Coquitlam residents can honour veterans this Remembrance Day by painting poppies on the lawn at Blue Mountain Park at the corner of King Albert Avenue and Veterans Way.
Participants can add their poppies to the display today (Friday) between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m., tomorrow between 1 and 4 p.m. and Sunday between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Other opportunities will be held on Monday, Nov. 7 between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. and Nov. 8 to 10 between 1 and 4 p.m.
Residents can also write personal messages on yellow ribbons that will be tied to trees in Blue Mountain Park and remain there until Nov. 18. After that, the messages will be transcribed and forwarded to Veterans Affairs Canada.
Blue Mountain Park will also be the site of a Remembrance Day ceremony on Nov. 11.
The service, led by Royal Canadian Legion Branch 264, will start at 9:30 a.m. at Como Lake middle school (1121 King Albert Ave.), followed by a parade at 10:15 a.m. along Winslow Avenue to the cenotaph on Veteran’s Way. The ceremony will begin at 10:45 a.m. and will be followed by a parade to the Royal Canadian Legion (1025 Ridgeway Ave.) of veterans, police and firefighters.
There are three other official services on that day in the Tri-Cities:
• Port Coquitlam Remem-brance Day services will begin with a service at Wilson Centre (2150 Wilson Ave.) between 9:30 and 10:30 a.m., followed by a parade to Veterans Park in front of city hall led by the Legion Branch 133. The parade will arrive at the park at 11 a.m. and a ceremony will follow.
• Port Moody will hold its Remembrance Day ceremony hosted by Legion Branch 119 at Kyle Centre at 10 a.m., where a non-denominational service will take place. A parade will then start at 10:30 a.m. from the Kyle Centre parking lot down Larke Street and on to Mary Street before continuing to the corner of Kyle and St. Johns in front of the monument at the PoMo Arts Centre. A wreath-laying ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. and there will be a reception at Kyle Centre following the service.
• Anmore and Belcarra mark the day at 10:35 a.m. at Belcarra Regional Park.
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