Celebrating the completion of the Omaui project

The Open Day at Omaui Camp to celebrate the completion of the track and pond project and their new outdoor environmental education area is happening on Saturday 22nd February.
This open day is an opportunity to check out the work that Club members, friends and family undertook across 5 successful Working Bees, to lay weed matting, and an estimated 75 tonne of gravel to make 350 metres of walking tracks with new walkways to cross natural waterways and several hundred plantings.
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 on this project, we as Rotary are one of them and this was a major project for our 100th year.
MenzShed has collaborated with us on the project, building the walkways across the existing water courses leading to the pond.

This is a public event with everyone welcomed to the Open Day.
We are looking to offer further support to YMCA on the Open day by provision of a sausage sizzle so if you are available and can assist with the BBQ - please contact Lisa-Maree on 027 2304 611.
This project re-connected us to our past but is 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.
Want to know more about YMC - Camp Omaui - click here: https://ysouthland.org.nz/service-list/omaui-camp/