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ANZAC Day 2022 - We Haven't Forgotten.........
We thought that last ANZAC Day 'may well have been the best attended in the Club’s history'. We weren't quite correct. Attendances at both the Dawn Service and the Main Service in 2022 exceeded those of last year and reflected what took place across the country.
ANZAC Day Address - 25 April 2022
What does it mean to say Lest we forget? The ode to the fallen that we recite on this day each year ends with those three words. When the monuments to the fallen were put up across our nation, those words were carved on them in stone. ‘Lest’ is an old word, almost lost to our language today. It means ‘for fear that’ we forget. This monument, this ceremony, this day exists lest we forget. These are not soft words. They are not a vague promise that we mumble on this day each year so that, our remembrance duty done, we can move on with our lives. There is a reason they are carved in stone. These words take us by the shoulders and shake us. They are history’s index finger pushed into our chests, a reminder of our duty as the beneficiaries of their bravery that we must never forget them.
Tasmanian RSL Golf Challenge 2022
The Tasmanian RSL Golf Challenge which is the major fundraising event for the Lenah Valley RSL welfare fund, was held on Sunday 6 March 2022.
The Challenge, first held in 2011, occurs in March each year at the Claremont Golf Club and is an 18 hole Ambrose event.
Remembrance Day 2021
Remembrance Day was attended by close to a 100 people in 2021.
Our Patron, John Opie OAM, was in good fettle and recited the Ode.
Oscar Fitzpatrick and Emily Lang, students from Sacred Heart College, respectively recited the poems ‘In Flanders Field’ and ‘We Shall Keep the Faith’.
ANZAC Day 2021
Anzac Day 2021 was a great success, after formal Anzac Day services in 2020 were cancelled due to COVID-19.
The consensus was that it may well have been the best attended in the Club’s history.
A number of guests subsequently contacted the Club and its organisers, noting that the day's functions were as good as they had attended anywhere!
Working Bee - Sunday 14 October 2018
Huge working bee today at the Lenah Valley RSL. Brickwork, painting windows, installing bollards, cleaning storage container, replacing ceiling tiles, amazing work in the gardens, cutting lawns and more - great work by all - a huge turn up of volunteers. Big thank you to Westland Nurseries ... come and see what they have done - you will love it!"
Note: The LVRSL relies heavily on a team of around 30 volunteers; without whose ongoing commitment it would be impossible for the Club to continue.
Flood Damage at LVRSL – Friday 11 May 2018
Hobart recorded more than 100mm of rain in a single day for the first time ever in early May 2018 — doubling the previous record.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) advised that 129 mm of rain fell in Hobart in the 24 hours to early Friday 11 May, 2018. Mount Wellington (aka Kunanyi/Mount Wellington) recorded 236 mm of rain during the same period.
State Emergency Services reported flooding in central Hobart, Blackmans Bay, Kingston and Sandy Bay with Roads and schools closed as a result .
Memories of an ANZAC Day - In The Early 1980's
When I turned 18, over 35 years ago, I decided to join the RSL. My father, and his ‘cronies’ as they were called spent many Fridays after work there, and I had been a couple of times. However, this memory is about an ANZAC Dawn Service morning. It was 5.30am and I was going to a dawn service-I arranged to meet Dad there. In my naivety I walked in thinking it would be relatively quiet at that time of the morning. I couldn’t believe my eyes - the place was packed -beers everywhere, and the room thick smoke from cigarettes. And many many conversations being held at the same time. It could have been a normal after works drinks night but this was before Dawn!