What a day. We had the big clean up planned today for down at the Mason Reserve - just beyond the Oraka Reserve. For those of you that slept through the torrential rain last night, the day was in dispute from 7am. A quick call to Greg Shaw at council, and we made the decision to go to Friday which was our planned postponement day. Every school and helper had been rung by 8am, newspapers and toilets postponed, and Fridays meetings brought forward to Wednesday so that we could clear the decks for Friday - however, my boys were alarmed that they would now have to go to school. By 9am, things had started to clear up, and so Nina called from Putauru College to say that most of their kids had arrived at College in mufty and raving to go - so basically, could we go ahead with the college kids and start the clean-up and Fridays kids could do the planting....like I'm going to refuse free help! By 10am, the heavens opened and torrential rain poured until around 10.15am...Thankfully it cleared and we managed to get in an hour of clearing - my kids were most impressed that they got to go to school later AND they've completed another segment of PRIDE homework.
We have lots of planting organised with council for Friday, getting ready for the Wai Jazz for the water festival on 14th February next year.
The kids worked exceptionally hard, got through vast ammounts of work and had impeccable manners - so a MASSIVE thank you to Putaruru College and Te Waotu School for the first section of this stage of the clean-up, and heres hopefully to Friday with Lichfield, Putaruru Primary, St Mary's and Tirau School.....fingers crossed!
Many thanks to His Worship Mayor Neil Sinclair and Wallace Corporation for assisting Pride In Putaruru in providing refreshments for the children and helpers - including hot chips today and a sausage sizzle lunch on Friday.....
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