The walkway from the eastern end of Bourke Street up to the Standing Stones has been enhanced and made safer, following work and input from key community groups in recent weeks.
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The Tregurtha Way Upgrade project was organised and conducted mainly by the Rotary Club of Glen Innes but assistance from the Danthonia Community, the Australian Standing Stones Committee, Glen Innes Severn Council, Quota, Inner Wheel and the Glen Innes Celtic Committee and even regular track users.
Direct donations of equipment and vehicles came from both Wayne McCarthy and Brian Hutton, while much appreciated cash donations from the National Service Association and Glen Innes Services Club will greatly assist. The work couldn’t have been done without the assistance of these individuals and groups.
The total value of the project, including labour, is estimated to be $20,800. This includes 386 hours of work on the project. As a result of the voluntary labour and equipment, the project will cost the club only $2,640 after promised donations are received.
Sixty six post holes, 900 mm deep had to be dug for the new 150 metres pipe railing fence. Fifty of these holes were carefully dug by hand after it was found that the town sewerage line ran through the site twice, town water ran through twice, a local phone line also ran underground on the site twice, but worst of all, the fibre optic cable was buried there too and crossed the pathway twice.
Fortunately the town water line was the only one “located” just the once and not damaged.
Glen Innes Inner Wheel donated a seat on Tregurtha Way, which is located half way along the track. A solid retaining wall now supports this area and the seat has been coated with five coats of a marine polyurethane for complete weatherproofing.
Many Rotarians throughout Australia and around the world know of John Tregurtha, in whose memory Tregurtha Way was named, and the great community work he initiated and was involved in. When Rotary district governor Sandra Doumany heard about the Tregurtha Way project she asked for the Glen Innes Rotary Club to do a presentation on it at the district convention being held at the Gold Coast this coming weekend.
Hopefully delegates to this conference will be impressed with the upgrade work, and no doubt will be most impressed with the community input.
All that remains to be done is to plant some natives in the area, and the Tregurtha Way will be completed in time for this year’s Celtic Festival on May 3-5. An official opening of the works will be organised on a date to be notified.
The Tregurtha Way Upgrade project was organised and conducted mainly by the Rotary Club of Glen Innes but assistance from the Danthonia Community, the Australian Standing Stones Committee, Glen Innes Severn Council, Quota, Inner Wheel and the Glen Innes Celtic Committee and even regular track users.
Direct donations of equipment and vehicles came from both Wayne McCarthy and Brian Hutton, while much appreciated cash donations from the National Service Association and Glen Innes Services Club will greatly assist. The work couldn’t have been done without the assistance of these individuals and groups.
The total value of the project, including labour, is estimated to be $20,800. This includes 386 hours of work on the project. As a result of the voluntary labour and equipment, the project will cost the club only $2,640 after promised donations are received.
Sixty six post holes, 900 mm deep had to be dug for the new 150 metres pipe railing fence. Fifty of these holes were carefully dug by hand after it was found that the town sewerage line ran through the site twice, town water ran through twice, a local phone line also ran underground on the site twice, but worst of all, the fibre optic cable was buried there too and crossed the pathway twice.
Fortunately the town water line was the only one “located” just the once and not damaged.
Glen Innes Inner Wheel donated a seat on Tregurtha Way, which is located half way along the track. A solid retaining wall now supports this area and the seat has been coated with five coats of a marine polyurethane for complete weatherproofing.
Many Rotarians throughout Australia and around the world know of John Tregurtha, in whose memory Tregurtha Way was named, and the great community work he initiated and was involved in. When Rotary district governor Sandra Doumany heard about the Tregurtha Way project she asked for the Glen Innes Rotary Club to do a presentation on it at the district convention being held at the Gold Coast this coming weekend.
Hopefully delegates to this conference will be impressed with the upgrade work, and no doubt will be most impressed with the community input.
All that remains to be done is to plant some natives in the area, and the Tregurtha Way will be completed in time for this year’s Celtic Festival on May 3-5. An official opening of the works will be organised on a date to be notified.
