YMCA are hosting an Open Day at Omaui Camp to celebrate the completion of the track and pond project(s)
The first project for our 100th year is on track for completion with a final working bee for planting on Saturday 7 September.
Following the working bee the YMCA are opening up Omaui at 12 with an Open Day inviting the public to come and see the work that has recently been done.
Our project objective was to support the YMCA to create a new outdoor environmental education area.
Across 4 successful Working Bees, on 16th March, 13th April and 4th and 18th May, weed matting, an estimated 75 tonne of gravel has completed 350 metres of walking tracks with new walkways to cross natural
waterways. More than 100 plantings were part of the 4th May working bee with final plantings being the focus for the final working bee on 7th September before the open day.
The outdoor education area features a pond that existed in the 1990s that fills naturally from springs in the Omaui hills through existing watercourses on the camp site that has been reinstated by the YMCA.
The YMCA has worked with a number of community partners, we as Rotary are one of them.
MenzShed has collaborated with us on the project, building the walkways across the existing water courses leading to the pond.
This project re-connects us to our past for the present and future generations. The Club's first working project was a 1935 clearing boulders from the Omaui Health Camp.
The Omaui Health Camp was gifted to the YMCA in 2000 and our community relationship with YMCA goes back to 1929.
This100th year project complements projects undertaken by our Club at at Omaui Camp for the Club 50th and 75th anniversaries.