Having his and his neighbours farms devastated by fires in December, including the loss of one of their homes, local Byron Shire resident Bart Vanarey had put the call out for helping hands to rebuild fences on their properties. He was not left disappointed and had 11 people last weekend and another 11 are people coming up this weekend to help get their perimeter fences re-built on the properties near Tabulam.
‘The response has been very heartening,’ said Bart.
‘It was such a good weekend with helpers coming from all over the world (only in Byron Bay) from the Canary Islands, Ecuador, Canada, Texas and of course Lismore, Byron and Lennox.’
Even in the rain the volunteers got down to the hard yakka and kept building fences and while Bart was claiming they had managed to erect 700m of fencing he was told he was ‘dreamin’ and it was more like 400m.
The call was also heard by a tractor hire company who has donated a a tractor to help with the fencing. Bart is continuing to raise funds for the materials and and has raised more money for another 170 fenceposts and 80 concrete fenceposts to be delivered to the properties.
There is still plenty of fencing to do and if you are available for a stint alert the long weekend you can contact Bart to volunteer your time for a bit of fencing on 0427 856 281 or email: [email protected].
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