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CAN’T WAIT: Wimmera jazz music enthusiast Jeff Harvey will be among the many who make the annual pilgrimage to the Grampians Jazz Festival in Halls Gap next month. Mr Harvey, who admits to be being more of jazz fan than player, will soak up all the music on offer, but is particularly interest ed in modern mainstream jazz from the ‘cool’ era. He said the event, which he calls the ‘friendly festival’, provides one of his best annual Grampians experiences. Story, page 7. Picture: DEAN LAWSON
Horsham Anzac camp BY DEAN LAWSON
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he level of Wimmera sacrifice at the Australian landing at Gallipoli in the First World War has prompted national organisers to include Horsham in major national Centenary of Anzac activities. People from across the Wimmera-Mallee have an invitation to share in a unique Spirit of Anzac experience as part of Camp Gallipoli, the country’s largest national commemoration program. Horsham is one of only 12 regional sites across Australia to have the honour of presenting an Anzac Day Eve Camp
Gallipoli. It will also welcome the arrival of the Anzac Flame, starting a national tour on February 14 and due to be in Horsham before Anzac Day. A Horsham RSL sub-committee chaired by Mayor Mark Radford, working with various community members, is organising the event. It plans to directly involve about 400 students from secondary schools across the region. Camp Gallipoli events are scheduled at a series of historic locations across Australia and New Zealand. National organisers have invited families, schools and community groups to join in a
‘special night of remembrance, entertainment, mateship and the birth of Aussie and Kiwi Anzac spirit’. In Horsham, selected year nine, 10 and 11 students will camp out, at a venue yet to be decided, preceded by a special Camp Gallipoli Presentation on Anzac Day Eve.
Re-enactment The event will also feature a First World War re-enactment, segments of a Camp Gallipoli documentary, special guests and the screening of Russell Crowe’s war-time drama ‘The Water Diviner.’ While the Horsham Camp Gallipoli ‘sleep-out’ is restrict-
ed to the selected students, organisers are encouraging the public to attend a Camp Gallipoli presentation on Anzac Day Eve and the various Anzac Day dawn and commemorative services across the region. A Horsham dawn service is planned for 6.30am and a commemorative service at 11am, following a march. Camp Gallipoli Foundation chief executive Chris Fox said historical records showed that it would have been wrong for Horsham to miss out on the opportunity to present one of the 12 regional camps. “Rural Victorian towns and centres made a considerable sacrifice at Gallipoli, especially
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Horsham district,” he said. “The original Fifth Battalion, the first Victorian battalion to land at Anzac Cove, was more than well represented by Horsham boys. “It is an incredible honour for the centres to host Camp Gallipoli events but it is more than appropriate.” Records show that hundreds of young men from Horsham district and the region died during the Gallipoli landing and campaign. Mr Fox said the camp would be more than simply commemorating young people who had made the the ultimate sacrifice. “What we’re trying to engender back into Australian
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culture is what was born on Anzac Cove all those years ago – mateship and the spirit of Anzac,” he said. “It’s about the true values of mateship where it doesn’t matter if you are rich, poor, black, white, old or young and we think that spirit is in all of our DNA. “We want an Australian generation that is constantly taking ‘selfies’ on their phones and seemingly consumed only with themselves to consider what those brave men gave to us. “There is a strong educational element in what we’re doing but it’s not just for kids – it’s open to all Australians. - Continued Page 9