Contributed by Yvonne JamesLocal RSL’s, and in particular the Kenilworth RSL is anxious for participation in a local version of this project. They are especially hoping for local people to make poppies for our own Anzac Day memorials in 2015.The finished poppies can be taken to the local library or given directly to any RSL member.Let’s see if we can make our own war memorials the length and breadth of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland and Valley as colourful as Federation Square in Melbourne will be on ANZAC Day (see information at the website below).The Kenilworth Library was collecting poppies for this project, but after the closing date for that, any poppies collected are being saved for our 2015 Kenilworth Poppy Project.As we saw on television coverage of Remembrance Day, school children were placing a single poppy to represent those who died in the First World War. Kenilworth RSL is hoping to replicate this event at the Kenilworth 2015 Anzac Day ceremony with a poppy to be placed for each person on the Honour Board at the Kenilworth Memorial Hall.Knitting and crochet patterns are available at the Kenilworth Library, and also on the website - 5000poppies.wordpress.com/poppy-patterns/.  There are lots of patterns and YouTube tutorials on this website. Poppies can be made from material, felt, paper etc, so even if you can’t knit or crochet, you can still make poppies. They are very easy to make and each one takes less than half an hour.Let us make our local memorials very special for the 2015 Anzac Day commemorations. So please get working and see if we can create a record for Kenilworth and all the memorials in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland and especially in the Mary Valley.A Sunshine Coast lady recently appealed through the Sunshine Coast press and radio for such poppies to take with her for laying at Gallipoli on ANZAC Day, but that deadline is the end of March. So there will still be time for poppies to be donated to local RSL’s.