2 COLLIE RIVER VALLEY BULLETIN, MARCH 16, 2023
Waste charges typo corrected
AAAAAA What's on, When and Where Boomers night Saturday, 6pm onwards Club Hotel, music, dancing, 50s,60s, 70s, counter meals available. Rainbow garage sale Friday, March 17, Saturday March 18, next to St Brigid’s Church. Anzac Tour Car wash 8am to 1pm on Saturday at Collie Senior High School River restoration forum Tuesday, March 21, 5.30pm, Collie Ridge. Government mobile van Wednesday, March 22, 9am to 4pm, PCYC car park. Advice on government matters. Harmony Day Friday, March 24 from 4pm-8pm at the Collie Italian and Sporting Club. Bocce, Italian sausage sizzle, homemade food, learn to make pasta and pizza, live music. Church in the Park Saturday, March 25, 4.30-7pm in Central Park, free community event with sausage sizzle, games and face painting Collie Art Prize Collie Art Gallery, open 10am to 4pm, seven days a week for duration of CAP exhibition. Entry $5. Library activities Sing along story time, weekly, Mondays, 9am; Junior board game fortnightly Thursdays 3.30pm; Lego Club weekly Mondays, 3.30pm. Collie Child and Parent Centre Playgroup Mondays at 9am (for parents and carers with children birth to five years old). MyTime support group (for parents and carers with children with additional needs) Tuesdays from 12.30pm. Baby Business (for parents and carers with children birth to two years) Fridays at 9am. Coalfields Museum Open every day, 9am to 3pm. Children under 16 are free when accompanied by an adult. Signing centre Monday 10am to 12-noon; Thursday 2pm-3.30pm; Friday 10am to 12-noon at the courthouse. Send it in This column offers free publication of events for not for profit clubs and organisations, or for items of social news. If you would like to have details of your events or organisation published in this column, send copy to nola.crvbulletin@ gmail.com or classies@crvbulletin.com. Deadline 5pm on Fridays.
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A QUESTION asked by tourist caravan park operator Patrick Honeywill at the February council meeting revealed a typographical error in the 2022/23 schedule of fees and charges. Mr Honeywell asked council about the charges connected to waste collections from the Collie River Valley Tourist Park. Chief executive officer Stuart Devenish said that due to the typographical error, the fees and charges were listed as being “weekly” when they should have been shown as “fortnightly”. “The schedule outlines charges across the shire, charges that apply for commercial work,” said Mr Devenish. “The aforementioned error in the fees and charges schedule has been corrected and added to the shire’s website. “Waste charges are applied uniformly across the shire in accordance with the adopted schedule.”
New app for resilient families The Collie Child and Parent Centre is recommending the 'Smiling Mind' app to Collie families. The app, which can be downloaded free of charge, now offers a new program aimed specifically at building resilient families. Broken up into six modules, the program offers tips and ways to encourage children to develop key social and emotional skills and equip them with the tools build their mental fitness. More information can be found at the Smiling Mind website; smilingmind.com. au/resilient-families-program
WEARING OF THE GREEN: Marie Hicks with one of the teddy bears on sale at the St Patrick's Day sale tomorrow and Saturday.
St Pat’s Day garage sale
A GARAGE sale tomorrow and Saturday will raise funds for the Community Garden of Remembrance for Unborn and Infants. With St Patrick’s Day celebrated tomorrow, it seemed a good time to hold the garage sale, organiser Marie Hicks said. The garden is behind St Brigid’s Church, and is intended to be a place where those who have lost babies can sit quietly in contemplation. However, the area needs some main-
tenance, and also some shelter from sun and rain, hence the garage sale. Donations of table or bed linen, towels, crockery, glassware, kitchen items, toys, ornaments, garden furniture, plants, books, DVDs, CDs and bric-abrac are still being accepted today at 120 Princep Street, or you can arrange to have things picked up by ringing Marie on 0414 755 054. The sale will run from 8am to 2pm on both tomorrow (Friday) and Saturday, at Vinnies’ old entrance.
to provide guidance to Mrs Ramsing to determine the best possible solution for the sinkhole that opened up on her property. The spokesperson said there had been some confusion about communication with Mrs Ramsing. “While the department remains in contact with Mrs Ramsing, Mining Rehabilitation Fund (MRF) administrator Ross Young did not contact her as reported last week,” the spokesperson said. “Mr Young provided information to a third party who had contacted DMIRS, and that person forwarded the content to Mrs Ramsing. “The department has provided Mrs Ramsing with considerable information in relation to the subsidence risk on her property. “DMIRS geotechnical officers visited her property in August, 2022, and discussed the historical nature of the underground workings, the potential for
further subsidence and the signs to look for that may indicate further subsidence. “The department recommended Mrs Ramsing engage a geotechnical engineering consultant to guide her on land use options, including the identification of locations suitable for any future building on her property. “DMIRS understands a shed on the property does not have the necessary approvals for construction.” There are more than 190,000 abandoned mine features identified on the abandoned mine inventory across the state. The DMIRS spokesperson said the department applies a risk and prioritisation process to identify and progress rehabilitation planning on those features that present the highest risk to the WA community and environment. “The department continues to progress rehabilitation of the highest risks,” the spokesperson said.
Shire’s sinkhole meeting COLLIE Shire Council staff inspected the sinkhole on Pia Ramsing’s Bacon Street property at Collie Burn on Tuesday. The visit was agreed to after Mrs Ramsing met with staff last Friday. “The officers said they think that when the geotechnical survey is done on the road, it should include my property,” Mrs Ramsing said. A Department of Mines Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS) spokesperson said this week the department continues
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