Operation Rosemary needs you
Operation Rosemary is reinstating a community volunteer project to assemble lapel sprigs in time for Anzac Day.
Wimmera volunteer and Operation Rosemary coordinator Darren Scott has been creating the sprigs alone for the past couple of years and posting them across Victoria and Australia to Returned Service League clubs.
Mr Scott said the Horsham group, established in 2005, needed volunteers and rosemary donations to get the job done this year.
“A lot of the sprigs are sent across Australia, but we also create them for people in the Wimmera,” he said.
“We don’t want to knock back any clubs wanting the sprigs.”
Mr Scott said Melbourne’s Legacy ladies previously created the sprigs, but the group ran out of volunteers and the headquarters moved to the Wimmera.
The group meets at Horsham RSL from April 1 to April 14 in preparation for Anzac Day on April 25.
“While many of our volunteers will spend whole days working away making sprigs, we welcome people to drop in for as much time as they can spare,” Mr Scott said.
He said the general reaction from people who volunteered with the group was that it was ‘friendly’.
“There is a lovely bunch of people who are involved with the group and you will have a good time,” he said.
Mr Scott said for people who did not want to make the sprigs there were other ways they could volunteer.
“We are also seeking volunteers to fulfill the orders by counting the sprigs and packing them into boxes,” he said.
“People can address the boxes; some can man the door so volunteers can sign in so we can tally up the volunteer hours, others can make the cuppas, so there is a job for everyone.”
People or clubs interested in volunteering can call Horsham RSL on 5382 5912 or Mr Scott on 0431 214 440.