[Bermagui Community] Bermagui Badja Fire Edge Community Connection

[Geoffrey Grigg]

>From Dean and Annette at The Crossing <http://www.thecrossingland.org.au>
From: Dean Turner thecrossingland at gmail.com

*For Head of Cuttagee, Barraga Bay and any Quaama people who may like to
attend*

*Fire Edge Community Connection Gathering on Sunday 30 August from 2-4pm at
The Crossing. *

We hope the gatherings will assist communities on each road to self
organise for future emergencies and to share information about what worked
in their preparations for fire. We anticipate that roads may then choose to
hold follow-up meetings themselves.

Results of the Nutleys Ck Road and Coolagolite Roads gatherings are
alreadynow on the Facebook Group if you would like to join and have a look
at the ideas that people on each road have come up with.
Cheers
Dean Turner

*Bermagui Badja Fire edge community connection project*
https://www.facebook.com/groups/bermaguibadjafireedgecommunityconnection

To assist people from around Bermagui who were on or near the edges of the
Badja Fire to collaboratively share experiences, monitor wellbeing,
identify concerns, develop joint actions and a collective future vision to
increase the community’s resilience.

This project started from discussions between neighbours on Nutleys Ck Rd
with RFS and SES members. We thought this winter would be a good time to
start sharing some learnings from the fires. Covid 19 got in the way a bit,
but summer will come again.

Both Tim Holsworth (Bermagui RFS Captain) and Martin Wraight (Bermagui SES
Captain) encouraged The Crossing to make this happen!

We thought the best place to help communication is by renewing phone and
email lists on a road by road basis with each road having someone taking a
lead role to update and look after their list. Please put up your hand or
nominate a road coordinator for the roads below and feel free to copy this
to people on your road to get them started. The Crossing has also started a
collective facebook group (link above) so that people can share good ideas
across all the roads or have a one road discussion if they choose to.

All initial road meetings will be held at The Crossing 392 Nutleys Ck Rd.
Meetings are held in a covid safe undercover area beside our Community
Hall. We use social distancing and a seated small table 'World Cafe' format
with a range of questions for the small table groups to discuss. Meetings
held on Sundays from 2-4pm. Limit of 20 per meeting so please rsvp by email
to your road coordinator or to dean at thecrossingland.org.au if you do not
yet have a road coordinator – one person per household as it helps to keep
track of who is coming for Covid safe reasons.

If you can’t get to your own road meeting at The Crossing please ask
another road coordinator to come to their road meeting if that Sunday suits
you better, as issues will be similar.

There will likely be follow-up meetings back at each road and we expect
that roads will become self-organising for these meetings keeping the
Bermagui Fire Edge Facebook group informed of any new ideas and actions so
we can share the good news across all the roads. We will also copy your
road's actions to road coordinators to also share by email to the road list.

26 July - Nutleys, Black Marlin & Mangnans (great result, 20 people in the
rain, 5 actions recommended by group)
coordinator: Dean Turner dean at thecrossingland.org.au

16 August - Coolagolite Rds: Lyrebird Ridge, Green Tyrells, Rilys Rd with
Blair Close, Westrops, Ridge Rd & houses on forest section of Cobargo
Bermagui Rd  (great result, 14 people, 6 main findings)
coordinator for Lyrebird/Green Tyrells/ Ridge Rd: Ashley Fuller
brashley2 at icloud.com, Westrops has a Facebook Group, coordinator for
Blair/Rilys: Colin Jack twosticks at acr.net.au

30 August - Head of Cuttagee, Bermagui Tathra Rd to Cuttagee & Barraga Bay
coordinator for Head of Cuttagee Meg Connor? meglin10 at bigpond.com
coordinator for Barraga Bay: ?

6 September - George St Bermagui
coordinator for George St: Rebecca Perry temperry at gmail.com

13 September - Benny Gowings, Murrah River, Hergenhans & Bermagui Tathra Rd
around Murrah Hall - Coordinator Gary Pearse gpearse at ozemail.com.au
gathering for these roads now to be addressed as part of a multi Services
'Get Ready Day' currently in planning for Bermagui coordinated by Red Cross
addressing options and actions for property preparation and future fires as
well as more info about support and communication.

26 September – Fairhaven Point Rd
coordinators Lyn Williamson lyn.williamson7 at bigpond.com and Tony King &
Kris Ralph: tonykris at bigpond.net.au

18 October – Beauty Point & Wallaga Heights
coordinator for Beauty Point: Dave Bulman: plantago1 at bigpond.com
coordinator for Wallaga Heights: Bill Southwood
bill.southwood at optusnet.com.au

1 November - Akelele
coordinator for Akelele: Sean Burke burkesean53 at gmail.com

22 November – Regathering to follow up joint issues raised with all road
coordinators plus one or two others from each road group.

Please forward this to other people on your road and hopefully someone will
put up a hand to be a road coordinator. The info needed is:
Road Address:
Names:
Email:
Phone no’s:
Thanks for getting involved, we hope this helps, cheers
Dean and Annette Turner
The Crossing
with support of Bermagui RFS and SES, Resilience NSW and
COORDINARE South Eastern NSW PHN

The Crossing Land Education Trust
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*‘Young people on journeys to sustainability’*
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