‘Shame on you’

Dear Editor:

I would just like to say, “Shame on you, Centre Wellington council.”

Along with 50 or 60 people, I attended the low-key memorial service at Elora cenotaph on Remembrance Day.

How saddened and disgusted were many of the attendees that no arrangements had been made to halt traffic during the half hour ceremony. Gravel trucks, vans and other vehicles showed no respect, even during the three-minute silence.

It is accepted that the whole village can be shut down to vehicles for a whole weekend, encouraging visitors from COVID-19 hot spots to group and mingle around town, yet we could not close the village for a half hour to remember our local fallen heroes, many of who’s family members attended to pay their respects?

You could blame it on the virus, but “Lest we forget” those who paid with their lives so we could group and mingle deserve better.

Please don’t let this happen again.

Bernie Wilkinson, Elora