The team met at Kevin and Liz's place today and decided to focus our efforts on the community of Yea in the Seymour district of central Victoria. Yea is a town of similar size to Bridport or Scotsdale, with small satelite towns similar to those of the rest of Dorset. Their rural economy is also similar, and there has already been contact through the Rotary club and John Lette's visits with fodder. Yea has also been the scene of one of the 'tent cities' that have sprung up to house refugees from the fires.It was decided that the first step would be to get hold of community directories for Yea so that we can begin to contact groups there and ascertain needs, etc.
It was also decided to commission Graeme Loosmore to create a website for us, and this will be hosted on the domain name www.adoptatown.net. Committee members were also deputised to produce letterheads, advertising brochures, and liaise with newspapers, Radio and TV stations. Kevin has already been interviewed by ABC Northern Tasmania and will be again shortly now that we know what area we will be 'adopting'. The committee will also be approaching schools to provide them with postcards for the children to fill and and send to Yea district schools.
Next meeting is next Wednesday.
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