Princess Sophie at Dedication of Light Horse Park

Neighbours are invited to the dedication and sod turning for Light Horse Park on June 24. At a ceremony scheduled for 10am, Her Royal Highness, The Countess of Wessex, Princess Sophie will be in attendance to help officially dedicate the newly-named park.

HRH Sophie is the Colonel in Chief of the South Alberta Light Horse (Alberta’s Regiment), the group for which the park has recently been named. Part of the park’s renewal also includes a refreshed green space and new cenotaph location in the northside of the park. As well as providing a space for residents and visitors of Old Strathcona to gather, community organizers of the park renewal (including Holy Trinity Anglican, the unit’s regimental church) hope the park will bring notice to the regiment’s Edmonton history and military service and be a location of Remembrance Day ceremonies each November 11.

What: Dedication and sod-turning of Light Horse Park

When: Friday, June 24 at 10am

Where: Light Horse Park, Calgary Trail, between 85 and 86 Avenues