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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!