Report On Our New Shed Dedication

Our group had a run day on Saturday, where we opened the museum for the public, for 2 reasons.

One was to celebrate national heritage Month.

The second was to dedicate our new shed for Eddy & Gwen Abraham, who very generously donated a huge amount of money to enable us to fund a new storage/display and workshop facility. For which our group will be eternally grateful.

This donation came at a crucial time for our group, as the showgrounds committee were pulling down a large storage shed, attached to our Museum, leaving us with no room to store spare exhibits, equipment or house our workshop.

Eddy & Gwen are extremely generous to the Bendigo Community and have been for many decades, working for many groups, like Probus, Miridong home, the food bank , to name a few. Without people like this in any community, large or small, many groups and community services, just wouldn’t exist.

Eddy has been a member of our group, since 1982 and is now a life member.

A large crowd of members and families gathered as we dedicated the shed and erected a sign and named the shed in their honour & had an afternoon tea.

Eddy & Gwen further surprised us on the day, with yet another generous donation to our group, which will enable us to complete some of the interior work in the Abraham Shed.

Rob Hocking

Committee member