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Bold new Gosford Alive Master Plan unveiled with a $650 million price tag p r i v a t e developer and owner of the Imperial Centre has acquired Kibbleplex from Gosford Council and has promised to deliver a complete reinvigoration of Gosford’s ‘civic heart’ over the next 15 to 20 years.

Lederer Property have unveiled their purchase of the empty Kibbleplex building and their plans to develop a proposed new urban precinct in the Gosford CBD. The total capital investment in today’s dollars will be $650 million and the new precinct is expected to house around 4,000 people in 1,600 apartments. Lederer Property’s general manager of property, Mr Marek Ristwej said the purchase price of the Kibbleplex building remained commercial in confidence as the sale transaction had not yet been settled between Lederer and Gosford Council. The group has described the plan as an “exciting and unprecedented 15-20 year vision to transform the heart of Gosford CBD”. The Master Plan for ‘Gosford Alive’ outlines a proposal to bring to life a thriving new urban precinct across a 5.8-hectare site in Gosford CBD, just minutes from Gosford Train Station. Once complete, the Master Plan will deliver new homes and employment opportunities for the city, accommodating population growth and enabling

Gosford to establish itself as the capital of the Central Coast. The Gosford Alive Master Plan has been developed in partnership with worldclass architects Conybeare Morrison (CM+). It includes the complete transformation of Kibble Park into a popular family destination incorporating

new water features, a multi-purpose performance space, enhanced playground, new cafés and restaurants and a market venue. The Park will become a buzzing focal point for the revitalised CBD, according to Lederer Property. On the site of the existing Kibbleplex Centre, Lederer

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Property intends to build a contemporary mix of apartments, featuring striking architecture that reflects and celebrates the region’s natural beauty. The apartment precinct will be delivered over the next five years, heralding a new city living experience for Gosford. Residents will benefit

from new shopping, food and entertainment experiences with an additional 8,000 square metres of retail/commercial space and 300 more parking spaces, proposed as part of the ongoing redevelopment of the Imperial Centre. This will happen over the project’s 15-20 year horizon

and extends on the work Lederer Property has already done at the Imperial Centre. Due to the capital investment value of the project, NSW planning legislation requires that the DA is determined by the Joint Regional Planning Panel who will make the decision based on the report provide by Gosford Council. “Lederer Property is committed to creating a vibrant, welcoming city centre for the Central Coast Region that delivers long-term benefits to the community, Mr Ristwej said. “As such, residents are invited to drop in to a series of community events being held across the city throughout February and March including: Gosford Alive pop up at ‘Sundae in the Park’, a Gosford Alive pop up city tour, and community information sessions.” Starting on February 29, Gosford Alive is hosting free fitness camps in Kibble Park in partnership with sporting personality, Jane Flemming. Residents can find out more about the sessions and how to get involved at the ‘Sundae in the Park’ event at Kibble Park on February 28. Media release, Feb 22, 2016 Natalie Cameron, DEC PR Interview, Feb 24, 2016 Marek Ristwej, Lederer Property Jackie Pearson, journalist

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Mr Phil Conacher of Conacher Consulting said that it appeared that the council-owned blocks on the Peninsula were not covered by a management plan, despite the Local Government Act requiring such a plan. He said the council had also not followed the requirements of State Environmental Planning Policy 19 in its proposed sale of the land. Mr Conacher said Jumbuck Close reserve was a “classic example” of how, without a management plan in place or adherence to SEPP19, council could be damaging any endangered ecological species or remnant flora present on the site. “The appointment of councillors requires them to follow the rules and act just like we have to: follow traffic rules or get fined if we don’t,” he said. “They have possibly destroyed a lot of other vegetation on the Jumbuck Close site and others that could have made those sites

He said SEPP19 spelt out what Gosford Council must do if it intended to reclassify community bushland with characteristics of remnant vegetation. According to Mr Conacher, SEPP19 stated that councils should give priority to retaining bushland unless it can prove a significant social, economic or environmental benefit for reclassifying it. Its over-arching objective is to “protect and preserve bushland within urban areas… to protect remnants of plant communities which were once characteristic of land; to retain bushland in parcels of a size and configuration which will enable the existing plants and animal communities to survive in the long term”, he said. He said Gosford Council may also be exposing itself to compensation claims if it had acquired land at a price based on its unimproved value and then by rezoning, perhaps for residential development, its value per hectare is increased. He said the original vendor may have a case for being compensated for that valuation difference. Mr Conacher also questioned why Gosford Council has launched its land sale strategy now and not undertaken a review of its land holdings when the Local Environment Plan was drafted in

2013. “The Gosford LEP was a 15year process. They had four or five goes at it so surely reviewing community holdings would have been part of that process,” he said. SEPP 19 instructs councils that, when drafting an LEP, council should have regard to the priority of retaining bushland, he said. “Why wasn’t it identified that they needed for residential purposes?” He also questioned whether the resale of the reserves currently listed would be viable. “If you were a private developer wanting to develop those lands for residential development, you’d first have to apply for rezoning and you would have to find biodiversity offsets. “You would have to find land of a similar nature and similar locality at a ratio of 10 to one. “It is usually the person applying for the rezoning that has to find those offsets and that is why if Gosford Council goes ahead to sell those reserves the person buying the land could do their due diligence and may find requirements of the Local Government Act haven’t been met.” Interview, 20 Jan 2016 Phil Conacher, Conacher Consulting

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Surf live savers and ambulance ofﬁcers set up a triage in the car park at Avoca Beach to treat casualties on Australia Day

t least 20 people were knocked off their feet and smashed against rocks near the cliffs at the southern end of Avoca Beach at lunch time on Australia Day. beaches are currently experiencing what he described as a “long interval swell” due to the prevailing cyclonic conditions off the Queensland coast. This means the lull between sets of waves can be very long and conditions may look ﬂat for 15 minutes or more at a time. “When the wave does hit, it can be unusually powerful because it has such a long time for the energy and power to build up,” Mr Beswick said. The wave that struck at Avoca on Australia Day was strong enough to knock at least 20 people off their feet and towards the cliffs. Fortunately, none were pulled back into the sea, although rescue craft were launched from the beach and several surf life savers reached the area on their rescue boards. Mr Beswick said it was fortunate that the incident coincided with a life-saver

shift change, which meant there were more life savers on hand than at other times. “Five people needed to be carried out on stretchers,” he said. The person with the most critical injuries suffered a broken leg and arm, another had a broken ankle and a dislocated elbow and a third had a dislocated shoulder. Others were treated for serious cuts with one man requiring 30 stitches to his leg and a 10-year-old boy was treated for concussion. Mr Beswick said those who sustained the most serious injuries were aged from 30 to in their 60s. “The junior life savers who were just out of nippers and doing their ﬁrst season of patrols did an amazing job of caring for and bandaging those with minor injuries and just comforting the people who were in pain,” he said. “Other families having picnics at the beach gave

up their chairs and towels and helped to comfort people with injuries.” Ambulance crews came from Terrigal, Bateau Bay and Point Clare to assist. “We were just thankful everyone got to go home,” Mr Beswick said. “It could have been a lot worse, we were lucky none of the children was seriously injured and there were no spinal injuries,” he said. Mr Beswick said the lesson to the taken from the freak accident at Avoca was to “always respect the ocean and never turn your back on it. “Stand and watch for 15 to 20 minutes so you can assess conditions properly, it all comes down to respect,” he said. Mr Beswick said Australia Day is always one of the busiest days of the year on Central Coast beaches and patrols will continue until the ANZAC Day long weekend in April. Interview, Jan 27, 2016 Brett Beswick, Surf Life Saving Central Coast Jackie Pearson, journalist

Local military historian Mr Andrew Church was named 2016 Citizen of the Year for his tireless work to create a unique cultural and historical landmark for the Gosford City community. Opened to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing in 2015, Mr Church’s Central Coast Interactive War Exhibit at Gosford is the only heritage venue of its kind on the Central Coast and the largest in New South Wales. An active member of many community groups, including the Gosford RSL Club, Gosford Chamber of Commerce and Gosford RSL Re-enactment Group, Andrew is committed to keeping the ANZAC spirit alive in our community. Gosford mayor Cr Lawrie McKinna said the awards would make sure Australia Day is extra special for Mr Church and the other award recipients. “I’m always impressed by the calibre of the Gosford City residents who receive our Australia Day Community Awards, and this year is no different,” Cr McKinna said. “Not only is this time of year a great chance for us to come together as a

community and nation, it’s also the perfect occasion to recognise these residents who are inspirational role models for the entire community,” he said. A Gosford City Australia Day Community Award is the highest civic award that a resident or community group can receive on a local level. Gosford City councillor, and chair of the Gosford City Australia Day Committee, Cr Jim Macfadyen said each of the awards recipients had tirelessly served the Gosford community. “Thanks to the efforts of these eight leading citizens and groups, our community is a more inclusive and better connected place for us all to live in,” Cr Macfadyen added. “Each award recipient prides themselves on getting involved in the community and they deserve to be publicly commended for their great work. “I would also like to once again thank our judging panel which is always faced with some very tough decisions,” he said.

The Roving Rubies at their recent bikini pool party to celebrate Edna Fowler’s 92nd birthday

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oung and old turned out on Australia Day at The Entrance to dig a channel at least one-metre wide from the ocean to the lake.

Wyong councillor Lloyd Taylor said: “It demonstrates the level of community commitment to get the channel opened and a break-wall built. “We have all had enough of talk; now we want action,” Cr Taylor said. “Before the last election, we had support from the local member, Mr Chris Spence and the Liberal Party, but that all seems to have faded,” he said.

“All too often we have ﬂooding around the lake edge and opening the mouth of the channel will reduce the likelihood of the ﬂooding we saw as recently as January of this year. “The community know what they want and we, as their representatives, need to support them in this. “Our lifestyle revolves around the lakes, foreshore and waterways, so it is only logical that

the better the health of the lakes, the better our lifestyle. “What we saw on Australia Day was the silent majority coming out in force for a solution to save Tuggerah lakes. “I call on the rest of the community to stand up and support this community initiative,” he said. Media release, Jan 27, 2016 Lloyd Taylor, Save Tuggerah Lakes Party

A local group of the Red Hat Society has celebrated the 92nd birthday of one of its members. The Roving Rubies celebrated the birthday of Ms Edna Fowler from Woy Woy on January 26. Edna has been a member of the Roving Rubies for the past seven years and ofﬁcially turned 92 on January 31, although the Roving Rubies celebrated a few days earlier with a bikini pool party. She was recognised in the group as a talented cake decorator and for dress making, including hand smocking, and special dresses for deceased babies. More than 40 Roving Rubies attended the pool party at a member’s home for Edna’s

birthday. The founder of the group, Ms Marlene Klintworth, also known as Queen Lilimarlene, said she formed the group when she first moved to the Central Coast as a way of meeting people. There were now 130 Roving Rubies, women between the ages of 45 and 92 who wanted to “learn how to grow old disgracefully”. Edna is an excellent example of the benefits of being a Roving Ruby, said Ms Klintworth. She still lives in her own home and is fiercely independent. She walks without a stick, still has excellent hearing, plays lawn bowls and has a golf handicap of 22. Her three tips for longevity are healthy living, happy hour and

good friends. A little sip of brandy to ward off infection or a case of the nerves is a good practice, according to Edna. The Roving Rubies have so far knitted 267 rugs to foster children on the Central Coast. “Through Wesley Mission we have just about given every foster child on the Central Coast a rug,” Ms Klintworth said. The Roving Rubies have regular mufti Mondays for knitting and talking and also have lunch meetings. Ms Klintworth said new members were welcome. For more information email rovingrubies@optusnet.com.au Interview, 28 Jan 2016 Marlene Klintworth, Roving Rubies

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Ms Claire Podlich, president of Mountain Districts Association, wrote to Mr Baird on January 29 to formally request the Commission of Inquiry. The Association’s request for a Commission of Inquiry documents, in great detail, the history of the Mangrove Mountain landfill since it was first approved in the 1990s through to the current suspension of the operator’s licence. The EPA is currently working its way through the process of setting new licensing conditions that will allow the operator to resume dumping waste at the landfill. “We are concerned that both Gosford Council and the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) have failed to exercise their respective statutory responsibilities regarding the Mangrove Mountain Memorial Golf Course Remodelling and Landfill Project,” Ms Podlich said. The letter to Mr Baird cited “27 unanswered questions relating to EPA licensing breaches and 12 issues of concern with Gosford Council actions resulting in a tangled and complex web of mismanagement and deliberate avoidance of legal responsibility. “The failure of both the EPA and Gosford Council has put the Central Coast water supply at great risk of serious contamination that could threaten the health of the Central Coast population,” Ms Podlich said in her letter to the premier. The letter to Mr Baird alleged that there had been: “Unlawful excavation into the sandstone groundwater aquifers

Mountain Districts Association has questioned the management of leachate ponds including those in the photo and run off

resulting in interference with groundwater flow and the high risk of contamination of ground water with potential contaminants such as arsenic and hexavalent chromium presenting a high future risk to the regional population.” It argued that another reason a Commission of Inquiry was needed was that: “Despite community concerns and despite concerns of officers of Gosford Council over time, the complicit involvement of Gosford Council with the landfill operator in a mutual agreement to add a further 1.317 million cubic metres of waste to the site in 2014 and of Gosford Council with the EPA in negotiating the terms of a revised licence 11395 with the operator to regulate this waste volume. “This will result in a total volume of waste 25 times the original approved volume.

“This waste will require the installation of a six million litre capacity leachate holding pond,” the letter contends. Ms Podlich’s letter was also critical of the agreement to approve the establishment of a new excavation pit for Virgin Excavated Natural Material (VENM) up to 955,448 cubic metres as part of the 2014 Land and Environment Court deal. “The excavated VENM will expand…will then occupy a volume of 1.137 million cubic metres outside of the regulated area and an undisclosed volume within the regulated area,” the letter said. “The landﬁll project is situated on top of a watercourse that is in the catchment of the Ourimbah Creek system. “This system is a major source of fresh water for the Central Coast.”

Ms Podlich’s letter and extensive supporting documents from the Mountain Districts Association contend that surface run off from the landﬁll runs into the creek system in two directions, via Hallards Creek and via Stringy Bark Creek. Wyong Council directly pumps out of Ourimbah Creek into Mardi Dam that supplies Wyong residents with potable water. Gosford Council pumps from Mardi Dam into Mangrove Creek Dam that supplies Gosford residents with potable water. The Mountain Districts Association has documented what it considers to be “unacceptable outcomes” that have occurred at the landﬁll site between 1998 and 2016. For instance, its submission states that 10 times the volume of waste

permitted under the original Gosford Council development consent (DA 23042/1998) was allowed to be deposited in the landfill licensed area under Environment Protection Licence 11395 between 1998 and 2012. The association’s call for a Commission of Inquiry is also based on what it considers to be a “lack of confirmed evidence that the original licensed landfill site was lined with an impervious membrane to prevent “leachate” (liquid leaking from the waste held within the landfill) from reaching groundwater aquifers. It also contends that an original pond used to capture leachate was actually buried (submerged) under the licensed landfill mass. Systems to manage leachate and storm water runoff that were designed for the original approved volume

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Commission of Inquiry called for before Coast water supply is irreparably damaged he Mountain D i s t r i c t s Association has called on NSW premier, Mr Mike Baird to hold a Commission of Inquiry into the Mangrove Mountain Golf Course Remodelling and Landﬁll Project.

ight of Gosford City’s ﬁnest citizens and community groups have been recognised at the annual Australia Day Community Awards on January 25, held for the ﬁrst time during special Australia Day eve celebrations in Gosford.

Two people with critical injuries needed to be transported to hospital and another ﬁve, also with critical injuries required ambulance attention. Director of life saving for Surf Life Saving Central Coast, Mr Brett Beswick, who was ﬁrst on the scene at Avoca, described the incident as “carnage”. Mr Beswick said the incident occurred about 100 metres around the corner from the southern end of Avoca Beach on the ocean side near the spot known locally as the “mermaid pools.” “Three families had come up from Sydney for the day, they were picnicking near the pine trees near the car park at the southern end of Avoca Beach but they decided to go for a walk to give their kids a play in the mermaid pools,” Mr Beswick said. According to Mr Beswick, Central Coast

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Gosford Council land sale may breach Act, says consultant in place,” he said. According to the Local Government Act, land owned by a council must be classiﬁed as either operational or community, Mr Conacher said. Operational land included any land used for the general operations of council and includes depots, roads, and other infrastructure. Community land was deﬁned as land that was not operational and was generally public open spaces such as parks, reserves and conservation areas. Community land could come into council ownership in a variety of ways: Crown land transferred to council by the State government; land set aside for community use as part of a development approval; or bequeathed to council from families, individuals or community organisations. According to Mr Conacher, if Gosford Council failed to develop management plans for the Peninsula’s reserves, it could be in breach of the Local Government Act. Mr Conacher said that in reclassifying reserves the council had to pay regard to State Environmental Planning Policy 19 (SEPP 19), which covered the management of bushland in urban areas.

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more significant.” Mr Conacher said the parcels of community land on the Peninsula that have been earmarked for reclassification and sale by Gosford Council should have management plans in accordance with the Local Government Act. Under the Act, all land owned by a local council that is classified as community land must have a management plan prepared for it. Mr Conacher said: “There was a plan of management for community land, natural areas and bushland prepared by council in 2002. “Under the Local Government Act, council can prepare a generic plan of management but must identify what land is included in it,” he said. According to Mr Conacher, the Gosford Council document has a schedule attached which lists which parcels of land were included. “None of the Peninsula lots appears to be on the schedule,” he said. All councils in NSW had to classify all their land holdings when the Act came into law in 1993. “All land had to be identified, even if it was a 1920 subdivision or a person may have gifted land and expect council to look after it as a reserve for the sake of that family, a management plan had to be put

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of waste are “manifestly incapable of dealing with present amounts of waste, particularly during periods of high rainfall,” the submission said. The 13-page letter from Ms Podlich to the NSW premier was supported by two extensive appendices. The first was a 54-page photographic dossier of water and leachate management issues at the Mangrove Mountain landfill following a major rain event in January 2016. The second appendix provided Mr Baird with 96 pages of information in support of the association’s call for a commission of inquiry. The Mangrove Districts Association has also sent the premier draft terms of reference for the Commission of Inquiry. It has also called for interim measures to be put in place while the veracity of its claims is assessed and responded to. “We request that no further action be undertaken or approval given with regard to Environment Protection License 11395 by officers of the EPA,” it said. In support of its requests, the Mountain Districts Association has written a summary of the actions of the EPA in relation to its administration of the licence issued to Verde Terra Pty Ltd that it argued would justify the extension of the current suspension of the company’s licence to dump at the Mangrove Mountain landfill. It has also written an extensive list of what it alleges are failures by Gosford Council reaching back to the original development application received in 1998 and working through to the Land and Environment Court orders and settlement offer negotiated in 2014. Letter and supporting documents, Jan 29, 2016 Claire Podlich, Mountain Districts Association Jackie Pearson, journalist

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esidents of the Bateau Bay area are still struggling to repair their homes following the violent hail storm that struck the area on September 17 last year.

Member for The Entrance, Mr David Mehan MP, visited residents of Lancaster Pde who have not yet moved back into their units and have been living in a variety of rental and shared accommodation since the September hail storm. The storm caused ceilings to collapse and extensive water damage to the properties with most units in Lancaster Gardens being completely gutted due to damage. Ms Barbara Champley said she had been living in her unit for the past 25 years and had never lodged an insurance claim in her life. “I do own my unit but I don’t know what I have got now, only an empty shell,” she said. “I was down at The Entrance that day and someone rang and said you’d better come home. “When I got to Bateau Bay the hail was like snow. “When I put the key in the door, there was water pouring through the ceiling, through the light ﬁttings, so I went to get help, but by the time I got back, the whole ceiling fell in, and after that, everyone’s ceilings

had any clothes. “I want the work to start, there are 14 units in our complex and the whole 14 are affected by this and we want some communication to know what is going on. I am feeling very down about it all,” she said. Mr Mehan said he had been working with the local community and the strata company to see works completed and residents moving back into their homes. Mr Mehan threatened to name and shame insurance companies that are not giving the storm damaged area the attention it deserves. “It has been four months since the September hail storm and locals are still struggling to have their homes repaired,” Mr Mehan said. “All of the residents of Lancaster Gardens were fully insured, yet they are still waiting for their insurance companies to begin work on their homes. “These houses have been sitting empty since David Mehan MP along with Barbara Champley and Phillip and Patricia Cupples view the damage September with major management Champley wants to return the mould, but since then, repairs yet to begin. seemed to do the same,” strata “The insurance company, according to to her own home as soon nothing has happened. Ms Champley recalled. as possible, “There is no indication companies need to According to Ms Ms Champley. clearly She initially stayed “I’ve lost nearly of when the work will be communicate Champley, the insurer with residents and begin was “very slow from the with her sister, then in a everything that I owned,” done. motel, then an apartment she said. “I do have contents ﬁt outs on the houses so beginning”. “Before Christmas insurance as well, but these people can get back At ﬁrst the residents at The Entrance, and since were “stunned” and not Christmas she has been we had a meeting that is with a different to living their lives.” with everyone and the company, but it is not sure who to turn to for staying with a friend. Media release, Feb 11, 2016 The insurance insurance company came much use yet, because I help. David Mehan, member for The Entrance Between September company has helped with out and it all looked very haven’t got anywhere to Interview, Feb 12, 2016 and December they living costs, but at nearly promising, then we had put anything. Barbara Champley, “I have hardly even mainly dealt with the 80 years of age, Ms workmen cleaning out Bateau Bay

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p r i v a t e developer and owner of the Imperial Centre has acquired Kibbleplex from Gosford Council and has promised to deliver a complete reinvigoration of Gosford’s ‘civic heart’ over the next 15 to 20 years.

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Dredging dispute appears no closer to resolution The on-going dispute between Gosford Council and the State Government over dredging the Brisbane Water Channel appears no closer to resolution, with both parties denying responsibility. The NSW Department of Primary Industries - Lands has issued a statement denying responsibility for dredging the channel, saying it was the council’s job. Gosford Council has denied this, claiming that the State Government was responsible. Dredging work undertaken by the council at Ettalong was for “beach replenishment … not to address navigation issues”, according to Council’s director of community growth, Ms Judy Jaeger. The dispute has resurfaced with calls from Marine Rescue Central Coast for dredging, and warnings to the boating public of the dangers with the channel having moved and narrowed. The Department of Primary Industry public affairs manager Mr John McClymont said the department was responsible for

dredging to maintain navigation access to government-owned maritime infrastructure. Mr McClymont said that meant the department’s responsibilities were limited to “coastal harbours and river entrances where breakwaters have been constructed to assist in providing stable navigation conditions for boating access”. However, according to Mr McClymont: “There is no stateowned maritime infrastructure in this area of Brisbane Water. “Responsibility for dredging in local waterways, such as Brisbane Water, has in the past been delivered by local councils with support from the State Government. “Gosford Council did not apply for funding for this site under the last funding round for Rescuing Our Waterways,” he said. However, Ms Jaeger said that the NSW Department of Primary Industries (Crown lands) owns the estuary and Roads and Maritime Services is responsible for making sure channels can be navigated safely. “The NSW Government is responsible for making sure that the Ettalong channel can be safely

navigated by boats and other vessels, not Gosford Council,” Ms Jaeger said. “Around two years ago, Gosford Council spent over $500,000 to dredge and move a signiﬁcant amount of sand from the Ettalong Beach sandbank directly offshore from the Lance Webb Reserve as part of beach renourishment works,” she said. “The sand was not taken from within the Ettalong channel. “The purpose of this project was not to address navigation issues within Ettalong channel, but rather to improve the amenity of Ettalong Beach in line with Council’s foreshore and coastal zone management planning. “We are currently looking at what options are available to complete future renourishment works at Ettalong Beach. “However at this stage, council has ruled out buying and operating its own dredge to complete these future works,” Ms Jaeger said.

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Peninsula People Power starts People Power on the Peninsula is a new group of like-minded residents who want to activate community debate on council amalgamation, green spaces, reinstating NSW government services, petrol prices and youth homelessness. Mr Jack Lloyd from Umina has convened the group, which at the moment has 12 members. “We are going to try and have a conversation and get some

community action going around the five issues we have identified as being critical to the future of the community on the Peninsula,” Mr Lloyd said. He said he hoped other Peninsula residents concerned about the five identified issues would join the group via its Facebook page. The group’s page is “closed” so discussions are not public and new members need to ask to join. Interview, 18 Feb 2016 Jack Lloyd, Umina

Lederer Property have unveiled their purchase of the empty Kibbleplex building and their plans to develop a proposed new urban precinct in the Gosford CBD. The total capital investment in today’s dollars will be $650 million and the new precinct is expected to house around 4,000 people in 1,600 apartments. Lederer Property’s general manager of property, Mr Marek Ristwej said the purchase price of the Kibbleplex building remained commercial in conﬁdence as the sale transaction had not yet been settled between Lederer and Gosford Council. The group has described the plan as an “exciting and unprecedented 15-20 year vision to transform the heart of Gosford CBD”. The Master Plan for ‘Gosford Alive’ outlines a proposal to bring to life a thriving new urban precinct across a 5.8-hectare site in Gosford CBD, just minutes from Gosford Train Station. Once complete, the Master Plan will deliver new homes and employment opportunities for the city, accommodating population growth and enabling

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Property intends to build a contemporary mix of apartments, featuring striking architecture that reflects and celebrates the region’s natural beauty. The apartment precinct will be delivered over the next five years, heralding a new city living experience for Gosford. Residents will benefit

and extends on the work Lederer Property has already done at the Imperial Centre. Due to the capital investment value of the project, NSW planning legislation requires that the DA is determined by the Joint Regional Planning Panel who will make the decision based on the report provide by Gosford Council. “Lederer Property is committed to creating a vibrant, welcoming city centre for the Central Coast Region that delivers long-term benefits to the community, Mr Ristwej said. “As such, residents are invited to drop in to a series of community events being held across the city throughout February and March including: Gosford Alive pop up at ‘Sundae in the Park’, a Gosford Alive pop up city tour, and community information sessions.” Starting on February 29, Gosford Alive is hosting free fitness camps in Kibble Park in partnership with sporting personality, Jane Flemming. Residents can find out more about the sessions and how to get involved at the ‘Sundae in the Park’ event at Kibble Park on February 28. Media release, Feb 22, 2016 Natalie Cameron, DEC PR Interview, Feb 24, 2016 Marek Ristwej, Lederer Property Jackie Pearson, journalist

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Since Gosford Council acquired the Kibbleplex building in 2011, it has provided over 300 free parking spaces. That arrangement was officially due to end in February but Cr McKinna said Gosford Council had entered into an arrangement with the company that has acquired the site, Lederer Property, to continue to provide free public parking on a month-by-month basis. Lederer Propertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s general manager of property, Mr Marek Ristwej said he understood that Gosford Council had a solution in the pipeline to accommodate demand for parking in the CBD when Kibbleplex goes offline for redevelopment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lederer and council have entered into a commercial arrangement to see parking continue,â&#x20AC;? Lederer Propertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s general manager of property, Mr Marek Ristwej said. In terms of the parking that will be provided as part of the redevelopment of the Kibbleplex site into a residential precinct, Mr

Ristwej said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parking will be provided as required by various parking controls.â&#x20AC;? He said underground parking was the developerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s preferred option. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are taking something that has been very stagnant and what we will achieve is to really cement Gosford as the Central Coastâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s capital city, no doubt that is what it is and it needs to be further elevated and recognised as such. Timing of the commencement of stage one of the project will be dependent on how the development application process progresses, given Lederer Property intend to lodge their stage one DA during the first week of April. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Depending on how that process goes, we will make further announcements around dates,â&#x20AC;? he said. Interview, Feb 24, 2016 Lawrie McKinna, Gosford Council Interview, Feb 24, 2016 Marek Ristwej, Lederer Property Jackie Pearson, journalist

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Kibbleplex parking to continue osford mayor, Cr Lawrie McKinna has reassured commuters and Gosford CBD workers that they will not be locked out of the Kibbleplex free parking as a result of the propertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sale and proposed redevelopment by Lederer Property.

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ederer Property described itself as the specialist place-making and urban renewal division of Lederer Group.

With a property portfolio across NSW, including retail, office, residential and industrial, Lederer Property is committed to the active management of these assets and the delivery of development projects that elevate and optimise destinations to their fullest potential, and that generate positive social, economic and cultural benefits for their communities. Building on a history of business success, chairman Paul Lederer leads Lederer Group in bringing together a number of leading cross sector businesses and brands including Lederer Property, Tomkin, a leading supplier of quality cookware and dining ware to the Australian hospitality industry, and Tuscany Cheese, a producer of premium cheese. Lederer is also the chairman and majority owner of the Western Sydney Wanderers.

The new Gosford Alive precinct is designed to actively promote the health and wellbeing of the community with inclusion of a proposed medical centre, gym and childcare centre. Tr a n s i t - O r i e n t e d Development principles will connect the precinct seamlessly to existing public transport nodes and promote walkability. Mr Marek Ristwej, general manager of property at Lederer Property, said the vision for Gosford Alive represents the start of an

exciting new era for the city. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With Gosford Alive weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re proud to contribute to the NSW Governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision to establish Gosford as the capital of the Central Coast,â&#x20AC;? Mr Ristwej said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gosford Alive is a game changer for the city, which will transform the CBD into a welcoming vibrant place that will attract residents and make the community proud,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lederer Property has a long-term relationship with the region through its ownership of the Imperial

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Stage one includes Kibble Park ederer Property intend to lodge a development application with Gosford Council in April for Stage One of their ambitious 15 to 20 year transformation of the Central Coast’s capital city.

Stage One will include the complete redevelopment of Kibble Park and the construction of 400 apartments and townhouses towards the rear of the block that currently houses the defunct Kibbleplex. The company’s general manager of property, Mr Marek Ristwej said Lederer’s 15-year relationship with Gosford as owners of the Imperial Centre made Gosford Alive a natural next step. He said the company had already spent $20 million to reposition the Imperial Centre and that an additional $650 million commitment to Gosford Alive made it the “biggest transformation project on the Central Coast”. Mr Ristwej said Lederer Property were committed to “doing it right with the right fundamentals”

including consulting with the community first, through events like Sundae in the Park on February 28. “We are starting off with Sundae in the Park where there will be a community information booth to inform the community about what is planned and get their feedback,” Mr Ristwej said. He said Stage One would need to make its way through the normal planning processes but a major component was the transformation of Kibble Park. “We have delivered other projects of a large scale

but this is a significant capital investment. “This is Kibbleplex, bordered by Rumbalara with north, east and west facing views. “We have created a design that picks up on the natural landscape features of the Central Coast including its waves and rockpools. “It will be far more than what has been delivered in Gosford before; design excellence is our imperative. Director of the project’s architect, Conybeare Morrison International, Mr William Morrison said the architectural and

urban design specialists partnering with Lederer had been “doing major CBD renewal projects for a long period of time. “This one is special and unique,” Mr Morrison said. “You don’t often get three city blocks to be planned, the great thing is you are not just looking in isolation, you have complete focus on the public domain and the concept allows Kibble Park to reach out and touch Rumbalara Reserve,” he said. He said the redesign of Kibble Park will also allow for links through to

Watt St and with council properties on the south side of Donnison St including the new regional library. “It creates a civic heart for the Central Coast, a result that puts Gosford on the map,” he said. The detail of arrangements between Gosford Council and Lederer regarding the resdesign of Kibble Park have not been finalised but Mr Morrison said the park would remain the community’s property and its ongoing care would be the responsibility of council. He said he had drawn

inspiration from Bryant Park in New York as it provided an outlet for the surrounding urban community and was used as a meeting and recreational space. Mr Morrison said the location of the Kibbleplex site made it ideal for transformation into a residential precinct. “It is five minutes’ walk from the site to the railway station, so it has all the benefits of people taking public transport to work. “The design will allow for pedestrian movement and healthy lifestyle; the streets will all have active frontages, shops, and cafes to create that whole New York style so the street becomes a social hub,” he said. Stage one, which will be covered by the first development application, includes a 30-storey residential tower with 400 apartments, including multistorey podium apartments and rooftop gardens. The ground level and rooftops will give a park-like environment intended to be an extension of Kibble Park. The first stage will also incorporate a childcare centre and some boutique retail including cafes.

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redevelopment and a 400 apartment complex Mr Morrison said the design of the residential tower and podium apartments was sculptural and dynamic with faceted facades and tall and slender towers. Mr Ristwej said Lederer Property had not yet given consideration to pricing points for the housing that will be developed as part of Gosford Alive. “That depends on the planning outcome but what we would like to give to Gosford and the community is quality, and that is what is important for the city’s repositioning into a capital city,” Mr Ristwej said. Stage two of Gosford Alive will include a further 400 apartments, gym facilities, a medical centre and more retail. Stage three will be the redevelopment of Imperial Centre to have a larger footprint of retail space and an additional 800 apartments overhead. Mr Ristwej said the development of 1,600 new apartments in Gosford over 15 to 20 years was a “reasonable absorption rate,

sustainable and something that has the ability to be delivered. “It was not realistic to say we are doing it all in one go, but we will be doing it in a sustained way that makes sense. “We are really putting Gosford on the map, delivering social space, housing, employment, and an architectural outcome.” Each stage will be covered by a separate development application. The resulting residential precinct will be open to the public to weave their way through the development and access Rumbalara Reserve from the CBD. In determining the mix of housing, Mr Ristwej said the main driver was who the customers for the product would be. “We identified through the research we conducted through BIS Shrapnel that there are different housing requirements on the Central Coast including townhouses, larger apartments, lower rise and two-storey town houses incorporated in a podium environment.

Mr Ristwej said a key component of the target market for the new residential stock would be owner occupiers including existing Coast residents along with Sydney escapees “from the upper north shore where housing prices are exorbitant. “It is amazing to me that Gosford, that has all the infrastructure, rail, schools, and even more so, we have national parks, waterways and some of the best beaches in Australia, isn’t already the place to live.” He said Lederer Property’s master plan was responding not only to Gosford Council’s vision for the city but also to the State Government’s call to action to create active cities, inner city living, jobs growth. “This development considers all these mandates,” he said. Interviews, Feb 24, 2016 Marek Ristwej, Lederer Property William Morrison, Conybeare Morrison International Jackie Pearson, journalist

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Promotion of grants for the environment seen as hypocritical o s f o r d C o u n c i l ’s promotion of grants for environmental projects at the same time that it is proposing to reclassify and sell community reserves has been described as “hypocritical”.

• Urban renewal of Gosford over 15 to 20 years • The largest integrated mixed use and urban renewal project ever to be undertaken on the Central Coast • A 5.8 hectare redevelopment of Kibble Park, Kibbleplex and the Imperial Centre • $650 million capital investment • New Kibble Park to have multi-purpose performance space, enhanced children’s playground, tree planting, market venue • Framed by Erina St, William St, Mann St, Paul Ln, Albany St, Donnison St and Henry Parry Dve • 8,000 square metres of new retail and commercial space with approximately 300 parking spaces • Architecture that reflects and celebrates the region’s natural beauty and forms strong connections with existing urban landscape • Tall, slender towers to minimise shadow • New cafes, restaurants and an eclectic retail mix • Contemporary housing mix • Medical centre, gym and childcare • Around 1600 apartments in total, with 400 planned for stage one in the next five years • 20 different consultants already working on the project • Four month investigation of traffic, pedestrian and public transport connectivity, landscape, streetscape, mass and height • First DA to be lodged with Gosford Council in April 2016

Save Central Coast Reserves spokesperson, Ms Sue Chidgey said it was “with disbelief” that she read a Gosford Council advertisement (in another publication) inviting applications for funding via the Gosford Protection of the Environment Trust. The Gosford Council advertisement said: “The aim of the funding is to totally finance or subsidise a project which promotes the protection and enhancement of the natural environment. “In particular, it aims to promote the conservation of flora and fauna indigenous to Gosford City.” “We are bemused that, whilst the community campaigns to save 25 reserves, parks and green spaces from Gosford Council’s planned reclassification and sell-off, the Council offers grants to protect the environment,” Ms Chidgey said. “Surely, if Council truly wanted to protect the environment, they would not be targeting these community sites,” she said. “To demonstrate that Council are serious about wanting to protect the environment they should reconsider the potential destruction of these community and environmental sites. “Once a reserve is sold off to developers, the habitat and wildlife at that site will be destroyed. “Community groups have been created after hearing

A recent bush tucker talk at East Gosford Reserve of the threat to their sites. “Only half of the reserves have come to the attention of the communities concerned,” Ms Chidgey said. “Although the community has campaigned strongly by voicing their concerns, Council have decided to appoint an ‘independent consultant’ to research the sites. “Then the community will have only 28 days to respond before a public hearing. “If it has taken five months for the current groups to form and defend their sites, any new groups will struggle within the 28-days timeframe provided for community comment, (particularly if council continues to refuse to advertise public consultation periods in this newspaper Ed.). “We believe that the community should have been consulted first not somewhere along the process and that community lands should not be targeted to make money for Council. The sites that have been listed for reclassification and sale so far by Gosford Council are: 6 Isis St, Wyoming; Perratt Cls Reserve, Lisarow; Eagle Cls Reserve, Lisarow; 13 Winter Cls, Lisarow; 40a George St, East Gosford; Reserve between Wells St

and Lushington St, East Gosford; Reserve, corner of Coburg St and Wells St, East Gosford; Parcel of land, corner of Dover Rd and Lakeview Rd, Wamberal; a minimum of six lots within the Yarram Rd playground, Bensville; Lots 195 and 196 Brisbane Ave, Umina; Lots 56, 40 and 42 Albion St, Umina; Lots 318 and 319 Bluewave Cres, Forresters Beach; 93a Rivera Ave, Terrigal; 36 and 38 James Sea Dve, Green Point; 1 Hely St, West Gosford; 12 Jerribin St, Wyoming; Lots 184, 185 and 187 DP 10186, 40 42 and 46 Pozieres Ave, Umina; Lot 47 and 48 Sec B, DP 10242, 9 to 11 Mackenzie Ave, Woy Woy; Lot 1 DP 247520 and Lot 372 DP 612274, 10 and 12 Jumbuck Cls, Woy Woy; Lot 192, DP 237499, 2 Kateena Ave, Tascott; Lot 22 DP 29443, 22A Delaware Rd, Niagara Park; Lot 27 DP 778345, 71 Alan St Niagara Park; Lot 17 Sec 2, DP 12702, 83 Ilumba Ave, Davistown; Lots 35 and 51 DP 26603, 37 and 39 Warren Ave, Avoca Beach; and Lot 1 DP 707133, 182 Ocean View Dve, Wamberal. Email, Feb 22, 2016 Sue Chidgey, Save Central Coast Reserves

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New library concept plan unveiled osford Council has unveiled its latest concept plan for a brand new, eight-level public library building in Gosford’s city centre.

Councillors voted in 2015 to move ahead with plans to build a new central library in Mann St, next door to council’s administration building, after the State Library of NSW reviewed nine possible options. The desigh is a collaborative effort between Gosford Council and leading architects Clare Design and Hill Thalis, about which, Gosford’s mayor, Cr Lawrie McKinna said, is a concept plan that boasts something for everyone. “There are still plenty of details to work through, but this current concept truly captures our vision of a having a state of the art community hub right in the heart of the Central Coast’s capital,” Cr McKinna said. “A ground level café and children’s area, three levels dedicated to exhibitions, library collections and an auditorium, as well as four more levels devoted to a

Gosford City regional library concept (Image courtesy of Gosford City Council, Clare Design and Hill Thalis)

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give businesses, residents, commuters, students and visitors a place where

they can participate, learn, engage and share information,” he said. Tenders will now be called for the library’s detailed design before a development application is lodged. Separately, another development application will soon be lodged to demolish the current Council-owned building on the site so that construction of the new library can start as soon as possible after the necessary approvals have been given. “After years of delay, it’s great to see real work has started on this new library that the community has been waiting for,” Cr McKinna added. “We will be looking for feedback from the community at key steps along the way,” he said. Along with other available funding, the new city library will be delivered using the $8.1 million raised via a special rate that was introduced over 15 years ago to help provide a new regional library to benefit Gosford City. Media Release, Feb 22, 2016 Gosford Council media

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EPA representatives accused of obfuscation over water testing results he Mangrove D i s t r i c t s Association has disputed claims made by the NSW Environment Protection Agency (EPA) that its second round of water quality testing results from Ourimbah Catchment showed the area to be in good health.

“In the case of the landfill discharge, the sampling of the creek was late September, two months after the outflow had stopped, and in the wrong creek system: amazing that they didn’t find anything of concern,” said Mountain Districts Association spokesperson, Mr Stephen Goodwin. “At the discharge site, sampling was perfunctory, and the creek and sediment below the channel were not sampled,” Mr Goodwin said. “Results of vegetation and silt sampling the EPA did carry out on that occasion have not been released,” he said. According to Mr Goodwin, the EPA neglected to mention that the vegetation and silt test results had not been made public when it released its second round of Ourimbah catchment results on February 12. “They were also asked to sample in the holding ponds within the landfill, which they reportedly did in November. “Again, no results are forthcoming.” According to the

Storm water run-off from Mangrove Mountain landfill site into Stringybark Creek catchment on Wednesday, January 6

NSW EPA, the authority commenced testing the catchment in September 2015 to address community concerns alleging that runoff from the Terra Verde landfill in Central Mangrove had entered the catchment. Mr Steve Beaman, the NSW EPA’s executive director of waste and resource recovery, said the EPA has met with the Gosford community a number of times and is working with them to address their concerns about water quality in the catchment. “Given residents’ concerns, we engaged the Office of Environment and Heritage’s (OEH) science team to test the catchment in September and November 2015, with the community guiding us

to the places where they had concerns. “The sampling consisted of chemical analysis for a broad range of metals, pollutants and macroinvertebrates, which are small insects or worms that live in fresh water. “The first round of test results showed levels for these metals and pollutants to be below Australian guidelines for fresh and marine water quality. “Tests for macroinvertebrates, showed there was high diversity, including those that are sensitive to pollution, which is a strong indicator of good creek health. “These results of the second round of testing released today also show the creeks to be in good

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Storm water run-off from Mangrove Mountain landfill from two directions meeting in gully leading into Stringybark Creek catchment on Wednesday, January 6

health and not impacted by the landfill,” Mr Beaman said. He said the EPA would continue to conduct regular inspections of the Ourimbah Catchment and was scheduled to meet with members of the community to discuss the second round of test results and devise an ongoing water sampling plan. Mr Goodwin from the Mountains District Association questioned the EPA’s description of the run-off from the Verde landfill as ‘alleged’ and that the authority took claims of ‘environmental impacts’ very seriously. “The choice of the words ‘alleged run-off’ doesn’t fit with the fact that the EPA itself was quoted as admitting that sedimentladen water had left the dump site, after initially claiming that it hadn’t,” Mr Goodwin said. “It took a diligent Wyong Council catchment management officer to follow the pollutant trail back along Hallards Creek, track the source back to the landfill, and ask the EPA officers to accompany him back to the discharge point under the landfill fence to see for themselves,” he said. “Photos taken by the catchment management officer have not been released. “Mountains District That

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Association members were able to do the same thing and have their own photos to prove it. “It doesn’t take too many powers of deduction to see that sediment-laden water was pumped under the landfill fence in the North Western corner and across a path into Ourimbah State Forest, probably over an extended period. “There is a band of long-dead vegetation below the outflow and a well-established channel leading through brush into a tributary of Hallards Creek, which flows into Ourimbah Creek and thence into the water supply. “You would think that this was a powerful trigger for a full investigation, particularly as the EPA itself said it was now being treated as a criminal matter. “Isn’t the EPA supposed to gather evidence, not just ask the operator if he was a naughty boy and take his

assurances that he was not? “How is it possible that it took substantial community pressure and publicity for the EPA to do any sampling? “Remember how diligently they went after Katandra Poultry Farm at Peats Ridge? “The choice of the words ‘environmental impacts’ in the press release is also telling, because that is harder to show and to prove than environmental pollution. “It may necessitate a properly conducted investigation, which despite the EPA making soothing noises, has yet to occur in the case of Mangrove Mountain landfill and its manifest licence breaches. “There seems little point in meeting with EPA representatives when they continue to obfuscate. “We stand by the need for a Commission of Inquiry to shake the complacency and duplicity long evident in the EPA, and to reveal the truth about the activities at Mangrove Mountain Landfill and the threat it poses to the Central Coast water supply,” Mr Goodwin said. Mr Goodwin said the NSW premier, Mr Mike Baird had responded to the association’s request for a Commission of Inquiry by referring the matter to the NSW minister for the environment, Mr Mike Speakman. Email, Feb 18, 2016 Stephen Goodwin, Mountain Districts Association Media release, Feb 12, 2016 NSW Environment Protection Authority media

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Celebrating International Women’s Day, this event will be a family friendly event celebrating the achievements of women on the Coast. It will highlight their participation in all areas of our community including local, national and international women’s issues. The event will also provide opportunities to learn about our community groups and opportunities to get involved. Run along the style of a market, there will be stalls showcasing various organisations and businesses. Examples of these include

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Sat 27 Feb

Woman of the Year- Awards night 6.30pm Mingara Recreation Club, Tumbi Umbi

Business and Professional Women Central Coast www.bpm.com.au/centralcoast

Fri 04 Mar

“He Name Me Malala” 7pm Avoca Beach Theatre

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Bike rides – North/South 7am at Ourimbah Campus, UN

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International Women’s Day EXPO 10am - 3pm at Ourimbah Campus, UN

CCiwdCC - Rotary as lead organisation cciwdexpo@gmail.com

International Women’s Day Breakfast 7.45am-10am The Reef Restaurant, The Haven, Terrigal

Soroptimists International of Brisbane Water Inc. www.siswp.org/Brisbane-Water

Gosford IWD March 11:30am Leaving Gosford Train Station to Kibble Park

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Sun 06 Mar

Tue 08 Mar

Central Coast Communnity Women’s Health Centre www.cccwhc.com.au

Wed 09 Mar

High Tea and Open Day: guest speakers and entertainment 10am-12pm Peninsula Women’s Health Centre, Woy Woy

Thu 10 Mar

High Tea and Open Day: guest speakers and entertainment 10am-12pm Northern Women’s Health Centre Wyong

Sun 13 Mar

WOW Kayaking Eco Tour for Woman at Avoca Lake 10.30am-12noon (Limited places)

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Mon 14 Mar

International Women’s Day Candle Lighting Ceremony 7.00 pm Gosford Golf & Function Centre

Business and Professional Women Central Coast www.bpw.com.au/central-coast

Wed 16 Mar

WOW Wisdom Circle – Tantra & The Art of Conscious Love, Rebecca Clarkson 6.30pm – 9pm, Invitation to Health Centre, Wyoming

WOW Wave of Wisdom www.wowgirls.com.au

Sat 19 Mar

International Women’s Day Ball CCCWHC celebrating 40 years of service and advocacy for the empowerment of women on the Coast 6pm – 11pm Crown Plaza Hotel Terrigal

Central Coast Community Women’s Health Centre www.cccwhc.com.au

Sun 20 Mar

WOW & The International Storytelling Day – Live Story Tellers Theme “Strong Women” 6pm – 9pm WOW Shack, Kincumber

WOW Wave of Wisdom www.wowgirls.com.au

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Central Coast Women’s Forum 7pm-9.30pm Gosford Golf & Function Centre

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Fri 29 Apr

WOW & The Money Factory Empowering Women’s Financial Retirement Health 6.30pm – 8.30pm Breakers Country Club, Wamberal WOW & The Didi Foundation FUNDRAISER for Nepal 6.30pm – 9pm Wyoming Community Centre

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Central Coast Inter SEMINARS & GUEST SPEAKERS

SEMINARS Connect with local speakers who are committed to making a difference! Learn from Central Coast identities, the aspirations of our young people and even how to create a bright financial future! Between 10am and 3pm hear from a remarkable collection of more than 16 speakers including: • Kim Fitzpatrick will speak about the Days for Girls Project. • Superintendent Danny Sullivan, Commander Brisbane Water Police will inspire listeners with issues about law enforcement. • Lucy Hobgood-Brown will bring us tales of a Congo canoe challenge and the HandUp Congo Initiative. • Jan Pryor from the Didi Foundation will keep us enthralled with stories of the earthquake in Nepal and her orphanage project. • Lillie Cawthorn, author of the ‘Money Factory’ will outline ways for us to create a sound financial future. • Shayne Silvers will reveal Coast Shelter’s remarkable efforts to address homelessness. • A young people’s forum – hear what our young people think about a range of issues. • Other speakers who will engage us about topical Central Coast issues.

GUEST Speakers of the wow wisdom circle The WOW Wisdom Circle is a womens only event which will be held on the grass area, showcasing eight remarkable women and their stories. They will be discussing topics of particular interest to women and share what they are most passionate about. Julieann Coombes From Country to City The personal journey of a young Aboriginal girl growing up in NSW in poverty, abuse and racism. Nicky Cheshire Single Parent and Mental Illness Adriana Viglione “Tip-toeing into the Future” Julie McNab Healthy Immune System Using Food as Medicine Yvonne Lamont Rising Above the Fear “Finding the freedom to be Me” Rebecca Clarkson Taylor, Megan Pascoe & Lindy Mitchell - Local & Live Storytelling Dr. Julie Mundy Women’s Financial Retirement Health Heather Irvine Valuing the birth stories of all mothers

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tep it up for gender equality is the theme for this year’s Central Coast International Women’s Day Expo.

The celebration of women’s services and organisations on the Central Coast will be held at the Central Coast Campus of the University of Newcastle, 10 Chittaway Rd, Ourimbah, on Saturday, March 5 from 10:00am to 3:00pm. This annual familyfriendly event, definitely open to men and children, will celebrate the many achievements of women and highlight their participation in social, economic, cultural and political areas of the community including local, national and international women’s issues. An official opening will be held at 11:00am in the main quadrangle at the Ourimbah Campus. Speakers will include Chris Levis from Central Coast Business and Professional Women and Liz North, chair of the Central Coast International Women’s Day Convening Committee. Guest speaker, Liesl Tesch will give her opening address. The Expo will also provide opportunities to learn about community groups and ways to get

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involved and to pledge support to accelerate gender equality. Market stalls will showcase various organisations and businesses, and food and drinks will also be on sale. Over 40 organisations will have market stalls on the day, ranging from Soroptimists International to the Central Coast Amateur Bee Keepers and everything you could imagine in between. The Expo includes a full program of seminars across two theatres at the campus. The seminar program will cover diverse topics including domestic violence and homelessness, biasmotivated crime, gender, violence and equity. Women in leadership is another theme that will be explored in the seminar program with speakers including Dr Wendy Michaels, director of the UON Women’s Club and Sen Deborah O’Neill. Dr Michaels will explore

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what the experiences of five first Australian women parliamentarians tell us about the human rights of women in Australia. Sen O’Neill will examine what the reality is for women who seek to lead and how society can move towards the change needed to allow women to reach their full potential and lead in corporate, political, cultural and social entities. Health-related issues is another area covered in the Expo’s extensive seminar program. Ms Pat Matthews from the D52 District Inner Wheel Committee will discuss the cord blood stell cell project and its breakthrough research and treatments. Renee and Bryon Twilley will talk about how to reduce toxins in your home. Mr Syd Sabric from the Central Coast Cancer Centre’s Scholarships in Radiotherapy group will

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national Women’s Day speak about medical cancer research and the educational needs of the centre. Lillie Cawthorn will speak on money matters and how to take back your power. The seminar series will also cover international initiatives. For instance, Jan Pryor, founder of the Bright Future Learning Centre in Nepal and the Didi Foundation will speak about surviving the earthquake in Nepa in April 2015 and “dolly steps to sustainable futures”. The seminar series includes a total of 12 presentations plus a Youth Forum in the afternoon. A less formal ‘women only’ space, called the WOW Wisdom Circle, will host eight seminar sessions. The aim of the Wisdom Circle, facilitated by Central Coast women’s organisation, WOWGirls Wave Of Wisdom, is to share information, tell stories and improve the understanding of topics of particular interest to women, “women sharing wisdom”. The Wisdom

Circle will be an intimate (female only) space where each guest speaker will share how and what contributed most to becoming the inspirational woman she is today. As part of each presentation the speaker will share what she is most passionate about, her ‘wisdom’ and how she uses it in her dayto-day life. This provides an opportunity for the speaker to connect with her own empowerment and for others to ask questions, allowing an exchange of information within the circle. Each Wisdom Circle session will run for 20

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minutes and offers a presentation and question time. The informality of sitting in a circle on mats or bean bags offers a relaxed environment. At the Central Coast International Women’s Day Expo eight inspirational women will share their stories in the WOW Wisdom Circle. Gamilaraay Woman Julieann Coombes will speak about her journey as a young Aboriginal girl moving from poverty abuse and racism, through pregnancy and marriage to how education changed her life as a mother with five daughters. Nicky Cheshire will s share her experiences and t the challenges of raising y young children as a single p parent coping with a mental illness. Adriana Viglione, who h has survived a military c coup, cancer, divorce and financial loss will share t tools for survival for the 2 21st century woman. Julie McNab will s share how to use food a medicine for a healthy as immune system. The entertainment lineup for the Expo is also e extensive. Central Coast Yang Tai C Chi, Musicians Making A Difference, Black Belt Martial Arts or Shameela’s d desert flame and Indra b belly dancing are just some o the attractions. of Youth in Performing Arts ( (YIPA), the Lee Academy, S Sons of Obiwan, Harrington Entertainment and the Fun Engine will also provide fun a and entertainment for all

ages. For updates on what’s happening, ‘like’ Central Coast International Women’s Day Expo Facebook page or using the hashtag #MakeItHappen2016! The Expo is a project of the Central Coast International Women’s Day Expo Group comprising representatives of Rotary District 9685 Central Coast Clubs and the many women’s organisations on the Central Coast including Soroptimists International, Zonta International, WOW Wave of Wisdom, Central Coast Community Women’s Health Centre, Business and Professional Women Central Coast and Lions International.

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STALLS A broad range of stalls will be situated throughout the event grounds. There will be lots to see and do, so check out the list below to ensure you don’t miss out! Each stall will be open from 10am until 3pm, including: • Soroptomists International Brisbane Waters • Ourimbah Girl Guides • Henry Kendall HS Special Unit • View Clubs of Australia • Wheeling and Able • The Smith Family Learning for Life • Hunter TAFE Community Services • University of Newcastle • Central Coast Community Women’s Health Centre • Coast Shelter • Business & Professional Women Central Coast • National Home Doctor • Pure Oils • Maxxwell Australia (Jewellery) • Sentsy • Paragon Insurance Solutions • Zonta International • White Ribbon • Coast Community Connections • Curves • Energy and Water, Ombudsman • Rotary Central Coast Clubs • Inner Wheel District A52 • Country Women’s Association Lisarow/Ourimbah • Rotary Australia World Community Service • Days for Girls

1.40pm Theatre 2 Ourimbah Campus UON ACTIVITIES AND ENTERTAINMENT! There will be plenty to see and do, ranging from dance groups and martial arts displays to musicians and drumming circles, and there will be plenty of activities for the kids to participate in and have fun! Food and drink services will be available throughout the day starting at 10am, we invite you to join in! A wide range of activities will be available including: • Central Coast Taichi • Primary Schools Choir • Musicians Making A Difference • Black Belt Martial Arts • Indra Bellydance • Catch A Shooting Star • Lee Academy Dancers • Drumming • Sons of Obiwan • Jumping Castles • Popcorn & Snow Cones • The Fun Engine • Lego Demos • Plaster Fun

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Other Regional News - In brief Coast Community News focuses on news specifically relating to post code areas 2250, 2251 & 2260. Given the advent of a Greater Central Coast Council in

the near future, following is a summary of news articles published in the most recent edition of each of our sister Central Coast publications. The full articles and more, as well as all previously published editions, can be seen on

line on our website www. CentralCoastNews.net Copies of these other publications may be obtained from our offices in Gosford, by subscription, or from a myriad of locations in the areas covered by each publication.

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Wyong Regional Chronicle focuses on news specifically relating to post code areas 2258, 2259, 2261, 2262, & 2263.

Mehan outraged at delay in storm damage repair

Forgotten North residents vote to join Lake Macquarie Council

The Entrance Motor Registry to close

Residents of the Bateau Bay area are still struggling to repair their homes following the violent hail storm that struck the area on September 17 last year.

Around 140 residents from Gwandalan and Summerland Point attended a meeting on Monday, February 8 to discuss a proposal to alter the boundary of ...

The Entrance area will be left without a NSW service centre or motor registry as a result of a new service centre opening in Tuggerah in March, according ...

Tip Top Bakeries to invest millions in Charmhaven site

Wyong Grove acquisition in the hands of the Finance Minister

Contracts exchanged for Australia China Theme Park land

The bid to acquire part of the former Wyong Grove Public School to keep it in community hands is now at the mercy of the NSW ﬁnance minister, Mr Dominic Perrottet.

Wyong Council has exchanged contracts with the Australia China Theme Park (ACTP) for the sale of 15.7 hectares of land at Warnervale for $10 million plus GST.

Wyong Council is already acting as a pseudo Central Coast Council

Mayor makes presentation on merger

Acting CEO to remain until merger proclamation

Wyong mayor, Cr Doug Eaton OAM said he would be happy for the Wyong Regional Chronicle to report that Wyong Council is already acting as a pseudo...

Wyong mayor, Cr Doug Eaton OAM made a presentation on behalf of Wyong Council at one of the (non-advertised) public hearings into the merger between Wyong...

Mr Rob Noble’s contract as acting CEO of Wyong Council has been extended until mid-June, by which time a merger proclamation is expected.

Save Wyong Trees wrote to NSW planning minister, Mr Rob Stokes, the environment minister, Mr Mark Speakman and the Local Government Minister, Mr Paul Toole, urging them to act to ensure that Gosford ...

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Both sides of ATO debate have a convincing argument he war of words continues between Sen Deborah O’Neill and member for Robertson, Ms Lucy Wicks MP, over whether the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) building on Gosford’s waterfront will or will not create jobs for locals.

According to Sen O’Neill, senior officials from the ATO admitted that about 700 ATO jobs would have to be transferred across the country before locals would be able to staff the planned ATO building in Gosford. Sen O’Neill said that claims made by Ms Wicks that the new jobs would be for locals was false, in light of that evidence. According to Sen O’Neill, a report in the Canberra Times newspaper revealed that 6,200 ATO desks were sitting empty around the country and the ATO had been fined by the Department of Finance for its lacklustre performance in managing its property portfolio. “The ATO is trying to extract itself from leases on office space equivalent to 2.5 times the size of the Melbourne Cricket Ground’s playing surface,” Sen O’Neill said. “Yet a department that has been fined for poor handling of its property thinks that the $71 million expenditure to lease a new building on the Gosford waterfront is prudent. “There were cheaper options on the table for the ATO to choose from.

“One was a site in the [Gosford] CBD, not on prime waterfront, where the investment in Gosford would reap the most benefit for local businesses. “The waterfront was put aside as an arts and recreational precinct for the community; not a public service office block. “We cannot trust Lucy Wicks on anything she says about the ATO building because she has been found out,” Sen O’Neill said. However, Ms Wicks said she welcomed comments made in Senate Estimates hearings that, she said, confirmed the boost to local jobs from the Turnbull Government’s commitment to a ‘Commonwealth Agency’ in Gosford. ATO commissioner, Mr Chris Jordan told the hearing that while the final mix hadn’t been determined, claims that they would be purely relocated jobs were simply a “myth”, Ms Wicks said. “The ATO has made it clear that there is no intention to move large slabs of people to Gosford which means more opportunity and more jobs for Coasties,” Ms Wicks said. “Confirmation that the

ATO is looking to recruit the ‘vast bulk’ of people from our region is another huge vote of confidence in Gosford and the Central Coast, and affirms what we’ve been saying since we committed to this project as part of the Coalition’s Growth Plan for the Central Coast. “These 600 new federal jobs for Gosford will be in a new leased building facing Georgiana Tce, only a couple of minutes from Kibble Park, and will be a huge boost to our local economy,” Ms Wicks said. “I call it ‘coffee shop economics’, 600 new workers buying 600 coffees every day, 600 lunches and more,” she said. “If Labor’s serious about backing Gosford’s future, it should stop the smokescreen of misinformation and start realising that this is the biggest jobs-generating initiative the Central Coast has seen in years,” she said. Media release, Feb 15, 2016 Tim Sowden, office of Lucy Wicks Media release, Feb 16 2016 Office of Senator Deborah O’Neill

The full articles and more can be seen on our website www.CentralCoastNews.net

Peninsula Community Access Edition 387

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Peninsula News focuses on news specifically relating to post code areas 2256 & 2257.

Dredging dispute appears no closer to resolution

Peninsula People Power starts

Land was valued at market peak, says agent

The on-going dispute between Gosford Council and the State Government over dredging the Brisbane Water Channel appears no closer to resolution,, with both ...

People Power on the Peninsula is a new group of like-minded residents who want to activate community debate on council amalgamation, g , green... g

The Peninsula property market was at the peak of an unprecedented boom last July when the NSW ValuerGeneral was determining the land values used ...

Marilyn and Frank are moving north

Wicks delivers Peninsula Growth Statement

Plan to hide bins in Phegans Bay

Almost 17 years after they took the ﬁ rst steps to found Troubadour Central Coast Folk and Acoustic Music Club in Woy Woy, Marilyn and Frank Russell are moving north...

Member for Robertson, Ms Lucy Wicks, recently delivered a Peninsula Growth Statement in Federal Parliament.

The Bays Community Group and Gosford Council have arrived at an agreed plan to erect screens to hide garbage bins in Phegans Bay...

Marine Rescue busy on Valentine’s Day

Association opposes amalgamation

Several calls of assistance were made to Marine Rescue NSW Central Coast on Valentine’s Day...

The Wagstaffe-Killcare Community Association has attended a meeting at Erina Centre, Erina Fair, on Sunday, February 21, about the council merger...

Court dismisses boarding house appeal The NSW Land and Environment Court has dismissed an appeal against Gosford Council’s refusal of a proposal to build a boarding house in Ettalong.

The full articles and more can be seen on line on our website www.CentralCoastNews.net They can also be seen on www.PeninsulaNews.info

Construction on ecovillage to commence in April

arara Ecovillage and the Narara Ecoliving Network plan to make 2016 an amazing year.

Construction work on the ecovilliage, including roads, bridges, retaining walls, and water infrastructure is scheduled to commence in or soon after April. The third Narara Ecoburbia Festival will take place on Saturday, April 16 presenting a smorgasbord of sustainability adventures and adverturers. Construction permitting, the ecovillage will continue to hold monthly open days and network talks exploring the many ideas behind ecovillages and the quest for more sustainable living. There will be practical sessions and workshops on building sustainable homes including a special presentation on modular homes. Finally 2016 promises to deliver the usual exciting series of events based on

the remarkable people from around the world who now regularly drop in to Narara.

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Job creation rhetoric has changed

Significant heritage building reduced to a coffee shop

No regard was given for our heritage and the building’s cultural significance and it is now to become a commercial coffee shop. It’s a disgrace. The building has served widely to support our public activities since its inception, having been built by public subscription. The citizens of Gosford and the Trustees of this community building did not entrust this building to the Education Department to be sold off as a coffee shop. The School of Arts housed our first public library, acted as a focus for community cultural activities and events such as educational talks, flower shows to raise money for such community activities as building the cenotaph, a recruitment centre for WWI, home of Erina Council, and acting as a focus for a wide range of civic activities, including associations with Masonic Lodge and other community social institutions and organisations. More recently, since being handed over by the community itself to the care and custody of the Department of Education, it has continued as a significant place of learning, housing school classrooms, inspector Waterhouses’s office, school counselling and pupil assessment services, and a Special Education Centre. Now, heedless of its cultural significance and place in our community history, the building is sold off by the State Government to a Canberra developer and relegated to coffee shop status, at a time when our council runs not a single museum nor CBD cultural centre for exhibitions to bring a cultural heart to

FORUM our city. The building should be handed back to the community who placed it in the care of NSW premier Mike Baird. It could have housed an exhibition of our Triassic fossil fish, discovered in the CBD in 1887, and of international significance. One of the specimens included a lungfish named ‘Gosfordia ‘ for the town. The protection and promulgation of learning about our heritage is the direct responsibility of Gosford Council. Also, as the ICOMOS Paris Declaration asserts, Council also has a significant duty and opportunity to market our unique history to tourists and to make it available to current and future generations of residents, and to our children. Why is this aspect of our cultural life so ignored? The School of Arts, with the intervention and support of Gosford Council and the State Government, could have provided a focus for significant cultural tourism, telling the story of South Mann St’s cultural history, our most significant social history precinct, which still house buildings by such significant early architects as Mortimer Lewis, James Barnet, and Edmund Blacket. It could have become a building to tell of our proud civic history to visitors and to our children. Instead the State and Federal Governments, ignorant or simply uncaring, delivered up to the community not a cultural facility, but a coffee shop. We deserve, and must

demand, better from our ignorant or careless political masters. To Gosford Council, this DA threatens our cultural heritage via the inappropriate development on land sold out from public ownership. You obligingly approved the boundary realignment to permit this sale to be made. What provision are you requiring to protect the archaeological remains of the heritage listed Police Sergeant’s residence adjacent to this site and what protection are you requiring to preserve and protect both the fabric and history of this heritage building of such significance to the community? Do you even know or care that you are obliterating our unique heritage? What formal studies of the School of Arts’ history will you be requiring of the developer before you approve its future use? Gosford will never become a leading city while our cultural heart and our unique heritage continue to be destroyed by our governments. Every heritage study commissioned by both Gosford Council and CCRDC has addressed the School of Arts’ ‘high heritage significance’. The community built the building. Now the State Government has sold it with no return to the citizens of Gosford and in spite of its heritage significance. Scott Morrison has participated to ensure it was sold to DOMA for a coffee shop. Give it back to the community that built it in the first place! Email, Feb 5, 2016 Kay Williams, Pearl Beach

ucy Wicks is at it again (Parliament hears about benefits of ATO building, CCN, Feb 11). This time with subtle differences to adjust the original rhetoric of the ATO scheme.

The original claim of creating 600 new jobs has now elided into “deliver(ing) 600 new jobs into the Gosford CBD,” craftily not mentioning that these are not local jobs and will have no impact on the employment figures for the Central Coast. They merely represent a shift of workers from one location to another, with no mention of the impact this will have on the location that these workers will be transferred from, either. Also, the supposed benefits have now been scaled down to “coffee shop economics”, meaning that the only new jobs, if any, will be in delivering coffee, newspapers and pizzas to the ATO workers, plus, possibly, local floor cleaners to keep the offices shiny - all of which does not add up to an employment bonanza for the Central Coast, despite the grandiloquent language used to describe the project. Ms Wicks also comments that Labor “doesn’t understand how tender processes work” in the location of the ATO office, now transmogrified into a “Centre of Excellence”;

FORUM (how did that happen?) on the old school site. What she refuses to recognise is the real problem which is that nobody understands how the tender process worked because the machinations in this dubious affair have been obfuscated and methodically concealed from public scrutiny. Why can’t Ms Wicks explain in plain language how a property belonging to the NSW public passed into the hands of the ATO for tender purposes and, thence, into the hands of a private developer, with the only restraint on the title being that they must lease a building on the site to the ATO for 10 years. Where is the evidence that we taxpayers received appropriate compensation in this undercover transaction? As for her aside on the location of the Performing Arts Centre, this is a mere red herring to divert attention from the fact that the site is a bad site for the

proposed function. I doubt that many employees will be “walk(ing) up Mann St ... on a regular basis”, as she puts it, because the location is an inconvenient one for anybody with lunchtime shopping in mind, even assuming that there is anything being sold on Mann St that one would want to shop for in the lunch hour. The building should have been used to anchor the business district and create the possibility of foot traffic in the centre, not placed on the far fringe where it will only add another eyesore to the already damaged waterfront. It doesn’t matter whether the Performing Arts Centre is on this site: parenthetically, it has always been my view that the Performing Arts Centre should be in Wyong. The ATO building should not be on this site, and we are entitled to a frank disclosure of the whole train of events leading to this sorry outcome which, it seems, is now immutable. Email, Feb 15, 2016, Bruce Hyland, Woy Woy

Slow down the hoons gain and again, I see and hear hoons zooming along Glennie St in North Gosford, not to mention Dunbar Way, with no apparent attempt to slow them down.

Last time I looked, vehicles could not read speed limit signs, and apparently neither can their drivers. Is Gosford Council really waiting for a kid to be killed

before action will be taken, such as installing speed bumps? Letter, Feb 22, 2016 Dave Horsfall, North Gosford

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Woman caught with 28kg of cannabis woman was charged with commercial drug supply after police allegedly found more than 26kg of cannabis in the boot of the car she was driving on the M1 at Mt White.

At around 5:30pm on Saturday, February 13 officers from the Gang Squad’s Strike Force Raptor stopped a north-bound car on the M1 at Mount White. The driver, a 42-year-old Queensland woman, was placed under arrest after a small amount of cannabis was allegedly found in a handbag. Police searched the vehicle and allegedly

located an additional 26.2kg of cannabis in the car’s boot. The woman was taken to Gosford Police Station where she was charged with supplying a prohibited drug greater than a commercial quantity and possessing a prohibited drug. She appeared at Gosford

Local Court on February 15 and was refused bail. She will reappear in court on Friday, April 1 and police investigations continue. Strike Force Raptor was established in 2009 and targets outlaw motorcycle gangs and associated criminal enterprises. Media release, Feb 15, 2016 NSW Police media

14 year old hit by car olice appealed for witnesses after a pedestrian was hit by a car in Kariong on Sunday, February 21.

Just before 1:00am, officers attached to Brisbane Water Local Area Command were called to Kariong Hill following reports that a 14-year-old girl had been hit by a car. The 59-year-old man driving the vehicle stopped and assisted the girl before emergency services arrived. The girl was taken to Gosford Hospital suffering a

suspected broken leg. The man was also taken to hospital for mandatory testing. As inquiries into the incident continued, any witnesses who have not yet spoken to police were urged to contact Crime Stoppers. Website, Feb 21, 2016 Brisbane Water LAC Facebook page

Anyone with information about these incidents should call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000

Cannabis crop uncovered olice seized more than $165,000 worth of cannabis following a search warrant at a Saratoga home.

Shortly after 7:00pm on Thursday, February 18, officers attached to Brisbane Water Local Area Command executed a search warrant at the home on High St, Saratoga. Police received information via Crime Stoppers that the property was being utilised for the purposes of cultivating prohibited drugs.

olice are investigating an attempted armed robbery at Hotel Gosford on Friday, February 19.

At around 6.20am on Friday, February 19, three people armed with a baseball bat, broom handle and knife approached two employees of the hotel on Mann St as they were walking through a car park at the rear of the premises. Police have been told that the trio threatened employees, before a man armed with a baseball bat assaulted one of them. The armed group then entered the hotel and threatened a third employee before leaving the scene empty handed. The trio was last

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During a search of the home, police located more than 60 cannabis plants and an amount of cannabis leaf with a combined estimated street value of $166,250. The plants and leaf were seized from the property and will undergo further examination.

Officers also located a number of fireworks that were safely removed from the home. Investigations into the matter were continuing and anyone with information that could assist police was urged to make contact.

seen jumping a fence encompassing the premises and was believed to have driven from the scene in a white ute, heading North along Hill St. The injured employee

was taken to Gosford Hospital as a precaution and was later released. Officers attached to Brisbane Water Local Area Command were called and established a crime scene. Media release, Feb 19, 2016 NSW Police media

Multi unit rescues escue vessels from three Marine Rescue NSW volunteer units worked together to assist a moto cruiser and a yacht on Sunday, February 21.

Around 8:45am, Central Coast 22 was sent to meet, then escort and guide Terrigal 30 into Brisbane Water where Terrigal 30 was sent to assist a 9.6m motor cruiser that had run out of fuel off McMasters Beach. The two rescue vessels met off Killcare where the cruiser, with one person on board, was towed to safety in Hardy’s Bay. At 11:00am Mr Peter Alderton and his crew, Mr Ken Sharp and Mr Mitch Harding, were again sent to assist another Marine

Rescue unit. Central Coast 22 rendezvoused with Cottage Point 20 that was towing an 11m yacht with four people on board from America’s Bay where the yacht reported engine failure. Central Coast 22 took over the tow at Half Tide Rocks and towed the vessel to its berth at Gosford Sailing Club. Media Release, 21 Feb, 2016 Ron Cole, Marine Rescue NSW Central Coast Unit

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inger and songwriter RickiLee Coulter has just celebrated the release of her new album, Dance in the Rain and will be performing songs from the longawaited recording at Gosford’s very own Kibble Park as part of Sundae in the Park.

Since the release of her last album over two years ago, Ricki-Lee Coulter has kept a relatively low-profile focussing on the crafting of her new album. Ricki-Lee has been locked away in studios around the world paying close attention to the intricacies of the music she wants to define herself with via “Dance In The Rain”. “It’s been a real labour of love,” she said. “I finished the Fear & Freedom album in 2011, did a tour of Australia, went to Japan and released the album out there, literally got back to Australia and packed my bags and went over to LA and NY to start work again on this new record.” An avid music lover who soundtracks her day-to-day activities with a broad range of music, Ricki-Lee wanted to focus on the width and breadth of pop music for the tracklisting of Dance In The Rain. “There are a lot of music snobs out there, but I love everything from novelty songs to really intense obscure and intelligent releases. “I like it all, and I like the idea of playing with the extremes of those elements in my own music. “Pop music has so many different faces, and as people we are all so complex, so it’s very natural for me to change moods and styles to fit with how I’m feeling on any given day. “My music certainly reflects all of the different facets of my personality and tastes in music.” The lyrics and feel of the music on the new album showcase a woman projecting a great deal of determination; an artist with an

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infectious energy and positivity. “I’m a generally positive person and I like to look on the bright side. “I’m ambitious and I like to strive for things, and sometimes go for things beyond my reach, but that’s okay because I want to go for it and challenge myself.” Unlike many pop artists who churn out manufactured albums within weeks, RickiLee’s lengthy gestational process to fine-tune her new album has clearly allowed a certainty regarding quality-control to emerge, and allowed each of the songs on the album to breathe and survive over time. That she has co-written and co-produced all of the songs on “Dance In The Rain” reinforces the extent of Ricki-Lee’s talent and potential as a global pop success. “It’s actually not a new thing for me, I’ve done it previously whether I’ve been credited or not,” she said confidently of her involvement throughout the process. “I’m just the kind of person who is very hands-on. “These songs are my heart and soul, and I’ve got the greatest team of people that help me bring them all to life….some of these songs we produced 20 different versions of. “Dance In The Rain” is an internationalsounding affair, which has been worked on around the world in Sydney, Brisbane, Bali, Sweden, France, Los Angeles and New York. Alongside the release of Ricki-Lee’s new album, fans will also be able to see the performer on this year’s season of “Dancing With The Stars”, where Ricki will get to incorporate her love of performing with some show-stopping glamour.

icki-Lee Coulter will be headlining a free family mini-fest in Gosford’s Kibble Park on Sunday, February 28. Running from 10:00am to 3:00pm Sundae in the Park will be the first of a number of community activities coming up to celebrate what the Central Coast has to offer. “Gosford is on the go,” Gosford mayor Cr Lawrie McKinna said. “And what better way to showcase some of the positive community building and cultural growth our city is about to go through than a fun, family-orientated festival like Sundae in the Park,” Cr McKinna said. Hi-5 will also be performing on the day with children getting the chance to cuddle

up to the likes of Peppa Pig, polar bear extraordinaire Captain Barnacle of the Octonauts, and more. The Central Coast Mariners will also be present on the day handing out handshakes, hugs, and no doubt a few selfies. Food, arts and craft activities, face-painting, giveaways, prizes, sculptures, a mini-circus, an inflatable Mariner’s soccer field, a children’s playground and a jumping castle will be sure to keep the kids entertained on the day. “We’re really excited about the future of Gosford,” Mr McKinna said. “There is the potential here to create something in our beautiful city that’s even more thriving and vibrant, something that benefits everyone. “So our commitment is to really get behind more of these sorts of initiatives as the cultural, architectural, business and other all-round attractions of the Central Coast begin to bloom,” he added. There will also be free ice-cream and sundaes on the day.

t is hard to believe that Hi-5 have been entertaining Australian children since 1999 and now they are coming to perform in Gosford’s Kibble Park as part of Sundae in the Park on February 28.

TV producer Helena Harris, the creator of the Bananas in Pyjamas created Hi-5 when her own children outgrew the bananas. Hi-5 is still educating children through music, movement, fun and games. The children don’t have to know this, but child development experts work with writers on every script. The crew’s Kibble Park performance will keep to the successful formula of being built around a simple theme like colours, music, animals or numbers.

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Music will join it all together and the young and young at heart will not be able to stayy in their seats once these multiple ARIA award winners get fired up. Sundae in the Park will come alive. It will feature live performances by Ricki-Lee ki-Lee and Hi-5, as well as special appearances by Peppa ppa Pig and The Octonauts. There will also be gourmet food trucks, loads oads of kids’ arts and crafts activities, a mini circus, an inflatable Central Coast Mariners soccer field and, of course, free sundaes for everyone. WHAT: Sundae in the Park WHEN: Sunday February 28, 10:00am to 3:00pm WHERE: Kibble Park, Gosford. You can’t miss it. There’ll be heaps of people in a large, loud, ud, greengrassy area and an army of toddlers besieging ieging the stage. WHO: Ricki-Lee, Hi-5, Peppa Pig, Captain Barnacles of the Octonauts, Blinky Bill, Central d many Coast Mariners, the hosts of SeaFM and more performers and artists. Oh, and bring the whole family. WHY: Because Gosford is on the go… and e ice because, well, who needs an excuse for free cream?

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Women’s Health Centre to celebrate 40 years of service

he Central Coast Community Women’s Health Centre turns 40 this year and will hold a ball to celebrate the anniversary and International Women’s Day.

The centre was established in 1976 in Gosford. Since then, the notfor-profit organisation has established premises on Maidens Brush Rd Wyoming, and has two outreach centres at Wyong and Woy Woy. The centre’s 40th anniversary ball will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Terrigal on Saturday, March 19. The ball will also celebrate International Women’s Day with its theme of ‘Stepping it up for Gender Equality’ and is part of the calendar of IWD events being held on the Coast. “The services that we provide to women today are very similar to the services that were first provided 40 years ago,” manager, Ms

Xylia Ingham said. “These services include a specialist women’s health clinic, individual counselling, group work, information and referral, health promotion, and drop in facilities at all three centres. “Childcare is available for women when attending the centres. “After all these years, we maintain our feminist approach and continue to advocate on matters important to women’s health and equality,” she said. Central Coast Community Women’s Health Centre is one of 21 Women’s Health Centres in NSW, many of which have already or are turning 40 in the next few years, as most were established on the back of second wave feminism in the 1970s.

“The organisation receives some funding from the NSW Government, however, the three centres have to manage waiting lists for counselling and for clinic appointments as the demand for our services is higher than our resources can provide. “One aim of our 40th anniversary ball is to raise funds to provide additional hours of childcare,” Ms Ingham said. The centre invites past members, workers, clients and volunteers to be part of the celebrations. Media release, Feb 17, 2016 Xylia Ingham, Central Coast Community Women’s Health Centre

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Free event to raise funds for two little boys in Nepal luegrass, Irish folk, and banjo smashing outfit, Lime and Steel, will hit the stage at The Rhythm Hut for the first time on Sunday, February 28.

The Five Lands Band will start off the night with some funky improvised tunes. A mix of anything from jazz, funk and groove, these smooth cats always fill the dance floor and get those feet tapping. The feature artists for the 2016 first Five Lands event of the year is Lime and Steel. With roots-down banjofiddle grooves, dust kickin’ hoedowns and folk noir ballads, Lime and Steel roll out a show of original songs that splash on just the right amount of paint to get a loving glimpse of the darker side of the Australian soul. For this event, The Rhythm Hut is holding a fundraising event for two little boys in Nepal. The fundraiser will be run by Grace Mulligan, one the Hut’s drumming students. “During my time in Nepal I stumbled upon two radiant little boys, Anamol (8), Sakul (4),” said Ms Mulligan. “Suffering with severe Cerebral Palsy and abandoned at birth, they

were left unattended, undiagnosed and living in a destitute home with 17 other children,” she said. “The home was understaffed and underfunded and the boys were extremely malnourished and dehydrated. “Their health was critical, as for years their basic human needs had not been met; the smallest one was left in a corner, covered in flies and was overheating lying underneath a bed sheet where he was denied water to minimise accidents, it was a devastating reality. “Synchronicity and chance networking led us to a wonderful care facility in Kathmandu for disabled children, called the Disabled Welfare Centre (DWC) Nepal,” Ms Mulligan said. “DWC Nepal is a facility full of love, that encourages growth in a safe and embracing environment, 24-hour care and structured days full of reading, writing, outdoor play, art and music

therapy; this home was the lifeline the boys both needed and deserved,” she said. “However, it comes at a combined cost of $210 per month. “Any donations made will go directly to the care home to continue to support Anamol’s and Sakul’s monthly fees. “This infrastructure is incredibly vital in a developing society like Nepal, and after spending many months there personally, I am passionate about supporting its immediate and long-term development,” Ms Mulligan said. The night will kick off at 5:00pm at The Rhythm Hut in Faunce St Gosford, with free entry. The Rhythm Hut is allages, fully licensed, no BYO and children and families are welcome. Email, Feb 18, 2016 Lou Sawilejskij, The Rhythm Hut

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Fund raiser for cancer sufferer y o m i n g b a s e d musician Darren Rolling Keys, and his wife Lyn Hoad, have put together a fund raising campaign that will culminate in a starstudded concert at Mingara Recreation Club on behalf of a Central Coast cancer sufferer

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Mr Keys said he is bringing together Central Coast and South Australian musicians to join forces with local businesses to raise funds to support the Berkeley Vale resident’s fight against bone cancer. The fund raising campaign and event for Narelle (Rel) Haviland will culminate in the concert for 300 people on March 6. The concert will feature some outstanding performers including Chad Towns from the Dirty Deeds ACDC Tribute Show, Dylan Butler from Sling Shot and Darren Rolling Keys. “Rel, aged just 49, was diagnosed with terminal bone cancer stage four only a few months ago,” Darren Rolling Keys said. “Rel is the perfect example of a kind, modest, generous, loving, caring mother of three,” Mr Keys said. “Thirteen years after recovering from breast cancer, Rel was nursing her patient Al, a quadriplegic, running her household, and looking after her dogs, before she was forced to stop work because of devastating pain,” he said. “Her family circumstances over the last few years have been devastating,” Mr Keys added. “Her father passed away in August 2014 and her two sisters were diagnosed with breast cancer two days apart this year. “Money raised will be used to pay for much needed treatment and specialist’s bills and renovations to make it possible for Rel to keep living in her modest home,” Mr Keys said. Email, 16 Feb, 2016 Darren Rolling Keys, A Night for Rel

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Ovarian cancer needs to be detected early

he Central Coast Cancer Centre is urging local women to recognise and act on the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer.

February is Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and Wednesday, February 24 was Teal Ribbon Day In Australia, four women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer every day. Approximately 75 per cent of women are diagnosed at an advanced stage, where the cancer has spread and is difficult to treat successfully. As a result, only 43 per cent of women who currently have ovarian cancer will survive. Radiation and surgical oncology clinical nurse consultant, Ms Stephanie Foster said that every woman needs to know the symptoms so they can be diagnosed at an early stage when ovarian cancer is very treatable. “Women have an 80 per cent chance of being alive and well after five years if ovarian cancer is diagnosed at an early stage. “Unfortunately, there is no early detection test and the Pap test does not detect the disease. That’s why it is so important to recognise the signs,” said Ms Forster. Women who are diagnosed with ovarian cancer typically report four types of symptoms: abdominal or pelvic pain; increased abdominal size or persistent abdominal bloating; needing to urinate

often or urgently; or feeling full after eating a small amount. Ms Foster said it was important to remember that most women with these symptoms will not have ovarian cancer. “It can be difficult to diagnose ovarian cancer because the symptoms are ones that many women will have from time to time. “Often they are symptoms of less serious and more common health problems. “Your doctor should first rule out more common causes of these symptoms,” she said. “Other factors like genetics and family history, age, child-bearing history, lifestyle factors and hormonal factors all have a role to play. “It’s important to be aware of the signs but not to make yourself sick with worry. “If you have any of the symptoms, they are new for you and you have experienced them multiple times during a one month period, go to your GP. “You know your body better than anyone else, so always listen to what your body is saying and trust your instincts.” Media release, Feb 23, 2016 Casey Virgin, Central Coast Local Health District

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GosBlues

Blues, Jazz, and Roots Festival

GosBlues welcomed by all involved

he inaugural GosBlues, a threeday festival of blues, roots, folk and jazz held in the heart of the Gosford CBD has been declared a success by all involved.

The festival was run by Central Coast Newspapers, publishers of Coast Community News and Trad&Now magazine at six Gosford venues from February 19 to 21. All performances, from 24 acts along with workshops and seminars, were free to the public, but the event was also a

fund raiser for Coast Shelter. Mr Laurie Maher, the executive officer of Coast Shelter congratulated the organisers of the festival and described it as “an outstanding event”. He thanked everyone who “put a coin in the bucket” for Coast Shelter. “Nearly $1,500 was raised, and will go to assist those in the community who are disadvantaged, homeless or at risk of homelessness,” Mr Maher said. Mr Maher said the Coast Shelter Community Centre, which provides meals and assistance to those in need, will

be assisted by the funds raised. The Community Centre is able to operate because of the generosity of our community and we are grateful to all who attended the GosBlues events and the generous support provided,” he said. Performers travelled from as far afield as Western Australia to take part in the first GosBlues. Central Coast Newspapers publisher and GosBlues founder, Mr Cec Bucello said he was overwhelmed by the support GosBlues received from local crowds and the venue operators. “It was really pleasing to see so many people come out

and enjoy an event at so many different locations,” Mr Bucello said. “Feedback has been extremely encouraging and unanimous in the desire to have more such events happen in the Gosford CBD,” he said. “Gosford Hotel licensee, Mr Jordan Harris was absolutely delighted with the type of music presented, the crowds who enjoyed it and the atmosphere created. “Central Coast Newspapers and Trad&Now magazine plan to have at least one more such event in Gosford and at least two more in other areas on the

Central Coast each year.” Mr Bucello said he was pleased the event had been able to assist Coast Shelter in raising much-needed funds for the homeless within the local community. “There was doubt at the beginning about how much we were going to be able to raise, but the patrons were extremely generous. “Blues music supporting people with the blues seems to be a natural fit.” Media release, Feb 23, 2016 Laurie Maher, Coast Shelter Cec Bucello, GosBlues

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A parent’s guide Bodene wins Youth Mental Health Award to Instagram he popular social media platform, Instagram, has just published a guide for parents, according to the principal of Narara Public School, Mr Dave Stitt.

“It’s hard to keep up with all the social media platforms and apps our kids want to use,” Mr Stitt said. “Instagram is currently one of the most popular social networks for schoolaged children at the moment,” he said. Instagram is a free, photo and video sharing mobile application and social network for people aged 13 and over. “There’s no age verification process though, so younger children can create an account pretty easily, sometimes without parents even knowing. “Instagram say they’ll remove under-age users’ accounts if they are reported. “Instagram has just published ‘A Parent’s Guide to Instagram’ and it is a great place to start if you want to know more about how it works and how it can be used safely. “The simplest way to stay informed is to ask your child what apps and social

media they know about and ask them to show you how they work. “It’s a good, nonthreatening approach because kids and teens find out about new apps, games and social networks long before we do, and even less chatty teens tend to enjoy the chance to share their expertise. “You’ll narrow your focus down to only those social networks and apps your kids use. “It opens up the conversation about social media tools and their social life in general. “If you ask your child to show you how to ‘block’ other users, ‘report’ abuse, ‘delete’ their own posts and change their privacy settings, you’ll learn how it’s done, but you’ll also know they’re able to use those options if they need to,” Mr Stitt said.

Member for Gosford Ms Kathy Smith MP and Bodene Gilham

enry Kendall High School year eight student, Ms Bodene Gilham has won the NSW Youth Frontiers Mentoring Award in the category of Youth Mental Health and Wellbeing.

Bodene was presented with her award by member for Gosford, Ms Kathy Smith on Wednesday, February 17. The awards ceremony was held in the Strangers Dining Room at NSW Parliament House where three finalists in each category were recognised in front of family, friends, MP’s and sponsors of the awards. Over 1,000 people participated in the Youth Frontiers Mentoring program and Bodene was selected

as a finalist for her project entitled “Anonymous I, Anonymous You: Person-toPerson Advice for Bullying”. Bodene’s short YouTube video gives real, practical and personal advice to teenagers who are experiencing bullying. Bodene recognised that there was a stigma attached to seeking help in a school setting and created the video with her mentor Ms Jane Goodwin, a 26 year old PhD candidate of the

University of Newcastle. “Henry Kendall High School and the Gosford community can be proud of this young lady who has recognised a growing problem in her peer group and has set about helping people with this innovative approach,” Ms Kathy Smith said. As the winner of her category, Bodene has been invited to spend a day at ReachOut.com, meeting the team and receiving

professional training. She will also be offered the opportunity to be paid $200 to produce a feature article for the ReachOut. com website. In addition to this, Bodene will also spend a day working at the Black Dog Institute meeting clinicians, researchers and contributing her thoughts to Black Dog projects aimed at young people. Media release, Feb 23, 2016 Kathy Smith, member for Gosford

College holds Open Day

Newsletter, Feb 8, 2016 Dave Stitt, Narara Public School

New ‘Culture of Thinking’ ur Lady of the Rosary Catholic Primary School (OLR) announced a new curriculum entitled ‘Cultures of Thinking’, in cooperation with the new Australian curriculum for History and Geography being introduced into schools.

Parents were recently invited to learn about this way of teaching and learning on February 8 and 9. Information notes were

also sent home to families. Newsletter, Feb 3, 2016 Frank Cohen, Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Primary School

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Comparing notes at the Central Coast Community College Open Day Photo Jacquie Manning

he Central Coast Community College attracted more than 150 students to its Open Day, which was held at the Ourimbah Campus on February 6.

The Open Day included cooking demonstrations, free massages, diabetes checks and a free barbecue lunch. The College’s executive director, Mr Jonathan Davis said: “We try to provide visitors with a unique experience by having our trainers available, not only to talk to students, but also to provide mini-workshops. “This gives potential students the opportunity to really get a feel for the course and the practical aspects of the qualification.” Media release, Feb 17, 2016 Jonathan Davis, Central Coast Community College

NOT FOR PROFIT ORGANISATIONS DIRECTORY COMMUNITY GROUPS ABC - “The Friends” Support group for Public Broadcaster. Aims. safeguard ABC’s independence, funding, & standards. Meetings through the year + social afternoons Well-known guest speakers 4341 5170 www.fabcnsw.org.au

Central Coast Family History Society Inc. Resources, information & advice to study your family’s history. 1st Sat 1pm Lions Community Hall, 8 Russell Drysdale St, E. Gosford. www.centralcoastfhs.org.au

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COMMUNITY CENTRES Gosford 50+ Leisure and Learning Centre Handicraft, Painting, Knitting, Tai Chi, Scrabble, Darts, Table Tennis, Indoor Bowls, Patchwork, Yoga, Fitness, Gentle Swimming, Line Dancing, Cards, Variety Social, Womens Group, Zumba, Crochet, Computers 4304 7065 Gosford-Narara Neighbourhood Centre School Holiday activities, playgroup, multicultural programs, community activities - Rooms for Hire

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HEALTH GROUPS Alcoholics Anonymous meet every Wed 1230pm Someone cares Anglican Church 3 Mann St Gosford 4323 3890

Better Hearing Australia Central Coast Over Central Coast admin@gnnc.com.au 30s Social Group Inc Hearing loss management 4329 4477 We offer social contact, Support and educational group entertainment events & new 7 groups across the coast Green Point Community friendships for people in their Providing practical experience Centre 30’s, 40’s, 50’s & 60’s etc. and confidence Provides information and referral Our events range from; Learn the benefits to hearing services, a meeting place for Live Music, House Parties, aids - Better hearing community groups, OOSH Restaurant Nights, BBQ’s/ Australia Central Coast Picnics, Trips Away & lots more cave, exercize classes, school 4321 0275 holiday programs, playgroup, - For a FREE calendar call call www.centralcoast.betterhearingaustralia. arts & craft, room hire, and 0422 243 101 or org.au much more. cco30s@live.com.au 4367 7591 Central Coast Parkinson’s Central Coast Pension & Support Group Kariong Neighbourhood Welfare Officer Network We aim to help individuals and Centre This group of Volunteers, their families better manage ‘KNC provides the local trained by DVA, to look after living with Parkinson’s Disease community with a meeting servicemen & women, meets at Guest speakers are a regular place and hub for groups, Ourimbah RSL Club at 10:30am feature of our meetings. services and information. 2nd Fri - Feb to Nov 2nd Tue - 1.30pm Regular activities include Early 4322 1505 1800 644 189 childhood clinic, free family law advice, active playgroup, Central Coast 50+ Singles Central Coast Prostate computer classes, OOSH Social Group Cancer Support Group services, fitness classes, arts Invites Ladies & Gents for (Gosford) & crafts, over 50’s friendship dinner, dancing - BBQs & Meet last Friday Month group, youth group, social Socialising each w/e. 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We also have an programme all areas of the 9.30am to 12 noon extensive resource and DVD coast 4367 9600 library for members to borrow. 4396 3640 www.pcfa.org.au KNC membership starts at only 0437 699 366 $5 per year. 50pssg@gmail.com Central Coast Prostate 4340 1724 Cancer Support Group wwww.knc.net.au Rotary Club of (Wyong) Gosford North Meet last Monday Month Kincumber A very active community Toukley RSL Club Neighbourhood Centre minded club with many projects • Exercise classes Homes Ave Toukley focussed on assisting youth. • Yoga for adults and children 10.00am to 12 noon If you are keen to support our • Community eco garden 4356 9300 great projects, www.pcfa.org.au • Room hire get involved with our fun club or • Health support groups discuss joining, please contact • Counselling Dying with Dignity NSW, Graham Black • After school activities Central Coast 0410 509 071, 4363 1044 Working to give those grahamblack@iprimus.com.au www.kincumber.nsw.au suffering unrelievedly from terminal or incurable illness Rotary Club of Mingaletta Aboriginal the legal right to request & Kariong/Somersby Torres Strait Islander receive medical help to die International service club Corporation Quarterly Meetings improves lives of communities The Mingaletta community 4369 8053 in Australia and overseas. centre provides its members Fun-filled activities, fellowship and other community groups a Gambling Solutions and friendship breakfasts. Phillip meeting place and referal hub Gambling help counsellors House, 21 Old Mount Penang for education, health, well-being provide free, confidential, Rd (opp Shell) - Fri 7:15am and cultural programs through professional service to 4340 4529 consultative services and gamblers, family and friends. kersuebay@philliphouse.com.au community programs. Available Woy Woy, Kincumber, Mon-Fri 9am 4pm Gosford, The Entrance. Seniors Computer 6 Sydney Ave Umina 4344 7992 Club Central Coast Inc. 4342 7515 Classes held Monday to Friday admin@mingaletta.com.au GROW - Grow Groups are for everyone over 50 small friendly groups formed to Basics: Mon , Tues and Thurs Terrigal Fifty Plus Leisure learn how to overcome anxiety, 10am to 12noon and Learning Centre depression, and loneliness Different programs every day, Regular events Fitness, Yoga, and improve mental health & 10am to 12noon or 1pm to 3pm Handicrafts, Mah jong, Bridge, well-being. Weekly meetings Apple-Mac: Mon, Tues, Wed Line dancing,Tai chi, Painting, at Bateau Bay, Woy Woy and All at our club rooms, Bush walking, Indoor bowls, a new group starting at Wyong Kincumber Neighbourhood Zumba, Computer and Ipad soon. Grow is anonymous, free Centre courses, Bingo, Concerts on 1st and open to all. Bring a support 02 4369 5692 and 3rd Thursday of month. person if you like. Details 1800 Duffy Road Terrigal 558 268 or U3A Central Coast Joan 4384 5152 www.grow.org.au Mature age people are invited terrigal50plus@outlook.com to participate in a wide range of Meals on Wheels courses to broaden the mind Volunteering Meals on Wheels and make new friends Central Coast Delicious meals delivered free 0408 704 701 Refer potential volunteers Join us for a midday meal www.centralcoast.u3anet.org.au to community organisations Help with shopping and and provide support to cooking classes Koolewong, Point Clare volunteers and community 4363 7111 & Tascott Progress organisations. 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moves & cuppa all for a gold coin donation. 1st & 3rd Tuesdays of the months at The Rhythm Hut Faunce St Gosford 0439 856 554 0417 223 543 ParaQuad Specialist healthcare products delivered to your door, for all your continence, wound care and respiratory and nutrition requirements Professional Clinic Support available 1300 886 601 www.brightsky.com.au

HISTORY GROUPS Brisbane Water Historical Society • Coach tours • School educational tours • Annual Street Stalls • Participation in History Heritage Week Celebration Margaret Pearce 4325 2270 Fellowship of First Fleeters Central Coast For anyone interested in early history or early family histories. Don’t need to be a First Fleeter. Wyong RSL Club 2nd Sat 10:30am 4323 1849

MUSIC Brisbane Water Brass Brass Band entertainment for the community playing all types of popular music Rehearsal every Tuesday 7.30pm-10pm 0419 274 012 JAZZLEAGUE Live Jazz Bands - Come to listen, Come to dance Free - Every Sun Central Coast Leagues Club Gosford 2-5pm www.jazzleague.net

Soundwaves Men’s acapella 4 part harmony chorus - all ages 7pm Mon Central Coast Leagues Club Kieran - 0407 267 675 khutton58@gmail.com jbthomson51@gmail.com

Sydney Welsh Choir Cultural not for profit organisation performing at concerts and various venues to promote the Welsh culture with our singing, also performing for charity fund raising. 4369 3378 Tempo Terrific Community Showband Active showband available to play at your community function. Wide ranging repertuore. Always seeking new members, come and join us and have fun with music. Follow us on Facebook Every Monday 5pm to 7pm Kincumber Uniting Church 4365 4414 www.tempoterrific.com tempoterrific@live.com

Tuggerah Lakes Showband An enthusiastic group of people who play brass instruments, meet every Tuesday and Thursday to rehearse their crowd-pleasing music and play at community events Park Rd Band Hall Tues 7.30pm Thur 6.30pm 0407 406 669

PLAYGROUP Gosford Gumnuts Playgroup Parents and children meet socially for the parents to make friends and learn more about parenting and the children to have fun and play together. 0 to 5 yrs Wednesday 10am-12noon Thursday 10am-12noon Friday 10am-12noon An outreach program Gosford Uniting Church Hall

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POLITICAL PARTY Central Coast Greens Branch of Greens NSW, active regarding ecological sustainability, social and economic justice, peace and non-violence, grassroots democracy and getting elected 3rd Thur centralcoast.nsw.greens.org.au centralcoastgreens@gmail.com

Australian Labor Party Ourimbah/ Narara Branch Discussion/action community issues - 3 levels of Government Niagara Park Primary School 7.30pm 1st Mon each month 0410 309 494

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Central Coast Art Society Lectures, demonstrations and discussion. Weekly paintouts Tuesdays 4349 5860 for locations Workshops - 4363 1156 9.30am - 12.30pm 1st and 3rd Wed Social Meetings 1.30pm 4th Wed Gosford City Arts Centre. 4325 1420 publicity@artcentralcoast.asn.au

Central Coast Cake Decorators Guild Sugarcraft demonstrations conversation and lunch Visitors welcome 4th Sat - 10am Walamba 50+ leisure and Learning Centre Gosford 4382 6236 lsroe@bigpond.com.au

Central Coast Handweavers, Spinners and Textile Arts Guild PROBUS CLUBS Spinning and weaving, patchwork and quilting, felting All Probus clubs have and other fibre and fabric crafts, interesting guest speakers, community quilting bees - Day friendly atmosphere, make new and Night Groups friends, fellowship, intellectual 4325 4743 stimulus, and social activities. www.cottagecrafts.net.au kyle.macgregor@hotmail.com

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well-being and friendship. All women welcome to attend monthly dinner meetings. Be enlightened. $40 covers two course meal and speaker. Community transport available to and from centre Chris Levis 0438 989 199 bpwcentralcoast@hotmail.com www.bpw.com.au/central-coast

Brisbane Water Evening View Club Social activities, outings and functions monthly - new members welcome Tours, Dinners, Lunches, Theatre/Cinema, fashion parades Dinner meeting with guest speaker 4th Tues each month 4325 1688 or 0466 513 600 Country Women’s Association (CWA) Quilting, patchwork, spinning, knitting, crochet and more 9-2pm Every Fri, Opposite Terrigal Bowling Club 4385 9503 or 4384 3696 Gosford RSL Ladies Indoor Bowls Social indoor bowls Frid 9am - 12pm RSL Club 4344 5812 or 0412 773 441 Gosford RSL Sub-branch Women’s Auxiliary Raise money for the welfare of veterans and their families. RSL Club West Gosford 4th Mon 2pm 4323 7336

Inner Wheel Club CCLC Indoor Bowls of Terrigal Ladies - Mon 10am Brisbane Waters Breakfast Mixed Social - Mon & Wed 7pm Share friendship, social activities as well as fundraising for local, Toastmasters Club 2nd & 4th Sundays 1.30pm national and international 8:30am-10:30am 4363 2360 or 0403 994 313 projects. 3rd Mon, 12noon 2nd and Last Sat each month Terrigal 50+ leisure centre, Duffy - The Hive and Library Erina Central Coast Road Terrigal Shopping Centre Soaring Club Inc 4369 0302 - 4384 1490 0459 240 183 Gliding Club, Learn to fly, terigalinnerwheel@gmail.com Instruction FREE to members Blue Gum Flat Come and have an Air Kincumber View Club Toastmasters Experience Flight For ladies looking for a place Mthly meetings 1st and 3rd All Welcome to make friends. Interesting Mon 7.15-9.30pm 14 and up for Training speakers, lunch, bus trips, Ourimbah RSL Flying at Bloodtree Road movie days and home 4362 7227 Mangrove Mountain Thur, Sat, functions. 4th Tues Davistown Sun ( weather permitting) RSL Club 11am SERVICE GROUPS 0412 164 082 4390 2527 0414 635 047 Lions Club of Woy Woy www.ccsoaring.com.au Central Coast Women’s 1st and 3rd Mon. Woy Woy Health Centre Leagues Club Fellowship of We offer counseling, 0478 959 895 Australian Writers therapeutic and social groups, Make new friends and have fun A friendly and supportive group workshops, domestic violence while serving your community. for new and old writers. Gives and abuse issues. All services are provided by women for encouragement and critique Northern Settlement women of your work. Workshops and Services - Volunteers competitions 4324 2533 Volunteers needed for friendly www.cccwhc.com.au 10am 3rd Sun visits to the elderly in nursing Conference room Gosford Hotel homes. Soroptimist International 4363 2627 People with a second language Brisbane Water centralcoastfaw@live.com encouraged to apply. Soroptimists speak for women Training support provided National Parks Association and girls of all nations through 4334 3877 awareness advocacy and Central Coast cvscc@nsservices.com.au Twice weekly bush walks on the action by supporting national and international programs Central Coast and further afield, SPECIAL INTEREST 2nd Thur 6:45pm - Breakers varying distances and grades of Country Club, Dover Rd difficulty. Explore, enjoy scenery, Brisbane Water Wamberal fauna, floral, history. Keep fit Caravan Club 4367 6331 and make friends. located on the Central Coast sibrisbanewater@siswp.org 4389 4423 or 4332 7378 and looking for new members www.bwcaravanclub.wix.com/bwcc WOWGIRLS Wave Spirituality in the Pub 4344 4363 of Wisdom Inc A forum with Q&A and two speakers prompt conversations WOWGIRLS Wave of Wisdom Biz Plus Networking connects women and local within the community & to Association businesses around a common encourage dialogue about Attention business theme of well-being. to share spirituality. owners - are you keen wisdom and explore life’s 1st Tues March to October to grow your business potential. 2nd Tues November and in the process build Regular Powwows, WOW 7.30 to 9pm worthwhile relationships? Wisdom gatherings, WOW Grange Hotel Wyoming Then why not attend a Biz days and WOW courses check 4328 2596 - 0498 588 261 Networking breakfast? our website for activities. Every Thur 7:15am - 9am

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Forum convener warns about independent and reforming candidates

OUT&ABOUT

Grammy Award nominee at Girrakool

he Central Coast has seen many candidates make clever use of ‘Independent’ and other tags to garner support for their ambitions, according to Politics in the Pub convenor, Mr Norman Hanscombe.

“With so many disillusioned Labor voters at the moment, it’s a good time, for example, to be campaigning as ‘independent labour’,” Mr Hanscombe said. “Recently, many voters were taken in by a candidate they elected who had no connections whatsoever with the Liberal Party by using its name,” he said. “Another useful word is “reform” in front of an established party even when the candidates have no connection with that party.

“They pretend we’ll know the way they’ll vote. “We can’t really know this unless we’re mind readers. “Read carefully how many promises they make. “Try to check their histories carefully. “Often it’s clear their total costs are impossible to honour. “Above all, remember the old saying ‘buyer beware’,” he said. Mr Hanscombe said community members who would like to discuss the issue of pseudoindependent candidates

along with other political issues facing the Gosford Community can attend Politics in the Pub at the Grange Hotel in Wyoming on the fourth Thursday of the month. Topic suggestions, speakers and audience members are welcome. “No one who is interested in social, economic, historic or political issues should miss these forums,” Mr Hanscombe said. Media release, Feb 10, 2016 Norman Hanscombe, Politics in the Pub

Cedric Burnside from The Cedric Burnside Project will headline the Girrakool Blues Festival at Mt Penang

016 Grammy Award nominee, Cedric Burnside Project, all the way from Mississippi, USA, will perform their only NSW show at the Girrakool Blues Festival at Mount Penang Gardens on March

The Gosford Diary For events in post code areas 2250, 2260 and 2251

If you’ve got something happening in Gosford LGA area over the next few weeks, let us know about it and we’ll list it here for you, for free. Contact details are on page 2.

See the Peninsula News for events in post code areas 2256 & 2257 and the Wyong Regional Chronicle for events in post code areas 2258, 2259, 2261, 2262 & 2263

Thursday, Feb 25 Politics in the Pub, Grange Hotel Wyoming, from 6:00pm with speakers and discussion at 7:00pm

Friday, Feb 26 Kariong Book Club, Kariong Library, 10:30am to 11:30am

Saturday, Feb 27 Narara Ecovillage Open Day, Modular Homes, the sustainable home of the future? from 1:30pm followed by community dinner from 6:00pm Monkey Business Book Launch, The Rhythm Hut from 10:00am Happy Endings Comedy Club, Laycock Street Community Theatre, 8:30pm to 10:30pm

versus Newcastle Jets, Central Coast Stadium, 5:00pm kick off

Tuesday, Mar 1 Burmese artist Htoo Lwin Aye exhibition at Art Asia, Crown Plaza Terrigal, until Mar 10, from 10:00am English as a second language (ESL) meet and greet, Gosford Library, 10:00am to 12:00pm Tangents Young Adult Book Club, Gosford Library, 4:00pm to 5:45pm

Wednesday, Mar 2 Gosford Library Book Club, 10:00am to 12:00pm

Sunday, Mar 6 Night For Rel, fund raiser at Mingara with local musicians and Swanney, Mingara, bookings essential via ticketpro, Darren Rolling Keys/A Night for Rel

Thursday, Mar 3 Fuel Your Mind, Kim Kelly launches her new novella at Erina Library, 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Sunday, Feb 28

Tuesday, Mar 8 International Women’s Day march from Gosford Station to Kibble Park, from 11:15am

Friday, Mar 4 Erina Library Book Club, 9:30am to 10:30am and First Friday Book Club at Erina Library, 11:00am to 12:00pm The adams Family A New Musical Comedy, laycock Street Theatre, until Mar 19

Central Coast Family History Society workshop, building 4, 8 Russell Drysdale St, East Gosford Girrakool Blues Festival and BBQ, Mt Penang

Morning Melodies with Danny Elliot, Laycock Street Theatre, 11:00am to 12:15pm

Saturday, Mar 12 Bonsai Society annual exhibition, Erina Room, Erina Fair, 9:00am to 4:00pm Saturday and Sunday

Monday, Mar 14 Kincumber Echidna’s Poetry Group, Kincumber Library, 12:00pm to

Project is the icing on the cake for what is already a stellar line-up.” Australian festival favourites, The Backsliders, will provide the blues ‘not roots” of the festival. Adding to the New Orleans theme is keyboardist, Clayton Doley with his 10-piece big band Clayton Doley’s Bayou Billabong. This year’s The Voice finalist Gail Page will belt out some powerful soul drenched blues, while multiaward winning Buddy Knox and sultry singer Kate Lush will take to the Girrakool Stage, under the big Oak Tree in the Amphitheatre section of the Gardens. Media release, Feb 18, 2016 Bruce Johnson, Xabc Entertainment

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they joined Bonnie Raitt, and a star-studded line-up at the world famous Troubadour for a Pre-Grammy tribute to Glenn Frey. The Girrakool Blues Festival & BBQ director, Mr Bruce Jackson from Xabc Entertainment, said he is proud to host the only NSW performance of the Cedric Burnside Project on March 5. Mississippi’s newest rising blues sensations will then depart for South Australia’s Womadelaide and the Port Fairy Folk Festival. “It is a bit of a coup for the Central Coast, having Cedric Burnside, who is so steeped in the history of Mississippi Hill-Country Blues, playing right here on our beautiful shores,” Mr Johnson said. “The Cedric Burnside

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Avoca Beachside Market, Heazlett Park Foreshore, Avoca Beach, 9:00 am-2:00 pm % Lands at The Rhythm Hut featuring Lime and Steel, fund raiser for the Disabled Welfare Centre Nepal, The Rhythm Hut, Faunce St Gosford, from 5:00pm Sundae in the Park, Kibble Park, featuring Ricki Lee Coulter and Hi5, free icecream, 10:00am to 3:00pm, Kibble Park Gosford Central Coast Mariners

Gardens Saturday Racing at Gosford, from 12:00pm Concertante Ensemble ‘Serenade’, Greenway Chapel, Green Point, 7:00pm Household Chemical Cleanout, Gosford Showground car park, Showground Rd, 9:00am to 3:30pm

Drummer, singer and band leader, Cedric Burnside (grandson of RL Burnside) and guitarist Trenton Ayers, are the Cedric Burnside Project. Fresh from the Glenn Frey at Troubadour Tribute show, and the Grammy Awards ceremony, the Cedric Burnside Project comes to the Central Coast to perform their brand of Hill-Country Blues with a relentless, highly rhythmic charged style and with strong hip-hop and funk influences. Growing up at his grandfather’s side, Cedric Burnside began touring at age 13 playing drums for Big Daddy on stages around the globe. He attributes everything he knows, ‘from packing my bags … from playing music, to how to live in life”, to his Granddad. He was nominated once again, for the 2016 prestigious Blues Music Award’s Drummer of the Year, which he has already won four times between 2010 and 2014; along with Best Traditional Blues Album, and Best Traditional Blues Male Artist. Cedric is widely regarded as one of the best drummers in the world -- not bad for someone who is not yet 40. The Cedric Burnside Project did not win the Grammy for Best Blues Album, it went to blues legend Buddy Guy, but purely to be nominated by industry peers is a testament to the flame they are carrying for the HillCountry Blues genre. The highlight of the band’s career came when

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“One hundred fearless Central Coast residents stood firmly on the Gosford Waterfront for the ‘Gosford is where the Heart is Rally’ held on Valentine’s Day,” said deputy president of the Multi Arts Confederation, Ms Victoria (Fi) Hopkins. “The searing 40 degree heat on the day didn’t deter the feeling of love that the people of Gosford have for the former Gosford Public School site,” Ms Hopkins said. She said the desire to have a waterfront performing arts precinct remained strong “in spite of a complex political bureaucracy trying to short-change a community with high expectations and determination. Performances by local artists were led by the internationally-renowned composer, Ms Yantra De Vilder, with an ensemble by Jess Graham, Michaele L Archer and Lisa Stanford. Capturing the mood, Kevin Gavi Duncan opened Ceremony with a stirring Welcome to Country acknowledging the traditional owners of the land.

on a petition with CommunityRun.org to support the development of a waterfront cultural precinct. Ms Hopkins urged the community to express their dissatisfaction with the concept of turning over Gosford waterfront to a private developer to be leased to a federal government agency. Development Application closing information was not advertised in this newspaper. Locks were symbolically placed on the gates of the old Gosford Public School site on Valentines Day

The spirit of the gathering was articulated by Greg Van Borssum who led the call to utilise the land for public artistic and cultural purposes. “All gathered sent a clear, unflinching message to government to bring the cultural heart back to Gosford on the former Gosford Public School site. Ms Hopkins spoke to those gathered about the importance of culture to community and specifically the incredible opportunity to create a cultural precinct on the waterfront. “To leave a legacy for generations to come is before us right now” she said. A series of padlocks were symbolically placed on the gates to the old Public School site. Community members were encouraged to add

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Temporary Red Cross donation depot Red Cross donation depot has been set up at Erina Fair until the end of March to encourage shoppers and retailers to reuse and recycle, and to support the everyday work of Red Cross.

Marketing Manager for Red Cross Shops, Ms Kate Dear said temporary donation depots utilise unoccupied spaces in shopping centres to provide an easy way for people to donate unwanted clothing or household goods. “We work with centre managers to identify possible locations for donation depots and help create a surprise for regular shoppers,” Ms Dear said. “Red Cross donation depots are bright and distinctive with a big chute for donations to be popped inside,” she said.

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All invited to participate in International Women’s Day march march from Gosford Railway Station to Kibble Park will be hosted by Gosford Council to celebrate International Women’s Day and help bring gender equality into the spotlight.

The march, to be held on Tuesday, March 8, has been a feature of Gosford Council’s recognition of International Women’s Day for at least the past 10 years. “International Women’s Day highlights the gains women have made in the community,” said Gosford’s Cr Vicki Scott. “However, the work is not yet done, it is not yet complete.” Cr Scott said. “There are still many

issues around inequity in the home and community for women,” she said. Guest speakers will address the crowd at Kibble Park at the conclusion of the march, followed by some entertainment. “We have two guest speakers, Ms Jo Merrick, a local woman who recently came back from India where she worked with human trafficking issues,” Cr Scott said.

“And Nicole Campbell is coming up from Sydney to talk about equity in the workplace for women, in the government, and in general.” Cr Scott said she encouraged all residents to attend on the day and show their support. “We would love it if everyone turned up, men as well, we rely on men to support women’s rights to equity.

“It’s a day that the community can remember that we have achieved a lot of gains as far as women’s rights are concerned, but there is still a way to go.” Residents are encouraged to assemble at the corner of Burns Cres and Mann St, Gosford, at 11:15am for an 11:30am start and then proceed to Kibble Park. Interview, Vicki Scott, Feb 22, 2016 Gosford City Council website, 22 Feb, 2016 Thomas Birch, journalist

Rare Burmese art exhibition

he Central Coast will host its first-ever exhibition of works by Myanmar artist Htoo Lwin Aye at Art Asia Gallery, eight and nine Crown Plaza, in Terrigal.

“Exhibitions of art from Myanmar (Burma) are extremely rare in Australia given Myanmar’s reclusive government,” said Art Asia curator, Dr John Gintowt. “We were very lucky to have Htoo Lwin accept our invitation for a solo

exhibition in Terrigal,” Dr Gintowt said. “This exhibition, his first Australian and international, shows Htoo’s willingness to push boundaries in the use of colour, a departure from his foundation in realism, and the influence of famous

Burmese artists’ curved lines. “Given the rarity of Burmese art exhibitions in Australia, Art Asia is inviting all Australian residents to see this important exhibition.

“Unless they visit Myanmar, this may be their once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Mr Gintowt said. Htoo Lwin Aye’s exhibition in Terrigal will run from March 1. Email, Feb 22, 2016 John Gintowt, Art Asia

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riends of COSS will be hosting an evening of talks on the Coastal Open Spaces System, wildlife, and the legacy of local environmental activists, Allen and Beryl Strom.

The event will take place at Kincumba Mountain Kiosk on Thursday, February 25. COSS is unique to the Gosford local government area (LGA) and was established in 1984. Areas identified as having significant ecological, cultural and historic value were earmarked for future protection and conservation

by the council. Existing COSS lands have been voluntarily acquired by Gosford Council for the benefit of the community. Approximately 70 per cent of those lands identified have now come into public ownership. The Friends of COSS group is supported by the Community Environment

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Network and aims to inform and engage the community to enjoy, protect and conserve these important natural areas, now and into the future. The Friends of COSS regularly undertake bushwalks, field days, bush regeneration working bees and other organised activities in COSS reserves. “COSS is an important legacy for future generations, however, many people do not understand what COSS is or how it has evolved,” said CEN spokesperson, Ms Jane Smith. “Residents of Gosford LGA should be proud of the commitment that Gosford Council has shown in continuing this long term program of acquiring and protecting significant bushland areas,” Ms Smith said. “This unique system is the very reason why the ridgelines all around Gosford LGA have remained as natural areas, protecting not only the scenic qualities of our area, but also the environmental values,” she said. The evening will include

talks on the unique environmental legacy of both the Coastal Open Spaces System and the late environmentalist Mr Allen Strom. Mr Larry Melican from Gosford Council will speak on how COSS has evolved over the past 30 years and what remains to be done. Mr Warren Brown from Gosford Council will also speak about the wildlife on those reserves including some of the camera work that council has recently completed. The late Allen Strom, together with his wife Beryl, made a significant contribution to environment education and conservation, not only on the Central Coast but throughout NSW. In 1948, Allen became a member of the NSW Fauna Protection Panel, the forerunner of the National Parks and Wildlife Service. Ms Janine Kitson, a proud teacher with a passion for the history of the environment movement, will speak on the topic “What might Allen Strom have said?” Newsletter, Feb 22, 2016 Media release, Feb 23, 2016 Jane Smith, Community Environment Network

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Avoca author to launch new book voca Beach author, Mr Warren Henry, is an expert in a topic that concerns so many people who are around retirement age: How do you pass on what’s been important in your lifetime to your children and their children?

He is not just referring to property or family valuables, but to the memories, keepsakes, ancestral stories and traditions that made your family what it is. How can you recognise this, gather it all together, then ensure it gets passed on in a meaningful and ongoing manner? His new book, ‘The Ark in Your Pocket’ is an attempt to answer those questions and Charter Press has announced it as their featured release for 2016. “It’s about how you can help your children and grandchildren learn who they are and where they came from,” Mr Henry said. “And how you can

produce an entertaining and enduring family legacy that today’s generations will love and that future generations will be fascinated by,” he said.. Warren Henry’s life has included eight years in navy counter intelligence, 24 years as a private investigator, 11 years in hospitality, eight years as a life skills and management trainer, 24 years in winemaking and export, 28 years as a musician, two years film production, seven years sailing, 11 years instructing martial arts, seven years as an aviator, and 15 years in motor sport. He considers his most interesting role has been 28

years as a parent. He’s managed to squeeze in a lot of other things too. Warren’s life has been one of curiosity about the fascinating world in which we live and our amazing human journey through time. This is why he is so passionate about writing of the things he’s noticed along his life journey. Warren lives with Julie, his wife of 23 years in Avoca Beach, and has three adult children. Media release, Feb 22, 2016 Warren Henry, Avoca Beach

Handweavers’, spinners’ and textile arts exhibition

The Moody Sky Rug will be first prize in the Central Coast Handweavers, Spinners and Textile Arts Guild

he Central Coast Handweavers, Spinners and Textile Arts Guild of East Gosford is holding an Exhibition and Fair weekend on Saturday, March 12 and Sunday, March 13 at the Lions Hall, Russell Drysdale St, East Gosford.

“We are a non-profit organisation which strives to keep both ancient and new textile arts alive,” said the guild’s president, Ms Kathryn Scurrah. “The exhibition will showcase all our recent handmade works including handspun wool, woven articles, quilts, felted works and all manner of textile

arts,” she said. “We hold biennial exhibitions and have been working towards this event for over 18 months. “This year we have decided on a theme for the Exhibition and Fair which is ‘The Sea’. “We thought the theme quite fitting for our area. “Just wait until you see the table decorations, wall

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Book launch at Erina uthor Ms Kim Kelly will launch her new novella, Wild Chicory, at Erina Library.

Tracing the journey of an immigrant family from Ireland to Australia in the early 1900s, Wild Chicory is also the story of a bond between a young girl, Brigid, and her grandmother, Nell, and the stories they share about love, loss, war and peace. Distinctly Australian, Kim Kelly’s voice is both unique and familiar, about history, love, politics, family, ordinary people finding courage and strength through extraordinary times.

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Chinese journalism students stay at wildlife park group of journalism students from Shanghai have spent five days at the Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park at Calga during early February.

The students were chosen by a Shanghai newspaper as the highest achievers in their categories of study and were given a trip to Australia as their reward. Ms Tassin Barnard, general manager and curator of Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park said the students spent their five days at the park gathering stories and helping out with conservation work. The students, aged between 13 and 18, attended journalism school

on the weekends and were accompanied on their tour by two journalists. “They prepared habitats for our bandicoots and helped with the clean up from last April’s storm damage which we are still recovering from,” Ms Barnard said. The students stayed in the cabin accommodation at the park. According to Ms Barnard, 50 per cent of visitors to the award winning wildlife venue are now international travellers.

“They come in groups but we also have many selfdrive visitors,” she said. Many of the international visitors find out about the Central Coast attraction via word of mouth but Ms Barnard said she has also developed a relationship with Epoch Times, an independentlyowned Chinese newspaper that also prints Coast Community News.. Interview, Feb 9, 2016 Tassin Barnard, Australia Walkabout Wildlife Park

hangings, quilts, scarves, hats and feature lampstand that members have produced, in relation to the sea theme, leading up to our event”, she said. Email, Feb 22, 2016 Kathryn Scurrah, Central Coast Handweavers Spinners and Textile Arts Guild

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Mariners looking to turn their season around against the Jets ariners’ fans can expect the F3 derby against the Newcastle Jets at Gosford’s Central Coast Stadium on Sunday, February 28 to be as fierce as ever.

Wicks calls for defibrillators at all sports fields

According to the home team’s captain, Nick Montgomery, Storm Roux’s fractured fibula and dislocated shoulder in the previous game against Melbourne City was “tough to take”, but the team had to put that, and their four to one loss against Melbourne City, behind them and step up for their next home game. He urged his fellow team members and their fans to “look forward to what is going to be a massive derby against Newcastle on Sunday”. The Mariners’ captain acknowledged there would need to be some changes made to the team’s defensive lineup, “but there are boys who have been chomping at the bit to play. “I know the team is going to fire on Sunday and we are going to go out and try and get a few points against a Jets side that is good at set pieces. “That is something we will work on this week, we know our strengths and we are looking forward to the game,” he said. Montgomery, who said he had played in many derbies, commented that “form goes out the window” when it comes to two teams with a

ocal sporting clubs are being urged by member for Robertson, Ms Lucy Wicks MP, to sign a petition to help get more life-saving defibrillators at sports fields.

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turf rivalry. “It is which 11 players turn up on the day… it is 11 v 11 and in the end, it is which 11 want it the most and are fired up, that’s the team that ends up winning the game. “So we are not looking too much at form. “We have been unfortunate in a lot of games, leading at half time and then, for whatever reason, we’ve come off second best in the second half and that is what we are trying to put right. “Coming into this game on Sunday, we are not looking at anything else, we are just looking at giving our fans something to cheer about and giving it hard to Newcastle.” Montgomery urged Mariners’ fans to fill Gosford’s Central Coast Stadium for the 5:00pm kickoff. “We need our support, our support has been brilliant all

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season. “Everyone knows it has been a tough season, it has been a sort of transition for the club. “We’ve got so many young lads and for them it is going to be an experience that some haven’t had before, but they will be going into this game fired up and full of confidence.” He said the name of the freeway between the two teams may have changed but the Coast versus Newcastle F3 derby is as “fierce as ever”. “We’ve got seven games to go and we want to end this season strong and go straight into the next season with a plan,” he said. Nick Montgomery acknowledged that Mariners’ fans hadn’t had much to cheer about during the 201516 A-League Season but said he remained confident a win against the Newcastle Jets was achievable. “This three points could really be the catalyst pushing us on for the remainder of the season. “Home fans mean everything,” he said. “A lot of the fans understand where the club is going and the transition it has been in and unfortunately that has its consequences and we’ve found ourselves short in a few areas. “The owner is trying to make the club sustainable for the future and that is exactly what he has been doing. “We are looking forward to a good crowd on Sunday, a good win and pushing positively towards to end of the season and beyond. “If you can’t lift yourself as a player for this game, then you shouldn’t be a footballer. “We will have 11 players that are fired up and it is a massive game and hopefully the supporters will come out in force and we can send them home happy,” he said. Audio transcript, Feb 23, 2016 Nick Montgomery, Central Coast Mariners

Ms Wicks made the appeal in a speech to parliament about the importance of sport to local families on the Coast. “Many will know about the death of Mickey Dean. “He recently died of a heart attack while playing football. “Mickey was taken all too suddenly from his family and his community,” Ms Wicks said. “Since then, working with his family and with the club, Southern and Ettalong United, we have developed a petition in support of seeing defibrillators installed in clubs on the Central Coast. “While a defibrillator may not have helped in Mickey’s

case, it dramatically increases the chances of survival after a sudden cardiac arrest, if applied quickly. “Central Coast Football and Men of Football on the Central Coast have already pledged their support to this important cause, and I am pleased to report that more than 100 locals have signed this petition in clubs around the electorate. “This coming football season, I encourage others to get behind this very important cause and add their voices to those who have already signed our petition, to demonstrate the strength of support for this important piece of vital life-

saving equipment for our clubs in our sports-loving community.” Ms Wicks commended the community work of other sporting organisations in the region, including the Central Coast Mariners and Central Coast Academy of Sport. “My son, Oscar, has signed up for the first time to play in the under-sevens for the East Gosford Rams in the upcoming season. “Yes, I finally get to be a soccer mum,” Ms Wicks said. Media release, Feb 22, 2016 Tim Sowden, office of Lucy Wicks

AFL has new sponsor lack Diamond AFL has announced that BLK Sport will be the league’s major sponsor for the next three years.

The sponsorship, which will cover the 2016-2018, season, was announced by BDAFL president, Mr Wal Bembic. BLK will take over from Wilson Security who have been the league’s major sponsor for the past two seasons but opted not to continue with the sponsorship in 2016. As part of the sponsorship deal, BLK will have the naming rights to the league as well as the Black Diamond Cup competition, which will now be known as BLK Black Diamond Cup. Mr Bembic said he

was excited by the announcement. “The BDAFL is very pleased to have BLK on board as a major sponsor for the next three years,” Mr Bembic said. “We have built up a good relationship with BLK through them being the league’s exclusive apparel supplier for the past two years,” he said. “BLK is a global brand and for them to want to be the major sponsor of the BDAFL for multiple years is great reinforcement for the league. “We would also like to

acknowledge the support Wilson Security has provided as major sponsor over the past two seasons. “Whilst it is disappointing that they cannot continue in 2016 they have certainly contributed to the current healthy position the league is in,” he said. The BLK Black Diamond AFL season will be formally launched on Sunday, March 20. Media release, Feb 18, 2016 Garry Burkinshaw, football operations manager

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