The Bus Driver We Fell In Love With

WE YGLEN signed Cath , Bridget and Janet

This is a pic of the bus driver with the lot.

He supplied the buses for the whole ANZ mega week .

He did not get lost or run off the road by a logging truck.

He could drive huge coaches along muddy gravel roads without complaining .

He owned the bus company !

He understood about 'herding cats' to toilet stops.

He volunteered to help the catering crew.

He was a chef in another life and could chop onions like a professional .

He helped refined our food handling techniques for the many dietary requirements we encountered.

He came dressed ready to do hard work in the outdoors.

He planted trees , dug holes , hammered stakes & joked with the bank volunteers .
He got everyone home safely

Landcare Tree Transporting Vehicle Number 3

UGLN Bushfire Recovery Projects Number 3 "tree transporting " vehicle will soon transform back into Cathy Olives family station wagon . Goodbye to plants, foam boxes, water, gravel and potting mix filling the back of the car.

Bridget Leaves Landcare for Health Reasons

Landcare coordinators from across the Goulburn Broken Catchment gathered in Ruffy today to farewell Bridget Clarke.

Bridget has worked for the Upper Goulburn Landcare Network , based in the Yea CMA office , for 7 years. Next week she will take up an appointment at Yea Hospital in the Health & Well being field. Bridget will be impossible to replace , she is such a character !
She will be remembered for her passionate approach to all things landcare: biological farming , soil health , dung beetles , fish circuses , 'big trees' , unnecessary vegetation clearing , bushfire recovery , calendars of events , Terry Hubbard , her landcare groups ,writing funding applications & final reports , passing on office gossip and speaking out for landcare in a loud clear voice.

"I will miss our 1 hour long phone chats" Tony Kubeil
"I will miss her pumpkin soup now that I am a gluten free vegetarian " Janet

"I will missed her wicked replies to my emails" Charlie

"It was truly a pleasure to work with someone so competent, attentive, effective, 'straight up & down', 'tell it like it is',  'get to the bottom of it and sort it out'...... and all round professional. You'll be missed." Bertram

" I will miss her crazy project titles" Karen

We will all miss Bridget , but she isn't moving far away and we will be invading her new office often.

I can even see combined morning teas to develop Community Health & Landcare projects for the Yea district (or are my glasses just dirty? it has been raining a bit.). Bridget might find that one has to do more than move offices, to escape from Landcare!

ANZ Risk Department MEGA WEEK Day 2

31st August 2010 .

The Banking world's financial year ends this week and all unused volunteers days cannot be carried into the next year. This has created our ANZ Risk Department Mega Week. We have committed to finding work for 40 volunteers for each day for a week. This also includes providing morning tea and lunch in the field (catering for a wide range of dietary needs), providing mobile toilet facilities and ensuring coach access to all sites.

Day 2 Report Treeplanting at Steve and Heather Joblin's in Strath Creek

32 ANZ volunteers plus 20 students from Mercellin College in Bulleen, with Sister Margret.

Cathy, Janet & Bridget from Landcare.

The speedy ANZ workers planted 660 trees.

Mercellin College boys planted 18 trees.

Wet Feet

27/8/2010

Treeproject / Landcare Partnership Tree Planting Day.

17 ANZ volunteers

De driving the Treeproject bus .

Chris & Janet from Landcare.

Davis Property. Glenburn.

The project for the day was to plant and guard 300 understorey plants in the bare patches amongst the manna gums along the Yea River at the bottom of Gail's property. The ground was very muddy on the river flats . Luckily Gail had a good supply of spare gum boots and coats but there were some very wet feet at the end of the day . A BBQ lunch was enjoyed around the huge family table, it seated 20 people! The warm fire was also very appreciated by my cold feet.