F-Troop - Monday 6th June 2011

We have had so much rain on the course that the heavy vehicles could not go out on the fairways today.

We confined our F-Troop projects to the 1st fairway along Racecourse Road where there were trees to be tidied up & branches to be removed.

During the week we were able to pick up some old discarded carpet to use for weed matting so we were able to complete the weed matting project for the putting green garden. 

We would like as much old carpet as we can find as the next weed matting project is the huge native garden at the 6th so all donations would be greatly appreciated.

Today we had on duty Martin Gallagher, Geoff Bridge, Garry Trigg, Bruce White, Peter Martin, Warren Gray, Richard Casey, Anne Burgess, Jan Martin & Leonie Casey.  We managed to fill in a good mornings work without the need to go out on the fairways.  There is always work to do somewhere.

Martin, Geoff, Garry, Bruce & Warren worked on the trees along Racecourse Road and the left hand side of the 1st fairway.  We were not able to remove any rubbish from the course because the pick up vehicles could not get to the dumping area - so it will be a bit untidy out on the course until it all dries up.

Peter & Richard did a great job cutting up some of the old carpet to complete the weed matting of the putting green garden including an extra trailer load of mulch.  We only have one more load of mulch to put on next week and this project will be complete.

Anne Burgess worked on her gardens at Camellia Way and the BBQ area.

Richard & Leonie Casey cleaned up their adopted front garden along Racecourse Road which looks so good when it is kept tidy.

We also cleaned up the carpark area that overlooks the putting green, cleaned out the gutters around the putting green, created a new garden at the steps near the walkway to Racecourse Road.

Many thanks to Bruce Binns for his donation of more garden gloves for the F-Troopers.  Thanks Bruce! We do go through a lot of gloves with  our hard work every Monday.

Many thanks to Lorraine Bignall for finding a supply of old carpet for our F-Troop projects.  Lorraine responded to our appeal in this month's newsletter within minutes of the email reaching her. Thanks Lorraine!

Morning tea this morning was very welcome and we enjoyed some lovely mini muffins - Thanks John!

All the recent rain has been great for all the gardens but has caused havoc with the paths & drains so we have a lot more work to do out on the course once everything has dried out.  There is no formal F-Troop next Monday as it is a public holiday so hopefully it will be dry enough for all the rubbish pick up around the course the following Monday.

YES! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!