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Trees to tell tale By Taylah Eastwell A group of Hills locals have joined forces in hopes of turning timber that fell during the June 9 storm into a commemorative community art project. Choosing to look at the disaster from a positive side, residents have attended a number of meetings to discuss ways in which the timber could be reused in the community. Creator of the Facebook page, ‘Rescue Logs – Keep our trees in the Dandenongs’, Julia Hall said one of the bigger projects being considered is a nature walk that follows the story of the storm using fallen logs. “It will explain the pathway the storm took and have different points that talk about a significant event from the storm, whether that be a tree into a house or the many trees that impacted Mt Dandenong Primary School as well as the many stories of human resilience,” Ms Hall said. “Telling our story and reliving that is part of our healing journey and everyone at our meetings has agreed. It’s really important to talk about it so you process it because the more we process it we realise we survived and came out the other end,” she said. According to Ms Hall, the meetings have been full of emotion, with some committee members having lost their homes on the devastating night. “It’s pretty full on but it’s just amazing. We all want to see something good come out of this and they’ve all got such positive attitudes. The whole group is very like minded around the fact that we want to use trees that have already fallen for something spectacular in the Dandenong Ranges. We are all so different but have this common cause,” she said. Continued page 5
Fallen trees cover Kalorama Recreation Reserve after the storm in June. 241037
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