Clean-up call for all
JOHNSTONE River Community Gardens wants everyone in the Cassowary Coast to join in cleaning up Australia this weekend.
Tomorrow, participants can register at the Johnstone River Community Gardens from 9am and walk downstream along Dalrymple Park until 11.30am, picking up rubbish.
A complimentary sausage sizzle will be held at midday.
On Sunday, celebrate the Cassowary Coast’s clean community with a free Clean Up Australia Day Picnic, which will showcase the importance of removing and reducing the amount of waste material entering our environment.
Collected material from the Saturday Clean Up will be separated and catalogued with the data passed on to Clean Up Australia and Tangaroa Blue for their records.
Cassowary Coast Regional Council staff and the MAMS Group will share handy information about the Container Exchange Scheme, fertiliser and banana bag recycling and the buyback shops at the Council refuse stations.
FNQ Community Exchange – Tableland LETS (Local Exchange Trading System) will also explain their cashless community exchange through a bartering system for goods and/or services.
Workshops include local fibre artists Okka Wikka who will share their skills of weaving shopping bags with coconut fibre, and children’s craft activities and a nature play by the Darlingia Forest School.
Guests will also be invited to attend the forage, fibre and garden tours with refreshments available throughout the day.
Entry to the Johnstone River Community Gardens is via the Diverse Learning Centre entrance to the Innisfail State College off Flying Fish Point Rd. Call 0403 523 244 for more information.