This monument, a black granite maple leaf seated on concrete, is dedicated to the memory of Sergeant George Miok and Corporal Zachery McCormack. Bill Morris, who knew Georg Miok personally as his kids had gone to school with George, said the idea for a memorial was first brought forward to council in 2010, a few months after the soldiers were killed. Bill was the organizer of a local group who wanted to honour the two Sherwood Park soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan with a special memorial. It was erected on August 24, 2013, by a community partnership with Strathcona County.
On December 30, 2009, Sergeant George Miok and Corporal Zachery McCormack, two young men from Sherwood Park, lost their lives while serving in Kandahar, Afghanistan. As members of the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team, they were conducting a patrol in an area four kilometers south of Kandahar City when their armoured vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device. Sergeant Miok and Corporal McCormack, along with two other Canadian soldiers and a Canadian journalist, were killed in this attack.
