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Fears for lost man By Derek Schlennstedt
Back, Jenna Sullivan and Rebecca Pensa from Sherbrooke Family and Children's Centre, Paul Dossetter from Upwey's Cafe Have Ya Bean, Faye Sandilands and Andrew Peterson from Project Upwey, Michelle Myers from Upwey Preschool and, front, Bailey, Autumn, Archer, Eliza and Mia with Stephanie Reynolds.
Caps count The staff and children from Sherbrooke Children’s Centre and Upwey Preschool have embarked on an exciting art project that involves creating a large-scale artwork from recycled bottle caps. Stephanie Reynolds from the Sherbrooke Children’s Centre said the project was designed to educate the children and the community about the importance of recycling and protecting the environment. “We’re very conscious of educating our kids about the environment,” she said. “We thought this would be a good way to incorporate it with our current environmental programs and educate kids about the environment, and that little things can make a difference. “It’s a reminder that even though you are just one person, if we work together we can make a difference.” The artwork is going to be displayed on
the centre's walls and, when finished, will be about 5 metres long and 1.5 metres high. Ms Reynolds said the preschool was working with local artist Andrea Innocent and the artwork was going to represent the Yarra Ranges environment. “Andrea Innocent is helping the kids with the design,” she said. “It is sort of a landscape theme...hills and lots of trees and sun, we’ll have a house on it to represent the Sherbrooke centre and five animals, too. “Each of our rooms has an animal name so each of those animals will be on there.” The final mural is expected to use about 40,000 bottle caps and the pre-school is working closely with the Upwey Traders Association, who has helped to place six collection bins in businesses around Upwey. Ms Reynolds said they chose bottle caps because they could not be recycled. “I just feel very grateful that our kindergarten
educators Katherine Korvin and Sherbrooke’s kinder teacher Robyn Pappon came up with this idea, because a lot of people don’t realise that bottle caps can’t be recycled,” she said. “The kids really get excited and come up to reception and have their little bags of bottle caps and are quite interested to see the boxes grow...we’ve probably got about 7000 to 10,000 now.” Ms Reynolds explained that although 40,000 might seem like a large number, it made up only two per cent of the 2 million bottle caps that washed up on shores around the world last year. “We’re just saving the world one bottle cap at a time,” she joked. “But we’ve got 200 children here and they’re all on-board so we’ll get to our goal before we know it.” Readers can drop off bottle caps at various stores in Upwey or at any Community Link building in the Yarra Ranges, including the Sherbrooke Children’s Centre.
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Police are continuing to search for Jeremy Boyden after he went missing in the Wongungarra area on Friday 19 July. The 23-year-old Ferntree Gully man was last seen on Dargo High Plains Road, near the Bicentennial National Trail, north of Dargo about 5pm. He is believed to have suddenly left the vehicle in which he was travelling with his father and headed down a steep embankment alongside the road. A search started again at 8am Monday 22 July with 60 officers, including police on dirt bikes, Search and Rescue, Air Wing, Operational Response Unit, Mounted Branch and Canine Unit, with assistance from SES and Bush Search and Rescue. Police and family have concerns for Jeremy’s welfare due to the length of time he has been missing. He was last seen wearing a green and gold jumper and blue tracksuit pants and is believed to be wearing only one running shoe. Investigators also believe he has a dog with him, a white and brown Jack Russell named Rocky. Sergeant Anthony Dessent from Maffra police said on Sunday that a massive search party had been looking for the 24-year-old, but described the terrains as steep bush. "It’s not hard to get separated and lost very quickly in this bush, it’s very thick, it’s very steep,” he said. Police released images of Jeremy in the hope that someone could provide information on his whereabouts. Anyone with information should call Sale Police Station on 5142 2200.