SORELL/TASMAN Recovery News Edition 5: 25 March 2013
SORELL/TASMAN Recovery News Edition 5: 25 March 2013 Welcome to Recovery News. This newsletter will provide those affected by the recent bushfires with practical information and advice. There will be future editions providing updates as required. Victorian volunteers repay the favour When mother of 12 Megan Edwards returned to the fire- “Today, that same kindness is coming back to us,” Marian ravaged site of her family home in January, she didn’t know said. “It’s a great thing to know that people do care, and if she and her husband David had the strength to start that whatever good you do in this world comes back to again. But standing on her Murdunna block last week, where you ten-fold.” a small army of Victorian Rotary volunteers was erecting a shed and the fence for a new orchard, Megan said the family could again see a future. “For the first time we’re starting to say maybe and yes…,” Megan said, “That’s what this support means to us. It’s brought us a step closer to our new start.” The Edwards’ home was the first stop for a host of volunteer Rotarian workers from the Hazelwood Rotary Club, the Traralgon South Community, and the Callignee, Woori Yallock, It’s a step closer to a new start for Megan and David Edwards, with Churchill, Warburton, and Morwell areas of Victoria. their children Sarie-Anne, Uriah, Jasmine, Lilly, Nekoda, Seth, Willow and Emma-Lee. (Tammy, Eli, Simeon and Bridgit are absent). Photo by Marian Larner, a past president and now the Publicity Officer Coralie Walker, Canberra.
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