Mt Macedon Uniting Church

A commemoration service will be held on Thursday evening, 16 February, at 7pm in the Mt Macedon Uniting Church on the 40th anniversary of the devastating bushfires that swept across much of Victoria and South Australia on 16 February 1983.

Corey was part of the eight person (four females, four males) Australian team which competed against 19 other nations. Australia finished third behind the United States and Chile, achieving its highest placement in the championship in 10 years.

The Reverend Dr D’Arcy Wood will lead the service, with the chair of the Presbytery of Port Phillip West preaching.

Corey just missed out on making the finals after the tow rope slipped out of his hand at the final buoy in the semi-final, finishing in equal 14th place.

He is now back at RMIT where he is into his third year of a construction management course. Corey will get back into training on the Loddon River later this year in preparation for Moomba where he hopes to do well.

The Uniting Church on Mt Macedon was one of the 400 buildings destroyed in Macedon and on Mt Macedon on that day. While seven people died in Macedon and on Mt Macedon, no-one from the congregation died. Only the stone walls of the church remained after the fire. Insurance was insufficient to rebuild.

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