As a veteran and current serving full-time member of the ADF, I implore you all to tune into the ABC's televised commemorative dawn service or observe a minute's silence in your driveway at 6am as a part of the RSL's Light Up the Dawn initiative.

Despite not being able to come together as a community at a local service or march, we can still band together to keep the Anzac spirit alive. Whilst it may be hard to see at the present time, the lives in which we ordinarily enjoy (and often take for granted) are attributed to the sacrifices made by servicemen and women, both past, present and future.

Lest we forget.

Emily Lahey, East Launceston.

IN the last four weeks I can't believe how Woolworths have increased the price of groceries - up to one dollar on some items.

In times like this when governments banks are doing their best to minimise the pain and soften the blow to the economy, Woolworths are price gouging. How low can you go? They tell you that Australia can feed 75 million people and there is no shortage so I guess it's greed, they should be ashamed. The Woolworths employees are doing a fantastic job under these stressful times.

P Park, West Tamar.

WHILE the virus has had many down sides, there's one area where it may be a godsend. Australia needs tradesmen and at the moment we have high unemployment of unskilled workers.

What better time than now to get people into training for the various trades. Funding for trainees/apprentices would be a good way to keep many of the unskilled out of the dole queues and build up the depleted tradesmen stock. With international workers being unavailable training our own must be preferable.

Ken Terry, Bridport.

PLEASE allow children back into the classroom where they learn best. Launceston has no recorded cases since April 5, 2020 of COVID-19 and the Prime Minister and health experts have consistently advised that it is safe for children to attend school.

Fortunately increased hygiene standards will be the new normal assisting keeping people safe from all manner of viruses. Pre COVID-19 people would soldier on and go outside of the home to attend school and work if they had a cold potentially infecting others.

Now online learning or working from home (where possible) can complement face to face interaction so those people with colds don't miss out.

Also I feel sorry for people with allergies ie hay fever as people will assume that they have a virus so on bad allergy days they can learn/work online and not miss out on what is happening at school or the workplace.

Tilley Johnson, Riverside.