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North Ringwood Community House Committee of Management
The North Ringwood Community House, located at 120 Oban Road, Ringwood North, is a community owned and managed centre, where all people can come together to learn, share and grow in a safe, friendly and nurturing environment. North Ringwood Community House provides a range of courses, including a number of accredited courses. The community house…
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Media Release: Putting some financial controls into Small Business
Owners of small businesses in Maroondah should put aside the morning of Thursday 2 August, to attend a seminar that is sure to assist their long term financial future. Councillor Alex Makin said the latest subject in Council’s business seminar program will be presented by the Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development. “The Department…
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Karralyka Music Morning Season
Today I attended Karralyk’a Morning Music program. The season now in its tenth year, includes seven shows held at either 11am or 2pm and includes a wide variety of musical acts. Karralyka has blossomed in recent years to provide a number of premiere musical and theatrical shows meaning that there are shows available for all…
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EV's Parent Information Night
This evening I attended an information session for parents prepared by Maroondah’s Youth Services Team, which outlined the events hosted through the EV’s Youth Centre in Croydon. The Information Session had a particular emphasis on the FReA program which consists of twelve young people who are responsible for organising and managing musical gigs at EV’s,…
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Media Release: Putting the kids through the hoops
Family members were put through the hoops – literally – at a recent Aussie Hoops basketball training session at Maroondah Indoor Sports Centre. Councillor Alex Makin said the Aussie Hoops program is for boys and girls from five to ten years of age, but this session also had mums, dads, older siblings and grandparents out…
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Maroondah Leader: Council's budget blues
The proposed Maroondah City Council budget for 2007/08 is now available for public comment. As a councillor I have requested additional information in regard to the operational details of the budget to ensure that I am comfortable with the direction of council. The public exhibition of the Council Budget was discussed and passed at the…
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Croydon Conservation Society Film Night
The Croydon Conservation Society is holding a community screening of the Al Gore film An Inconvenient Truth followed by the End of Suburbia. An Inconvenient Truth explores the mounting evidence that confirms that humans are contributing to climate change and the End of Suburbia explores the concept of peak oil, which is where demand for…
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Maroondah Journal: Footpath strategy on display
Maroondah’s pedestrian strategy has reached draft status and is currently available for public comment. This provides the opportunity for the to comment on the strategy and the need for footpaths and the needs of pedestrians within Maroondah. The Maroondah Journal has reported on the draft strategy and the strong level of community support for footpath…
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Stage 3A Water Restrictions
Melbourne has now entered Stage 3A water restrictions. The primary difference from stage three being that no evening watering of gardens is allowed. Gardens may now only be watered between 6am and 8am for manual systems while automatic systems (which turn on and off automatically) can only be used between midnight-2am. Even numbered houses can…