EDITION 489
YOUR REAL INDEPENDENT LOCAL NEWS
2 MARCH 2020
Anglican parish decides to sell St Andrews church The Anglican Parish of Woy Woy has decided to sell St Andrews church in Ocean Beach Rd, Umina, with an auction date set for March 5. The property is described as a prime development site of 1422sqm, with a starting price of around $1.2 million. St Andrews Church is on land zoned R1 which may be used for a range of purposes, including multiunit development. Parish rector, the Reverend Michael Davies, said it made
practical sense to consolidate St Andrews and St Luke’s at Woy Woy, given a combined congregation of about 150. He said it was increasingly difficult to justify having two church buildings so close together, with two lots of ongoing maintenance costs. He said that “40 percent of the sale of Umina will go towards the Redress Scheme to compensate the survivors of abuse. “But also some money will come back into the parish so we can make the necessary improvements
to the Woy Woy site to make if more user friendly for children and families,” Mr Davies said. “In the wake of the Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Sexual Abuse of children and others, the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle of which this parish is a part, had its own case study done and there was a lot that came to light of an historical nature about abuse. “So, as a result of that, the Diocese needed to find quite a few million dollars to put towards the Redress Scheme.
“All these reasons all came together and as a parish council we took ownership of the decision to close St Andrews and sell it. “We’ve brought the Umina congregation across into the Woy Woy site and I’m delighted to say that we haven’t lost a single person,” he said. “It’s a fresh look, a new beginning, a fresh start for everyone.” The Bishop of the Diocese of Newcastle, Dr Peter Stuart, announced a new name for the church at Woy Woy during a
special service last week: Holy Apostles Anglican Church at Woy Woy and the parish will be renamed Peninsula Anglican Parish. “We figured, as a parish council, that if the St Andrews building was to be no more, we probably needed to re-brand the parish and give the remaining church a new name,” Mr Davies said. SOURCE: Interview (Sue Murray) 12 Feb 2020 Michael Davies, Peninsula Anglican Parish
Tesch calls for more Return and Earn machines Member for Gosford Ms Liesl Tesch has called on the NSW Government to replace the Return and Earn machine destroyed in the Umina Mall fire over a year ago. She has also called on the Government to provide extra machines on the Peninsula to meet demand and to cover for breakdowns. “The Umina Mall fire in January 2019 destroyed the former Return and Earn machine at that site but
the NSW Government has failed to replace this vital facility in another location,” she said. She said the remaining machine in Woy Woy was often over-filled and regularly broke down. Ms Tesch was commenting on a statement by Member for Terrigal Mr Adam Crouch that Woy Woy and Umina Return and Earn stations have recycled a combined total 7,858,704 drink containers in the two years of their operation. He said the volume through the Umina Return and Earn was
4,238,941 and at Woy Woy it was 3,619,763. Ms Tesch said: “While there are four reverse vending machines in the Terrigal electorate, there is only one operating on the whole Peninsula. “That isn’t fair.” She said there were errors in the information supplied by Mr Crouch about the location of the Woy Woy machine. “Mr Crouch is talking about a Return and Earn machine in Woy Woy Woolworths that doesn’t
exist,” she said. “If Mr Crouch visited Woy Woy he would know that it probably refers to a machine in a completely unrelated carpark in Oval Ave. “The government has failed to act and, after several weeks of trying, I’ve had no response to my attempts to speak with representatives from NSW Department of Environment, provided by the Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment, to try and fix the errors. “Since the program started two
years ago, Return and Earn has now soared past 130 million drink containers across the 20 collection points on the Central Coast,” Mr Crouch said. “The growth of Return and Earn on the Coast has been phenomenal and it highlights a shift in our community’s thinking and behavior around litter,” he said. SOURCE: Media release, 27 Feb 2020 Liesl Tesch, Member for Gosford Media release, 25 Feb 2020 Adam Crouch, Parliamentary Secretary for Central Coast
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