Tara Murray
Craigieburn War Memorial and Remembrance Committee is wanting the local community to get behind Remembrance Day by putting poppies out to mark the day
With normal Remembrance Day services unable to go ahead because of COVID-19, committee president Kevin O’Callaghan said the group was looking at different ways to remember those who served.
“We’re friends of the RSL, so anything we do has to be in accordance with the RSL,” he said.
“It’s not likely to be a big service unless things change dramatically.”
“We’ll look at what we did on Anzac Day. The flags will be up at the memorial and we’ll look to get people involved through a live service on Facebook.
“Three or four members will likely go to one member’s house who has a flag poll to do that.”
Mr O’Callaghan said one way the community could look to get involved was having poppies in front yards or mail boxes from the start of November.
“We would love to see kids painting poppies on a rock or put poppies outside where people can see then and then send us photos.
“It’s good to get the kids involved. People really got behind Anzac Day [light up the dawn] hopefully people will do this and send through photos to us.”
This year’s poppy appeal has also gone online. Details: poppyappeal.com.au/
