On Thursday, 25 June 2026 a group from the Garrison in St. John’s visited Branch 32, Bay Roberts for a presentation by Ascension Collegiate Grade 12 graduate Kelsie Fifield on her 2025 Trail of the Caribou Pilgrimage. Kelsie is a wonderful and passionate speaker and everybody including members of Branch 32 thoroughly enjoyed her presentation.
Another year and another fabulous fundraiser by the crew of the HMCS St. John’s. The St. John’s has been supporting the Children Wish Foundation for over 30 years!!! That’s AMAZING!! Plan an event as they run their way across the province. Every dollar counts when you are making wishes for our beautiful children. No donation is too small. We already know that many of our branches get involved with this very worthy fundraising effort.
Thank you to all the crew of the HMCS St. John’s not only for this very long partnership with the Children’s Wish Newfoundland and Labrador but very much for your service to our country.
Here’s their schedule:
July 2nd – Port Aux Basques (Fundraising Day)
July 3rd – RUN KICK OFF – Port Aux Basques – Stephenville
July 4th – Stephenville – Corner Brook
July 5th – Corner Brook – Deer Lake
July 6th – Deer Lake – Woody Point
July 7th – Woody Point – Springdale
July 8th – Springdale – Grand Falls-Windsor
July 9th – Grand Falls-Windsor – Gander
July 10th – Gander – Glovertown
July 11th – Glovertown – Terra Nova
July 12th – Terra Nova – Clarenville
July 13th – Clarenville – Arnold’s Cove
July 14th – Arnold’s Cove – Whitbourne
July 15th – FINAL RUN DAY – Bay Roberts – Conception Bay South
July 16th – CLOSING CEREMONY (St. John’s)
We need you to get out and support the crew as they run through our beautiful province, raising funds to grant wishes to more than 35 kids in Newfoundland & Labrador currently waiting on their wish.
Learn how you can get involved: https://makeawish.ca/runtherock
Provincial Command is looking to place your upcoming Branch activities on their Facebook page. Please send anything you would like added to Steve Cooney (publicrelations@legionnl.com) and he will take care of the rest. Thank you!
Comrade Frank Boe a veteran of the PPCLI in the Battle of Kapyong in the Korean War and a member of Branch 32, Bay Roberts celebrated his 97th Birthday at the branch on Friday, 17 April at the regular Coffee and a Chat held at the branch. His son Stephen proudly poses with his Dad. Note: On the wall is a picture of Cpl Frank Boe in uniform from Korea. Congratulations Comrade and we hope you have many more.
Comrade Tom Lawlor (L), President of Branch 32, Bay Roberts accepts a $1,000.00 donation from Past President, Comrade Harold Brown. The donation was realised from the proceeds of the Friday Morning Coffee and a Chat held at the branch and will be used for much needed repairs to the building.
Branch 27 Poppy Trust Fund Committee members Cy McGettigan and Bill Meadus present a cheque for $4,250.00 to Curtis Skiffington and Morgan Ellis of the George’s Brook- Milton War Memorial Committee. The committee is fundraising to erect a memorial to veterans from that community who have served. The monument will be erected near the town hall. Public donations are gratefully accepted. We Will Remember Them …
Presentation held at Branch 32, Bay Roberts on Friday, 06 Feb 2026 of a cheque in the amount of $2,000.00 to the Lower Island Cove Memorial Project. Accepting the cheque from Comrade Ernie Mugford is Comrade Gordon Wheadon from Branch 50, Kelligrews. (L to R in photo) Comrade Ron Dunne – Fund Raising for the project, Comrade Ralph Parmenter – Vice Chair for the project, Comrade Ernie Mugford – 50/50 Manager for Branch 32, Comrade Gordon Wheadon – Chair for the project, Comrade Tom Lawlor – Branch 32 President, Comrade Harold Brown – Branch 32 Past President.
Members of the Branch’s from District 2 present at the first District Meeting of 2026 held at Branch 65 Brigus on 17 January 2026. Branch Presidents and District Commander – Comrade Gerald Mercer are seated in the front row.
On Friday, 21 November 2025 The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 32 Bay Roberts, presented a cheque in the amount of $500.00 to the Helping Hand (Food Bank) in Bay Roberts. (L – R) Branch President, Comrade Harold Brown and Darlene Kearley from The Helping Hand. The donation was made from the proceeds of the Friday Morning Coffee and a Chat held at the branch.
Comrade Tom Lawlor a member of Bay Roberts, Branch 32 was presented recently with the Canadian Coast Guard Exemplary Service Medal (50 years) by the Lieutenant Governor, The Honourable Joan Marie J. Aylward, O.N.L, E.C.N.L., B.N., R.N., ICD.D. Tom joined the Federal Department of Fisheries as it was called then in January of 1974 as a seaman. He was on the patrol vessel FPV Cape Freels, while patrolling in the north Atlantic on March 12th 1976 when a fire broke out in the engine room. The crew had to take to the lifeboats and leave the ship and were picked up by the CCGS Hudson, after spending 15 hours in the frigid waters in an open lifeboat. Tom sustained fractured ribs and a broken elbow. He became part of the Canadian Coast Guard when the Coast Guard merged with the Department of Fisheries in 1995 and was involved in numerous search and rescues and search and recoveries. He was on the search for the Ocean Ranger and served on several armed boarding’s where foreign vessels were seized and brought to Canadian ports . Tom sailed on just about every Coast Guard ship in Eastern Canada as senior or Chief engineer and retired in 2010 as Chief Engineer on research vessel CCGS Wilfred Templeman. He is still serving the Canadian Coast Guard in a casual position as senior or chief engineer.