{"id":3588,"date":"2013-08-21T15:39:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T19:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2013-08-28T23:23:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T03:23:02","slug":"legion-members-have-a-got-ticket-to-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/legion-members-have-a-got-ticket-to-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"Legion members have a got ticket to ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Members of the Royal Canadian Legion now have a ticket to ride. <\/p>\n

Ontario bikers \u2013 many of them veterans of Canadian deployments overseas \u2013 descended on the Aurora Legion on Friday to support the new Legion Riders program.<\/p>\n

The initiative was launched by the Legion\u2019s Dominion Command last month to capture the attention of members who are also motorcycle enthusiasts to help generate awareness and raise the profile of the Legion across the country.<\/p>\n

The idea was first floated by the bikers themselves, looking for a way not only to share their love for motorcycles within the group, but also promote Legion work throughout their communities to generate vital new support for the veterans\u2019 service group. <\/p>\n

Adjacent to the Aurora Legion on Industrial Parkway North is the Legion\u2019s Ontario Command. There, the provincial body shared its enthusiasm for the new program. <\/p>\n

\u201cBased on popular demand from our Legion members, Dominion Command has\u2026created the motorcycle group to help generate awareness about the Legion, its community engagement across the country and its services to our serving and retired veterans, RCMP personnel and their families,\u201d said provincial president Bruce Julian. \u201cThe Legion is an iconic cornerstone of Canadian communities at the forefront of support for the military and the RCMP members and their families. Many members of the Legion are also motorcycle enthusiasts. Until now, this aspect of their Legion service has not been addressed. <\/p>\n

\u201c[This initiative will] help generate awareness of the Legion, its community engagement across the country and its services to our serving and retired veterans, RCMP personnel and their families. The Legion riders are now able to mount up across Canada and you will start to see them forming at Legion branches from coast to coast. For many members of the Legion, the Legion riders will allow them to be a part of a group of motorcycle enthusiasts and provide them with a great way to enjoy and share one of life\u2019s great passions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking after the event, Mr. Julian said the Legion is always looking at new initiatives to satisfy the needs and interests of their members, while also generating new members at the same time. To this end, the Legion Riders will increase the visibility of the Legion wherever they ride.<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing is more visible than these things rumbling down the street to an event,\u201d he said, pointing to the sea of motorcycles parked outside the Aurora Legion which paraded onto the grounds with the colour party. \u201cIt\u2019s a good thing for everybody. It gives them an outlet for activities, to volunteer, and it gives us the benefit of that.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ontario bikers \u2013 many of them veterans of Canadian deployments overseas \u2013 descended on the Aurora Legion on Friday to support the new Legion Riders program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/2013-08-21-05.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-VS","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 06:59:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}