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Thai new year celebrations in Eumundi

Our local Thai community will celebrate Thai New Year at Eumundi market terraces from 10am-2pm on Sunday 23 April and everyone is welcome!

Songkran is also known as the 'Water Festival' and is Thailand’s most famous festival. It marks the beginning of their new year and is an opportunity to wash away the old and welcome the new. The name Songkran comes from a Sanskrit word meaning ‘passing’ or ‘approaching’.

Getting wet is what makes this festival so famous and welcome in Thailand as it comes at the end of a long dry season. There it is all about pouring and squirting as much water on as many people as possible!

In Eumundi the celebration will be more sedate, beginning with a welcome by Thai community members in traditional costumes. There will be performances of song and dance along with the opportunity to try a variety of Thai culinary delights.

Pomona Art Gallery exhibition

Local artist Janet Luttrell’s solo exhibition Secret Garden opened on 25 March at the Pomona Railway Station Gallery and runs until 27 April. Janet uses a playful contemporary style with acrylic on canvas. In this exhibition she draws on all things found in a garden including plants, birds, butterflies, flowers and trees. Visit: pomonartgallery.com.

Anzac Day

ANZAC stands for the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and Anzac Day commemorates the anniversary of the landing of Anzac troops at Gallipoli, Turkey on 25 April 1915. The plan to knock Turkey out of the war quickly became a stalemate that dragged on for eight months and more than 8,000 Australian troops were killed. The date 25 April became a day when Australians remembered those who died in the war. With WWII and subsequent campaigns involving Australian troops, Anzac Day now remembers all Australian soldiers killed in military operations.

The following Anzac Day services will be held in our area:

24 April

Eumundi: Eumundi State School (ESS) Anzac Day service at 9.30am conducted by Yr 6 students, Eumundi Town Square, Napier Rd, Eumundi.

25 April

Eumundi: 7.30am community walk and service, from under the Original Eumundi Markets welcome sign cnr. Napier Rd and Lonergan Lne to the amphitheatre.

Cooroy: 4.45am dawn service, Cooroy Cenotaph, Tewantin Rd followed by Gunfire Breakfast.

10am march to Memorial Hall, Maple St involving schools and main service at 10.30am.

Imbil: 5.30am dawn service at Memorial Park. 11.30am march followed by main service at noon at Memorial Park.

Kenilworth: 7.30am breakfast, march and main service, Kenilworth Town Park to the RSL memorial opposite the Showgrounds.

Kin Kin: 10am service at Butter Factory Park, Main St.

Nambour: 5.15am dawn service, Quota Memorial Park, Matthew St. 8.55am march from Howard St to Quota Memorial Park followed by main service at 9am.

Tewantin: 5.30am dawn service, Tewantin Town Square. 6.30am service at Tewantin Cemetery.

8.45am Anzac parade from Poinciana Ave to the Cenotaph followed by main service at 9am.

Verrierdale: 5.45am dawn service at Verrierdale Community Hall.

Yandina: 11am service at Yandina Cenotaph followed by lunch at the RSL Hall, 24 North St for a nominal fee.

Enjoy a game of two-up at the Yandina Hotel, Terrella Brewing at North Arm, Joe’s Waterhole at Eumundi, the Cooroy Memorial Hall and the Tewantin/Noosa RSL Club.