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Community Clean Up Day: Lack of Rubbish Disappoints Children

The Guildford Primary School P & C and Transition Town Guildford hosted a Clean Up Australia Day on the weekend and over 50 people spent the morning beautifying the area.

Photo: Sheldon Levis

Team shot post clean. Photo: Sheldon Levis

The good news was that many people reported much less rubbish around the Primary School and Helena river, where we’ve cleaned up over the last 5 years. Sounds like we’ve managed to get on top of the historic waste!

While some children seemed disappointed that it was harder to find rubbish, this good news meant that people could branch out further afield over the whole Guildford town site.

Final result

Final result

However, there was still a giant haul from South Guildford thanks to Caroline, Ian and Fred who drove back to the Primary School with a ute full of rubbish. Looks like we need more people to cover South of the river next year…

Caroline and Ian with the South Guildford haul

Caroline and Ian with the South Guildford haul

Thanks again to all the Primary School children and their families who took part!

Guildford Primary School clean up team

Guildford Primary School clean up team. Photo: Sheldon Levis

A special thanks to Alacrity Foods who provided the delicious morning tea biscuits and Bolt Coffee Roasters for providing the coffee.

Thanks also to Murray and the waste team at City of Swan for collecting all the bags.

Finally, thanks to the Guildford Primary School P & C for co-hosting. It was a great result and we hope to do it again next year!

Maybe you’d like to host a site near you in 2016? If you’re interested, check out the  Clean Up Australia Day website.

Verge Gardening in Guildford and Surrounds

Have you ever driven past a lovely replanted verge and thought, “Gosh, I should do that!” What a great idea! Well now there’s a small group of keen neighbours in the Guildford area who would love you to join in.

Verge gardens

Here’s the idea: we’d love to get a few small groups of neighbours together, ideally a group(s) of homes that are close by, and ideally either in Guildford, or say, Woodbridge or South Guildford, to revamp their verges together.

We plan to start with a meet/greet/ideas session, with a speaker on how to clear your verge and get rid of grass/weeds. This is the ideal time of year to do so.

The remaining sessions would be rotated through participants’ verge locations, and include a short working bee to help each other get going – what a great idea! Then, a cuppa and a short talk/demo on a range of topics such as:

  • reticulation for verges
  • suitable natives and keeping them alive
  • veggies on the verge
  • mulching, etc

Our motive is to promote verge gardening and to create some fine and lovely local examples for people to enjoy.

Whether your interest is a verge planted with natives, veggies or just mulched, we’d love to hear from you.

Register your interest by emailing barb@beyondgreen.com.au or calling 0400 298 258

Clean Up Australia Day 2015

Building on the success of previous years, Transition Town Guildford will be hosting a Clean Up Australia day site around the Guildford Primary school.

Come join us to clean up and hang around for morning tea. Children welcome, but must be supervised by parents.

CUAD Flyer 2015 v2

When: Sunday 1st March 2015

Time: 8:00-10:00 am

Where: Guildford Primary School verge (125 Helena street, Guildford)

Bring: Bring gloves, water, hat, enclosed shoes and a friend!

As per previous years, Guildford Primary School students will receive 500 faction points for taking part.

When you return your bags join us for morning tea at 10 am kindly donated by Alacrity Foods.

Sign up via https://ttgcuad2015.eventbrite.com.au

See you on the day!