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Grand House Cooling Party of Percy Crescent
Thursday 23 January
And then the community started to recover
and heal itself. For us, it began on the
Thursday after with an invite to a "House
Cooling" party thrown by Elizabeth and
Tony Marburg across the road at number 37.
They had lost everything, but they wanted
to throw a party, tell their story and say
thank you to their friends and neighbours.
They were special to us because on the first
weekend after we moved in last August they
brought us a freshly baked cake to say welcome.
Here are some photos of the party held amid
the ruins and destruction of number 37
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This is Julie, our next door neighbour with
some of her children at the party. They were
away on holiday when the fires happened and
lost their house.
Bernard and Lyndsey Robertson-Dunn's Canberra
bushfire website
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