Help make poppies as mark of respect

WORKSHOP

Poppy Workshop

Date: Thursday, June 26

Time: 1.30pm to 4.30pm

Location: Comet Bay College

Red poppies will flow through the hallways of Comet Bay College this month as the school aims to help make 5000 material flowers for Albany Centenary commemorations.

The school was asked by the Returned and Services League of Australia WA Branch to help make the poppies, which will be placed on the beach at Ellen Cove on November 1 to mark 100 years since the Anzac contingent of about 30,000 troops departed from Albany in 1914 bound for Gallipoli.

Defence transition mentor Claire Hunt said the school was calling on the community and schools to go along to a workshop next week to learn how to make the poppies and to contribute to the display.

“We are encouraging local people, craft groups, kids, retirement homes... everyone to make red fabric or wool-knitted poppies, and to send them in to CBC by the end of August,” she said.

The poppies will also be flown to Federation Square in Melbourne for Anzac Day services next year.

They will then return to Perth to be used for Remembrance Day events.