This area of the Kaiapoi RSA cemetery is to be re-dedicated on Friday. File photoA community effort has led to a re-dedication of Kaiapoi’s RSA cemetery. The Kaiapoi RSA is hosting a special ceremony on Friday, February 26, after a community effort to “touch-up” the gravestones and install an information board to help descendants find their ancestors’ graves. “The objective for the RSA is to give thanks for the new equipment and to celebrate what I term a real community effort between the Kaiapoi RSA, Veterans Affairs, the Waimakariri District Council and Kaiapoi High School,” Kaiapoi RSA president Neill Price says. A year 11 literacy class from Kaiapoi High School spent time at the Kaiapoi RSA Cemetery last year checking off grave sites and matching the names of old soldiers and their spouses against a master list.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 23, 2021 01:52 UTC