Legion forced to replace Remembrance Day dinner

There will be no sit-down dinner this Remembrance Day at the Summerside Legion.

Three years ago, the Legion sold the building where it used to hold the sit-down dinner. It had a kitchen, and the Legion Ladies Auxiliary made the meal.

Last year a dinner was catered for about 125 people, but organizers say that's too expensive to continue.

"We've decided at our meeting that since we don't have any kitchen facility in our branch any more that was the way to go," said Roy Crozier, who is in charge of the Legion's wreaths and poppy campaign.

"We're having a buffet style thing in the afternoon to accommodate people who are on parade and other workers. That's what we're trying this year. I'm not sure how it will go."

Crozier said a smaller crowd of 50 to 60 people will attend the luncheon this year.

The committee will re-visit the issue, he said, after seeing how the buffet luncheon works out.

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