Spirit of remembrance shines through as rain floods out service

When heavy overnight rain caused flooding through the CBD of Nambour in the early hours of ANZAC Day, the Dawn Service had to be cancelled. 

But in a demonstration of the true Australian spirit, locals still came together to pay their respects to our fallen servicemen and women in their own way.

“When it became obvious that the planned Dawn Service would not be able to go ahead, a group of us decided we would hold our own ceremony and a lovely lady called Melanie Silk kindly lent her car radio for us to hear the live service being broadcast from Caloundra,” said Nambour business woman, Vicki Arthur.

“It was not the kind of ceremony we would normally experience at Nambour, but there was something very poignant and special about banding together in this way to honour our servicemen and women,” she said.

Vicki’s sentiments were echoed on the Living in Nambour Facebook page, where many others shared her pride in the way the community once again banded together for a common cause.

“It was not the kind of ceremony we would normally experience at Nambour, but there was something very poignant and special about banding together in this way to honour our servicemen and women,” said Vicki Arthur.