Tag: health
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Media Release: Learn how to make worms useful
Maroondah City Council is offering residents the opportunity to get up close and personal with an active worm farm, in order to learn how to manage one of these useful composting tools in their own home. Councillor Alex Makin invites the community to a free worm farming and composting workshop on Saturday 3 March at…
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Heatherdale Community Action Group – first meeting for 2007
The Heatherdale Community Action Group has resumed meeting for 2007 amid further civic disobedience from Southern Rocycling. Maroondah City Council is pursuing these matters as well as conducting ongoing monitoring of Heatherdale Road. Southern Rocycling is facing court action on the 8th of March in regard to violations under the Health Act and Planning and…
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Something for everyone at Maroondah Festival
Excitement is building with just under a week to go before Croydon Park comes alive with a myriad of live entertainment and activities at the 2007 Maroondah Festival. Councillor Alex Makin said this year’s Festival on Sunday 18 February is set to be bigger and better than ever. “Maroondah Festival is a great day out…
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2007 Maroondah Partners in Health, Safety and Wellbeing Committee
The Maroondah Partners in Health, Safety and Wellbeing Committee includes representation from a number of different service agencies to improve the collaboration and networking amongst organisations involved in the health and safety of the Maroondah community. There are two councillors included on the committee. For the 2007 year the councillor representatives are Cr. Jo-anne Taylor…
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Heatherdale Community Action Group (HCAG) End of Year Celebrations for 2006
The Heatherdale Community Action Group (HCAG) has had a tremendously successful year through forging ongoing dialogue between residents, council and myself as the ward councillor for Loughnan’s Hill (which includes the eastern side of Heatherdale Road). In particular the successful prosecution of Southern Rocycling for violations of the Health Act and the Planning and Environment…
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Maroondah Partners in Health, Safety and Wellbeing Committee
The Maroondah Partners in Health, Safety and Wellbeing Committee is a council committee that involves key health and safety agencies, such as Victoria Police, Connex, VicRoads, Eastern Access Community Health and General Practitioners. The committee meets on a quarterly basis to serve as a forum to discuss health, safety and wellbeing initiatives within Maroondah and…
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EVRC International Volunteer Day Luncheon
As part of the International Day for Volunteers, the Eastern Volunteers Resource Centre (EVRC) to celebrated the occasion and recognised its own volunteers with a volunteer day luncheon held at Federation Estate. The EVRC recently celebrated its 30th anniversary and its continued success is only possible through its ongoing volunteer base. It was therefore fitting…
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Mayoral Election and Committees for 2007
Tonight Maroondah Council held its statutory meeting for the election of the mayor and council representatives on committees. To increase the level of transparency an open election was held and Councillor Maureen Naylor lost the bid for mayor against Councillor Peter Gurr, with three votes versus four. While I did vote for Councillor Naylor due…
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National General Assembly of Local Government
The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) is the national body that represents the 673 councils within Australia. ALGA was formed as a federation of state and territory associations such as the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) and other state or territory local council organisations. As a national body, ALGA is suitably poised to advocate on…