Art competition information delivered to schools

This week, information about the Love Mary day competition is being delivered to schools in the Tiaro District and surrounds. Congratulation to Glenda and Juanita for all the work they have done to prepare these info packs.

Each schools is also receiving an image for a colouring in competition, a set of facts sheets about species of the Mary River, a "Something about Mary" book, and an A3 Mary River Characters poster.

Mary River characters poster from the Mary River Catchment Coordination Committee (www.mrccc.org.au)

Schools receiving the info packs are:

• Tiaro
• Bauple
• Gunalda
• Tinana
• Gundiah
• Tin Can Bay
• Glenwood
• Theebine
• Brooweena
• Mungar

Entries into the competition will be on display on Love Mary day - 17 February 2012.

To find out more, email greatermary@gmail.com

Another planning walk for Love Mary day

The Mary River Koala corridor project has been progressing steadily - the trees we planted in September are also going well, weed control has been ongoing and planning for our community event is in full swing.

Our community event is called Love Mary Day and it will take place on Sunday 17 February 2013. The event includes stalls, speakers on many things to do with the river and biodiversity and an interpretive walk along the riparian zone.

Juanita and Glenda had already done some work on planning the interpretive walk. Yesterday a few more of us joined them to further map out some of the features that we will highlight on the walk. Glenda also collected seeds for inclusion in seed balls that will be made on the day.

On our walk we saw turtles, stormbirds, water dragons and loads of interesting features. We also collected some Cats Claw for weaving baskets.