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Fury at bird feeder Residents want council to stop backyard menace
Should the council ban feeding wild birds? Let us know your views at morelandleader .com.au
DATE: 2/11/09
PASCOE Vale South residents say they are besieged by birds twice a day with a neighbour feeding seagulls and pigeons. Residents in Marsden Ave and Winona Grove say about 100 pigeons and seagulls descend on their homes each morning and afternoon screeching and spraying droppings on their property when a neighbour feeds them in his backyard. But residents say pleas over the past four years for Moreland Council to take action have been fruitless. Winona Grove residents Miles and Sue Savage said they did not like their four-year-old daughter playing outside because the large quantity of bird droppings posed a health risk. ‘‘Council doesn’t want to do anything because in their opinion they’re not enough (of a nuisance) to worry about,’’ Mr Savage said. Marsden St resident Mavis Hale said the council visited the street five weeks in a row in July and took photos of the birds but she had not heard anything since. Mrs Hale, 80, said she had been to
the doctor because of stress from the birds. ‘‘It’s a health hazard. I wash the windows down all the time. It gets on the clothes line,’’ Mrs Hale said. ‘‘I told the doctor it’s upsetting us. If our blood pressure is up, it’s because of the stress.’’ Moreland Council’s director of city development Roger Collins said council officers visited the man responsible for feeding the birds five times and were ‘‘working with (him) to resolve the issue.’’ ‘‘The feeding of wild birds is not an offence under council’s local law, unless as a result those birds are deemed to create unreasonable nuisance to others.’’ When Leader approached the bird feeder he refused to comment. But during an altercation with Mr and Mrs Hale witnessed by the Leader, he said he had stopped feeding the birds.
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Winona Grove resident Sue Savage and her daughters Megan, 6 months, and Erin, 4.
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The Fawkner Festival features music, stalls, food, children’s activities and rides. It is a community event organised by a committee of residents and representatives of local community groups and presented by Moreland Council. The festival runs from 11am-4pm on Sunday, November 15, and will this year be held at the new venue of Moomba Park, McBryde St, Fawkner. Details: phone Moreland Council on 9240 1111 or go to www.moreland.vic.gov.au Moreland’s Turkish culture will be celebrated at the Anatolian Alevvi Multicultural Community Festival. The event is presented by the Alevvi Community Council of Australia and
is a celebration of peace, love and togetherness. It will include music, poetry, dance, art, children’s games, traditional food and more. The festival is on Sunday, November 22, at the Coburg Lake Reserve, Murray Rd, Coburg.
Brunswick East’s CERES Community Environment Park is holding the Return of the Sacred Kingfisher Festival. The festival is a community celebration that welcomes the Sacred Kingfisher bird back to the Merri Creek where it nests and breeds.
It’s on Saturday, November 28, at CERES Community Environment Park, 8 Lee St, Brunswick East. Details: phone 9387 2609 or go to www.ceres.org.au
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The Pallaconian Festival will celebrate Greek culture and feature food stalls and entertainment. A statue of the bust of King Leonidas will also be unveiled as part of the celebration of Brunswick’s link with its Greek sister city Sparta. The festival runs from noon-6 pm on Sunday, November 29, in Sparta Place, Brunswick. Details: phone Kon Glekas 0438 353 326.
90 Bell St, Coburg. Tickets are $30 a head, with a nominated carer free, and include lunch, drinks and live entertainment. Bookings are essential on 9240 1111.
Moreland residents have a chance to get into the Christmas spirit at Carols by the Lake. The event is presented by Moreland Council who will
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be hoping for a fine day after the event was washed out last year. Carols by the Lake will run from 6.30pm-9.30pm on Sunday, December 13, at Coburg Lake Reserve, Murray Rd, Coburg. Details: phone Moreland Council 9240 1111.
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Leanne Cole’s exhibition I want, therefore I need will examine the culture of consumerism within our society and the excessive need to continually fill our homes with consumerist items. It will feature a series of perspex houses containing ceramic objects cast from household refuse and will explore our rampant consumerism and its effect on our living spaces.
Moreland Council will celebrate Australia Day with a citizenship ceremony, including awards for citizen and young citizen of the year. The event will be held from 10.30am on Tuesday, January 26, at the Coburg Town Hall, 90 Bell St, Coburg. Phone Moreland Council on 9240 1111 for details.
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Both exhibitions run from November 20 until December 20 at Moreland Council’s Counihan Gallery, 233 Sydney Rd, Brunswick, next to the Brunswick Town Hall. Opening hours: Wednesday to Saturday 11am-5pm and Sunday 1pm-5pm, closed public holidays. Details: phone 9389 8622 or email counihangallery@moreland.vic.gov.au
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Mandy Gunn’s exhibition re-source follows the pattern of her work over the past 14 years. Re-source will focus on art works constructed from found materials, principally paper. The materials are sourced from the leftovers of everyday consumerism, the sort of products which usually find their way into bins, often wrapping or packaging, tickets, envelopes and printed materials.
Primary school children can take part in Moreland Council’s school holiday program in January. The program is open to children from five to 12 years old whose parents live, work or study in Moreland. It is run at seven venues in the municipality. Each venue offers a variety of games, crafts, sports and various activities every day depending on the children’s interests. The three-week program has two excursions and two in-house activities as special interest days. It runs from Monday, January 11, to Friday, January 29. The council also runs a two-week Teenage Holiday Program for young people 12 to 15 years old. Details: 9240 1111.
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