{"id":139240,"date":"2020-06-18T14:26:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T04:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/?p=139240"},"modified":"2022-04-14T09:50:56","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T23:50:56","slug":"new-flagpoles-for-yinnar-south-primary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/new-flagpoles-for-yinnar-south-primary-school\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW FLAGPOLES FOR YINNAR SOUTH PRIMARY SCHOOL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yinnar South Primary School is among the groups from across Australia to share more than $2.2 million through the Saluting Their Service<\/em> commemorative grants program.<\/p>\n

Federal Member for Gippsland and Minister for Veterans\u2019 Affairs Darren Chester this week announced Yinnar South Primary School would receive $2000 to install two flagpoles in its school yard.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new flagpoles will provide a fitting focal point for students, teachers and the school community during commemorative events held through the year,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvents like these encourage us to pause and remember the Australian service men and women who\u2019ve played a role in shaping our nation over more than a century.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two other groups from Gippsland successfully applied to the grant program: Sale RSL and Community Sub-branch will receive $9,550 to create a digital honour roll; and Nowa Nowa Community Development Group will receive $4335 to re-landscape the area around the town\u2019s war memorial.<\/p>\n

Mr Chester said projects like these helped to preserve Australia\u2019s wartime heritage and stories and supported commemorations of our military history.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis funding will help community groups and local organisations remember the service and sacrifice of our service personnel and encourage participation in commemorative events,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe successful community groups and organisations in this round will also be the first to benefit from the Federal Government\u2019s election commitment which saw the Community Grants<\/em> cap lifted from $4,000 to $10,000.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Chester said the Australian Government had provided this additional funding to the Saluting Their Service <\/em>grants program as part of its continued commitment to commemorating the moments that shaped Australia\u2019s military history.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year we have the unique opportunity to mark the 75th<\/sup> anniversary of the end of the Second World War and honour around one million Australians who served and some 39,000 who died,\u201d Mr Chester said.\u00a0 \u201cRemarkably some 12,000 of those veterans are still alive today.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been fantastic to see the creative ways that community groups are commemorating Second World War veterans in their home towns to ensure the memory of our service men and women lives on.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information on the Saluting Their Service <\/em>grants program, visit the Community Grants Hub<\/a> (www.communitygrants.gov.au<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yinnar South Primary School is among the groups from across Australia to share more than $2.2 million through the Saluting Their Service commemorative grants program. Federal Member for Gippsland and Minister for Veterans\u2019 Affairs Darren Chester this week announced Yinnar South Primary School would receive $2000 to install two flagpoles in its school yard. \u201cThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[46,30],"tags":[2507,355,3889,3895],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139240"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}