Wow - what resilient kids we have here in town - first the Putaruru College and Te Waotu kids working through a huge dump of rain, however today, I rang around all of our schools still to work on the waterway, and St Marys we definate that they wanted to plough on assisted by a team from Lichfield - the work needed to be done whatever the weather...Greg Shaw and his parks & reserves team brought along 500 plants to be dug in and the group ploughed through the work. Greg explained to the groups that they needed to dig a hole twice the size of the rootball to make it easier for the roots to go through the ground as they develop. He also showed how far the dirt should go up against the plants to prevent them from rotting off and dying.. Mrs White of St Marys collected the old plant pots to grow new natives from seed - and Greg Shaw is going to arrange delivery of the seeds. We cranked up the bbq and cooked over 150 sausages donated by Wallace Corp, gave the kids bottled water donated by New Zealand Quality Waters of Domain Road and the bread and chocolate bar was kindly paid for by His Worship Mayor Neil Sinclair. I would like to thank all of those involved especially the hard working kids who all we impecably behaved and our parent & teacher helpers who braved the cold & wet to assist us. Thank you to our sponsors, and I look forward to going back to see how much they have grown...
