Category: Speeches and Presentations

Eastern Volunteers Multicultural Spring Festival

Oct 9, 2010

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alex

in Arts and Culture, Community Engagement, Social Sustainability, Speeches and Presentations, Urban Sustainability

Eastern Volunteers is a community based not-for-profit organisation that provides volunteer assisted transport and volunteer recruitment across the Cities of Maroondah and Whitehorse and the Shire of Yarra Ranges. Throughout today Eastern Volunteers held a Multicultural Spring Festival at Ringwood Lake, bringing together the diverse communities within Maroondah. The festival included food, arts, rides, crafts…
Ringwood Bowls Club 2010/2011 Season Launch

Oct 8, 2010

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alex

in Accessibility, Community Engagement, Environment, Social Sustainability, Speeches and Presentations, Urban Sustainability

The Ringwood Bowls Club is located at 2-12 Loughnan Road in Ringwood and comprises of almost 400 members, with men’s and women’s bowling teams. The Ringwood Bowls Club has an extensive history of community engagement and has formed an ongoing partnership with organisations like the Ringwood Spiders and several schools to encourage lawn bowls across…
Maroondah 2010 Business Lunch with Tara Moss

Oct 8, 2010

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alex

in Business Community, Community Engagement, Social Sustainability, Speeches and Presentations, Urban Sustainability

The 2010 Maroondah Business Week was held from the 4th of October through to the 8th and offered a range of events to develop skills and business promotion, concluded with a networking lunch, featuring model and author Tara Moss, as the guest speaker. The lunch is aimed specifically at women in business and Tara spoke…
Maroondah Business Week Breakfast with David Schwarz

Oct 6, 2010

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alex

in Business Community, Community Engagement, Social Sustainability, Speeches and Presentations, Urban Sustainability

Maroondah Business Week is an annual Council initiated program that aims to promote and enhance businesses within the municipality. The Week consists of workshops, tours and networking events offering a range of activities to cater to the business sectors within Maroondah. One of these events is the Maroondah Business Week Breakfast, which featured David Schwarz…
Launch of Brush Strokes Exhibition from the Croydon Stroke Support Group

Sep 14, 2010

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alex

in Accessibility, Arts and Culture, Community Engagement, Environment, Social Sustainability, Speeches and Presentations, Urban Sustainability

The Croydon Stroke Support Group provides peer support to people with stroke and their carers. The group has a strong emphasis on social inclusion and provides a range of art based programs to restore confidence to people with stroke. This morning I was invited to open the Croydon Stroke Support Group’s Brush Stroke exhibition, which…
Launching Maximising your Strength at the Croydon Leisure and Aquatic Centre

Sep 1, 2010

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alex

in Accessibility, Community Engagement, Social Sustainability, Speeches and Presentations

The Maximising your Strength program is a new physical activity group within the Croydon Leisure and Aquatic Centre, which provides strength based training for people with neurological conditions like Multiple Sclerosis. This morning I was invited to launch the Maximising Your Strength program, which includes two separate streams; one for people of all ages and…
Ministerial visit to the Ringwood Aquatic Centre Co-generation plant

Jul 21, 2010

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alex

in Arts and Culture, Community Engagement, Environment, Speeches and Presentations, Urban Sustainability

This afternoon I joined Peter Garrett, the Minister for Environment Protection, Heritage and the Arts, as well as Mike Symon, the Federal Member for Deakin, in observing the new co-generation plant at Ringwood Aquatic Centre. The co-generation plant was jointly funded through a $250,000 Federal Government grant complementing Council funding of $200,000. The plant includes…
Launch of the Redevelopment of Glen Park Community Centre

Jul 10, 2010

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alex

in Accessibility, Community Engagement, Speeches and Presentations, Urban Sustainability

Glen Park Community Centre is located in Glen Park Road in Bayswater North and has strong emphasis on community development, as well as providing courses for the local community. The Community Centre was recently redeveloped, through a partnership between Glen Park and SCOPE, to provide an accessible facility that can provide an inclusive environment for…
Maroondah City Council adopts 2010/2011 Budget

Jun 28, 2010

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alex

in Maroondah City Council, Speeches and Presentations, Urban Sustainability

Unlike other levels of government, local councils are required to place their draft budgets on exhibition to enable comment from the public, prior to the budget being formally considered by Council. This evening Council formally discussed the 2010/2011 Budget, with Councillors resolving to adopt the budget as per the draft that was released last month.…
June BizConnect Business Breakfast

Jun 23, 2010

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alex

in Business Community, Community Engagement, Speeches and Presentations, Urban Sustainability

The BizConnect Business Breakfast is a Maroondah City Council initiative designed to connect local businesses and to share knowledge and skills. This morning’s speaker was from Destination Melbourne who discussed the growing $2.6 billion market generated through tourism opportunities from visiting friends and relatives. The friends and relatives tourism market is the largest segment of…