Tom\u2019s garden romance going strong<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cMy Dad has always been dedicated to community service and is still working hard to provide benefits to the community where he is changing lives through his generosity and hard physical labour,\u201d his daughter Trudi said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has always been raising money for something through Rotary, the Freemasons or small businesses that he owned.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of his most successful projects was working with the Amanda Young Foundation where he raised awareness and funds for meningococcal disease.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe success of the Amanda Young Foundation and the Darling Range Hub, both of which he has significantly supported, will persist due to the strong foundations he helped establish.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said her father\u2019s simple philosophy in life had always been to devote yourself to creating something with purpose and meaning in your own life.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe always instilled in me the values to work hard for what you want and to help others along the way, always learning as you go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Hogg said her father had completed most of the work on his Romancing the Stone garden singlehandedly.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter buying the property in July 2000 he purchased and carted more than 2000 tonnes of rocks and cemented them into position himself.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrough various charities he has been able to raise about $640,000 towards helping their cause by using his garden for open gardens and the like over the past 25 years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Hogg said he unfortunately suffered a setback recently when he had to undergo a hip replacement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis set me back from doing some things but everything has still proceeded the same as other years.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said he was still able to hold some successful charity concerts and continues to be involved with the Cannington Community Education Support Centre.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is to help teenage children on the spectrum to gain working skills and experience that can help them gain employment opportunities in the future,\u201d Mr Hogg said.<\/p>\n
He said he is always looking for new charities to be involved with.<\/p>\n
To contact Mr Hogg call 9454 4298 or email tom hogg6455@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MAIDA Vale garden creator and well-known local identity Tom Hogg (86) has been nominated for an Awards Australia…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105],"class_list":["post-773796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}