Remembrance Day events curtailed due to COVID-19 and poppy campaign underway

Legion Branch 23 officials say there will be no Remembrance Day ceremony at Memorial Gardens this year due to COVID-19.

Katherine Whitmore is membership chair of the Poppy campaign at the Northgate Shopping Centre.

She says a ceremony is being planned for the Cenotaph on Remembrance Day but there will be restrictions.

“That doesn’t mean people can’t stand outside the cordoned off part. Inside of it there’s a 25 person limit,” she says.

Poppies are available at the Northgate, The Beer Store, LCBO outlets and CFB North Bay.

There’s no cost but donations will be accepted.

(photo by station staff)