Apr 23, 2023 3 min read

23 April 2023 Newsletter Friends of Eaglemont Village

The sign removed from the original Eaglemont Railway Station.

Oh an auspicious day it is!

You can become a financial member of Friends of Eaglemont Village Incorporated online for the same $10/year family rate as when we started back before Covid.

Forget inflation, forget price gouging - the same $10/year family rate for 2022/23 financial year as has existed since inception.

Membership for next financial year (2023/24) will become due 1 July, and a financial report for 2022/23 will be issued.

Our financial needs are mostly for administration - business registrations, corporate membership eg Landcare Victoria, insurances and the like.

Over time we will create different information, privileges & involvement levels to differentiate between the general public types who click on their web browser, and you hale and hearty true believer members of the organisation.

Anzac Day approaches.

Not just another public holiday but a day of respect and reflection.

The Anzac Day service at Heidelberg (corner Studley Road & Burgundy Street) is well organised & attended. It is well worth attending.

March with the pipe band down Burgundy Street to the Heidelberg Football Club, or peel off at a cafe along the way.

Glance over at the Heidelberg railway station and picture all those men alighting the train before entering the Repat. Hospital.

7 a.m. start for the dawn service.

Dress warmly.

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Nursery News

Seeds are being planted against the day about a year hence when we start revegetating the northern side of the line from the station to Odenwald Road.

We will gradually replace the weed species vegetation to create a visually appealing bird habitat.

Hakeas, banksias, acacias, callistemon, casuarinas and eucalypts will form the taller canopy.

We are now raising wildflowers for planting out in the spring.

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Petitions

We want to lodge the "local park for Locksley Road" petition with Council next week.

If you have not yet signed you can do so:

• at the FofEV stall at the Market next Sunday

• at the Eaglemont Post Office

The community house petition will circulate for another month.

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VicTrack community volunteering day

FofEV will host VicTrack staff at Eaglemont 16 May for their corporate "community volunteering" day.

VicTrack have provided FofEV with a budget of $2000 to buy in extra plants - we will certainly have a cleaner & greener rail corridor through Eaglemont as a result.

Our local businesses benefit too from the catering for morning tea and lunch for over 30 people.

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Equity Trustees volunteers day

On May 10 a team of volunteers from Equity Trustees will be undertaking a "clean up & thinning out" working bee along Sherwood Road.

The area along the eastern part of the outbound platform will be made ready for replacement plantings, particularly the morning sun zone behind the chainmesh fence.

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