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Firstly, may I thank each and everyone of you who has donated so generously<BR>
to this appeal - at last count I had received over 1000 teddies and other<BR>
soft toys. It has been such a magnificent response that even though I<BR>
intended to respond to everyone individually, I just cannot. So please<BR>
accept this as a personal note, and know that you have done a very good<BR>
thing. Please pass this on to all your students, families and friends who<BR>
were so kind.<BR>
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I have now only a few large boxes to unpack, tag, photograph and distribute<BR>
and I am working my way through these steadily. I have added some more<BR>
pages to the website, but two that you will all be interested in, are the<BR>
Teddy Truck run that my husband, my mum, the media and I did last Wednesday<BR>
when we took 500 teddies to our local preschools and the letter from Sophie<BR>
and her mum which encapsulates exactly what I was trying to do.<BR>
<BR>
Our mission has been on television, and in the local papers and I have<BR>
received some lovely drawings and messages from the children and their<BR>
parents, all of whom have asked me to thank you too.<BR>
<BR>
Tomorrow, I am taking another carload to some of the little settlements on<BR>
the outskirts of Canberra that were also devastated, but I go with a happier<BR>
heart because last Friday we had REAL rain and already there is a faint<BR>
tinge of green on the ground and some of the trees have little buds<BR>
happening. There are even a few kangaroos and three emus that have come<BR>
back to live in the Nature Reserve which lost its entire animal population,<BR>
except one koala who has been christened Lucky and is being nursed back to<BR>
health. Mother Nature amazes me with the speed she can wipe out the<BR>
landscape, and then, equally fast, repair it. Sadly, it will take many of<BR>
the families much, much longer to recover. But we have each helped them a<BR>
little along the way.<BR>
<BR>
Again, thank you. .. I shall go and open another box!<BR>
<BR>
Barbara<BR>
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Barbara Braxton<BR>
Teacher-Librarian<BR>
Palmerston District Primary School<BR>
PALMERSTON ACT 2913<BR>
AUSTRALIA<BR>
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T. 61 2 6205 6162<BR>
F. 61 2 6205 7242<BR>
E. barbara@austarmetro.com.au<BR>
W. <a href="http://www.palmdps.act.edu.au">http://www.palmdps.act.edu.au</a><BR>
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