{"id":1048,"date":"2010-12-14T01:03:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T01:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/2010\/12\/14\/gippsland-veterans\/"},"modified":"2010-12-14T01:03:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T01:03:43","slug":"gippsland-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/gippsland-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"GIPPSLAND VETERANS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GRANTS FOR PROJECTS TO HONOUR GIPPSLAND\u2019S VETERANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>December 14, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two projects in Gippsland to honour Australia\u2019s servicemen and women will share in $6500 in Federal Government Saluting Their Service grants.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester has welcomed the funding for the projects organised by the Briagolong Primary School and Yinnar &#038; District Community Association.<\/p>\n<p>$3000 will help Briagolong Primary School grade 6 students to produce a book about the war service of local veterans based on a 1920 handwritten document donated to the school listing the names of former staff and students from the school who served during the First World War.<\/p>\n<p>And the Yinnar &#038; District Community Association will receive $3605 to restore the Yinnar &#038; District War Memorial.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester said Saluting Their Service grants help local communities to undertake projects that commemorate veterans from the area who served in wars and conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important we remember those who participated in national service throughout our history, particularly those from our local communities,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur servicemen and women helped shape our great nation and by undertaking projects to commemorate their service we can ensure that their efforts are on display for future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester encouraged local community and ex-service organisations interested in applying for funding to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dva.gov.au\/grants\">www.dva.gov.au\/grants<\/a> or to contact their nearest DVA office on 1800 555 254.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GRANTS FOR PROJECTS TO HONOUR GIPPSLAND\u2019S VETERANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>December 14, 2010<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two projects in Gippsland to honour Australia\u2019s servicemen and women will share in $6500 in Federal Government Saluting Their Service grants.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester has welcomed the funding for the projects organised by the Briagolong Primary School and Yinnar &#038; District Community Association.<\/p>\n<p>$3000 will help Briagolong Primary School grade 6 students to produce a book about the war service of local veterans based on a 1920 handwritten document donated to the school listing the names of former staff and students from the school who served during the First World War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}