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25 October 2009 It was a dark and stormy day. And still they came. Dark clouds closed in. And still they came. Cold winds blew. And still they came. Rain fell. And still they came. Sincere thanks to the stalwarts who came on Sunday and worked for up to 9 hours. Expansive new garden beds just appeared. Paths were blasted. Gates were hung. What a fabulous community. What a fabulous park.
22 October 2009 With just 5 days to go to the opening, crowds of volunteers turned out on a Thursday to plant, to rake softfall, to wheelbarrow mulch, to wheelbarrow concrete, to tirelessly scrape and sweep meandering paths, to lay stone creekbeds, to bucket water thousands of plants, to laugh, to chat, to create. A contingent of volunteers came from ANZ Bank in Melbourne. A class of students came from Braemar secondary college. Mums, Dads, kids, tradies, Grandmas they all came to help finish the park in time for the opening. What a fabulous day.
22 October 2009 Woodend in winter can be wet. To ensure the park is child friendly year round, Woodend Children's Park features one of the most extensive and sophisticated underground drainage systems of any park in the region. But why hide all the fun? In this area of the park the drainage system is exposed and runs under a timber bridge built by local Chris Mele. During the planting day, a team worked to begin laying the rock and stone creekbed destined to be an attractive feature in the dry months and the perfect creekbed for kids to explore in Winter.
22 October 2009
22 October 2009
19-21 October 2009 Truckloads of soil. Truckloads of landscaping rocks. Above and beyond the call efforts to complete earthworks at the park. Multiple nights working late into the night under truck lights! Michael White and his team have transformed the park.
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11 October 2009 In an extraordinary show of communicy spirit, volunteers turned out in droves to help finish the park. They shovelled, they raked, they planted, they laughed and they worked very hard. Woodend Lions catered a hard earned lunch for the crowd. Landcare was on hand with expertise to guide the creek planting. This was truly an amazing community collaboration. THANK YOU everyone for an inspiring and productive day.
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24 June 2009 Woodend Children's Park hosted a lunch for playground organisers from Doctors Creek who saw their town decimated in the February fires and are now working towards a new local playground and recreational meeting place.
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Apr 2009 The tireless Woodend Children's Park fundraising team turned professional caterers in recent months to provide refreshments for the Woodend leg of a vintage car rally. Never have so many scones and quality coffees been made by so few for so many! Rally participants were delighted and the team raised $2,250 to help build the park.
The Sod Turning Ceremony - 4 March 2009, 1-2pm
Dec 2008 The Woodend Children's Park team had stall at Woomba Street Festival. Thankyou to everyone that supported the park either by buying a paver, t-shirt or raffle ticket or offering your support and positive feedback on the day. The raffle winners have now been drawn.
Dec 2008 Macedon Ranges MP, Joanne Duncan visited the Woodend Children's Park site to announce a $120,000 Community Support Grant for the Park through the Dept. for Planning & Community Development. She paid tribute to the extraordinary community partnerships that this project has generated & support from Macedon Ranges Shire Council.
Dec 2008 Spur of the moment celebration the day the team heard about the Grant success. The culmination of 18 months hard work by the Grants team.
20 Nov 2008 A $2 ticket, entitlles shoppers to Christmas bargains, specials, refreshments and prizes on the night. All ticket proceeds to the park. A wonderful way of bringing the community together for a fabulous cause and support our local Woodend traders. Pre-purchase tickets from Kerri's Bundle of Bears, Blue Orange Concepts or Pink String.
4 Nov 2008 Cup Day is a busy day at The Vic Hotel. The Vic generously agreed to allow Woodend Children's Park to run a street BBQ outside the hotel on the day. With an unexpected result in the Melbourne Cup race many locals took solace or celebrated with a sausage and raffle ticket from our BBQ outside The Vic Hotel . In just one festive day this street BBQ raised over $1,300 for the Park.
Oct 2008 Local Veterinary clinic Tony's Practice, in Anslow st Woodend, has made a very generous donation to Woodend Children's Park help bring this exciting vision to life. Dr. Tony Hanegraaf is a keen supporter of this community initiative. Tony's Practice is now a Silver Supporter for Woodend Children's Park.
Oct 2008 Fundraising for the Woodend’s Children’s Park has received a welcome boost with local business Riverwood Group donating $1000 to the Park. Located just blocks from the Children's Park site, Riverwood is delighted to support this local community project. Pictured L-R: Kellie Duff (Woodend Children's Park), Caroline Johnston (Riverwood), Kelly Clune (Woodend Children's Park), Ross Collier (Riverwood)
Oct 2008 Well known local conveyancer, Sue Fairhurst, has helped many locals with everything from titles, contracts and section 32 statements to photocopying and secretarial work. Fairhurst Conveyancing is now genrously giving Woodend Children's Park a helping hand as a Bronze Donor to Woodend Children's Park.
Oct 2008 To proudly acknowledge the park's generous supporters, new signage has been erected on site.
21 Sept 2008 Local entertainers, the Gumnutters, have donated $500 to Woodend Children's Park. In the September School holidays the Gumnutters performed for over 400 audience members to raise funds for the Park. Read this moving story which highlights yet another example of the extraordinary community spirit in Woodend that is helping to bring Woodend Children's Park to fruition.
Another BBQ to raise funds and gather community input.
16 Aug 2008 From the outset, street BBQs have provided a fantastic opportunity to talk to the community, to hear 100's of people's ideas and to raise funds to build the park. This BBQ in August provided a special opportunity to display the new concept plan for the park and get feedback from shoppers while they enjoyed a sausage.
12 June 2008 The magic of Rotary is that it allows ordinary people to achieve extraordinary things. For over one hundred years, ordinary people around the world have been enjoying Rotary so that the power of one unites with the power of many to bring about exceptional change in the world. Rotary's $5,000 donation will go directly into the building of a Park that will benefit the whole community and is another example of ordinary people achieving extraordinary things in Woodend. Rotary Club extended invited Kelly Clune and Kellie Duff from Woodend Children's Park to Rotary's annual changeover dinner for the presentation.
May 2008 A collaboration of the Woodend Children’s Park committee, local and State Government have been working together throughout the project's journey and representatives from each were welcomed at the Tylden Quarry for the Fulton Hogan’s cheque handover; Donna Petrovich MP, Cr John Connor, MRSC CEO Peter Johnson, and Sustainability Director Dale Thornton, along with Woodend Chilren's Park Committee members Kellie Duff, Jane Walduck and Libby Abourizk-Lindsay.
MAY 2008 Bourkies Bakehouse, home to the infamous champion vanilla slice see the Children’s Park project as an ideal way to thank and acknowledge the townsfolk of Woodend and surrounding districts and to leave a legacy for the community to enjoy.
May 2008 Barker Trailers was established in 1974 and is based at a vast, modern trailer plant in Woodend. Barker Trailers pride themselves on their ability to manufacture a first-class product and have donated $10,000 to ensure Woodend Children's Park is also first-class.
On Saturday 3rd May, 60 local ladies gathered at Campaspe House for a wonderful Women's Breakfast to raise funds for the Woodend Children's Park.
19 APRIL 2008 Sausage sizzle, FREE Jumping Castle & Face Painting. Woodend rolled it's sleeves up and put BYO gloves, spades, secateurs, barrows and more to work to commence site cleanup. An amazing team efort cleared scrub and blackberries to reveal a wonderland for kids to explore. What a fantastic site for a children's park! What a fantastic community effort! The park is started.
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