AT the going down of the sun and in the morning....

Remembering the fallen will be the theme of this coming weekend as people honour those who gave so much for our freedom.

Very appropriately this year, November 11 falls on Remembrance Sunday, giving the day added significance. This year is also the 80th anniversary of the Royal British Legion. Members of the public are once again being urged to buy poppies as a sign that they remember and also to raise much-needed funds for the Poppy Appeal.

Church services, silences, parades and other events to mark this important weekend will take place across the Ryedale area. Here is a selection of some of those events:

Pickering: Saturday, November 10: coffee morning between 9.30am and 12.30pm at the Memorial Hall to raise money for the Poppy Appeal.

At 7pm, at the Kirk Theatre, there will be the annual remembrance concert. It will feature the Stape Silver Band and singing group The York Ladies. Tickets cost £4 or £3.50 and are available from Pickering Tourist Information Office. Both events are organised by the Pickering and Thornton-le-Dale branch of the Royal British Legion.

Sunday, November 11: a silent tribute will be observed at Market Place/Burgate, with people arriving at 10.55am for 11am. A service of remembrance will take place at 2pm at the parish church, followed by a parade to the war memorial for a short service and the laying of wreaths.

Old Malton: Sunday, November 11: at 10.55am at St Mary's Priory Church, there will be a service of remembrance. A number of civic dignitaries will be present, as well as Ryedale MP John Greenway and County Councillor Mike Knaggs, alongside representatives of the Royal British Legion. The White Star Band will play The Last Post and Reveille, while the preacher will be the former Archbishop of York Lord Hapgood.

Malton: Sunday, November 11: 2pm service at St Michael's Church, in the Market Place, followed by a service at the cenotaph.

Kirkbymoorside: Sunday, November 11: a ten-minute memorial service will be held at the cenotaph in the churchyard, at which the town band will play. This will be followed by the usual civic service at the church at 11am. It will be conducted by Canon Owen Conway, while Methodist minister Ranald Wylie will also be involved.

Helmsley: Sunday, November 11: There will be a 10.50am service at the war memorial in the churchyard, followed by the usual Remembrance Sunday service at the parish church. The preacher will be Rev Sue Greenwood, Helmsley Methodist minister.

Nawton/Beadlam: Sunday, November 11: service at St Hilda's Church at 10.15am.

Wombleton: Sunday, November 11: 10.30am service at the village hall.

Snainton: On Sunday, November 11, there will be a remembrance service at the cenotaph, 10.50am.

Kirkdale: On Sunday, November 11, the service at St Hilda's church, Beadlam, led by Canon Gerald Pearce, begins at 10.15am, closing with the act of Remembrance at the war memorial. At Wombleton village hall the service, led by the Rev John Warden, begins at 10.30am. There will be no service at St Gregory's Minster on that day.

Leavening: There is no service at the Ven Bede, Leavening on Sunday, November 11 (Remembrance Sunday) but the benefice Remembrance service is in St Mary's, Birdsall at 10.30am. Car drivers are asked to please offer lifts to those without transport.

Stamford Bridge: The Stamford Bridge and Garrowby branch remembrance service parade will form up at the entrance to the Bridlington Road estate at 10.30am on Sunday, November 11, and move off at 10.45am. The parade will be headed by the band of 110 Squadron City of York ATC, followed by branch standards, branch and women's section members and then uniformed youth groups. The parade will march down Main Street up Church Road, wreath laying ceremony at the war memorial in the churchyard, followed by the Remembrance Service in church.

After the service, the parade will reform and march via Church Road and Low Catton Road to dismiss at the playing field. Services for Remembrance Sunday will be 8am Eucharist and note change of time - 10am parish eucharist, followed by remembrance service after the wreath laying ceremony at 11am at St John the Baptist church and no Sunday school this week.

Updated: 10:55 Thursday, November 08, 2001