Swan Hill and Woorinen RSL clubs have received $350 each from the Lake Boga Lions Club.
The money is from the admissions and donations received on ANZAC Day from the Lake Boga Flying Boat Museum.
Steve Pentreath, manager/curator of the Lake Boga Flying Boat Museum, presented the money to the two clubs last week at the Swan Hill RSL Club.
Mr Pentreath said that ANZAC Day proved to be a huge day with a lot of visitors.
“It was good to see a lot of locals as well as visitors to the area come through,” he said. “A lot of people come into the museum not knowing what to expect and walk feeling fulfilled and their expectations exceeded.”
Peter Ritchie, Swan Hill RSL Club president, said the funds would go towards cleaning and fixing memorial gates at Nyah as well as affixing plaques to the new cenotaph behind the gates.
Bev Beasy, from Woorinen RSL, was looking forward to putting the money towards the ongoing work on the gates at the entrance to the Woorinen football ground that contain the names of service personnel.
They are in the middle of a project that will chronicle the history of each of the names that appear on the gates, which will include where they came from originally and where they served.
Woorinen was established as a soldier’s settlement after World War I, and Mrs Beasy has four family members’ names on the gates including her father.
Both have personal ties to the museum. Mr Ritche’s mother served there as an aircraft clerk and Mrs Beasy’s brother-in-law also served at the former military base.
