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[email protected] Tree-mendous Tree Day INSIDE Nillumbik’s recycling crisis — Page 3 NBN arrives — Page 9 PHOTO: BILL MCAULEY Your dental health — Pages 18–19 Warrandyte Primary School students celebrated National Tree Day by planting a veritable forest in the grounds of the school. Olive (pictured above), her classmates, teachers and parents put in 200 indigenous seedlings in the Footy finals on the horizon— Page 31 ground — and learnt valuable lessons about caring for their environment. Full report on Page 25. Peter Gardiner BARRISTER & SOLICITOR Local legal practitioner since 1989 We specialise in helping businesses • • • Office 1, 2 Colin Avenue Warrandyte T 9844 1111 | F 9844 1792 E
[email protected] “If opportunity doesn’t knock... build a door.” — Milton Berle 2 Warrandyte Diary AUGUST 2019 OVER THE HILLS By JOCK MACNEISH TheOVER more THE things HILLS change... By JOCK MACNEISH AUGUST The Diary’s researchers have the banks of the Salt Water River through and unwittingly became the founder of Ballan to Sugarloaf Mountain, the party Warrandyte. Silver been trawling the internet and came upon a fast-flowing stream 10 miles A widower without family, Anderson was have come across a bit of a find. to the south east, which they named Plenty one of the few Port Phillip settlers to drove Jewellery Tucked away on the Warrandyte River. stock overland from Sydney. Continuing in an easterly direction across His station homestead, surrounded by 232 Yarra St Cricket Club’s website is a copy the Plenty they hoped to find the upper gum trees and wattles, consisted of slab Warrandyte of a book tracing the history of reaches of the Yarra Yarra River.