Christ Church Grammar School

On Friday 15th July students from Christ Church Grammar School in South Yarra returned to Kinglake to volunteer again with the UGLN fire recovery program.
This time the students takled a variety of diferent tasks.

They started the day installing nest boxes at a local landcare members property.

After lunch at the local bakery they got stuck into some tree planting at a bushland reserve in Pheasant Creek and then finished off the day cut & painting small holly bushes that are invading another section of the reserve.

Teacher Gay Wales and the kids did a great job and we appreciate them taking time out of their school holidays to help us.

NAB dig in to help the helper

A team of volunteers from NAB put in a great days work planting trees for Blaze Aid founders Kevin and Rhonda Butler.

Kev and Rhonda have been coordinating the fire and flood recovery program 'Blaze Aid' over the last couple of years and it is about time the favour was returned.

The group helped to revegetate the steep hills of their sheep farming property in Kilmore East.

Thank you to Rhonda and Tom (Kev's righthand man) for putting on a great morning tea and bbq lunch.

Thank you also for the supervising assistance on the day from Shane Monk the GBCMA weeds officer.

Fencers Without Boundaries - Still bounding along



Terry Hubbard thanking our volunteers

We recently said goodbye and thank you to two of our stalwart fencing teams SA Rotary and the 4WD drivers at a bbq in Strath Creek (pictured left). Between the two teams they have rebuilt 62km of fencing as part of UGLN's Fencers Without Boundaries (FWB) fire recovery fencing program.

This is by no means the end of FWB.
UGLN is committed to the program until the end of 2011. With the continued assistance of the Uniting Church, our loyal volunteers from Shepparton and Melbourne and corporate groups such as NAB and Earnst & Young, all ably lead by our fencing team leader Alan Stafford.
We will continue to assist landowners rebuild their fences.

Alan Stafford and UGLN Coordinator Chris Cobern

Volunteers from  E&Y.