The incidents were reported at the Toronto Police station,(02) 4088 1099.
So keep an eye out for tyre-tearing types.
Showing posts with label neighbours. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neighbours. Show all posts
Tuesday, 16 June 2020
Neighbourhood Watching
The incidents were reported at the Toronto Police station,(02) 4088 1099.
So keep an eye out for tyre-tearing types.
Thursday, 23 April 2020
A caring community
Activities at our Hall have ceased due to gathering and distancing constraints. The CPPA and TASNG committees along with the Art group are meeting online. Landcaring has been officially called off by LMCC.
We sincerely hope everyone is keeping safe, appreciating the beautiful bushland suburb we live in and finding ways to support our neighbours, friends and family.
Here are our suggestions for sharing and caring locally:
Send your neighbour a contact card.
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| Introduction Card |
Have you thought about dropping a hello card into
your neighbour? Everyone loves a letter that’s not a bill. The connection card in this Chronicle makes the introduction easy. Knowing who lives across the road may ease concerns of isolation. There's also a simple introduction card or a piece of paper will do.
The CPPA is setting up a register to connect ‘at risk’ locals, who need a hand with shopping, with those who don’t mind picking up a few extra items when they’re out. The CPPA will collect names and phone numbers and put people in touch with each other, the rest will be up to the helper and the recipient. Phone m: 0438596741 or email Suzanne coalpointprogress@gmail.com.
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| Connection Card |
Do you need a hand or want to lend one for shopping?
The CPPA is setting up a register to connect ‘at risk’ locals, who need a hand with shopping, with those who don’t mind picking up a few extra items when they’re out. The CPPA will collect names and phone numbers and put people in touch with each other, the rest will be up to the helper and the recipient. Phone m: 0438596741 or email Suzanne coalpointprogress@gmail.com.
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| The Lake Macquarie Sustainable Neighbourhood Alliance has contact cards |
Explore our amazing bushland tracks and landcare sites and some not so obvious access points.
Did you know you can walk:
- Into Toronto along the foreshore from Ambrose Street gaining access from the lakeside reserve.
- Along the Coal Point Ridge by joining the track at the crest of Whitelocke Street…exploring the Water tank mural is always fun.
- From the Carey Bay Shopping Village to Puntei Park by a pathway at the rear of the shops.
- From the Fire station on Ridge Rd to Kilaben Bay along the firetrail.
Safe Walking
True. Walking on the right hand side facing the oncoming traffic lets you see approaching traffic and enables you to make sure that drivers have seen you. Be extra careful where the view of oncoming traffic is obscured.
Go on a Fuzzy Fauna Hunt.
Put out a stuffed or toy animal in your front window or wherever is visible from the street so when families are getting exercise they can get involved with a Treasure Hunt. The CPPA is supplying the wildlife for The Carey Bay Shopping Village which will be changed each week. You can post pictures of your findings on our Facebook Page or the Bear Hunt Lake Mac group https://www.facebook.com/groups/bearhuntlakemac/
Join a real bio-adventure.
This is an online identification game that will open your eyes to the amazing and beautiful life all around us in our bushland suburb. The CPPA has set up team, if you want to join it get in touch.By taking photos of as much life as you can you score ‘game gold’ for every sighting, with extra gold if you can identify what you’ve found. And even more gold if you can find something rare or interesting.
QuestaGame is a fun experience with nature, friendly competition learning about life in all its forms, and it helps protect biodiversity as all sightings are shared with CSIRO’s Atlas of Living Australia.https://questagame.com/the-game
Donate to Pampercare.
If you’d like to help out those doing it tough and rough you can donate vouchers or gift cards to the Pampercare project by dropping them in at the Woodrising Neighbourhood Centre. They helped 11 local families in March.
Volunteer for Toronto Meals on Wheels
Meals on Wheels are always ready to welcome new volunteers to support the work they do. If you’re interested in becoming one of their volunteers go to www.mow.net.au and follow the links to join as a volunteer by completing the paperwork. You could be delivering meals, or even catching up with people over the phone in the Have-a-chat program to support isolated elderly people in our local community.
From the Meals On Wheels GM, Damien Isaacs: We’d like to remind everyone that we are here to support the community. People over 65, people living with disability, and anyone in the community who may need a little bit of support with a meal or two per week delivered – for whatever reason.
Thursday, 8 March 2018
A neighbourly earth hour weekend is approaching
The weekend of 24-25 March has occasions for getting together and doing something positive about building a stronger sustainable community for all.
Neighbour Day is Sunday 25th, a time to make time to catch up with the neighbours. Any
day can be a Neighbour Day but in our busy lives sometimes we need a reason. What better reason than building a connection with those who share your community. Social connection makes us feel better and helps prevent loneliness, isolation and depression…it’s like a great big people pill of happiness without being hard to swallow. If you feel like getting your local crew together there are loads of resources on the Neighbour Day website such as invitations, name cards and posters.
Saturday 24th March 8:30-9:30pm is Earth hour, a global movement where people switch off their lights for an hour as a symbolic gesture to show the need for stronger climate action. This year the impacts on nature are being recognised with an encouragement to reconnect with the natural environment. When was the last time you sat outside at night and heard the chrirrups, twits and kerthunks of the nocturnal neighbours? Saturday night might be the time!
Perhaps you want to keep the connection going a little longer, the WWF has six ways you can #Connect2Earth
Neighbour Day is Sunday 25th, a time to make time to catch up with the neighbours. Any
Saturday 24th March 8:30-9:30pm is Earth hour, a global movement where people switch off their lights for an hour as a symbolic gesture to show the need for stronger climate action. This year the impacts on nature are being recognised with an encouragement to reconnect with the natural environment. When was the last time you sat outside at night and heard the chrirrups, twits and kerthunks of the nocturnal neighbours? Saturday night might be the time!
Perhaps you want to keep the connection going a little longer, the WWF has six ways you can #Connect2Earth
- Reduce your plastic use: Switch to reusable shopping bags, and avoid using plastic plates, utensils and straws.
- Grow some plants: There’s something really therapeutic about growing plants. By looking after your plants, you're getting a deeper connection with the incredible nature that surrounds us.
- Go for a hike: take a walk through nature and appreciate everything around you. We’ve got lots of tracks through our local bushland…why not explore them.
- Eat sustainably: Reducing food waste and meat intake are good for the budget and the body. Council’s greener 3-bin service is starting 30/7/18. We’ll get a kitchen scraps bin too!
- All food waste will go into the green bin along with garden waste.
- Green bins will be emptied weekly.
- Material from green bins will be taken to a new composting facility at Awaba.
- Garbage bins will be emptied fortnightly on alternate weeks to recycling bins
- Invest ethically: know where your super is invested, there are fossil-free funds
- Take action for our planet: #Time2Choose.
On Saturday 24th March from noon till 2pm there is a massive
rally planned, starting from NSW Parliament House, Macquarie St. It’s a march because clean air, clean water and clean energy can’t wait. The climate change movement is about shifting the political agenda though people power. If you’d like to add your personage to the plethora of groups that will be massing, there is a group of locals who’ll be catching the 9:18am train from Fassifern. We won’t be holding hands and singing kumbaya, we will be meeting like-minded locals and feeling a bit stronger for it.
Wednesday, 15 March 2017
Neighbour Day
Do you need an excuse to get together with your neighbours….here’s one Neighbours Day. The aim of the day is to build better relationships with the people who live around us, especially the elderly and vulnerable. Neighbours are important because good relationships with others can and do change communities. Social connection also makes us feel better as it helps prevent loneliness, isolation and depression. Neighbour Day brings together like-minded people who have each other and where they live in common.
There’s a Neighbour’s Day kit to ease the organisational logistics at http://www.neighbourday.org/
There’s a Neighbour’s Day kit to ease the organisational logistics at http://www.neighbourday.org/
Monday, 5 April 2010
Transition Film Festival on Track
The Transition Film Festival is about to roll out. Every month for the next six months some of the most inspiring and mind expanding films will be shown at Progress Hall, discussed by those present, ideas generated for our community and general lots of joi de vie to be had.
The first of the festival films is happening on Friday 16th April, it’s a local night in, catching up with the neighbours, stimulating discussion triggered by two mind expanding films with some light refreshments.
The more the merrier, so if you have some friends who want to find out a bit more about the ‘Transition thing’ they’re welcome to come along as well.
The awareness raising part of the Transition Town process is about sharing information and processes for gathering thoughts about the future as well as connecting like-minded people. There’s been a fair bit of discussion from the local steering group about how far a field to cast the Transition net, and there has been no limit put on the number of people in the process so come one and all.
The movie nights will be running to a reasonably structured timetable so that if you want to come to one film or both, or only the discussion, you can with confidence arrive when you want knowing what will be on.
The Transition town Steering Group meets once a month on the 2nd Monday of the month from 4-6pm at the Hall. The focus for the group over the next few months is on running the film festival and planning for a local festival in October. If you are interested in finding out more or lending a hand at one of the film nights contact Luke on 4959 9401 or email cppatransition@gmail.com.
The Movies
A Crude Awakening: Have you ever thought there was more to the oil economy than petrol at the pump? A Crude Awakening is a revelation, an amazing insight into the world of oil, how it impacts on every aspect of our modern day lives, who’s fighting over it and what the future may hold. Some have called it ‘the best exposition of the Peak Oil argument yet!” It’s well paced, well argued and a great summary of what Peak Oil
is. It is an inspiring film, not a doom ‘n’ gloomer but an insight into the power that greases the wheels of the modern economy and an enlightening 85 minutes of entertainment. http://www.oilcrashmovie.com/news.html
In Transition-The Movie debuted last year, showcasing the Transition Town movement. If you are having trouble getting your head around what it is and why hundreds of communities are going to such lengths to build local resilience, this 50 minute foray will have you feeling enlightened and excited about what a Transition initiative can do for your neighbourhood.
There’ll also be a loan library of movies that you can view at your leisure.
On Friday 16th April the program for the evening's entertainment will be
6.00pm Welcome Beverages, Biscuits & Bits
6.15pm Film: A Crude Awakening
7.40pm Break &World Café- A meaningful discussion of some probing questions
8.10pm Film: In Transition -The Movie
9.00pm Beverages & Biscuits and some more quality conversation
9.30pm The evening finishes
The program ahead
The first of the festival films is happening on Friday 16th April, it’s a local night in, catching up with the neighbours, stimulating discussion triggered by two mind expanding films with some light refreshments.
The more the merrier, so if you have some friends who want to find out a bit more about the ‘Transition thing’ they’re welcome to come along as well.
The awareness raising part of the Transition Town process is about sharing information and processes for gathering thoughts about the future as well as connecting like-minded people. There’s been a fair bit of discussion from the local steering group about how far a field to cast the Transition net, and there has been no limit put on the number of people in the process so come one and all.
The movie nights will be running to a reasonably structured timetable so that if you want to come to one film or both, or only the discussion, you can with confidence arrive when you want knowing what will be on.
The Transition town Steering Group meets once a month on the 2nd Monday of the month from 4-6pm at the Hall. The focus for the group over the next few months is on running the film festival and planning for a local festival in October. If you are interested in finding out more or lending a hand at one of the film nights contact Luke on 4959 9401 or email cppatransition@gmail.com.
The Movies
A Crude Awakening: Have you ever thought there was more to the oil economy than petrol at the pump? A Crude Awakening is a revelation, an amazing insight into the world of oil, how it impacts on every aspect of our modern day lives, who’s fighting over it and what the future may hold. Some have called it ‘the best exposition of the Peak Oil argument yet!” It’s well paced, well argued and a great summary of what Peak Oil
is. It is an inspiring film, not a doom ‘n’ gloomer but an insight into the power that greases the wheels of the modern economy and an enlightening 85 minutes of entertainment. http://www.oilcrashmovie.com/news.html
In Transition-The Movie debuted last year, showcasing the Transition Town movement. If you are having trouble getting your head around what it is and why hundreds of communities are going to such lengths to build local resilience, this 50 minute foray will have you feeling enlightened and excited about what a Transition initiative can do for your neighbourhood.
There’ll also be a loan library of movies that you can view at your leisure.
On Friday 16th April the program for the evening's entertainment will be
6.00pm Welcome Beverages, Biscuits & Bits
6.15pm Film: A Crude Awakening
7.40pm Break &World Café- A meaningful discussion of some probing questions
8.10pm Film: In Transition -The Movie
9.00pm Beverages & Biscuits and some more quality conversation
9.30pm The evening finishes
The program ahead
- May 8th- Saturday Noon-4.30pm
In Transition-The Movie , End of Suburbia and The Power of Community - June 20th Sunday 11am-4.00pm-
In Transition-The Movie , An Inconvenient Truth, The Power of Community - July 16th Friday 6-9pm
In Transition-The Movie and Power of Community - August 14th Saturday Noon-5pm
In Transition-The Movie , Escape from Suburbia and A Crude Awakening - September 19th Sunday 11-4.30pm
In Transition-The Movie , End of Suburbia and Escape from Suburbia
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Can Council help…Yes they Can
It’s hard to imagine that in our community there are still some people that believe that they can do what-ever they want , wherever they want without regard for neighbours, the environment or the planning laws that everyone else has to abide by.
The role of Council in addressing community concerns has been highlighted recently in addressing the illegal actions of one person who erected a timber stairway to the waterfront without any planning consent, felled a dozen mature gum trees on a steep slope without any consent, started building a 30m jetty without any consent, erected a fence out in to the lake and piled construction waste on to the foreshore, and constructed a deck and fence which extended on to the neighbour’s land.
The consequences of such actions mean the hillside slides gracefully into the lake because there is nothing holding it together, the foreshore is compromised and neighbourly harmony is non-existent.
This is where Council can help. Lake Macquarie Council has a strong reputation for striving to protect the environment and upholding their planning instruments, it is why they exist. The process also needs community people to raise the issue and instigate the action so Council officers can take action.
If you see something that you feel is not right, write it down and let Council know. Sometimes you may think what is happening is so outrageous someone must have reported it, but it never hurts to flick a quick email to council@lakemac.nsw.gov.au or take a photo and record the events as for future reference.
The role of Council in addressing community concerns has been highlighted recently in addressing the illegal actions of one person who erected a timber stairway to the waterfront without any planning consent, felled a dozen mature gum trees on a steep slope without any consent, started building a 30m jetty without any consent, erected a fence out in to the lake and piled construction waste on to the foreshore, and constructed a deck and fence which extended on to the neighbour’s land.
The consequences of such actions mean the hillside slides gracefully into the lake because there is nothing holding it together, the foreshore is compromised and neighbourly harmony is non-existent.
This is where Council can help. Lake Macquarie Council has a strong reputation for striving to protect the environment and upholding their planning instruments, it is why they exist. The process also needs community people to raise the issue and instigate the action so Council officers can take action.
If you see something that you feel is not right, write it down and let Council know. Sometimes you may think what is happening is so outrageous someone must have reported it, but it never hurts to flick a quick email to council@lakemac.nsw.gov.au or take a photo and record the events as for future reference.
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