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First Community Rakeathon in Kruses Road

Welcome Matthew and Eleanor

Kruses Road Community Fireguard Group held its first neighbourhood Rakeathon today to welcome new residents to the community.

With 20 members of the group plus Mathew’s parents Nick and Barbara and about 13 of their friends all helping out the atmosphere was terrific.

Works got off to a prompt start at 10am and piles [...]

Clearing our properties and the Victorian Government

Thanks to Jim Child’s Council Watch for posting these items:

Brumby to give owners right to clear bush property an article in the Herald Sun on 21/08/09

Click here to see PowerPoint presentation

the presentation which identifies Warrandyte and North Warrandyte as “The highest risk areas for this fire season“

North Warrandyte RakeLET's

We are looking forward to a productive community activity this Sunday with some fun thrown in.

Have a look at all the details on the NW RakeLETs page

In preparation for the event I have subscribed to the Community Exchange System.  Everybody active on the day will be able to register their contribution.  I have chosen the [...]

Making a Community Rakethon work?

Introduction
I have been talking to some of you regarding the suggestion made by Troy at the meeting in April to organise a community “Rakeathon”.  We agreed that:

It sounded like a good idea, helping to

reduce the fuel load in the immediate vicinity
build the community
getting the job done more efficiency
have a bit of fun – and [...]