News - Pakenham Officer - 30th July 2015

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Connecting people & communities PAKENHAM OFFICER Thursday, 30 July, 2015

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and their relationship remains strong. The Tribute to the Anzacs event will be held at Sumac in Docklands from 7pm to 10pm on Saturday and costs $150 per head. Bookings can be made through brooke@apositivemove.com.au The Pakenham reception at the RSL at 2pm on Sunday is open to anyone, who can pay a gold coin donation for a late lunch. since 1989

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PAKENHAM will be the next stop in a former soldier’s epic journey from Everest to Kilimanjaro via Bass Strait and the Kokoda Track. Walking Wounded founder Brian Freeman is carrying a Roll of Honour with the names of the 41 fallen Australians in the Afghanistan conflict and is aiming to help those who have returned assimilate back into the community. He aims to raise $2 million to support the psychological recovery of returned Australian soldiers. Funds raised will go towards suicide prevention and intervention, counselling, employment guidance and job placements. Mr Freeman began his Great Traverse in earthquake-ravaged Nepal, where they were at Base Camp and could not hit the summit, but spent their time helping quake victims. He then began a 4800 kilometre north-tosouth trek through Australia at Cape York. When he reaches Port Welshpool on 4 August, he will kayak across Bass Strait, then continue to the southern tip of Tasmania before taking on the Kokoda Track. He will then climb Africa’s highest mountain, the iconic Mount Kilimanjaro, before handing the Honour Roll to Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove in Canberra on Remembrance Day. Mr Freeman and his Great Traverse entourage arrive in Melbourne this Saturday, where Dick Custerson from A Positive Move and Silvio Marinelli from Highview Accounting are hosting a Tribute to the Anzacs event in his honour. He leaves Melbourne on Sunday morning and will arrive in Pakenham at 2pm, where members of the Pakenham RSL, supported by Cardinia Shire and Star News Group, will host a reception. Lunch will be provided for a gold coin donation and Mr Freeman will speak about his journey to date. The group then heads to Kooweerup for the night and the local secondary college will host a breakfast in his honour on Monday morning, before a few students will join him on the first leg of that day’s trip to Leongatha. After 20 years of service as an infantry and special forces soldier in the Australian Army, Mr Freeman’s military journey led him to East Timor, where he was employed as an operations officer alongside Major-General Peter Cosgrove,


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