Residents will pause and reflect upon the ultimate sacrifice today with a number of commemorative Anzac Day services to be held in Boorowa and the surrounds.
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Dawn services will commence at 6am at the Boorowa War Memorial and 6.30am at the Rugby War Memorial.
Both dawn services will be followed by a traditional breakfast.
Assembly for Boorowa's Anzac Day march will commence at 10.15am in front of the old Post Office building in Queen Street. The march will begin at 10.30am down Marsden Street.
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There will also be a few new additions to this year's main service in Boorowa at 10.35am, according to Boorowa RSL sub-Branch President Phil Armitage.
"About nine months we wrote and asked the Temora Aviation Museum if they could do a flyover of Boorowa sometime on Anzac Day and late last week they came back and said yes, we are scheduled in for 9.30am," he said.
"We are taking cognizance of the "NZ" in ANZAC, so we will be playing the New Zealand national anthem, as well as the Australian national anthem as part of the service.
"It's going to be a beautiful day, judging by the forecast and people should come and enjoy the parade."
This year's guest speaker will be Group Captain Christopher Taylor, who is a serving officer in the Air Force.
Lunch will be served at the Boorowa Ex-Services Club at 12 noon for a 12.30pm start for $33 per person.
There are a few spaces left so if interested, please contact Phil Armitage on 6385 1007 or 0416 292 747 as soon as possible.
The Boorowa War Memorial will also be open for public viewing between 2pm and 4pm.
Mr Armitage said the sub-Branch will also be taking donations for the annual Anzac Day appeal and collecting funds for the Boorowa War Memorial.
"We have recently competed a Heritage Management Document for the War Memorial which has specified some works that need to be undertaken so we will actually be fundraising for those works," he said.
"We are fundraising for the RSL through the normal Anzac Day Appeal. 60 per cent goes to RSL Defence Care in Sydney.... 40 per cent goes to the sub-Branch."
