But volunteers are battling with an ageing stove that’s on the blink. “We are absolutely desperate for a new stove,” hub volunteer Felicity Sloman said. Photo by Bree HardingVolunteers converted a small unused shed behind the public hall into a free, communal laundry for locals. “George (Noye, a Ruffy local and the town’s CFA captain) rang his plumber mate and voila, as they say.”So can a stove materialise out of thin air? Or perhaps out of one of the trailer loads of aid winding its way up the Longwood-Ruffy Rd each day.