THOSE bottles and cans you emptied on New Year’s Even can now help with the ongoing fundraising efforts for Bathurst’s War Memorial Carillon.
Subscribe now for unlimited access.
$0/
(min cost $0)
or signup to continue reading
New bells were installed in the Carillon late last year as the latest step in converting it to a fully operational carillon.
The next step is the installation of a baton clavier – a type of oversized keyboard with hand and foot pedals to manually strike the bells – that will be made-to-order by Taylor’s Foundry in the UK, along with a practice clavier to help newcomers learn to play the instrument.
But it’s an expensive exercise, with the baton clavier alone to cost around $260,000, so the fundraising efforts are continuing.
The next event will be a sausage sizzle at the Community Op Shop at Berry Park on Saturday.
Councillor Monica Morse said residents were encouraged to take their empty bottles and cans to the Op Shop from 10am and volunteers would be on hand to feed them into the Return & Earn machine, with proceeds to be donated to the Carillon fundraising.
Cr Morse said once the clavier was delivered to Bathurst it would take about three weeks to install.
She hoped it might be in place by Remembrance Day on November 11 this year, but conceded that Anzac Day in 2020 was more likely.