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CHEWTON DOMAIN SOCIETY (INCORPORATED)
Reg. No. A0034364L P.O. Box 85, Chewton, 3451.
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Published on the 1st of each month
Issue 182
April, 2014.
Cleaning up someone else’s mess... ...at Fryerstown
and recyclables. Many thanks to Council for providing the skip. The sumptuous spread put on by Merryl Gahan at the end for the volunteers was a welcome treat! Janobai Smith. Photo courtesy of Paul Gahan, showing eager volunteers about to set off. In fact, some of them were so keen to get started they missed the photo opportunity (assuming they weren’t camera shy?).
...and at the Res.
Thirteen Fryerstown residents, mostly in teams of two, set off on the annual hunt for trash on Clean Up Australia Day. As always, this occurs on the first Sunday in March. This year saw our reach extend into the backwoods of Chewton. Well, actually alongside the railway line, which seems to be a popular dumping spot. Two of the teams had initially set sights on a quantity of unsightly tyres that had been marring the daily commute. These are not something that one wants laying around in a fire situation. The tyres were nowhere to be seen (obviously, we weren’t the only ones who had been eying them off!) so the team followed the railway line track to another, more furtively strewn rubbish site. The roadside from Chewton to Fryerstown also received a good going over, along with a small section of the Fryerstown-Campbells Creek roadside. Pleasingly, stretches that had been done in previous years had noticeably less rubbish out from the road. Immediately adjacent to the road was another story. Events such as the HeraldSun 2014 bike tour haven’t helped our efforts to keep roadsides litter-free. The legacy of the tour was countless drink containers along the route; it seems the fines that riders may face for discarding their refuse in this manner weren’t much of a deterrent! All up, over 5 kms of roadside was scoured for garbage, resulting in approximately 3 cubic metres of rubbish
Cleaning up our local area on Clean Up Australia Day seemed like a good activity – well, for the small band of enthusiastic workers who met at Expedition Pass Reservoir anyway. With vests, gloves and bags supplied by Parks Victoria a good spring autumn clean was in order. From rubbish and clothing left behind after recreational activities to rubbish that had obviously fallen off trailers, a collection soon filled the bags. Parks Victoria Ranger Noel Muller arrived with a trailer that was already almost filled with rubbish collected at Kalimna, but was able to rope on all the extra material from Expedition Pass. A rather large deposit was to be made at the tip. Incidentally, two of the collectors at the Res. made good finds. Two banknotes made volunteering a profitable enterprise. Two local people are now classified as professional scroungers! Parks Victoria has an entry about this on their Facebook Page. They also have a press release available on line at http://ow.ly/uhMnv
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