Legacy Week, from Sunday August 30 to Saturday September 5, is the charity’s annual appeal to collect donations so it can continue to support the families of deceased and incapacitated veterans.

Legacy Orange president Bob Garvin said the Orange community had always been generous, with about $50,000 collected in 2014, and this year he expected no different.  

He said most of the funds raised in Orange would stay in Orange to help widows and children with whatever costs they had.

“We help financially, lawn mowing, painting the house, clothing, whatever needs doing,” Mr Garvin said.

“All legatees are assigned a widow and they go visit them at the nursing home or their homes, wherever they are, once or twice a month and have a yarn with them, talk with them. We apply to the Department of Veterans Affairs on their behalf for the pension.”

About 60 volunteers, including students from Orange’s high schools and army reservists, will walk through the Orange CBD and industrial areas selling badges from $5 to $200, bears for $15, pens for $5 and wristbands for $3.

Stalls will also be set up in shopping centres.

Mr Garvin said the Orange appeal had already received large donations, from Orange Ex-Services’ Club of $10,000, Newcrest Mining of $1500 and the Rotary Club of Orange of $1000.

Any one interested in  becoming a Legatee can contact Colleen Donohoe in the Orange office on 6362 1205.

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