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29 October 2012
City keys for Liesl Tesch Paralympic gold medallist Liesl Tesch of Woy Woy was presented with the Keys to Gosford City by mayor Cr Lawrie McKinna on Wednesday, October 17, in a surprise ceremony at the Erina Leagues Club Liesl had been invited to address the Erina Chamber of Commerce at their monthly luncheon and said she was totally unaware that she would be awarded the Keys to the City. Mayor Cr McKinna said that the presentation of the Key to the City was kept secret. “We wanted this award to be a surprise for Liesl. “She has had a wonderful couple of years since beginning her sailing career and hopefully this can be the cherry on top of a very successful 2012. “Following her retirement from wheelchair basketball, she took up sailing in January 2011 and had a rapid rise to success. “Liesl placed third in the 2011 and 2012 World Championships and has taken out multiple
international World Cup meets with her partner Daniel Fitzgibbon in the SKUD 18 Class. “Her strive for Paralympic gold was achieved in London 2012, an effort that both Liesl and the entire Central Coast community should be proud of,” said Cr McKinna. “Liesl has had an international career across two sports, captaining the Australian Women’s Wheelchair Basketball team, picking up silver medals in Sydney and Athens as well as bronze in Beijing. “Her recent success on the water demonstrates her versatility and wide ranging skills as an elite athlete. “She is a fantastic representative of the Central Coast and role model within our community. “Her success at the highest level is the result of hard work and dedication and I hope this award can go some way to show how proud we are of Liesl,” he said. Media Release, 17 Oct 2012 Lawrie McKinna, Gosford Council
Mayor McKinna and Key to the City recipient Liesl Tesch
High voltage electricity to go underground Gosford Council has agreed to allow the installation of underground electricity cables in an existing electricity easement in
Australia Ave, Umina. Under the proposal, the existing overhead 66kV transmission feeder main and a new high voltage 11kV cable would be placed
underground to improve reliability and switching in the network. When installed, the 11kV feeder would be underground from the Umina Zone Substation to the
existing underground development in Australia Ave. The project would also remove about 600 metres of overhead high voltage 11kV mains in the vicinity of McEvoy Ave, Bapaume Ave and Priestman Ave. The site of the easement is a drainage reserve and Council has agreed that the terms of the easement be drafted to allow for any underground works on the eastern side of the existing easement to allow for maximum widening of the drain on the western side should the need arise. According to Gosford Council’s director corporate services Mr Nic Pasternatsky, the surface drain is currently at its limit in containing peak flows and would need widening in the future to contain
additional flows and to allow for climate change impacts and possible rock lining. “It is recommended that the underground cable be laid as close as possible to the outer boundaries of the drainage reserve, which is the eastern side under the access track to allow for maximum widening of the drain on the western side,” Mr Pasternatsky stated in the report to Council. Ausgrid has advised that the cable would be laid on the eastern side of Lot 3 within the existing eight metre wide overhead easement which would leave approximately 22 metres from the property on the western side of the drainage reserve to the edge of the existing easement. Gosford Council agenda COR.106, 23 Oct 2012
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