I never cease to wonder on the generousity of our Members towards our F-Troop projects. We have received so much help with both donations of time ( a scarce commodity at this time of the year), cash and plant donations. I have been so impressed and today was no exception.
We had nineteen troopers that I saw today volunteering their time on such a hot day which helped us to achieve so much around the course. Today I saw Duncan Dyer, Rosalie Dyer, Martin Gallagher, Neil Hancock, Geoff Bridge, Warren Gray, Mark Stimpson, Des Wilson, Yvonne Wilson, Arthur Verlander, Peter Martin, Doug Incoll, Robin Incoll, Garry Trigg, Bruce White, John Cottington, George Foster, Di Beechey all working very hard in all the heat.
We received a very generous donation of Native grasses from Matt Snelson which included 100 Tanika grasses which we wanted for behind the bunker on the left hand side of the 17th green.
We also received a cash donation from Sheena & Nigel Asken for future work to be done at the 12th green. How good is that!
Matt delivered the plants today which meant we needed to plant the smaller plants straight away. Without hesitation I had Arthur Verlander & Peter on side for hole digging duties which was done very efficiently with great difficulty as we lacked all the correct tools for the job. Special thanks to Peter & Arthur for that hard toiling. The rest of the crew caught up later & helped with the planting and watering. We had 100 plants - so a job well done troopers.
Other work done today was cleaning, raking and watering at the club entrance by Di Beechey, clearing & weeding at the back of the 10th tee and Magnolia garden by Rosalie Dyer, weeding, watering at the 14th & 15th by Yvonne & Des Wilson, fertilizing, watering & mulching of the Azalia/Hydrangea garden by Doug & Robin Incoll, cutting down trees & removal of rubbish from the 2nd fairway by the F-Troop gang & general removal of loose timber and raking around the course, cutting of low branches of trees on the 4th, rough cutting by Garry Trigg (our other rough cutter was out of action today - so Ray Presdee got to have a holiday), watering of the plants in the Ladies Garden on the 13th, trimming azaleas in the front parking area, spraying and dead heading the roses on the putting green.
A fantastic effort today F-Troopers.
YES! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
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