Submitted Photo Bottineau High School choir instructor Jaque Marum addresses the audience at the annual 9/11 Memorial event at the International Peace Garden Thursday, Sept. 11. The school choir performed the national anthems of the United States and Canada and sang “Let Love Set You Free,” written by Minot native Rosanne Olson, an artist, photographer and author who has garnered numerous awards for her work. Photo courtesy of the International Peace Garden.

DUNSEITH – American and Canadian officials spoke at the annual 9/11 Memorial event at the International Peace Garden Thursday, Sept. 11.

The program included the laying of memorial wreaths and a moment of silence.

A processional from the Peace Chapel to the 9/11 Memorial was led by Warrant Officer Brionne Logan of the 26th Field Regiment in Brandon, Manitoba, with presentation of the colours by the Canada Border Services Agency Ceremonial Unit.

Among those providing remarks were Rebecca Molinoff, U.S. consul in Winnipeg, Manitoba; David Pankratz, special envoy for Military Affairs for the Government of Manitoba; Doyle Piwniuk, member of the Manitoba legislative assembly, Winnipeg; and Nick Kasper, president of the United Fire Fighters of Winnipeg.

Information also was provided regarding Annie’s House, a ski lodge built at the Bottineau Winter Park following the death of Ann Nicole Nelson, a Stanley native who was a victim of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. Building a house in North Dakota had been on her bucket list of things to do, and firefighters from New York joined local volunteers in constructing the lodge in her memory.The auditorium at Minot State University also is named in Nelson’s honor.