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Bicycle ride to Buxton
5 November 2010 Landcare / Treeproject Partnership Janet & Chris from Landcare plus a small but super dedicated team from ANZ ‘ Group Treasury Department’ helped plant around a dam in Buxton today creating frog habitat with grasses and shrubs. Just as well this was a small group of workers because Chris and Janet were…
Read MoreBackyard Blitz in Wandong
September 27 & 29th 2010ANZ Finance Dept – 17 volunteersplus Janet & Chris.Todays project was to finish a garden make over for Mary-Anne & Chris Mount View Rd Wandong .The house was saved from the fire but their garden was devastated.We planted exotic shrubs in the newly landscaped front garden and native shrubs around the…
Read MoreBridgets Last Landcare Sausage
Friday the 3rd September was a momentous day for Upper Goulburn Bushfire Recovery Project . Bidget cooked her last landcare sausage ! While Bridget was cooking this sausage 38 ANZ Risk Management Team Volunteers were planting on a very risky site at Gail Tolls property in Buxton ( note large vat of pumpkin soup in…
Read MoreWindy Ridge
September 2nd 2010 Heathcote Junction . Carla Hendersons Block . Carla lost her house during the fire , she is on her own and needed help to get started with the cleaning up . 43 ANZ volunteers pulled out burnt fencing and removed weeds and unwanted regrowth from her house site and burnt it on…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreANZ 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…
Read MoreWet 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…
Read MoreWood Fired Oven Pizzas for Lunch
August 26th 2010 Cathedral Lane Taggerty 14 ANZ volunteers from the Properties Dept. Chris & Janet from Landcare . 400 plants in garden restoration project . Highlights of the day – John Brantons wood fired oven pizzas for lunch, spectatular views of the Catherdral Range, photos and stories of Black Saturday survival.
Read MoreTwo Hills Road – Glenburn
20/8/2010 Treeproject / Landcare Partnership 8 ANZ VolunteersDe and Tim from TreeprojectJanet and Chris from Landcare. 300 plants for roadside screening and creek restoration at Hillary Craig’s place in Glenburn.
Read MoreThree Sisters, Strath Creek.
6th August 2010 25 ANZ/GE volunteers plus Chris , Cath , David and Janet met at Terry Hubbards property in Strath Creek to do some serious tree planting . The paddocks were beautifully soggy and the hills impressively steep. We travelled to the planting site via 4WD tractor . The weather was not that kind…
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