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AGM at Dignams Creek
/in Dignams Creek /by Tikka WilsonThe Dignams Creek Community Group AGM was held early this year to avoid the bitter cold that usually accompanies it. While the formalities are important, it was also great to take stock of what our community has achieved over the previous year and delight in many homemade treats.
Our outgoing President Sally gave a summary of highlights for the group including our very successful car boot sale and raffle as part of the National Garage Sale Trail that raised over $2300 to contribute to the ever-increasing insurance costs to keep our group running. The Feed Diggies sub-group continued to share the bounty from their fruit and veg gardens through the Share Shed and are making plans for their next working bee.
An update on the Nest Box project designed to provide opportunities for nesting yellow-tailed black cockatoos, glossy black cockatoos, yellow-bellied gliders and greater gliders emphasised the importance of the rare pockets of undisturbed habitat around Diggies. Residents have noticed changes in the patterns and species of birds at the creek, especially the increase in sulphur-crested cockatoos from up the valley. Fortunately for the cockies (unfortunately for the humans) there have been several raids on citrus and nut trees, leaving shredded leftovers in their path. This shifting pattern may be due to the loss of feed trees following the fires, with flocks finding a gold mine of delicious backyard fruit trees instead.
The bridgework continues and while an inconvenience for residents past Boundary Bridge, we have been lucky to secure some of the old bridge timbers to build a long table for use by our community. A trusty team was formed to go and take a look at the timbers and make a plan for the table.
The election of office bearers was a topic of much discussion, and after some toing, froing and reluctant acceptances our group is represented by Heather (President), Suzannah (Vice President), William (Secretary), Fiona (Treasurer) and Sally-Anne (Public Officer). A big thank you to outgoing President Sally and we look forward to seeing what the next year will bring!
Images
(Top) The AGM. Photo: Kate Gooden
(Bottom) Vice President of DCCG Suzannah and President Heather. Photo: Emma Anderson
The bridge saga continues
/in Dignams Creek /by Tikka WilsonWe are officially a divided community in Dignams Creek/Wullunthar.
Folks on the north of Dignams Creek are cut off from the highway and their neighbours. A ‘Road Closed’ sign on a fence stops anyone trying to cross the old wooden bridge that is half down, and a new concrete one is soon to go up.
As previously reported, the timeliness and accuracy of communications from both Councils has been just abysmal, albeit improving over time. Still, we have no answer or advice on emergency preparedness. We have no answer on a simple upgrading of fully public National Park roads. Before Council offered a solution on our mail, a neighbour had dragged an old kennel with our numbers painted on across the creek to collect it.
It’s a one-hour drive to Narooma on the back roads. It’s a lovely drive on well-maintained roads. But it feels like a long way in an emergency. And a hell of a long way to the Cobargo Coop, usually a thirteen-minute drive. There is a rather splendid pedestrian bridge, erected so quickly, and a car park provided for people to keep a second/spare car on the other side. Not everyone has a spare car, and not everyone has such great knees to get up those stairs but those that do can haul my shopping. Thanks for that, pals.
The most definitely closed road
While they make a hell of a racket, sometimes for eleven hours a day, the workers are cheerful and helpful. In fact, one of them is a dear Diggies neighbour, Greg, whose truck delivered essential supplies. While I wish that our Councils didn’t outsource so much and that more essential local workers and equipment were retained in-house, the company that got the bridge job is Australian and worker-owned. No one here is grumpy with them, not at all, we just wish we’d had less reason to be disheartened and disappointed in both Councils when the requests were so obvious and required a simple willingness to communicate.
There is a lot to be grateful for. As I scroll back through our community chat messages, I see neighbours picking other neighbours up from hospital visits and getting them settled. A cheese-making kit is going to get a workout after sitting in Sally’s cupboard for too long. Good advice was shared about the right conditions for doing small pile burn offs and reminders of who to tell. Sally Anne’s weed of the month is bamboo that, of course, I have a lot of but, with neighbours like we have in Diggies, we will deal with it and stick together, despite all of the obstacles.
Dignams Creek bridge works, article and photos by Flick Ruby
Top photo: The splendid footbridge