Many thanks to Rotary and to the anonymous person whose generous donations funded the Thursday crew’s long-awaited mower.
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Thanks to everyone who attended the AGM on 12 July
The year was dissected, our achievements celebrated, members and supporters thanked, and a new committee elected.
Read copy of the Woodend Landcare AGM Report 2014 here.
Naturalist Tanya Loos gave a wonderful talk about nature’s six seasons in our part of the world. Tanya has observed the long winter, the later spring and short but intense true summer are hallmarks of our area, with the timing of wildflowers, the arrival and behaviour of certain animals and birds quite different to surrounding regions. Extra points to Tanya for improvising so effortlessly when the projector gave up the ghost and her beautiful photos could only be seen on the laptop. The talk was a great motivator and we’re all now longing for those warm summer evenings when we can next go for a nature walk.here
Reminder: $20 membership fees fell due on 30 June
Agricultural Chemical Users Course – this weekend, Newham
Our neighbours at Newham & District Landcare, with support from Macedon Ranges Shire Council, are pleased to offer local Landcare groups the opportunity to undertake the Agricultural Chemical Users Course at a greatly reduced rate.
Agricultural Chemical Users Course
Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 June 2014 8:30am-4:30pm Newham Hall, Rochford Road $100 (includes course manual, lunch, refreshments).
Refresher course Friday 27 June 2014 1pm-5pm Newham Hall $50
For more information, please contact Penny Roberts
Phone: 0418 396 837
Email: penroberts@bigpond.com
Download ACUP poster here
Grant for Lake Earnshaw
Huge thanks to Western Water for awarding us a $1,750 grant towards rehabilitation and revegetation of Lake Earnshaw. The former local swimming hole, near Gilbert Gordon oval, was built in 1927 and is currently infested by willow, gorse and broom.
Western Water’s Frances’ Environment Grants are directed to projects with demonstrable environmental benefits and where the group commits to ongoing support of the project.
Trees for Mum 2013
On Sunday 12, May Mother’s Day, 150 members of the Woodend community, along with a few day trippers and visitors from Melbourne, Trentham, Lancefield and Ballarat, planted over 250 indigenous trees, shrubs and grasses to celebrate mums and create living legacies.
L-R: Bob Sullivan, Mark Horner, John Newell and Peter Yates with Bill Hebb in the background.
Special thanks go to the Landcare members who prepared the site on Five Mile Creek ready for the planting and helped out on the day and to Peter Yates and David Gossip for their hard work selecting the plants and drawing up the planting plan to ensure the site will look its best when the plants mature.
Macedon Ranges Shire Councillors Jennifer Anderson, John Connor and John Letchford attended the event as well as Joanne Duncan MP.
“I feel so lucky to live in Woodend, with places to plant native vegetation, and people to help me do it. Congratulations on another successful year” commented Cr Jennifer Anderson, Macedon Ranges Shire Council
L-R: Cr John Letchford, Cr John Connor, Kate Daniel Woodend Landcare and Cr Jennifer Anderson
We hope to run another
Trees for Mum event on Sunday 11 May next year so mark it in your diary and join us on Facebook Trees for Mum Woodend, to keep up with the news.
Here are a few pictures and comments we received.
“Thank you for organising such a great event, it was a real pleasure to come along and join in. Please also pass on our thanks to the Landcare people and anyone else involved.” Alex Evans, Melbourne (attended Woodend event)
Carracher family and Mark Horner
“Was a fantastic event. We loved it.” Maxy Fisher, Springhill
“What a great event. Mum always thought giving flowers were a waste so I think she would have approved giving back to mother nature.” Joanne Kalamaras, Clifton Hill (attended Woodend event)
Hunt family
Gaye Raeburn plants a local black gum as a memorial to her late mother. Gaye is joined by her daughter Clare and granddaughters Amber and Rosie.
