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By Charles Lefebvre

Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day service Monday at Esplanade

Nov 8, 2019 | 1:29 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB — Medicine Hat residents will gather to pay their respects to veterans and those who made the ultimate sacrifice on Monday.

The annual Remembrance Day Service, hosted by the Royal Canadian Legion Robertson Memorial Branch No. 17, takes place on Monday at the Esplanade. Doors to the Esplanade open at 8 a.m., with the service beginning in the theatre at 9:30 a.m.

At 10:25 a.m., a parade will form up, and march down First Street to Riverside Veterans Memorial Park, where the cenotaph ceremony will take place starting at 11 a.m.

Hundreds of people are expected to attend the service.

Sheila Donner, president of the Royal Canadian Legion Robertson Memorial Branch No. 17, says the service is important to keep the memories of veterans alive for a new generation.

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“For the Legion, we are the guardians of remembrance,” she said. “Through this ceremony, we’re able to say thank you to all of the veterans past and present, those serving members who’ve made the sacrifice, their families for all they’ve done to support them, and supported them in the past. It’s just a necessary thing, I think, for communities to do.”

First Street downtown will be closed in the morning for the service, and will re-open in the afternoon.

Medicine Hat Transit will run on holiday hours (10:15 a.m-6:15 p.m.) on Monday.

Donner says the legion will have a special transit bus available to bring people from the legion to the Esplanade for the service.