Tag: council events
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Maroondah Hospital: Third Annual Charity Golf Day Thank You
Maroondah Hospital, located at Mount Dandenong Road, Ringwood East, is a community based hospital that opened in 1976. The hospital has 320 beds and sees over 50,000 emergency patients per year. This afternoon the hospital showcased the equipment that was purchased from the proceeds of its third Annual Charity Golf Day. This year’s golf day…
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2008 Snippets Youth Short Film Festival
The Maroondah Snippets Youth Short Film Festival has returned for 2008 to further showcase the creativity and film skills of Maroondah’s youth. Tonight’s award program, held at Eastland Hoyts, showcased eight films, covering a range of genres including drama, comedy and animation. The Good Guys in Bayswater are also a major sponsor and donated 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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Maroondah Forum for People with Disabilities and Carers – consultation and providing feedback
Today’s forum for people with disabilities and carers provided an opportunity to discuss the feedback produced by the workshop that was held earlier this year and also to consult the participants on council’s new disability policy and action plan. While current budgetary resources meant that the forum must remain at its current quarterly frequency, this…
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Ringwood Spiders victorious against the Maribyrnong Bulldogs
The Ringwood Spiders, based in Jubilee Park in Ringwood, is a football team for people with disabilities and is one of the fourteen teams that form the Football Integration Development Association (FIDA) league. Today’s game marked the final home match for the season, with the Ringwood Spiders facing the Maribyrnong Bulldogs. It was great to…
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Monkami – Titanic the Untold Story: Resunk
Monkami is based in Croydon and aims to provide skills for people with intellectual disabilities to empower their participants to live with the greatest degree of independence within their own community. This evening I attended Monkami’s performance of Titanic the Untold Story: Resunk at the Karralyka Centre. The performance is the sequel to their debut…
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The 54th Annual Ringwood Eisteddfod
This evening the Karralyka Centre hosted the 54th Annual Ringwood Eisteddfod displaying its vast array of singing and musical talent. It is amazing that Eisteddfod still continues to grow in strength after an amazing 54 years of showcasing the immense musical talent that exists within Maroondah and beyond. The Ringwood Eisteddfod is a month long…
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Maroondah Council celebrates NAIDOC week
NAIDOC is an acronym for ‘National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee’, in recognition of the initial committee that organised the week, which aims to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Indigenous Australians. NAIDOC Week for 2008 is between the 6th and 13th of July and as part of the proceeding Maroondah City Council…
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2008 Maroondah Photographic Competition Awards
The Maroondah Photographic Competition is an annual event hosted at the Maroondah Art Gallery at Federation Estate in Ringwood. The competition allows entrants to submit up to three photographs in either the Open, Intermediate or Junior categories. This year’s photographs included an array of Maroondah locations, including the finished construction of Eastlink, the serene scenes…