Hundreds answer sandbagging call to arms

Sporting organisations, workplaces and individual community members descended in enormous numbers to the sites, some with very little notice, to support the work of the hall committees in responding to the flood events to the east and west of their own communities.

Heather Henderson co-ordinated the effort at the O’Dea Road Koyuga Hall, while Cath and Russ Pell were among those at the forefront of the Wyuna effort.