VOLUNTEERS are needed to help raise Otley's Chevin Cross this weekend.
The 36ft high wooden monument, which has been a striking symbol on the landscape each Easter for decades, was first installed at Surprise View in 1968.
The brainchild of the Otley Council of Christian Churches, the cross was replaced, after 31 years, for the new millennium.
At least 50 people are needed to pull the structure into position on Saturday at 9.30am.
Helpers should be at Surprise View for 9.15am, and another 20 volunteers are also needed to load the cross onto the wagon in Otley beforehand, by the Courthouse Street car park, at 9am.
The original cross was blown down and damaged in high winds on the first night it was put up, but was repaired overnight and raised again - six feet shorter - the next day.
It has been raised every Easter since and also went up at New Year 2000.
When the new cross was built for Easter, 2000 it went back to its taller, original 36ft high specifications and used timber salvaged from the bombed Arndale Centre, in Manchester.
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