Category: Community Engagement
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Maroondah HomeBiz: Sell your service, not your soul
Maroondah HomeBiz is a business network representing small and home based businesses. The association meets on a monthly basis to provide a range of speakers for its members. Tonight’s topic was called ‘sell your service, not your soul and was led by Peter Watts, a consultant for service based businesses and a teacher in Small…
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Planning within Maroondah
Planning is one of the more vexing issues in being a local Councillor. It is important to ensure a high standard of planning while also protecting our municipality from inappropriate development. Whether an objector or applicant it is important to understand the planning process so that we can achieve outcomes that result in creating a…
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Ringwood Historical Society – the history of Ringwood's railways
Tonight’s Ringwood Historical Society meeting included a presentation from a former Ringwood East resident who discussed the history of Ringwood’s railways. The rail line from Hawthorn to Camberwell was completed in April 1882 and later extended to Lilydale in December of that year. The 1st of December 1882 marked the opening of Ringwood Station and…
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Ringwood Spiders 2008 Presentation Night
The Ringwood Spiders Football Club competes in the Football Integration Development Association (FIDA), which provides a football program for people with mild to medium intellectual disabilities. This season has marked an impressive year for the Ringwood Spiders with the group becoming incorporated and a committee being established to oversee the development of the club. In…
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Scoot Wheel n Move meeting – Introduction to Eastern Access Community Health
Scoot Wheel n Move was a council initiated group that aims to improve accessibility for people with mobility aids. Since it’s inception two years ago, the group has organised a number of successful initiatives, including the recharge program where local businesses provide recharge facilities for people with motorised mobility aids, a booklet on mobility aids…
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Eastern Transport Coalition – Strengthening our aims and objectives
With the success of the Eastern Transport Coalition’s recent public transport summit and State Government announcing that it will release a new transport plan in November of this year, it was timely to review the group’s mission statement and objectives to reflect the growing need for public transport improvements. The ETC’s mission statement has been…
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Media Release: Rattle some chains at the Annual Punkfest
Smooth the hair into a Mohawk and get the chains and studded leather ready for the 6th annual Punkfest at EV’s Youth Centre in Croydon on Friday 12 September. Councillor Alex Makin said the annual Maroondah Punkfest has become one of Melbourne’s leading underage FReeZA gigs. “The Maroondah Punkfest brings together some big names in…
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Maroondah Leader: Out to give access a push-along
The Maroondah Disability Action Group aims to provide a community led voice for people with disabilities and will advocate for greater inclusion and accessibility to all levels of government. The recent formation of the group has been covered by the Maroondah Leader, where group spokesperson Margaret Stevens stated that one of the immediate priorities is…
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Delegates' Report: opportunities for people with disabilities, the upcoming writers festival and the strength of community spirit
On the 23rd of July I had the pleasure of attending Titanic – the Untold Story: Resunk by the Monkami Drama Group hosted at the Karralyka Centre. The performance revisited the drama group’s 2007 production through the introduction of new characters and a revised script. Monkami is a service provider for adults with an intellectual…
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Media Release: Councils need to enter the 21st century
MEDIA RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION Monday, 18 August 2008 Councils need to enter the 21st century Loughnan’s Hill Ward Councillor Alex Makin, an avid web blogger, has called on Councillors and prospective candidates to embrace new technology and develop an Internet web site and blog to strengthen interaction with the community. “Local government is supposed…