Under overcast skies, bagpipes played by the City Pipe Band as guests arrived Saturday at the new home of the Royal Canadian Legion on Highland Avenue in Belleville.
It has been a long road to finding a new home for the Royal Canadian Legion in Belleville and a new place for its members to call home.
A crowd of roughly 250 members joined Mike Benson, Branch 99 president and local dignitaries for the grand opening ceremony and ribbon cutting on Saturday evening.
There was a big sigh of relief for members on Saturday evening having a new home given the old location on Pinnacle Street was torn down. If Branch 99 was unsuccessful at finding a new hosting facility in time late last year, the veteran organization would have faced the distinct possibility of losing its national charter.
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