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Bedding’s in the bag
BAGGED: Yvonne Smith, Cynthia Roseburgh and Annette Wendleman weave beds for the homeless from plastic bags. (Rebecca Hosking)
By Luke Voogt
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A Lara group’s sleeping mats woven from plastic bags are helping keeping the homeless warm this winter . “It makes me feel good,” said Bags to Mats weaver Cynthia Roseburgh. Cynthia’s group has made dozens of the mats with a loom from Lara and District Men’s Shed. “They’re quite comfortable and they’re thick enough to put them on really cold concrete, and if it gets wet you can just shake it out,” Cynthia said. “Obviously, after a while they start to fray and break down but at least before they get to landfill we can get some use out of them.” Lara Lions Club supports the project and has collected hygiene products and food for the homeless for the past two years. Cynthia was unconcerned about Woolworth’s and Coles’ plastic-bag bans affecting the mats initative. “There’ll still be a lot of bags around,” she said. “In the end, if there are no bags we’ll find some other project.”
Supercross over stadium use By Luke Voogt
Kardinia Park Stadium Trust has announced its first off-season event for 2018/2019 following accusations of “appalling“ under-use of the revamped ground. Former Geelong mayor Darryn Lyons lambasted the trust’s performance on Twitter last week, posting that it had “done nothing”. Continued to page 3
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