TREVOR Wibberley of Frames West assisted Karen Ducat in her road safety awareness campaign last Monday by cutting out about 30 elephant shapes made from recycled materials, from the old Northam hospital and other sources.
Ms Ducat said she was appreciative of the support Mr Wibberley provided for the workshop scheduled this Saturday from 10am-1pm at Chatty Angels Community Op Shop.
All the elephants will be painted bright colours.
"This is the second big project Frames West has been involved in.
"The first one was during the hay festival, where they cut out lots of Clydesdale horses for us, and it was great to know I could come back here and they would help out again.
"This is a great campaign we have of saving people on our Wheatbelt roads."
This is a great campaign we have of saving people on our Wheatbelt roads.
- Karen Ducat.
Ms Ducat re-iterated her vision to have the elephants replace white crosses on the side of roads.
"I just feel that when I drive along the road and I see the white crosses, I feel very sad and negative about it," she said.
"We now have to start and promote we don't want those little crosses, we want little elephants instead to say 'remember me'.
"We want our roads to be safe, we don't want those crosses on the road."
As for what happens to the elephants after they have been completed at the May 21 workshop, Ms Ducat said it all depends on the individual.
"Some will want to take them home and put them on their fences," she said.
"They must be on display somewhere – they can't be stuck away in a bedroom.
"Other elephants will go on to a fence line out at Swan Hill Farm."
Ms Ducat said the road safety crew are looking at having a kilometre of elephants.
"We have about nine out there at the moment, nice bright coloured ones, and eventually we want a whole kilometre of them."
Further projects are in the pipeline following this Saturday's workshop.
"We will be having workshops in the next lot of school holidays as well," she said.
"I'm not sure how we will go about that just yet, but at the present time we will have a donation tin at the workshop on Saturday.
"People may want to put in a donation which will come back to the businesses – hopefully we will be able to pay them for what they are doing."
