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“A Current Affair” visits Warren STORY: PAGE 6
Teachers recognised Pony Club for service annual camp
Painting Warren “Read” as “The Truck Cat” takes to the wheel for Storytime!
Warren’s ANZAC Day, 2025
By DAVID DIXON ENCOURAGING reading by painting Warren’s CBD “read” is all part of the quarter-century celebrations for Australia’s National Simultaneous Storytime next month. Local regional libraries are all going to be on board the Wednesday May 21 Australiawide event for this year’s reading of a classic Australian kid’s story. Warren Library helps celebrate this occasion — while also promoting the wonderful benefits of reading — with a very special promotion, Library Manager, Erica Kearns revealed. “We basically ask all shopfronts to get involved to “Paint the Town ‘Read’,” Ms Kearns said. “It’s also part of a literacy program that encourages reading for kids and adults alike,” she added. Continued page 2
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By TESS VAN LUBECK MARKING the 110th anniversary of the landing of the fi rst ANZACs on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, Warren locals gathered to pay their respects last Friday, April 25, ANZAC Day. As a tradition now dictates, this involved representatives of various community groups and institutions marching down from the RSL to the Cenotaph for the annual service to commemorate the lives lost, those affected by war, and all those who served their country in its time of greatest need. The service now began with Master of Ceremonies, Trevor Wilson welcoming those present and reflecting on the meaning of ANZAC Day. “Each year we pay homage, not only to those original ANZACS, but all who died or were disabled in their service to this country, they enrich our nations’s history,” Mr Wilson said “Their hope was for the freedom of mankind, and we
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Mayor Greg Whiteley pays respects at the ANZAC dawn service. PHOTO: SUPPLIED.
remember with pride their courage, their compassion, and their comradeship,” he went on. Australian service, he added, has covered a number of wars with the ultimate sacrifice, paid by unnamed thousands. “They served in land and sea and in the air, in many places throughout the world. “Not only do we honor the memory of those Australians who have fallen in battle; we share the side of those who have known them and all who have been victims of armed conflict.” Mr Wilson expanded on the far-reaching and often unrecognised casualties of war, with impacts that often stayed with combatants, far beyond the battlefield. “On this day we remember, with sympathy, those Australians who have suffered as prisoners-of-war, and those who, because of war, have had their lives shortened or handicapped. Continued page 8