Current News
Kinglake Bushfire Anniversary Events
Details of the Kinglake local Bushfire Anniversary Events can be found here
Marysville Arts Co
Some beautiful pictures of Marysville available for purchase from the Marysville Arts Co here at their website (click Gallery to see images).
Strathewen: Sticking Together
Australian Red Cross article here
Artist's touch restores faith of Kinglake flock
The Age online article here
Salvation Army Vouchers
The Salvation Army has vouchers to be given to bush fire affected clients to help as part of our Christmas Cheer programme. The allocation is vouchers from K Mart, IGA and Mitre 10 to the value of:
- each adult $250
- each child under 16 $200 They also have serveral vouchers from Kinglake stores still available.
Please contact your case manager, The Hurstbridge Hub or Hurstbridge Bushfire Support Centre for details and times they will be available. If you would prefer to see the Salvation Army at their office in Greensborough, please call Elizabeth or Stephen 9434 6990. They will need to see your VBRRA Referral card.
Nillumbik News
Click here for pdf version.
Rural Women's Network - Spring Newsletter 2009
Sharing Experiences of Black Saturday
Share your experiences and photos of Black Saturday on Wikinorthia.
Read stories already on line at: http://wikinorthia.net.au/index.php/Category:Disasters
Stay up to date: Premier of Victoria website link to Bushfire Media Releases
The horrific bushfires across Victoria have devastated the lives of many Victorians.
Every Victorian community has been impacted in some way by these tragic events.
What's happened to the public libraries?
The Mitchell, Yarra Plenty, Murrindindi, West Gippsland, Eastern Regional, La Trobe
City, Upper Murray, High Country, Wellington, Wimmera and Goldfields libraries are
all serving bushfire affected communities.
Many people have expressed particular concern about the Murrindindi Library Service.
The libraries in Kinglake, Yea and Alexandra are still standing. The devastated
township of Marysville was served by a mobile library.
At this stage it appears that there has been no loss of library buildings across the State
and that no Victorian public library staff have lost their lives. Sadly a number have lost
their homes and many have lost stock. The majority of services continue to operate,
although some mobile library services have been curtailed until it is safe to venture into
the area. Several libraries are helping with the provision of relief services in their areas.
Public libraries across the State stand ready to support their local communities during
the recovery process in whatever way is most helpful to individual communities. Local
Government Victoria is working with affected councils on a range of resourcing, service
and infrastructure issues, including libraries. There have been many helpful suggestions
for ways that libraries can assist in community recovery, once the immediate issues of
loss of life and property have been addressed. We will be taking these up at the appropriate
time.
If you wish to help the most effective way is to donate to the Red Cross Appeal. Details
are at http://www.redcross.org.au/howyoucanhelp_donationopt.htm
