VOLUNTEERS at Ararat\u2019s Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre were busy at work when the Ararat Advocate called by last week.<\/p>\n
The centre has been closed for two years due to the pandemic, but around a dozen people were actively cleaning and reorganising the centre last week.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hoped public tours will commence on April the 7th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n Gum San President Henry Gunstone said the volunteers are eager to get things back on track.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re going to try and open before Easter and we have another working bee this week which will bring us pretty close,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are all itching to get back to work. It\u2019s a tourist attraction that cost over $4 million to build and we\u2019ve got to get it open, it\u2019s our heritage.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re trying to have it open on April the seventh which is pretty close to 21 years since it first opened,\u201d Mr Gunstone said.<\/p>\n Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre was funded by the Bracks Government and brings to life the story of the immigrant miners on the Victorian Goldfields in the mid 1800’s.<\/p>\n Mr Gunstone said while most volunteers have returned to the centre, there is always a need for more.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are always keen to welcome new people and if anyone is interested they can contact me on 0408 332 820,\u201d Mr Gunstone said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" VOLUNTEERS at Ararat\u2019s Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre were busy at work when the Ararat Advocate called by last week.
\nThe centre has been closed for two years due to the pandemic, but around a dozen people were actively cleaning and reorganising the centre last week.
\nIt\u2019s hoped public tours will commence on April the 7th.
\nGum San President Henry Gunstone said the volunteers are eager to get things back on track.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to try and open before Easter and we have another working bee this week which will bring us pretty close,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[31],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/IMG_0421-2-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqUu4-dm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theadvocate.net.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}