Lions Club of Horsham members opened the time capsule at Lions Park on Monday, retrieving hundreds of letters and distributing many of them to their authors a quarter of a century after they were written.
Horsham Rural City Mayor Ian Ross opened the capsule with an audience of about 120 people – some of whom had contributed to the time capsule personally, while others were descendants or representatives of contributors.
Lions club president Jeff Both said then-mayor Bernie Dunn opened the capsule in January 2000.
“It started in 1976 as a project of our former Leo Club, to raise money for Wimmera River improvement work,” he said.