Saskatoon Nutana Rotary Club members, students at St. Anne’s Inquiry School, and members of the public will come together to honour two former Nobel Peace Prize winners at the brick dedication ceremony on Tuesday.

Asit Sarkar, with the Rotary Foundation and sponsor of this year’s brick, says the dedication will be made to both Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, both of which were awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 for their work in diminishing the use nuclear weapons.

Rotblat was one of the scientists working on developing a nuclear weapon through the Manhattan Project. He didn’t realize he was participating in creating a weapon of mass destruction, became very uncomfortable, and left the project. This led to a gathering of 22 likeminded scientists held in Pugwash, Nova Scotia.

The Rotary Club found their selection of awardees timely, as it was congruent with the release of ‘Oppenheimer’, a movie focused on nuclear weapons and their destruction.

Sarkar adds that in recent years, the Saskatoon Nutana Rotary Club has put an emphasis on the involvement of young people in the community. Students in Grade 7 and 8 from St. Anne’s Inquiry School will be organizing and executing entire the presentation, held at 12:15pm in Rotary Park’s Peace Plaza.

Sarkar says the ceremony aims to draw attention to the continuing need for peace in the world.