By Jarrod Potter
TWO decades after it was opened, the Frog Hollow Reserve pavilion in Endeavour Hills continues to benefit the community.
The Endeavour Hills Rugby Union Club, which was founded in 1979, and Hallam Kalora Park Cricket Club both benefitted from the construction of the facility, which was officially opened tomorrow (31 July) twenty years ago by the then City of Berwick.
In the Berwick City News 4 August 1994 edition, City of Berwick mayor Cr Norma McCausland J.P said the pavilion – which cost $285,000 at the time – would serve to be a – prophetic words at the time as the facility still stands tall two decades later.
“I am sure this will be money well spent for the rugby club who will use the facilities during the winter season and the cricket club which will be here during the summer,” Cr McCausland said.
“This beautiful building enhances what is now fast becoming a very attractive part of Endeavour Hills with all the restoration, flood control and plating works which have taken place along the Eumemmering Creek.”
When the Reserve was first proposed around 1986, it was envisaged as Hallam North Road Recreation Reserve, but according to the Casey Cardinia – links to our past website, Cr Keith Wishart suggested the name as something more scenic and visual.
From smaller location at Chalcot Lodge Reserve in the 1980s – with a tent the first club house – the Endeavour Hills Rugby Union Club has advanced significantly since moving to Frog Hollow.
The Friends of Frog Hollow gathered on Sunday for the annual National Tree Day, to help plant shrubberies along the Eumemmering Creek and add to the 70,000-plus amount of native tree shrubs in the area.
