SLAIN OFFICERS REMEMBERED

Four policemen slain in the line of duty were remembered at the Port
Theatre Thursday.

In a scene that was repeated in theatres, churches and town halls across
the country, hundreds of people including police and their families,
paramedics, firefighters and military personnel filed through the entrance
to the Port Theatre to sign a memorial book and leave cards or flowers
around photos of Constables Peter Schiemann, 25, Leo Johnston, 32, Anthony
Gordon, 28, and Brock Myrol, 29.

The mood in the theatre was sombre, augmented by Samuel Barber's Adagio for
Strings playing quietly though the theatre's sound system as mourners, some
forcing back tears, quietly took their seats.

With the theatre front rows filled with red serged Mounties, Major Bob
Armstrong of the Salvation Army delivered the eulogies for the four
officers who were shot to death during the raid of a marijuana grow-op in
Mayerthorpe, Alta., March 3.

The killings marked the darkest day for the RCMP since the Duck Lake
massacre of 1885.