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6 August 2020
Send Your Message of Support to Beirut
Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, families and friends of the devastating Beirut explosion. Council has set up an online condolence page and invites the local community to express their sympathies.
Those in Australia who are concerned about friends and family in Lebanon should call 1300 555 135.
Keep Your Distance
Stop the spread by reducing close physical contact and staying 1.5 metres away from others. NSW residents are now encouraged to use masks in indoor settings where physical distancing is hard to maintain, such as on public transport, supermarkets and places of worship.
Calling All Environmental Champions!
Are you a local not for profit organisation and want to do something about litter? Then this NSW Government grant ranging from $4,000 to $90,000 is just for you! Projects must contribute towards reducing and preventing litter to be eligible.
Road Safety
Get your child in and out of the car safely. Use the rear kerb-side door of the car as a designated safety spot and encourage your child to wait until an adult opens the door.
Winter Warmth
Take a moment to share a gift of kindness! Council is accepting donations of non-perishable goods on behalf of charities to help those doing it tough this winter. Click below for details on collection points.
Homelessness Week
In light of Homelessness Week (2-8 August) Council is working together with Wesley Mission and the NSW Department of Communities and Justice to support rough sleepers with access to services such as accommodation. Click below for more information on how you can get involved
We Want to Hear From You!
Council is amending rules about greywater systems for new dwellings. There’s still a week to have your say and submit your feedback by 5pm Friday 14 August 2020.
Community News
ACU Collaborate Plus – Design Thinking
Learn to actively engage with creative problem-solving techniques and identify alternative strategies for all areas of your business!
When: Wednesday 12 August 2020, 4-6pm
Where: Online
Throwback Thursday
The Art of Ebenezer Gostelow
(1866 – 1944)
Artist Ebenezer Gostelow was a NSW country school teacher, later becoming headmaster in Broken Hill. When The Barrier Field Naturalists Club held a display of wildflowers there in 1920, they also featured 150 botanical paintings by Gostelow. With no formal training he went on to paint all of Australia’s recorded bird species, borrowing specimens from the Australian Museum. During the 1920s he moved to Sydney and became headmaster of Strathfield South Public School. This lovely painting of Eucalyptus Longifolia (Woolly Butt), painted in Strathfield, is from his series of the Flora of Coastal NSW.
Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia.
