EIGHT SCHOOLS PARTICIPATED IN HEROES DAY FUNCTION
(Examining the JCF on Parade. Mayor is at 2nd left and Custos has his back to camera)
St Mary honoured its community heroes on Monday, National Heroes Day, with a ceremony outside the Civic Centre in Port Maria, the capital.
Six residents of the parish were recognized with citations about their individual work and plaques for their services.
They are: Claudette Ann Marie Gordon and Josephine Lynch, for Education; Lola Mason for Education and Community Service, and Icy Grant, Barbara Lewey and Donna Marie Prehay for Community Service. Reading the citations was Rayon Grandison.
Several cultural items were presented and eight schools were invited to participate. They were Marymount High, Liberty Academy, Three Hills, Hillside, Oracabessa Water Valley, Free Hill and Port Maria Primary Schools.
Uniformed groups from the parish including police, fire brigade and cadet staged a march past and were later examined by Custos Errol Johnson and Mayor of Port Maria Richard Creary.
Watch Water Valley Primary School students honour National Hero Norman Manley. All the heroes were shown, not just those seen in this video.
