Just in time for upcoming Remembrance Day ceremonies, Windsor’s Old Riverside neighbourhood has a new and vibrant reminder of those who’ve served Canada.

In bright red and white paint, the sidewalk outside Royal Canadian Legion Branch 255 now reads “LEST WE FORGET” and “11 11 11” — a reference to 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, the time when Canadians observe two minutes of silence each year to honour veterans, and the exact moment in 1918 when the guns fell silent with an armistice ending the First World War.

“It’s striking,” said Ward 6 Coun. Jo-Anne Gignac, who represents the east Windsor neighbourhood.

The sidewalk art, in combination with nearby banners honouring local men and women who served in the military, she said, “really causes people to stop and think about the cost of freedom.

“We’re

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