Five months after the iconic Sugar Pine Walk was cut down, a Batlow teenager is making sure locals get to keep a piece of the beloved site.
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The area, located near Laurel Hill in the Bago State Forest, was so badly damaged by the Dunns Road bushfire that the trees were removed mid-year for safety reasons.
However, 17-year-old entrepreneur Jack Gould has sourced some of the timber and turned it into special edition pens to sell to locals.
With a world ranking in the 800 metres, the aspiring athlete began making and selling pens from timber to raise funds for surgery which will help him get back on the track.
Jack, who has recently completed high school, said he hoped to one day make the Olympic team.
Some of the Sugar Pine Walk timber was donated to him, and he decided to immortalise it in a special range of pens.
"I thought, why not makes some Sugar Pine pens for the locals, considering there's no more Sugar Pine Walk anymore they might as well have some sort of memorabilia," he said.
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He said each pen took about 45 minutes of cutting, shaping, sanding and polishing to be complete, and he had made just over 20 so far.
About a week after first announcing they were for sale, he said the response from locals had been strong with various community social media pages sharing the news around.
"It's getting a bit out of control, which is good though!" he said.
"If it keeps going I might need to buy some more pen kits."