FUNDING FOR PASCOE VALE RSL
Those attending Anzac Day and Remembrance Day services at the Pascoe Vale RSL will have shaded seating in future thanks to a $10,000 Brumby Government grant to add extra seating around the memorial in Rogers Reserve, Cumberland Road.
In making the announcement today, Christine Campbell, MP, Member for Pascoe Vale, congratulated the RSL and Moreland City Council for advocating on behalf of the members and residents.
“I was happy to support this application because I saw first hand that attendance at these services had risen each year, which is a great tribute from our local community, but I had also observed our returned services’ men and women struggle more each year to get through the commemoration services” Ms Campbell said.
“Last Remembrance Day I was worried that the flag bearer was standing in the hot sun and at the last Anzac Day commemoration, a number of people fainted including a man who had to be attended by an ambulance”, Ms Campbell said.
“Seating in the shade will make a big difference for these wonderful men and women who wish to commemorate and pay their respects to their war dead”.
“I look forward to attending many more services at the cenotaph”.
Tom Parkinson, the President of the Pascoe Vale RSL, said "We are appreciative of any assistance we can achieve. With the ageing of the diggers and their widows we need the relative comfort of seating, particularly on days that hold sad memories for so many attendees".
The Anzac Service of the PV RSL starts at 10.30 the Sunday after Anzac Day (2 May) at the Cenotaph at 111 Cumberland Rd opposite Olive Grove