FOR 16 years, Dwellingup has been associated with beautiful woodwork from the Dwellingup Forest Heritage Centre and Australian School of Fine Wood – and many residents are angry about the abrupt closure of the centre last week.Senior lecturer Malcolm Harris said although he had heard about financial issues a few months ago, there was no warning last Monday when “the axe fell”.
“We had just started class when members of the board and Peel Development Commission informed us the centre was closing as of that moment,” he said.
Mr Harris said most of the eight students and four staff members were in shock.
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Although I've taught here for a semester in 2008 and my experience was that I was teaching in a soap opera, I was shocked by this news. The school had so much potential...
The Centre also housed a wonderful museum and is in an architecturally unique building. There had, at one time, been a wonderful guided bush walk with a re-enactment of a sleeper cutter's camp where they served tea and damper (but that was gone a while ago). Very frustrating to see all the unique businesses in Dwellingup closing down....even sadder to see the Center and its attempt to provide fine arts education, preserve history and educate about the native bushland fall in a heap! :((
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