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Olympic Torch Relay Lake Macquarie August 28 2000 Ceremony

  • Olympic Torch Relay Lake Macquarie August 28 2000 Ceremony

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    Creator: Lake Macquarie City Council

    The Olympic Torch relay travelled through Lake Macquarie on 28 and 29 August 2000, days 82 and 83 of the relay. The torch relay arrived in Lake Macquarie, early Monday morning into Highfields, travelling through Charlestown, Mount Hutton and onto Speers Point for a celebration at Speers Point Park. The celebration included the lighting of the community cauldron by Geoffrey Thomas, a welcome ceremony from the Mimaga Wajaar peformers, custodians of Aboriginal culture in the Hunter Valley and some Taiko drumming from schoolchildren from Tanagura, Japan, Lake Macquarie's Friendship City. At the conclusion of the ceremony, the torch relay continued with Lisa Naughton, Australian representative hockey player, getting things underway by lighting her torch from the cauldron.

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