Organizers Kathy Howarth and Jackie Valotaire explain the idea behind their Port Stanley Poppy Project, which saw much of the lakeside town covered in hand-knitted and crocheted poppies in honour of Canadian veterans.
See why Port Stanley, Ont., is covered in more than 15,500 poppies
Residents of Port Stanley, Ont., are seeing lots of red this week, but they don’t mind at all.
The change in colour isn’t coming from the arrival of fall. Instead, it's from the roughly 15,555 knitted and crocheted poppies that have been put up across the community.
Wherever you go in the lakeside town, you you can see the poppies, whether they’re pinned u
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