The BWO that fell through.
With a number of the likely leaders in the region unavailable in summer, we aimed to run BWO in the spring holidays at Ferryden Park Lutheran. When some people said they couldn’t make it in spring, it was going to be a fairly small thing, with just Grange and Cheltenham involved.
Then the week before, when many of the Grange people were away on holiday (“It would be easier to run BWO in Queensland than here”) and others were sick, we decided to call it off. Much of the organisation was being left until the last minute, so there wasn’t much to cancel. It was never too big to fail. We rang to cancel the few events we had arranged.
Ferryden Park had already made food for us an hired a skip for work we would to there, so on the Tuesday the Cheltenham youth group came and did that event. While we were there, we invited some kids off the street to join in the work (and the food).
On the Thursday the Cheltenham youth took those kids on a hike. Some were involved with Ferryden Park Lutheran in the years to come, and the failed BWO was the first time they had come into the building.
That was the end of BWO in the west, although Grange people joined the SW region, which later became West again.