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50 years of service By Dongyun Kwon
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Anzac Day commemoration in Healesville keeps going this year on Thursday 25 April with a bugle and trumpet performance by John Stanhope OAM. This year marks his 50th year of service on Anzac Day and Remembrance Day for the Healesville RSL. Mr Stanhope said he has played bugle and trumpet on both services since 1974 after the president of the Healesville RSL suggested to him although he doesn’t have any military background. “I was 26 back then,” he said. “The reason why I do it is because it’s great to do something for returned men and women to make their Anzac Day and Remembrance Day more memorable.” Mr Stanhope first started learning the trumpet at school when he was eight. “My parents expected me to play back then,” he said. “I was more interested in music than sports.” Turn to page 10 for more
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Last-minute twist and 2024 in relation to holding events at the property. “During those conversations, Council clarified what type of events could occur without the need to follow a planning permit process and what could not,” she said. Despite the permit issue, Animal Aid successfully wrapped up Adventure Dog 2024 with over 840 participants and raised $95,000.
Animal Aid event manager Elle Ammann said the last-minute venue change caused difficulties in creating a new course, site and communicating with the participants, volunteers, vendors, local community and stakeholders. “The last-minute venue change created a huge logistical challenge. We were shocked,” she said. Turn to page 5 for more
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from the council around 10.10pm on 22 March that Wandin Park Estate could not run the event. He claimed that the YRC took off the advertisement about Adventure Dog 2024 from its website after 22 April. YRC planning and sustainable futures director Kath McClusky said council officers have spoken to the owners and their representatives of Wandin Park Estate several times during 2023
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Adventure Dog 2024 was suddenly relocated from Wandin Park Estate in Gruyere to Yarra Glen Recreation Reserve and Showground with about two weeks left until the event. It was on 15 March when Wandin Park Estate co-owner William Anker first received a phone call from a representative from the Yarra Ranges Council (YRC). Mr Anker eventually received another email
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