Progress Patter

News from Coal Point Progress Association

Do you like to walk with a purpose?

The Chronicle is hand delivered by local walkers into your letterbox each month and we’re looking for some additional walkers. If you’d like to lend a hand and a pair of feet for an hour a month please contact Tony on 4959 4533 to find out what routes are available.

Care to be on the Committee?

The CPPA activities are coordinated by a group of enthusiastic locals and we’d greatly welcome more enthusiastic types onto the Committee. If you have some energy to spare and would like to direct it to very local endeavours please feel free to come along to the Committee meetings to see what we get up to.

The CPPA committee meets on the 2nd Monday of the month between 3:30-5:30pm at Progress Hall.

We’ve joined the SunCrowd and we’re proud!

The CPPA has been able to join the SunCrowd and take advantage of their solar bulk buy leveraging capacity thanks to the funds from the Community Building Partnership grant Safe and sustainable solutions to ensure Progress Hall’s survival. In the near future 20 solar panels will grace the recently refurbished rooftop that is directing water into the ever-so-stylish rainwater tank that will flush the toilets, a truly sustainable solution which is also reducing the electricity bill. 

Naming of the ‘Pony Club’ to Puntei Park

In November last year a community call went out to find a name for the ‘Pony Club’ land at Hampton Street.

At the recent CPPA meeting it was decided to propose Puntei Park to the Geographical Names Board. Puntei is an Aboriginal name meaning narrow place or any narrow neck of land. It was also the early recorded name for Reverend Lancelot Edward Threlkeld’s land grant in the Coal Point area. The name is also referred to in George Whiting’s deed, dated 1882. Puntei Creek was named in 2005 by the CPPA and it seemed fitting that the reserve be recognised as well.