Mowing down costs
By Lachlan Ellis
Once overgrown with weeds, bracken and long grass, the final resting place for many has a new lease of life.
Volunteers banded together with whipper snippers, gloves, and a fair bit of elbow grease to make the Gordon New Cemetery tidier, but important machinery was missing, lawn mowers.
The cemetery committee applied for a community investment grant with the local bank and was thrilled with the announcement they received the funding to purchase two new mowers, equipment that now makes the volunteers work easier.
Gordon local Neil Eastwood is a volunteer at the Cemetery and said the funding from the Ballan & District Community Bank Branch, allowed the committee to buy the equipment.
“The investment made my day,” he said.
“We needed some new equipment, so we applied to the Bank…we’ve been lucky enough to secure two new mowers,” he said.
“It makes a huge difference in keeping this fairly large area under control, and making it pleasant for people to visit relatives who are buried here. It’s a big job, but with this sort of equipment you can bowl it over fairly quickly, and it still looks fairly professional.”
Mr Eastwood said it would have been impossible for community groups to raise the amount of money the Community Bank has given them.
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