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ON 25 APRIL EVERY YEAR AUSTRALIANS COMMEMORATE ANZAC DAY

from The Bribie Island Magazine Issue 189

from The Bribie Island Magazine Issue 189, page 71

BRIBIE ISLAND WRAP

Moreton Bay Regional Council has approved new three-year Community Operational Support Grants under Council’s Community Grants Policy to support organisations with the costs associated with holding Anzac Day services.

Over $72,000 in funding has been committed to multiple groups across the region to deliver their public service and marches.

Mayor Peter Flannery said this would offer better support for volunteer organisations that organise these commemorative events and provides certainty of funding for the next three years.

“Anzac Day services throughout Moreton Bay region are an important way for our communities to acknowledge the significant contributions and sacrifices of past and present servicemen and servicewomen and their families.

“As Mayor and a former Soldier, I am incredibly proud that Council will ensure our local community associations who hold ANZAC services will have adequate financial and logistical support.

Across the Moreton Bay region, services will be held by local RSL sub-branches and community organisations to mark Anzac Day on Tuesday 25 April.

“On Anzac Day, we pause to remember the countless sacrifices which have been made, and continue to be made, by our service personnel,” Mayor Peter Flannery said.

“We are privileged to live lives of freedom and opportunity here in Moreton Bay and Australia more broadly. It is their sacrifices which have granted us these privileges.

“I encourage every resident to go down to their local service and join the community in reflecting on the true meaning of Anzac Day.”

Ode of Remembrance

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.

Lest we forget

ANZAC – Australian and New Zealand Army Corps