Hundreds attend Aylmer Remembrance Day service

Mayor Greg Currie laid a wreath by the cenotaph on behalf of the town during the Aylmer Remembrance Day service on Friday morning, Nov. 11. As usual, hundreds of local residents and many local dignitaries attended the Remembrance Day service in Aylmer which is organized annually by officials with Royal Canadian Legion, Colonel Talbot Branch 81 (Aylmer). A parade from the Legion on John Street South to the cenotaph located next to Town Hall preceded the service. A total of 30 wreaths were laid by the cenotaph. The service included music by the East Elgin Secondary School Band and the Aylmer Area Community Band, an address by Father Ben Huyge of Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church and the playing of Last Post by trumpeter Gene Coreless before the moment of silence was observed for the local men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice protecting Canada’s rights and freedoms in the First Great War and the Second Great War.