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Highlanders chip in to make posies

Otago Daily Times Online News·Thursday, 30 April 2026·about 1 month ago
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Highlanders rugby players and staff joined about 40 community members in making 5000 posies, ready to be laid on graves in the service section of Andersons Bay Cemetery on Anzac Day. Highlanders general manager of rugby Greg O’Brien and eight players spent about an hour last week, making the rosemary and red paper remembrance posies and chatting with other posy-makers, before heading out to Montecillo Veterans Home and Hospital to meet residents. Mr O’Brien said Highlanders players and staff regularly took part in community events to meet the people, do some good works and gain inspiration. ‘‘Making these posies is both enjoyable and significant for us as we look towards commemorating Anzac Day,’’ he said. Dunedin women Raewyn Trainor, Lesley McLachlan, Pam Lyons and Sue [surname withheld] were also enjoying taking part in the posy-making session and were remembering family members who had served in the defence forces.…

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