Donations requested please....

rockylizard · Guru

Donations requested please....

Happywanderer · The Master

I will call in to Corop Store and make a donation within the next week. I had no idea and nobody has mentioned it before, neither grey nomads nor the owners at the store.
It's interesting that it has snuck past us all. When I called in for my coffee and paper last Sunday, she even mentioned she had my phone number on record from my first visit.

nu one · Senior Member

I have not seen this notation befor .. However it is time to do the right thing and will make sure I call in to the shop and pay before
Hitting the lake
Leading by examples .. We do want Greens to stay open.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Shut the front gate! I was in the store yesterday and go in there on a semi regular basis, they know me and that I am at Greens but have never said anything about it to me. I have never seen a donation box there either.

I wonder if it might be toward the CFA in fact?

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

confuse or just a publishing error confuse

Anyone with Camps 8? what does it show for Greens Lake, Corop, now?

Cheers - John

brickies · Guru

Hi in Camps 8 Vic site 426 it states Green Lake Recreation Reserve Camp Area 16 km W of Stanhope or 24 km E of Elmore. 1 km of dirt road. Donation please for upkeep of facilities.

It dose not tell you how to make the Donation .

Sheba · Guru

I have already posted this on more than one occasion, the last time being yesterday. If you look at John's Photo, you will see that the name is GREEN Lake.

The place where Nomads from this Forum usually use as a meeting place is GREENS Lake, with an "S". The two are not too far apart, so unless you make sure of the spelling, you could end up in the wrong place.

Cheers,

Sheba.

-- Edited by Sheba on Saturday 7th of February 2015 08:54:09 PM

Happywanderer · The Master

Sheba this is our one Greens Lake at Corop, spelt wrong. Can tell by the distance to the nearby towns./

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

Sorry Sheba. Yes it is incorrectly named as "Green Lake" in Camps book ... but all the other information regarding description of where it is and the co-ordinates for the GreenS Lake (OUR Greens Lake) are correct. It may be that the words stating a donation is requested is not applicable to the Green(S) Lake Reserve at the site shown in Camps book.

The one that is Green (no S) Lake (actually Green Hill Lake I think) is over near Ararat I believe which is some distance away.

Cheers - John

Sheba · Guru

Ok Marj. and John. I apologise if I got it wrong, but when you guys first started using Greens, people were getting it mixed up with Green Lake, [no hill] On the map I looked at back at the beginning, they were not very far apart.

Cheers,

Sheba.

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

It is damned confusing Sheba hmm

Check this google web-link - https://www.google.com.au/#q=GREEN+LAKE+victoria

It bring ups this result ... the top one is OUR GreenS Lake ... the rest are Green Lake - NOT ours and a considerable distance from OUR GreenS Lake.

Greens Lake 01.JPG

This google web-link - https://www.google.com.au/#q=green+hill+lake+victoria

and brings up these results ... none of them anywhere near Corop.

Greens Lake 02.JPG

Cheers - John

Olley46 · Guru

There is another Green Lake just up near Horsham Victoria.

Lance C

SnowT · Guru

Hey RL..

A lot of the GN's do more than just park at the lake...

We do clean up..

We Keep an eye on the lake area and report any issue to whom it is best...
We try to make sure that the area is kept clean...

So I don't see where the issue is..

Juergen

Psst if the issue is such a big thing then why have they not posted it at the Toilet Block... or the front gate area...??

rockylizard · Guru

RE: Donations requested ??

jules47 · The Happy Helper

RE: Donations requested please....

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Just wondering what the going rate is Jules, Please.

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Whatever you want Doug -I usually put a couple of dollars in when I go in to the shop, and when they let us stay in the paddock and made us all so welcome, we all went for fish and chips, and bought our fuel as well. Got to keep the shop going, imagine if it wasn't there!

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Thanks for that Jules, unfortunately the question was asked at the store thismorning as a donation was going to be placed in the box and they want to know where they keep the donation box please ?

KFT · Guru

I could suggest that for you Dougwe being a very special sort of bloke that $10 per night would be a nice gesture.

for everyone else maybe $5 per night would be really good

hehe

bloody frank (again)

Happywanderer · The Master

Dougwe wrote:
Thanks for that Jules, unfortunately the question was asked at the store thismorning as a donation was going to be placed in the box and they want to know where they keep the donation box please ?

Not sure of your statement Doug. Who wanted to know where who keep the donation box. Were they asking you or you asking them? Will call in tomorrow and sort this out once and for all.

dazren · Guru

Dougwe wrote, -- Thanks for that Jules, unfortunately the question was asked at the store this morning as a donation was going to be placed in the box and they want to know where they keep the donation box please ?

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I thought Dougwe explained it quite clearly HW, smile

Happywanderer · The Master

dazren wrote:
Dougwe wrote, -- Thanks for that Jules, unfortunately the question was asked at the store this morning as a donation was going to be placed in the box and they want to know where they keep the donation box please ?
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I thought Dougwe explained it quite clearly HW,

ok, how come THEY don't know where THEY keep the donation box. If they don't know where it is, how would anyone else?

dazren · Guru

smile exactly !! HW, smile -- I will look forward to your clarification tomorrow !! ''Maybe '' the person at the store, at the time Dougwe was there, Did Not know about it, but maybe others do !! confuse confuse

Happywanderer · The Master

dazren wrote:
exactly !! HW, -- I will look forward to your clarification tomorrow !! ''Maybe '' the person at the store, at the time Dougwe was there, Did Not know about it, but maybe others do !!

Got it. Could be an interesting conversation.

Glenelg · Guru

There is no donation box, has,nt been for years, the locals payed a couple of dollars to come here and no camping in them days. The box used to get knocked off. How do I know cos I hav,nt seen one .

dazren · Guru

Not seeing one Dave, does not mean there is not one !! -- However with HW on the job, I am sure we will get the true facts Tomorrow, smile Should be an interesting outcome, after all the posts this subject has generated confuse confuse smile

03_Troopy · Guru

Found this via Google

So it looks like the Corop Community Action Group may be the volunteers that you need to get in touch with.

jules47 · The Happy Helper

Robert, Hayley's dad, from the shop is your contact on the committee.

Happywanderer · The Master

I have been to the Corop Store and asked all the relevant questions and got the correct answers, so here goes.
Firstly, they have no donation box at the Corop Store and never have had one. Hayley said many, many years ago, there used to be one out here at the lake, but it kept getting broken into and robbed.
She also said if anyone is putting g money into a donation box at the store it can only be for the Childrens Hospital as that's the only one they have.
Nobody has been asking for donations, no committee, no community, it is in the Camps Book from many years ago and has never been updated.
As we are now asking and I for one would be willing to give donations to get some upgrades done at the lake, her dad will put it to the committee when they meet later this month. They also have all the paperwork for a dump point being put to the committee later this month.
The water board says they can't do any upgrades as they have no money for it.
Hayley says they are quite happy to have a locked donation box in the store for Greens Lake donations which would be wholey and soley managed by the lake committee and all funds going to the upgrade of the lake. No one else will be able to use any of the money and also a request would be put forward for receipts to be shown of any upgrades using the said donations.

Hope that clarifies all questions asked and settles the debate once and for all.

Dougwe · Chief one feather

Reckon so Marj. NO DONATION BOX anywhere.

I might point out here that Rocky was in no way saying there WAS a donation box anywhere and no one was asking for donations at any time. He was just pointing out that it was in the Camps Book. Maybe someone should contact the Camps people to get them to change. Unfortunately it will be another two years before it's changed as edition 8 is on the stands I think or at least not far off and way too late for the change in 8.

Thanks Rocky for the topic though, has proved very interesting indeed.

Looks like Corop will be on the country board come Good Friday and the Children's Hospital Appeal.