At 94, Kurt Holstein has no plans of slowing down his volunteering.

He has been stationed outside Great Canadian Superstore in Langford selling poppies daily for the past two weeks. Over the past three years, heB次元官网网址檚 worked a shift every day there was one, totalling 45 shifts selling poppies for the Langford Legion.

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Having to provide for his family got him in the volunteering mindset from an early age and has continued throughout his life.

In Regina, he was active doing deliveries for a meals-on-wheels program and was on the board of directors of the Regina Lutheran Home for nine years. His extensive community involvement saw him rewarded with three different medals, presented to him by then Saskatchewan lieutenant governor Sylvia Fedoruk, and then prime minister Brian Mulroney.

Holstein said the poppy drive campaign gets more than 200 volunteers each year, but he was the one who put in the most hours over the past two years.

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