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ANZAC DAY DAWN SERVICES
Wānaka and Hāwea - Saturday, 25 April ANZAC Day will be marked by dawn services in Wānaka and Hāwea on Saturday, 25 April. Wānaka’s Dawn Service begins at 7.00am on the Wānaka lakefront, opposite Helwick Street. Following the Wānaka Dawn Service, participants and public are warmly invited to an early morning tea in the Armstrong Room of the Lake Wānaka Centre, provided by the Wānaka and Districts Lions Club (Men), and Upper Clutha Lions Club (Ladies). A civic service follows in the Lake Wānaka Centre auditorium at 9.30am, followed by a traditional march by service personnel, other groups, and members of the public. The march will proceed up Ardmore Street to the Wānaka Cenotaph at the top of Chalmers Street for the laying of wreaths and poppies. Hāwea’s Anzac Dawn Service begins at 7.00am on the Anzac Peninsula, Lake Hāwea Dam.
Submitted by Upper Clutha RSA, Hāwea District ANZAC Committee and Hāwea Community Association
The ceremony will begin with the symbolic thunderclap, and the Call to Commemoration. Hāwea Flat School and Mt Aspiring College pupils will be singing “Hareruia”, delivering readings and placing crosses for our fallen. A guest speaker will be followed by the laying of wreaths, the Last Post and Reveille, the Australian and New Zealand anthems, music by pipers and a trumpeter, and a flypast by Tiger Moths. Attendees are encouraged to arrive between 6.306.45am. Parking is available at the southwest end of the dam (through the gate with the big red poppy), courtesy of Contact Energy, and in front of and immediately behind the Hāwea Hotel. It is a time to remember and honour the service and sacrifice of our original ANZACs and the generations of servicemen and women who have fought in wars and conflicts in the years since. Lest we forget.
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