By Dongyun Kwon
The Badger Creek Community Group is looking forward to launching the community plan at the Community Picnic.
The group collected ideas and opinions from the community members through the Have Your Say Day event in October last year.
Badger Creek Community Group member Rachael Davidson said her group has developed the community plan based on the ideas it received from the Have Your Say Day.
“What we wanted to was have an event to launch the community plan and that’s what Community Picnic is for,” she said.
“We also wanted to give an opportunity for some local community groups [including Badger Creek Choir, Badger Creek Drumming Group, Birdlife Yarra Valley, the Men’s Shed, the CFA and so on] to display their activities and work.
“We’re gonna have some live music performed by a band called The NightSwimmers, Badger Creek Drumming Group and Badger Creek Choir.”
The Badger Creek Community Group will put the posters of the community plan on the wall at the Community Picnic, along with sharing hard copies of it with the attendees.
“Some of the main projects we’re hoping to get are improvements of a roundabout outside Healesville Sanctuary, a footpath along Don Road opposite the Big4 Badger Creek Holiday Park, a walking trail from Don Road along the Badger Creek to Healesville Sanctuary,” Ms Davidson said.
“We also want to tell the Indigenous and the European history of Badger Creek and hold some community events like Badger Creek Hall centenary.
“The other thing that we’re doing is we’re liaising with a primary school and hopefully we might get the community poem, that we developed at the Have Your Say Day, presented in some way at the picnic as well.”
The Community Picnic will be held between 12pm and 4pm on Sunday 28 April at Badger Creek Old School, located at 370 Badger Creek Road, Healesville.
