September Council Meeting

Watch the recap of the September Council Meeting and keep up to date with various happenings in your area.

Get Fit, Get Active!

Build your fitness at the newly installed exercise stations at Ford Park, Dean Reserve and Freshwater Park!

Be Prepared!

Get prepared for storm season by trimming your branches and following other tips from NSW SES volunteers.

Child Safety Restraints Fitting

Head to Strathfield Park on Tuesday 29 September and have an expert make sure your childs seat is installed safely.

Strathfield Park Community Consultation

What do you enjoy most about Strathfield Park? Share your feedback with us and help Council prepare new plans for managing our much loved park.

Fitness for Seniors

Get in the groove with specialised seniors exercise classes, including group and individual tuition.

Thursday mornings at Bates Street Community Centre.

Storytime with Pele

How many people does it take to pull The Enormous Watermelon home? Join Pele for this week’s online Storytime to find out!

Learn to Start a Side-Hustle!

Brainstorm creative ways to navigate the impact of recession by focusing on starting up new opportunities. In this workshop, you’ll examine strategies to identify possibilities and low-cost ways to test how your ideas can work!

When: Wednesday 23 September 2020, 4 – 6pm
Where: Online

Leslie Haylen MP (1898-1977)

Poet, author, playwright, journalist and soldier, Leslie Haylen served as the Federal Member for the former seat of Parkes from 1943 until 1963. In 1943 he was living in Carrington Avenue Strathfield with his wife, Sylvia. A socialist and member of the Labor Party, his plays included the anti-war Two Minutes’ Silence and Blood on the Wattle, about the Eureka uprising. Witty and charming he was known to have a sharp tongue. After his death in September 1977, Gough Whitlam described him as ‘the most effective debunker of humbug and the great deflator of pomposity of his time.’

Courtesy of the National Library of Australia, 1944