Zoe Moffatt
Sunbury Sub-branch RSL and the Bulla Garden Club will be holding ANZAC day services on April 25, and they invite the community to attend.
The dawn service in Sunbury will begin at 6am, while the morning service and wreath laying ceremony will begin at approximately 10.30am, at the Monument at Memorial Hall.
The Bulla service will commence at 8.30am at the cenotaph on the corner of Green Street and Bulla road.
Sunbury RSL secretary Harry Beckwith said they will have a holding ceremony around the cenotaph from 6pm ANZAC eve until 6am ANZAC morning.
“At 9.50am [there will be] a march from the post office to the cenotaph, led by a uniform police,” Mr Beckwith said.
“Six to seven old classic cars with service personnel [will follow].”
Mr Beckwith said they are expecting it to be a busy day, with thousands of people set to attend.
“In [the] past it could be up to anything like 5000 [people] for both services,” he said.
The Sunbury RSL will also be selling ANZAC day pins across town until April 24, ranging from $2 to $50.
The Bulla Garden Club will be running a smaller service and said they expect about 80 to 100 people to attend.
Garden club Secretary Heather McKenzie said “it’s only a short service, it probably goes for 20 to 25 minutes.”
“Then [everyone] can have a cup of tea and light refreshments, and we get to mingle and get to know people from Bulla and the areas around Bulla.”
Ms McKenzie said she will have flowers for people to lay down and looks forward to getting the community together.
“I usually make a piece of rosemary and a couple of flowers so anyone who wants to put something down but doesn’t have anything can put it down,” she said.
“We first started with about 20 people and every year it grows and grows… It was just one of those things that we thought would be a good idea [to] get people from Bulla together.”
“We don’t mind where they come from… It’s just lovely to meet up with different people.”
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