Walking Track

The Honeysuckle Recreational Environment Project (HREP)

Working Bee 52: volunteers are seen here spreading mulch around newly planted trees and shrubs. DJP Nov 2005 Click image.

The Honeysuckle Recreational Environment Project arose from the Community Opportunity Workshop held in Violet Town in November 2001.

The initial meetings established project priorities that included a walking track around the creek area, revegetation of the creek, garden beds and picnic tables and much more.

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Promoting the HREP to community priorities that included a walking track around the creek area, revegetation of the creek, garden beds and picnic tables and much more.

Detailed planning and organisation by the HREP Working Party, Andrew Guerin, Robyn Landvogt, Tim Mahar, Howard Myers, Rebecca Nicoll, Sue Paton, Julie Ryan, Kate Stothers, Lance Williams and Susan Mahar has led to a community recreational area that any community would be proud to call their own.

Following the detail of a master plan, working bees have created the walking trail, rehabilitation of existing flora and the revegetation of degraded sections of the creek bank with plantings of native grasses and trees.

Grasses native to the area are planted on the bank of Honeysuckle Creek.

Read what some Violet Town children had to say..

"I live in Violet Town. Violet Town has a school and a kinder and I go to Violet Town school. I like Violet Town because it is a little town and it is unlikely anyone would be robbed." Tori, 6 yrs

"I live in Violet Town. It is Victoria. I like Violet Town it is near Benalla. It has some shops and and it has a walking track by the creek. It has a pool, two pubs, one big pub and one small pub and a post office. It has a Primary School where I go to and a kinder I used to go there. I sometimes walk Scruff down the walking track. Nearly every morning I walk to school, on the walking track. I like Violet Town because it has lots of things to do." Stephanie, 7 yrs

"I live in Violet Town it is near Benalla. It has a few shops and two pubs. I think Violet Town is the best because it has a creek called Honeysuckle Creek. I go to school in Violet Town. I walk to school and I walk my dog along Honeysuckle Creek. In summer at school we have swimming lessons. I like Violet Town because it is safe and in the country." Hayley, 7 yrs

These comments, contained in a recent school newsletter, were made by Grade 1 students about living in Violet Town.

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