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Welcome to the web site for the  
Sawyers Valley Residents and Ratepayers Association (Inc)
 
 
Why not come along to the next
 
General Meeting
 
on Foundation Day
 
Monday  1 June,   2009
 
Sawyers Valley Hall
7.30 pm
 
 

                                                                                                             
 
SAWYERS VALLEY RESIDENTS & RATEPAYERS ASSOCIATION
SURVEY  2009
 

The SVRRA is regularly contacted by various local, state and national organizations on many issues impacting Sawyers Valley.   Monthly meetings are held by the SVRRA to discuss and respond to these issues.  

This survey provides those who are unable to attend these meetings to have input and involvement in the important issues that affect our community.  

 

The survey can be done by:

- filling out the survey you received in the mail OR

- downloading Parts A & B & printing a hard copy to mail in OR

- doing the survey online  

                                                                                                            

The SVRRA is planning a litter cleanup for June 2009.

 

The way it works is this:

1. If you want to cleanup a street (or part thereof)

2. Let me know what street / part street and a guess at how many bags

3. I will drop them off

4. You and any others fill the bags between the start and end dates, at times of your own convenience, leaving them by the roadside

5. At the end date the I will come down the street with a trailer and pick up the bags and put them at the arranged shire pickup point

6. Keep any bags left over for next time or leave out any bags (under a rock) and we will pick them up as well

7. The start / end dates for this cleanup is:

    30th May 09 to 4pm 14th June 2009

 

This is usually done about twice a year.

Please contact Michael Le Vaux   on   9572 1713

                                                                                                                     

SAWYERS VALLEY

Sawyers Valley derived its name from the trade most commonly practised by those who settled here. A sawpit, with hand sawyers hard at work and a settlement of thatched "V" huts (so called from their resemblance to an inverted letter "V") was noted in the area as early as the 1860's. The timber trade was the mainstay of the place for many years. A railway station named Sawyers Valley was opened here in 1884.
 
The town of Sawyers Valley began as a pit sawyer's settlement in the 1860s. Many of the early timber workers were expiree convicts or convicts working out their ticket-of-leave passes. The work was hard with one sawyer on the top of the log guiding the downstroke of the two-metre long saw blade and below, often standing for hours in mud and sawdust at the bottom of the deep pit, was another sawyer, guiding the upstroke. Even today, many of the original sawpits can still be seen.

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NEXT GENERAL MEETING

 

Monday

1 June
7.30 pm
 
Sawyers
Valley
Hall

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We welcome your comments. Write to us at:

Sawyers Valley Residents and Ratepayers Association (Inc.) 
SVRRA 
Leather Green
Sawyers Valley   6074