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Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
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The Big Lift students.
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Some 80 students from the University of Technology in Sydney (UTS) descended on Yarra Junction as part of their ‘Big Lift’ volunteering program. Big Lift volunteers helped clear and tidy the surrounding bush at family refuge Benwerren, clear the drains and help clean at the Karinya Retirement Village and helped Yarra Ranges Council’s Bushland Management team in planting 1000 native plants along the Warburton Trail east of Barack Drive. Second-year software engineering student at UTS Mudra Dongare said the students were helping out in six or seven towns on their way down to Melbourne. “On the way, we just do anything that’s kind of non-skilled help, whether that’s gardening, weeding or painting schools, it depends on what each town needs,” she said. Turn to page 8 for more
Farewell to Fenton By Tanya Steele
community minded throughout his life. “He was involved in the YMCA as a young man and always involved in community and charity,” she said. “When he got older and we moved to Coldstream and the big bushfires of ’83 happened he said to me, ‘I could be doing something more’.” Continued page 6
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express her sympathies. “I pay tribute to John Fenton, a valued and highly decorated member of the Coldstream fire brigade… My deepest sympathies to his wife Terrie, his family, his friends and indeed his mates at the Coldstream fire brigade,” she said. Terrie said that John had always been very
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Hundreds of people gathered recently to farewell a man “forged by fire” Coldstream’s John Fenton in Lilydale on 15 May. The Coldstream CFA Captain, father of four, grandfather and friend passed away in hospital on May 5 after a long battle with illness.
Terrie Fenton, John’s wife said that John was involved with CFA right up until his hospital admission. “He was fully involved with the CFA and he was a great social person, with a great sense of humour,” she said. Evelyn MP Bridget Vallence addressed Parliament on 18 May to pay tribute and
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