$2000 grants for community groups

Sponsorship of up to $2000 for community groups is again being provided this year by VicForests.

Successful organisations need to be based in one of the regions – West Gippsland, Central Highlands or East Gippsland - in which VicForests operates and support its operations and aim of a sustainable native forestry industry.

The grants are open to not-for-profit groups and can include schools, local charities and sporting and youth organisations and meet a genuine need and have direct benefits to the community.

Applications close on Friday and all applicants will be advised within 14 days whether they have been successful.

Money allocated must be spent within the current financial year.

Application forms and further information about VicForests community support program is available at www.vicforests.com.au/csp2018 or by telephoning 5954 4100.

An aerial photograph showing the Warragul Golf Course in the 1960s.

This view is from the corner of Sutton St and Pharaohs Rd.

The golf club purchased farmland to the north and extended the course. When the new clubhouse was built on Sutton St, the course was realigned. As a result, the first nine was renamed the back nine.

Many of the trees in the photograph remain today as a tribute to Roy Ross who was the instigator of the many botanical species of trees planted in the early years of the club.

Photograph and information courtesy of the Warragul and District Historical Society.

If you have any additional information about this photograph, please contact The Gazette on 5623 5666 or editorial@warragul gazette.com.au.

Following last week’s Snapshot featuring Warragul District Hospital c.1918 attracted feedback from Yarragon resident Melva Risstrom.

The photograph captured the garden in the foreground of the hospital.

Melva has a photograph of her grandfather Thomas Davis standing under the same garden archway captured in the c.1918 photograph. However, due to increased flowers on the archway, it is believed her photograph dates c.1920.

Melva said her grandfather undertook voluntary work to maintain the hospital garden prior to his death in the early 1930s. He was a dairy farmer at Brandy Creek Rd and regularly brought flowers and strawberries into Warragul.