HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2012-11-08, Page 11THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2012. PAGE 11. Hullett Central to participate in Remembrance Day
We will remember them
The Blyth Legion held its annual Remembrance Day church service on Sunday at Huron
Chapel Evangelical Missionary Church in Auburn. Members of the Legion marked the
occasion by marching the colours into the church and presenting them before the ceremony
began. The official Blyth Remembrance Day ceremony will be held on Sunday beginning at
10:45 a.m. at Memorial Hall. (Vicky Bremner photo)
With Remembrance Day fast
approaching, there are some
concerns from residents of Blyth as
to what form the Remembrance Day
service will take in the coming
years.
Blyth Legion Branch President
Andy Lubbers said that this year a
wreath will be placed only by
students of Hullett Central Public
School and not by Maitland River
Public School in Wingham.
“The Wingham Legion will be
taking care of that school,” he said.
Since Remembrance Day will be
held on a weekend, Lubbers said
that attendance to their service will
be open to all. The event is held at
Blyth Memorial Hall, a living
monument.
“If it were on a week day, we
would be doing whatever the public
schools were doing,” Lubbers said,
adding that celebrations of
Remembrance will be held at local
schools on the Friday prior to the
event.
“We know that numbers will be
down at the hall, but we’re
hoping that students from Hullett
and from the north will come,” he
said.
The Legion was in talks with
Maitland River principal Alice
McDowell, however nothing came
of the discussion in time for this
weekend’s event.
The Blyth Legion will be
represented at Hullett at 9 a.m. on
Friday, and will then continue south
to Central Huron Secondary School
and St. Anne’s Catholic Secondary
School to be involved in the
celebrations there. However, if
Remembrance Day fell on aweekday, Lubbers said things wouldbe different.
“Our own ceremony on
Remembrance Day wouldn’t work
for the schedule we’re having on
Friday,” he said. “We do our own
service at the cenotaph on
Remembrance Day.”
On Nov. 11, the ceremony will be
held at 10:45 a.m. and start with the
laying of the wreaths, followed by
services after.
“With the school not being here,
we will of course miss those
students being involved,” Lubbers
said. “We haven’t heard anything
from the schools on the matter, but
that could be because it’s on a
Sunday. Next year, that may change,
but we encourage students to come
one way or another.”
Blyth Business Improvement
Association President Rick Elliott
said that this is a major concern for
the area.
“We need to get a commitment
from the Avon Maitland District
School Board,” he said. “We were
told by Alice McDowell, through
[North Huron Chief Administrative
Officer Gary Long] that provincial
requirements state there must be a
Remembrance Day Service for
children. She said they are doing it
in the school on Friday.”
He said that, going forward, the
school board needs to work to have
the children of Blyth present at the
community Remembrance Day
service held annually at Blyth
Memorial Hall.
“The Memorial Hall is a living
memorial that was built for World
War I vets,” he said. “It’s the most
visited war memorial in at least
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