News

Well once again, this year's trivia night was once again a triumph, raising lots of valuable funds to help continue protecting the creek we love, not to mention having a ripping good time as well. Our thanks to all who attended!

The main news is the lyrebird survey mentioned earlier in the year will be taking place tomorrow. Hope you are all pumped after last night's briefing session! Because we'll be starting at 6am at Beagley's bridge, then after the survey, Parks Victoria will be providing us with a lovely breakfast!

See this flyer for more info.

Until next time fellow friends.

Hello FOSC!

Quick update on the trivia night for this year, it's scheduled for the 26th of June this year, from 7:30 til about 11pm. As always at the Mechanics Hall in Sassafras, it will be a night of trivial antics and innocuous gambling in aid of raising money for and interest in protecting our beautiful creek!

It'll be a great laugh in aid of a good cause, and if that doesn't spark your interest, you'll get to prove how smart you are and be rewarded with a selection of great prizes donated by other FOSCers and the community.

See this flyer for more complete details.

First update of the new year, and hoping to find that all is well. As always, with a new year is a new general meeting, and our AGM is scheduled for Monday 12th of April. All FOSC members are welcome, but for further details of time and place, please call Jane on 9755 1154.

Furthermore, after the roaring success of last year's fundraising trivia night, we've decided to throw another, slated for sometime in June. Watch out for further details on that one.

And finally, we will be doing a mini lyrebird survey for Sassafras and Perrins Creeks on Sunday the 25th July, with a training night two days earlier on Friday 23rd July to get us up to speed.

For more information on any of these points, head over to the contact section and drop us a line from there.

Two pieces of news, FOSCers:

Firstly, Friends of Sassafras Creek is having special guest Alex Maisey give us a talk on Lyrebirds in the Sassafras Gully area!

It will be on Friday 20th November at 7.30pm in the Sassafras Primary School building 'Girrira'.

See this flyer (pdf) for details - it's free, and supper is provided.

Secondly:

The annual FOSC end of year dinner is at Rose Cottage (251 Olinda-Monbulk Road Monbulk) at 7.30pm on Thursday 26th November.

Contact: Jane on 9755 1154 to get yourself included.

All are welcome!

'Friends of Sassafras Creek' will be hosting a trivia night at Sassafras Mechanic's Hall on the 20th June. It's $5 for entry, and you can make a table with your friends of 8-10 people, or just book a spot and we'll make up a table for you.

For more information, see this flyer (pdf).

Great news all! We have recieved a grant from Victorian Volunteer Small Grants for $1220! This is to run an activity/event of some sort to garner some new memberships for FOSC. So the next meeting will be deciding what it will be!

Working Bee Sunday 26th October is cancelled as we now have 50 young volunteers and their parents from the 'Latter Day Saints' to help us on Saturday 25th, 9am to 12 noon at The Crescent.

We will be breaking into 5 groups and working in the track area from The Crescent to Nobles Lane. Each group will have approx 10 workers, a FOSCer and parents working hard!

Tasks will be - hand pulling ivy and sycamore seedlings, holly cut and paint, ivy off treeferns and cestrum cut and paint as 5 stations along the track.

Please contact Jane on 9755 1154 for more details.

It is with great sadness that we note the passing of an inaugural member of our group on Oct 3 2007, Doris Bevan.
She will be greatly missed.

Read the FOSC eulogy here (MS Word doc)