What a transformation. Leeton's art deco building features have been highlighted and the main street colourfully restored. Let's hope many additional businesses come on board.

While we're a bit limited in what we can do around town during the lockdown, we can get out and exercise. Recently I was doing my daily walk past the Hydro and noticed a QR code on the footpath.

It's a link to a survey about Chelmsford Place and how we use it.

Why not click on the QR code if you're up in that part of town and fill it in when you get home?

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It asks you about how you use Chelmsford Place, what the location means to you and what suggestions you'd make to improve it.

Leeton Shire Council has a design brief for the development of the heritage area, so that's worth a read as well.

The COVID-19 pandemic is changing our lives in so many ways.

A hundred years ago, people experienced another pandemic called the Spanish flu. Thousands in Australia died. There were no vaccines available, let alone knowledge of viral spread or transmission rates.

One common feature between the two pandemics has been mask wearing. You can find many photos of well-protected citizens between 1918-1920, wearing the only item they believed would give them protection from the virus. It worked.

That's a good lesson from the past for keeping ourselves safe.

One of our local historians, Vita Vitelli, is collecting local stories about the current pandemic.

Do you have a story or experience which we can include in a collection of local responses to COVID-19? In fifty years, people will wonder how we responded to the virus, what we thought of efforts to contain it and, more generally, how it changed our lives.

Lockdown gives us the chance to review how we've travelled with the virus and how it's affected us more personally.

Like you, our Family and Local History Society is also in lockdown.

We're working from home, but may still be able to respond to limited research requests.

We've recently revamped our monthly meetings. Our executive deals with day-to-day matters then a general meeting follows.

When lockdown lifts, we hope to have members presenting and talking about personal historical items they have. We're looking at some introductory sessions on family history as well.

Why not come along and get involved in your history and the story of your town and region?

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