Hi Peter I like your idea, from my point of view I have been researching my ancestors ( Merritts & Johnstons) living in the Kongwak, Welshpool, Toora area, and have a mind to visit the district (I live in N.W. Victoria). This could tie in very well having the multi purpose to clean up a historic site in the area, meeting like minded people as well as checking out the district my forebears lived in 100 years ago. Regards Don Merritt -----Original Message----- From: Peter Lakeman <surreal@netspace.net.au> To: AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com <AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, 23 November 1999 9:20 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.