Remembrance Day services to be virtual due to COVID-19

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Branch President, Marilyn Clark, said the event will start at approximately 10 minutes before 11 a.m. on Nov. 11.

“We have no other choice but to go to virtual,” she said.

Clark said only a small number of individuals will participate in the event at the Legion, which is not open to the public.

After the service, the Legion will take the wreaths to the Cenotaph. Again, there will be no public gathering.

There will also be no luncheon this year.

“It’s going to be very different for all of us,” Clark said. “But we wanted to make sure that we did something.”

The Royal Canadian Legion Battleford Branch No. 9 also announced it would not have a public service.

Instead, the private event will be filmed on Nov. 11 and within 24 hours uploaded to the Branch No. 9 Legion’s Facebook Page.

President Esther Delainey said the service closed to the public, is being held for a small number of participants at the Legion hall.

Delainey is saddened not to have a large public event that in the past has drawn as many as 300 people. This year it will have under 30 participating in the closed event. No gathering is permitted after the service either.

“It will just be a shortened ceremony,” Delainey said. “A few of us will place wreaths at the cenotaph, and that’s pretty much it.”

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by Angela Brown

Remembrance Day services to be virtual due to COVID-19

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