The Yenda Diggers Club will shut their doors for the final time this weekend after 82 years of operation.
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The club - a long-time gathering ground for the town's sporting sides and community groups - will cease operations from Sunday, with the final day of trading to be Saturday, and the closure of the historic location has been met with sadness from members of the local community.
Club chairman John Strano said the closure was "a sign of the times" before declining to comment further on the closure until the club's members have been notified.
The board of directors of the club made the announcement through signs placed on the club's building in the past week, stating the decision was made due to the current financial status of the club.
"This has been a hard decision," the announcement read.
"The public tender process has commenced and will close in five weeks' time. The future of the club will be based on the tender result."
"The board of directors would like to thank the staff for their commitment and support. Thank you to the members and guests who have supported the club in so many ways."
Since pubs and clubs were allowed to reopen from June 1, the club had been regularly operating for three days a week, with the club opened from 4pm to 10pm on Thursdays and Fridays and open only for bistro delivery and takeaway on Saturdays.
Yenda Progress Association president Kay Pellizzer said it was "gut-wrenching" to see the club shutting down as it had been a fixture of the town for all her life.
"It's the heart of the town really," Mrs Pellizzer said.
"We've lost the catholic school - it's closed down - to lose the club ... is a really big disappointment.
"It's a beautiful little club, if we got more patronage we could do more things ... if we got more support from the people in Yenda, it would stay open, that's the bottom line."
Mrs Pellizzer put the closure down to a decline in regular local patronage at the club as well as issues stemming from both the 2012 Yenda Floods and the current coronavirus pandemic.
"The committee has tried their best, they tried everything," Mrs Pellizzer said.
"We had the flood as well in 2012 and that sort of knocked us around because we were out for months before you could get back into it.
"We have lost quite a few Yenda people who think 'Yenda' ... most [people moving to the town] of them work in Griffith and then they do their shopping in Griffith and if they've got friends they go out in Griffith - so they're not sort of involved in the town yet."
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The club has been regarded as the second oldest Returned Soldiers and Sailors Imperial League (RSL) building in NSW, opening the doors for the first time in 1938.
In 1921 the RSL raised funds to the amount of £400 to purchase space for a building along East Avenue, which saw completion at the end of 1927.
The building provided a meeting place for various associations and for two years it also formed an additional class room for the public school before expanding further and assumed the Diggers Club moniker by 1938, from which the club has operated under since.