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Our annual Woodchop is on the Queen's Birthday long weekend, June 9-11. Come and help us split, cart and stack our firewood for another year. We rely on wood to cook, heat our water and keep us warm over winter, so this really is an important weekend!
'Well at last I'm here at Wollangarra with all my stuff, which is, after a year of uncertainty and shifting around, finally all in the one place again. And here I am, sitting in a tent with a gas light, surrounded by a sea of dead and dying blackberries, typing out the first newsletter to be put together from Wollangarra... I shifted here on Boxing Day, I've been living in a tent and not had a shower since then, but it's great to be at last underway with the job of building Wollangarra.'
- An excerpt from one of the first Wollangarra newsletters, written by Ian Stapleton in February 1989. Our archive of newsletters will be scanned and uploaded to the website over the coming weeks. Click here to download them.
The Hop, our annual Melbourne shindig, will be held on Friday 29th June from 6pm at the Fitzroy Town Hall. Tickets are $10 and there will be food and refreshments available. The event will feature Papa Chango as well as the Spontaneous Bush Band conducting a bush dance. If you are willing and able to volunteer on the night, please contact Will Ford on 0421 817 631 or wford85@yahoo.com.au.
Today the Alpine Walkers completed their 10 day, 150 km trek across some of Victoria's most rugged and remote high country. Congratulations to our amazing walkers, Maeve Nunan, Jacob O'Donehue, Ellie Ware, Aaron Brady, Jack Garton and their leader Jake Kociancic on completing this incredible journey. Click here to find out more about the Alpine Walk, which raises funds to sponsor young people to come to Wollangarra.
We need course helpers for the following dates: May 28 - June 6, July 29 - August 4 and October 8 - October 12. Please give us a call if you can help out.
Upcoming Events
Outdoor kitchen renovations
We are currently renovating the outdoor kitchen to accommodate a new commercial kitchen and food storage area. Can you help us out with donations of materials such as corrugated iron, railway sleepers or roofing nails? Can you offer financial support to purchase large items such as a gas fridge and slow combustion double oven? Can you provide skilled or unskilled labour during a work party weekend? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
Woodchop
Keep June 9-11 (Queen's Birthday) free for our annual Woodchop. Everyone is welcome to attend this wonderful weekend when we cut, split, cart and stack our firewood for another year. There is always a great sense of community at Woodchop, when supporters come from far and wide to fill the woodshed and get stuck into heaps of other jobs around the flat. Without firewood, there would be no hot water and no hot food, so it really is an important weekend!
The Hop
When: Friday 29th June from 6pm
Where: Fitzroy Town Hall, 201 Napier St
Bands: Papa Chango, Spontaneous Bush Band
Entry: $10
Food and refreshments will be available
Wollangarra and Mittagundi will also have merchandise for sale
Wish / Need List
- Wool mittens
- 52 litre plastic crates with lids
- Wheelbarrows
- Axe/splitter handles
- Slow combustion double oven
- Corrugated iron
- Railway sleepers
- Gas Fridge
- Tent pegs
- Printer paper
- Pens
- Work gloves
- Long-handled loppers
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Stage III
More information about Stage III can be found here.