Anzac Day
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Anzac Day service and market combine
The Lancefield community will come together this Saturday, April 25, for a combined Anzac Day service and farmers market, offering both reflection and local produce in the heart of town. The Lancefield and District Farmers Market will begin at its usual time of 9am, running along the centre plantation of High Street. The market will…
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Mount Macedon Memorial Cross funding deadline looms
A major project cost blowout has cast doubt over Anzac Day services at Mount Macedon Memorial Cross unless funds are raised by the month’s end. Unexpected structural challenges have tipped Mount Macedon Memorial Cross restoration expenses more than $200,000 over budget. During construction, engineers discovered that the original footings did not align with the 1990…
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Anzac events in a spin
“Macedon Ranges council bureaucrats should hang their heads in shame” for decisions putting two local Anzac Day services in a spin, Bill Bates told the Express. The Malmsbury Anzac Day coodinator said he was “still shell-shocked” the council had refused $2500 for traffic management funding essential to run the town’s service. Last week, both Malmsbury…
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Stories of service
Each Anzac Day, the Mount Macedon Memorial Cross provides a spectacular, evocative setting for one of the largest dawn services in Victoria. This year it will host a service with the theme ‘Honouring Every Role, Every Sacrifice’ to acknowledge the many different ways that Australians have, and continue to, serve and protect their country. As…
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Mount to host Dawn Service
The Mount Macedon Anzac Day Dawn Service Committee will be conducting a service at the Mount Macedon War Memorial Cross this year. The Dawn Service is a commemorative event that honours the sacrifice of veterans, salutes their service and seeks to learn from the experiences of servicemen and servicewomen. This year’s service will pay tribute…
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Memories of war
Jim Foreman was just 17 years old when he shipped out to sea. Now aged 94, it’s taken the WWII veteran a lifetime to talk about what he saw at war. It was 1944 and the war was intensifying, so along with many other boys who left school in Kyneton, Jim joined the Navy. “Don…
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A date with destiny
Big weddings are out during the coronavirus pandemic, so Macedon Ranges newlyweds Fernada and Raymond DeMack found a new way to reach their 300-plus guest list on Saturday. Chairs were empty as they said their vows at Sunbury Baptist Church but cameras captured and livestreamed every moment to friends and family. All understood the significance…
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Pilots execute precision task
Anzac Day is an early start for many people, including members of the Kyneton Aero Club who for the past eight years have been a part of Anzac Day services at Mount Macedon and Kyneton. Performing these Anzac Day flyovers are a precision task requiring special approval by the air safety regulator CASA, coordination with…