On a rainy spring evening, a group of women shared their tools: wooden beads, strips of crepe paper and cups of glue. Step by step, they transformed their piles of craft supplies into gorgeous paper ...

Royal British Legion’s new poppy has 40% smaller carbon footprint and will be recyclable in household waste collections The poppies sold by the Royal British Legion to commemorate Remembrance Sunday ...

VALLEY CITY, N.D. – Leo Hecker was presented with the community service award on Saturday, June 2, from the Dacotah Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). Hecker was presented the ...

Standing in an incredibly noisy room, I am totally transfixed as I watch two robot-like machines getting to work. Last Thursday marked the launch of the first redesigned poppy since 1987. It is also ...

Members of American Legion Auxiliary Oro Valley Unit 132 will distribute red “remembrance” poppies on May 23, 24 and 25 at the Walmart at Oro Valley Marketplace, 2150 E. Tangerine Road, and Fry’s Food ...

American war veterans who make the red crepe-paper poppies to sell during Memorial Day weekend say the work can be tedious, therapeutic, time-consuming, but well worth the effort. Some veterans, like ...

The Royal British Legion traditional remembrance poppy will now be made from paper with 50% recycled content, rather than being made of plastic. The specialist papermaker, James Cropper based in ...