It will be an Anzac Day like no other in the past hundred years - but the spirit will live on in the lanterns that will shine and the buglers' Last Posts that will sound on April 25 around the Wimmera.
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The #LightUpTheDawn campaign has spread, with young and old looking to rise before dawn, stand at the end of their driveways - candle in hand - and remember those who served our country.
In the early light, it is expected the mournful refrain of the Last Post will echo around our towns and cities - a call to remember the fathers, sons, mothers, daughters, friends and family who were lost in the fields of war, and those who returned.
HORSHAM
RSL
The local Anzac Day dawn service will be pre-recorded by RSL Vice President Don Pirouet, with guest speaker Mick Harris. It will be aired on ACE radio 1089 3WM at 6.30am. President Robert Lockwood will lower the flags to half-mast and lay a wreath for the Horsham RSL. A Lone Bugler will sound The Last Post and Rouse just after 6am.
RSL sub-branches across the Wimmera will not be holding their own public Anzac day services.
Instead, a small dawn service will be broadcast from Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance. This service will be held inside the sanctuary of the Shrine of Remembrance, and be broadcast from 5:50 am to 6:28 am and live streamed on both the RSL Victoria and Shrine of Remembrance Facebook pages.
The National Anzac Day Commemoration at the Australian War Memorial will be broadcast live nationally by the ABC and streamed online along with other Anzac Day programming.
Council
Horsham Rural City Council is encouraging people to rise early and at 5.55am stand at the end of their driveways to observe a minute of silence, a key part of the dawn service.
They have also encouraged people to make red poppies - from egg cartons, newspapers or crocheted - and place them on your post box.
Whipping up a batch of Anzac biscuits - originally sent to soldiers serving overseas by loved ones - is a time-honoured tradition. The Australian War Memorial website has a recipe.
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STAWELL
RSL
In Stawell, president of the RSL sub-branch Graeme Cox will lead a ceremony involving only two people, at a distance, with one lowering the national flag and a bugle call at dawn.
"We don't want the public there, it'll be too dangerous, and it's illegal," he said.
COUNCIL
Northern Grampians Shire Council will be live streaming the dawn service in Stawell via its Facebook page. Council will also be playing the Last Post from the town hall clock tower in Stawell at 6am, 12pm and 3pm on
Residents are also encouraged to join in the "Driveway at Dawn" initiative and stand in their driveways on Saturday morning to commemorate the servicemen and women of our defence forces.
Northern Grampians Shire Council Mayor, Murray Emerson, encouraged everyone to share the ways they will be marking Anzac Day in their homes.
I encourage everyone to share on social media or virtually with friends and family how you will be honouring our Anzacs so we can still be together while keeping our distance
- Murray Emerson
"Anzac Day is a day for community, a day that unites us as Australians, and while we cannot be together this year, we can still virtually come together as a community to show our support for our fallen and current servicemen and women," he said.
"By standing together in the dawn light in our driveways, by participating in services on television or online, by marking a minute silence, and placing poppies in our windows or on fences, all these acts prove while we must be distant, we are still here together remembering and reflecting on the spirit of the Anzac."
"I encourage everyone to share on social media or virtually with friends and family how you will be honouring our Anzacs so we can still be together while keeping our distance."
ARARAT
In Ararat, RSL general manager Maria Whitford said people were welcome to lay a wreath at the Ararat Cenotaph in their own time, if they deemed it necessary to and could do it safely.
"We're hoping people jump on board the 'stand to in your driveway'," she said.
"The dawn service is a big part of what we do, but commemoration can happen anywhere, it doesn't have to happen in big crowds."
"It would be magnificent if we had driveways full."
Great Western
The fire siren from the CFA station will sound for a minute silence at 10am.
St Arnaud
11am driveway service - residents encouraged to observe a minutes silence.
Navarre
Dawn driveway service - residents encouraged to observe a minutes silence.
Halls Gap
Dawn driveway service - residents encouraged to observe a minutes silence.
Marnoo
Dawn driveway service - residents encouraged to observe a minutes silence.
LOOKING FOR IDEAS?
The Department of Veterans Affairs has provided resources and assistance online for people planning an Anzac Day commemoration at home. Find the details here