A great idea and would love to get involved. It's a wonderful thing to see someone take the initiative and get a ball running. Keep us posted. Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Lakeman <surreal@netspace.net.au> To: <AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 10:07 AM Subject: [AVG] Clean Up Australia Day proposal > > Hello fellow AVGers, > > I was thinking that it would be nice if subscribers to the AVG used the > opportunity of the next Clean Up Australia day (which is 5th March 2000) to > clean up some of our historical sites in Gippsland. > > It would provide the opportunity for us to put something back into the > community, to beautify and preserve areas of historical significance, and a > chance to meet other subscribers. > > If possible I would like to organise at least one, and possibly a number > of, sites in Gippsland for March of next year, and to either redo them in > the following years (if necessary) or proceed to new sites. > > It is intended that this will be done under the auspices of the Clean Up > Australia committee which provides some support and insurance. > > I am writing this letter to gauge the interest and support that other > subscribers have in this type of project. So I would like to hear from you > (preferably on the list) whether you think the idea is worth pursuing and > whether you think you would be available. > > My initial proposal for a site is 'The Springs'. This was a stopover place > on McEvoys track that went from Seaton (Bald Hills) to the gold towns of > Jordan, Jericho, Matlock and Woods Point. It was the only permanent water > on the track as the track followed the ridges. The place is a lovely > grassed area of some 2 hectares complete with an old lichen covered orchard > that consists of fruit trees that would have been planted last century. > Last time I was there (hello Shirley and Barry) it was a bit of a mess with > garbage such as bottles and tins around it, loose pieces of corrugated iron > and discarded furniture, and some half buried stuff such as steel cables. > If possible I would like all the rubbish to be collected and placed in one > pile so that somebody like the DNRE could collect it later. The Springs is > about a half hour drive north of Seaton/Heyfield on a good gravel road > (which passes the famous Murderers Hill always mentioned by Edwin Maher in > his ABC TV weather reports). It is also a half hour drive NE of Walhalla on > a narrower winding mountain gravel road, which is still suitable for a > normal car (with care). > > If you have any comments on the idea in principle and would like to > tentatively volunteer, I would like to hear from you on the list. At a > later date I will call for people to nominate their proposed sites and > depending on responses nominate organisers and call for volunteers. > > This proposal has the support of the Linda the list administrator, and if > successful a page will be set up on the AVG website to help co-ordinate it. > > Regards > > Peter Lakeman > > > > > > > ==== AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND Mailing List ==== > Rootsweb asks us to keep our signatures on Mailing Lists short. > Please do not exceed five or six lines on this List. >