First Avenue of Honour Working Bee Held

The Rotary Club of Wendouree Breakfast held their first working bee on Sunday September 25th, 2011 with about 40 Rotarians from clubs attending (and Ollie from Apex).

Around 10 representatives from Wendouree Breakfast participated. In all 26 trees were planted and staked and a lot of suckers were removed from other trees and along fences.

This will be an ongoing project in need of several working bees to make an impact. There are more trees to be planted when the right species is available.

Heavy machinery will be required to make access easier and licensed chainsaw users as some suckers are more than 10 cm in diameter.

Thanks to all those who chopped, sawed, dug, raked, inserted, rammed and stapled at the various Avenue of Honour sites. There will be further opportunities for this project - stay tuned! Lunch was great as well!

There has been a request that Wendouree Breakfast take on a side project with the avenue and that is to do an audit of the trees using palm-corders. June Driscoll has experience in this area so she may be our guide for this.

David Grant from City of Ballarat says they have 12 hand held recorders that would be available over weekends to do this. Some training in their use would be provided.