Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser
Remembrance events this Sunday
Airdrie and Motherwell will host North Lanarkshire’s main Remembrance Sunday services and parades for this year.
The events this Sunday, November 14, will be the first such ceremonies to take place since 2019, after last year’s had to be cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions.
Further acts of remembrance to honour the fallen will take place across the county, with wreaths being laid at memorials including the cenotaph in Coatbridge and in communities across Monklands.
The area’s main service and parade at the war memorial on Monkscourt Avenue in Airdrie will take place at 10.50am on Sunday.
A wreath-laying ceremony will also take place at 11am tomorrow at the war memorial outside the authority’s Civic Centre headquarters to mark Armistice Day.
Council officials add: “Other locally-organised ceremonies may also be taking place in other towns and villages across North
Lanarkshire.”
The area’s usual Remembrance events could not take place in November 2020 with the area being in the second-highest tier of level three coronavirus measures, preventing outdoor gatherings
of more than six people from two households, while places of worship were restricted to a maximum attendance of 50 at that time.
Dignitaries and community groups instead laid wreaths
individually throughout Remembrance Sunday while observing social distancing, and residents were invited to mark the day by standing on their doorsteps to observe the two-minute silence at 11am.