General News
8 November, 2024
Tower sows connections across ages
The Bristol Hill Memorial Tower is continuing to emerge as a token of intergenerational connection — strengthened more so by an important community-wide project which has finally taken root.
In August this year, members from the Maryborough Rotary Club, the local field naturalists group and students from the Maryborough Education Centre (MEC) came together to launch a vital revege-tation project at the Bristol Hill reserve.
As part of the initiative, participating students took cuttings from the native Pigface plant (found near the tower) back to school to further propagate it.
For the last three months, they have been extremely dedicated to the activity.
Now, their efforts have officially flowered.
On November 7, around 16 year 11 students gathered once again at the Bristol Hill reserve, completing the final leg of their project.
With the help of Maryborough Field Naturalists’ Barb Thomson, students replanted their newly grown Pigface plants around the erosion affected areas of the reserve.
“This project has been an excellent partnership,” Ms Thomson said.
“It makes me so proud of our community and confident for our future — seeing these kids get together and become part of the tower’s upkeep is a wonderful thing.
“Their peers and other students will see them working on this and then it’ll be seen as a place of importance and pride so it’s really important to have younger people be involved in this way.”