the place ontothethose inside.” the knowledge have survived combat environments. with the proceeds going toward On the outside, AFM has earmarked of where we’ve been, when we the try Sometimes, is the toughest memorial plaque’s funding forsurviving roof replacement. The to figure out whereinstallation. we want to head part.” roof is made of cedar, though, and this together as a society.” Continued on Page 2 Somehas of Mayville’s memorabilia spring been too wet to executewas the Continued on Page 5 By Jonathan Martin
By Jonathan Martin For 90 nights during 1944, Amherstburg’s Ralph Mayville crept through the deep battle wounds slashed into the mountains of Anzio, band “Black Orchid” Italy.The Dressed in black, he dragged a performed at “Ribs & knife across German officers’ sleeping Ragtime” President throats and(above). left playing cards in the Monty Logan fromdicke ende blood. The cards(second read, “Das left) accepts the OTF cheque commt noch!” Translated, they said, from worst team member Allen, “The is yet to Dan come!” Windsor-Tecumseh MPP The Germans called Percy him a Black Hatfield and Essex MPP Taras Devil. He, Natyshak alongside (right). the other members of the 1st ServiceMARTIN, Force, killed TOPSpecial PHOTO BY JONATHAN 25 RIGHT Nazis forBYevery man FREEDOM they lost, U.S. PHOTO AMHERSTBURG records show. MUSEUM
Of the unit’s 1,400 Canadian and American commandos, 28 were from Windsor-Essex. The local veterans are set to be memorialized on a plaque in Amherstburg’s King’s Navy Yard Park. Mayville planned to be the event’s guest of honour, but he died suddenly on Aug. 9 at the age of 97. To fund the project, Tim Rousseau, a member of the King’s Navy Yard Park First Special Service Force Memorial Project, helped run a chicken wing cook off at Royal Canadian Legion Br. 157 last Saturday. “I met Ralph around five years ago,” Rousseau said. “He was a combat veteran of World War Two
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