Anzac Day services in Logan — what’s on from dawn to dusk and which buses are running
It will be an Anzac Day most will remember after the coronavirus forced the cancellation of all traditional Dawn Services. But in Logan, south of Brisbane, no Digger will be forgotten. Here is our list of online services and community tributes.
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LOGAN’S elderly residents who are in lockdown because of the coronavirus will not miss out on ANZAC DAY services, thanks to a group of funeral parlours.
Simplicity Funerals, White Lady Funerals and George Hartnett Metropolitan Funerals have joined forces to prerecord a service which will be beamed into aged care facilities across Logan on Saturday morning.
Scottish piper Joe McGhee from Regents Park and Norfolk Village State School student Eloise Thornber present pieces to camera during the video, which will be played online on Saturday after the Dawn Driveway services.
The service includes readings, the address, the laying of wreath, and the traditional playing of The Last Post and Reveille.
The video will be played at aged care centres including Palm Lake Care, Bethania; Palm Lake Care, Mt Warren Park; Clanwilliam Aged Care, Bethania; Infin8 Care, Cornubia; Seasons Aged Care, Waterford West; Arcare, Slacks Creek; Opal Greenfern Place, Browns Plains; Blue Care Yurana Retirement Village, Daisy Hill; and Freedom Aged Care, Tanah Merah.
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Thanks to public donations and sponsorships it has interviewed veterans in their homes and facilities throughout 2019 and will continue to make these connections in 2020 once the restrictions are lifted.
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ALSO IN LOGAN
CARBROOK:
Go online to view the 1500 poppies set out in the foyer at Blue Care Wiryuna at 559-581 Beenleigh Redland Bay Rd. The poppies were all handmade by Lucy Simmons. All day Saturday.
EDENS LANDING
All day: Castille Crescent, Edens Landing: Pat Vanden-Brik has decorated her front fence and yard with 1500 poppies as a tribute to Logan’s fallen. Drive past to pay your respects.
SPRINGWOOD:
6am: Listen to The Last Post by Springwood bugler Amanda Casagrande, a multiple Queensland and Australian and New Zealand brass champion who has claimed titles on cornet, flugel and horn over the past 35 years.
She will play The Last Post, Reveille, and The Australian and New Zealand National Anthems for a solemn driveway service in Clarinda Ave, Springwood. The brass renditions will echo around the neighbourhood Please abide by the current Emergency laws, no gatherings, no unauthorised visitors,
maintain social distancing, but we are allowed exercise walks.
Lest We Forget
LOGAN CENTRAL
6am: Schoolboy Robert Kaden has built his own flagpole out the front of his Logan Central home on Jacaranda Ave, opposite the Logan Art Gallery. Drive past and pay tribute.
LOGAN CENTRAL
ALL DAY: View the wonderful artwork by Logan artist and archivist Mic Noble who has created 50 white crosses each with the name of a Logan Digger. Mr Noble’s display is online at Facebook page ANZAC DAY Logan Civic Gardens 2020 which is linked to Mic Nobel’s page.
After the Logan Central sub-branch closed, Mr Noble started sifting through the club’s memorabilia and found a photograph of a plaque of the names of 300 Logan World War I veterans. “With a little bit of research, I found the plaque had once been pride of place at Logan District RSL sub-branch but had disappeared,” he said.
“Logan Village Museum had a photo of the plaque and from that I transcribed some of the names on to 50 white crosses I made.”
LIGHT UP THE DAWN
Citywide: All Logan residents have been invited to tune in to Logan radio station 101FM at 5.am for an entire morning of Anzac Day services including the Dawn Service and the Last Post which will be played on air at 6am.
TRANSPORT ON ANZAC DAY
On Anzac Day, Saturday, April 25, most services will operate to a Sunday/Public Holiday timetable.
Bribie Island Coaches: Sunday timetable
Brisbane Bus Lines: No service
Brisbane City Council: Sunday timetable; no Friday NightLink services
Bus Queensland Lockyer Valley: Sunday timetable
Bus Queensland Toowoomba: Sunday timetable
Caboolture Bus Lines: Sunday timetable
Cairns Sunbus: Sunday timetable
Clarks Logan City: Sunday timetable; no Friday NightLink services
Hornibrook Bus Lines: Sunday timetable; no Friday NightLink services
Kangaroo Bus Lines: Sunday timetable
Mackay Transit Coaches: No services
Mount Gravatt Bus Service: No services
Park Ridge Transit: Sunday timetable
Sunshine Coast Sunbus: Sunday timetable
Surfside Buslines: Sunday timetable
Thompson Bus Services: Sunday timetable
Townsville Sunbus: Sunday timetable
Transdev: Sunday timetable: no Friday NightLink services
Westside Bus Company: Sunday timetable
Transdev
Sunday timetable; no Friday NightLink services
TRAINS
Trains will operate to a Sunday timetable, with an additional Gympie North to Roma Street service departing at 5.56am.
FERRY
SMBI will operate to a Saturday timetable.
CityHopper will operate to a Monday to Sunday timetable
CityCat will operate to a Weekend and Public Holiday timetable
Cross River Ferry, Kangaroo Point will operate to a Monday to Sunday timetable
Cross River Ferry, Norman Park to New Farm Park will operate to a Monday to Sunday timetable
Cross River Ferry, Bulimba to Teneriffe will operate to a Weekends and public holiday timetable
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