The flow of the river, made constant by careful management to please consumers, did not suit the handsome river red gum trees along its banks, which thrive on drought and flood.

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Wearing hard-hat, paper mask, and gloves I walked around Ground Zero with ministry students giving bottles of water, Red Bull, and chewing gum to first-responders working the pile.

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There will also be a new regional sports club set in parkland, with a garden square centred on the original Eton Manor Boys Club war memorial and it will be lined with sweet gum trees which turn red around Remembrance Day.

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The multicoloured balls in bubble-gum machines could be picked up in a girl's dress, or the red of a stiletto shoe matched with the frame of a shop window.

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