community events – Page 20 – Cr Alex Makin: Councilor for Montague Ward, City of Port Phillip

Ringwood Historical Society – the Hunt Family and the Orchards of Doncaster

Apr 28, 2009

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Tonight’s Ringwood Historical Society meeting focused on the Hunt family, a prominent Ringwood family that settled in 1901. James Hunt migrated to the Victorian goldfields around 1851 and Walter, one of his ten children, moved to Ringwood in 1901 with his wife Euphemia. The Hunts were prominent orchardists and owned land near Bedford Road and…

Enjoying Planned Retirement – 2009 Bocce Season Finale

Apr 28, 2009

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alex

in Community Engagement, Sports and Leisure, Urban Sustainability

Enjoying Planned Retirement (EPR) is one of several groups based at Norwood Hall as part of the North Ringwood Senior Citizens Centre. Enjoying Planned Retirement has a social activities group that organises bocce games and social occasions each fortnight between the warmer months of December and April. While the rain prevented the use of the…

Ringwood Spiders – First Game for 2009

Apr 26, 2009

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alex

in Accessibility, Community Engagement, Sports and Leisure, Urban Sustainability

This morning I attended the Ringwood Spider’s first game for 2009 held at Jubilee Park in Ringwood. The Ringwood Spiders are a football team for people with disabilities and competes within a 14 team league through the Football Integration Development Association (FIDA). The Ringwood Spiders have grown considerably over the past year with the team…

2009 Anzac Day Dawn Service

Apr 25, 2009

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alex

in Community Engagement

Anzac Day Dawn Services are held each year at both Ringwood and Croydon and begin at 6am. This morning I attended the Dawn Service held at the Ringwood Clocktower and organised by the Ringwood RSL. Each year the number of attendees increases and this year’s service was no exception. Clocktower Park was full of community…

Media Release: Cast of comedians converge on Karralyka

Apr 22, 2009

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alex

in Media Releases

A cast of adventurous stand-up comedians will work the stage at the Karralyka Centre on Sunday 17 May when the Melbourne Comedy Festival Roadshow pulls into town. A selection of the festival’s local talent, newcomers, and overseas guests will stop off in Ringwood for a one night performance on a leg of the roadshow’s 40,000…

Ringwood Spiders 2009 Season Fixture

Apr 21, 2009

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alex

in Accessibility, Community Engagement, Environment, Sports and Leisure

The Ringwood Spiders, a football club for people with disabilities, is one of 14 teams within the Football Integration Development Association League. The Ringwood Spiders have been participating in pre-season training and have have introduced new squads to encourage participation within the team. The Cheerleader Squad will be making its debut at the first Ringwood…

2009 Anzac Parade and Memorial Service

Apr 19, 2009

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alex

in Community Engagement

The Ringwood RSL organises an Anzac Parade and Memorial Service on the weekend before Anzac Day to march through Ringwood to the Clocktower and onto the RSL for a commemoration service. The Parade provides a chance for Veterans to attend a local service while being able to participate in the City Parade at the Shrine…

Community Wellbeing Plan – Judging for the drawing competition

Apr 15, 2009

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alex

in Community Engagement, Health Safety Wellbeing committee, Maroondah City Council

Maroondah’s Community Wellbeing Plan will shape the council’s priorities and actions for working towards an inclusive, healthy and safe municipality. The Wellbeing Plan is one of council’s highest level documents and as such extensive consultation and engagement across all ages is critical to ensuring that it reflects the viewpoints of our community. To encourage participation…

EPR Activities – Bocci in April

Apr 14, 2009

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alex

in Community Engagement, Social Sustainability, Sports and Leisure, Urban Sustainability

Enjoying Planned Retirement, a seniors’ group based at the North Ringwood Senior Citizens Hall holds fortnightly bocci competitions between December and April each year. Bocci is one of the many social events organised by the group to provide a range of activities for its members. This afternoon I attended their bocci competition to speak to…

Media Release: Free film night to discuss sustainability

Apr 8, 2009

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alex

in Environment, Maroondah City Council, Media Releases

A 1980’s cult film about the collision of urban life and technology versus the environment will be screened later this month as part of Councills Sustainable Living Space Project. Cr Alex Makin said the film ‘Koyaanisqatsi’ – a Hopi Indian word meaning ‘life out of balance’ is a vision of the collision of two different…

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