CARECROW club
B
y 1 September this year, Greater Melbourne, including the Mornington Peninsula, had been in lockdown for over 200 days. Communities were under stress with their businesses closed; grandparents were unable to see their grandchildren; schools, kindergartens, and child-minding centres were closed except to the children of essential workers; playgrounds were also closed. People were asking, 'Where’s the joy in life?'
A group of Mornington Peninsula friends answered the call and Carecrow Club was launched on 1 September. Heather Forbes-McKeon, the founder and director of Carecrow Club said, “By late August, like most people, I was feeling flat and helpless about the prolonged lockdown and all the grief and anxiety that came with it.” One day Heather heard on the radio that scarecrows were being displayed in front yards in Clifton Hill continued next page... November 2021
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