Members of Springwood Rotary Club are very proud of their $48,000 contribution towards community health in the Lower Blue Mountains of NSW.
 
Club members and representatives of Blue Mountains City Council recently combined resources to fund and install a ten station exercise area on the southern border of Summerhayes Park, Yellow Rock, on the outskirts of Springwood.
 
The project is the ‘brainchild’ of 2015/16 Club President Pat Ainslie during her year as President Elect and the plan has been slowly developed over the last two years. She received staunch support from Past President Colin Kenney and a small committee of dedicated workers.
 
Springwood Rotary provided the major part of the cost of the state of the art exercise equipment, whilst Blue Mountains Council provided support with site selection and installation.
 
Ten work stations allow for a full range of physical exercise and training – legs, arms, shoulders and back – and large groups of morning and afternoon joggers have already been seen enjoying the facilities. The exercise area will be open for public use 24 hours a day and the equipment is designed to be vandal proof.

An impressive plaque has been struck to acknowledge Springwood Rotary and Council.  It will be safely installed in a secure rock bed to ensure permanent record.
 
 
A large group of Rotarians and several Blue Mountains City Councillors – Chris Vanderkley, Daniel Myles and Mick Fell - were present at the official opening of the facility.
 
Springwood Rotary has enjoyed one of its best years of service on record and, apart from the investment in the exercise park, the club also donated $39,000 to the Rural Fire Service at Yellow Rock Station to finance the purchase of new tanks for vital breathing apparatus – replacing those destroyed in the 2013 bushfires.
Image:  From left, Mick Fell, Chris Vanderkley, Pat Ainslie, Colin Kenney, Bill Bowler, Daniel Myles and Geoff Glassock.
 
Image:  Geoff Glassock, Pat Ainslie, Colin Kenney and Bill Bowler proudly display the special plaque to be placed in position within the exercise park surrounds.