By Kath Gannaway
Among all the bottles, food wrappers, cigarette butts and other bits and pieces of rubbish he picked up as he and his scout, cub and joey mates scoured Queen’s Park, he retrieved an excellent cricket ball.
Armed with gloves and bags, the Healesville Scouts contingent, including leaders and parents, was part of an Australia-wide army of more than 562,500 volunteers across 7400 registered sites doing their bit to clean up their town.
Queen’s Park has benefited enormously from the work of Healesville Scouts and other community groups over recent years with an extensive revegetation program along the creek with no name … aka “the Don Road Drain”.
“The kids were able to see the benefit of all the planting we did along the creek last year with the grasses now grown up and doing their job of filtering the rubbish and stopping it getting to the waterway,” said leader Jeff Bell.
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