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February 2005 - The opening of the February Committee meeting of the Walhalla Heritage and Development League was postponed briefly in order to deal with some important and unexpected business without notice -- about a notice. Longtime League member and Walhalla cemetery trustee, Yolanda Reynolds (pictured below), dropped in with a surprise gift for our archives when she returned an old sign from the entrance to the town which had somehow made its way to the Traralgon offices of the Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) , where it had languished in obscurity until she recently "liberated" it.
It was the Improvement League that sponsored the first of a lengthy series of "Back-To's", beginning in the late 1930's, and including the one shown here at Melbourne's Botanical Gardens on April 20th, 1945.
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The present-day Walhalla Heritage and Development League dips its collective lid in deference to our far-sighted founders of many years ago, and applauds the welcome return of this faded tourist landmark to the township. |
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