Portage la Prairie's Remembrance Day ceremony will take place at the PCU Centre on Friday. President Barb Bradley from the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 65 says they're asking everyone to please be in their seats by 10:30 a.m., noting the parade will be forming up in the main lobby so they'll need that space for all the groups taking part in the procession. Bradley says the parade will include a fairly large contingent of student pilots and they'll also have the Air cadets, Army cadets, the RCMP, the Legion, the Boy Scouts, the Girl Guides and the Army Navy Air Force. She notes each of those organizations will also provide a colour party and there will be cenotaph guards on duty for the duration of the ceremony.

Bradley adds this year they've decided to move the stage farther back toward the west end to allow for more visible seating. She says all the people who are laying wreaths are asked to sit on the ice level and to identify themselves to the cadets who'll be escorting them to their seats. Bradley notes they do have assigned seating up front for all the dignitaries in attendance, with reserved seating on the ice level for the wreath layers along with their families and friends.

She adds there'll be a minute of silence at eleven o'clock, followed by a few introductions and then the laying of wreaths. Bradley says Jean-Marc Nadeau will lay the wreath for the Silver Cross Mother, who'll be in attendance as an honoured guest.