Businesses show Anzac spirit

Albany’s businesses are getting into the spirit of this weekend’s Anzac commemorations, turning their shopfront windows into shrines to our war heroes with help from schools.

Students and their teachers have thought about the stories they wanted to portray and come up with dynamic displays for their dedicated window, helping add to the Anzac atmosphere that has been building in Albany all week.

Mt Lockyer Primary School students decorated the window at Urban 280 on York Street with blue waves, crocheted poppies and floating paper ships, inspired by their school emblem.Albany Secondary Education Support Centre students have dressed the shopfront of Saltacious, also on York Street, with crosses representing values that Anzac soldiers prided themselves with, such as respect, integrity and responsibility.

ASEC teacher Robyn Sellenger said the idea behind the display was to show the virtues of soldiers at Gallipoli.

“We realised the students at our school show those same virtues here at school, in the workplace and in the community,” she said.

Book store Paperbark Merchants, known for its creative window displays, worked with Great Southern Grammar students for their installation while Albany Classical Music Shop has decorated the store with a nurse, soldier and music sheets from the era.

Store owner Julie Parish said she wanted to get involved in the spirit of the event.

“With Stirling Terrace being one of the main centres of the event, we wanted to participate,” she said.

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