Last weekend was quite busy for the Woolooma residents.
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We had the official opening of Garlands Bridge and the shade shelter at the Woolooma Sports and Recreation Club.
It was great to see so many residents at both of the openings.
Yesterday, November 11, 2015, Australians gathered together across this nation to remember all who served, and all who suffered, in every war and armed conflict.
In the Upper Hunter Shire there were commemorative services held in Merriwa, Murrurundi and Scone.
It is now 97 years since the armistice which ended World War I.
Before the final shots were fired before 11am on this day in 1918, in those terrible four years of the Great War, 8,692,000 soldiers and 8,750,000 civilians from all over the world had died.
Sixty thousand Australians died and 167,000 were wounded.
Australians had answered the call with more than 400,000 stepping forward for overseas service in this war.
By December 1915 every eligible man in the Scone district had enlisted including some who raised their age and others that claimed to be a decade younger in order to join up.
More than 500 came from Bunnan, Blandford, Aberdeen, Rouchel, Ellerston, Moonan Flat, Stewarts Brook and everywhere in between.
More than 100 did not return.
The casualty rate from the Scone district was above the Australian average because of where they fought, including the terrible fields of the Western Front.
Many of these men, their bodies were not identified, adding to the burden of their grieving families.
Lest we forget.
Are there areas you love about Upper Hunter Shire towns or areas that need improving?
Community members are invited to tell us your ideas for what Aberdeen, Merriwa, Murrurundi and Scone’s town centres should look like in the future.
Each major town in the Upper Hunter Shire is getting a Town Centre Revitalisation Masterplan and the council needs your help to tell us what you would like.
Use the online interactive mapping tool to provide your comments.
This tool allows you to mark different sites on the map and share exactly what you think about the key areas of the town centres.
So, if there was an intersection that could use a pedestrian crossing or a missed opportunity for enjoying the spectacular scenery, we would love to know about it.
For further details and to provide your comments, please visit the council’s website at www.upper hunter.nsw.gov.au under Hot Topics.