{"id":148420,"date":"2016-06-13T15:57:45","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T05:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=148420"},"modified":"2020-10-12T16:39:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T06:39:59","slug":"vote-for-a-local-win-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2016\/06\/13\/vote-for-a-local-win-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote For A Local, Win $100"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yarraman State School students Javis White, 12, Riley Roberts, 9 and brother Lachlan, 13, were part of the school group who volunteered to help plant the final stretch of Yarraman Creek in 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

June 13, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Friends Of Yarraman Creek are asking the South Burnett for a little bit of help – and you can be in the running to win $100 if you’re willing to invest 60 seconds doing it.<\/p>\n

The Friends have been nominated as one of three finalists for this year’s Waterway Stewardship Award in the annual Healthy Waterways Awards.<\/p>\n

The community group has been slowly rehabilitating the formerly weed and rubbish strewn section of Yarraman Creek that runs along the southern side of Errol Munt Park for the last four years.<\/p>\n

Their work, which has involved cleaning up the creek’s banks and replanting the area with Australian native plants, has restored this signature waterway to health.<\/p>\n

Native birds and animals have returned to the area and it’s become a showpiece that now draws naturalists from all over south east Queensland, keen to learn from what the group has accomplished so they can rehabilitate degraded waterways in their own areas.<\/p>\n

This year the Friends have been nominated in the People’s Choice section of the Awards, which means the winner will be determined by popular vote.<\/p>\n

And they are asking residents to support the only South Burnett project in this year’s awards by going to the Healthy Waterways<\/b><\/a> website, scrolling two-thirds the way down the page to the “Waterway Stewardship Award”, and then voting for them.<\/p>\n

Everyone who votes is asked for their name and email address, and will go into a draw to win one of four $100 retail gift vouchers.<\/p>\n

Voting will stay open until close of business on Friday, June 24.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Final winners will be announced on Friday, July 8.<\/p>\n

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