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Mary recently joined over 100 fellow Greening Australia volunteers and spent a Saturday afternoon helping to propagate 26,000 tube stock that will be used in the revegetation of key areas of the lower Cotter catchment during the 2007 planting season.

The work is part of the ACT Landkeepers program and is a partnership between Greening Australia and Environment ACT and funded jointly by the ACT and Australian Governments and is aimed at enhancing, protecting and restoring stream banks..

Teachers and student welfare staff will now be better equipped to assist Canberra's young carers to juggle their caring and school responsibilities with the release of Making Education Work for Young Carers.

It's a new information kit developed by CYCLOPS ACT, a service of Anglicare and was funded through the ACT Government's Carer Recognition Grants and launched during National Carers Week. The week is to celebrate and raise awareness of the contribution made by carers of all ages and this years theme is Anyone, Anytime recognising that people often become carers unexpectedly.

On October 16 Bishop Pat Power read the names of 170 Canberrans who had lost their lives due to illicit drug use.

Bishop Power was speaking at the 11th Annual Remembrance Ceremony organised by Family and Friends for Drug Law Reform at the memorial in Weston Park.

As if any proof were ever needed as to the totally indiscriminate way that this tragedy strikes, Bishop Power also told those present that a brother priest had recently performed the burial ceremony for a member of his own family who had died from illicit drug use.

Eighty seven ACT athletes recently travelled to the Gold Coast to compete at the National Special Olympics.

The athletes joined almost 1,000 competitors with an intellectual disability and participated in Ten Pin Bowling, Tennis, Swimming, Golf, Bocce, Basketball and Athletics winning over 100 medals, 39 of which were gold. In addition many athletes were also able to record personal bests in their chosen sport.

The ACT Government assisted 20 athletes to travel to the games by awarding them each $500 scholarships.