Posted by Jim Carroll
Every second Thursday from 9.00am to midday 10 or so Alexandra Club members join with a few Salvation Army volunteers to split firewood.
 
Two members generously supply their own splitters, the Salvation Army has one and the club recently purchased a fourth.
The Wood splitting started for Alexandra Rotary 3 years ago when Barry Hambleton was a Club Director and also part of a community group who met each month to discuss what could be done to assist the Health and Welfare of our citizens.
 
The logs are supplied from trees that are taken out during clearing along power lines, trees that have gone passed their use by date and posing a danger, or from general tidy up work. They are cut into rings by the Salvation Army, and then Rotary comes in and does the splitting.
 
The Salvation Army then either give the split wood to needy people in the area, or sell it off as a fund raising exercise.