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17 May 2021
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Peninsula sell-off protests attract 'a great turn-up'
Community service awards for two local businesses
Where is my contribution?
Prizes at CWA State conference
School parents gather 200 signatures in three days
Carpark and bush block could be sold immediately
Park sale would be 'long term loss for the community'
ACF branch calls for retention of Peninsula open space
Council referendum to proceed
New firefighters for Umina
Feedback accepted on Patonga Creek addressing
Patonga hall closes for kitchen upgrade
Fishing club donates to Marine Rescue
Book fair for PCYC
Woy Woy student is lead strike organiser
Community group planning future events
Group offers help to plant more trees
Antique store relocates
Rainfall approaches average as normal pattern returns
Collapse  PLANNING PLANNING
Alfred St shop-top housing on track, says owner
Panel considers Pearl Beach plan with 31 submissions
Six flats proposed for Brick Wharf Rd
New shopping centre to be named Lone Pine Plaza
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To stop the rot, residents must fight their own council
Bullion St parking is crucial to shoppers and businesses
We do not support fire sale or lack of engagement
Another year of main stakeholders (us) not being heard?
Maximise the mandatory, minimise the discretionary
Has anything changed in 17 years?
Council: Someone has to be held to account
What do you think?
Collapse  HEALTH HEALTH
Exercise program for women
Aged care workers recognised
Aged care home introduces its own QR code check-in
Hospital visitor guidelines
Wellington is a favourite
Visit guidelines change
Collapse  ARTS ARTS
Sales start of art show tickets
Progress association holds scholarship concerts
'Inspiring works' at folk club concert
Woy Woy artist holds exhibition at regional gallery
Writers' festival Saturday program sold out
Patchwork progress
Centre of light technique taught
Musical event at Pearl Beach
Collapse  EDUCATION EDUCATION
School prepares for renovation
School gets worm farm up and running
Children learn what to do if they get lost
Measuring the size of cells
Indigenous high school art students wanted
Thirty years in childcare
Touch typing program
Learning about number patterns
Campus loses power
HSC workshop seminars
Designing shelters using natural materials
Praise for students walking to school
Preschool seeks mobile dog groomer
Cross country team runs in zone championships
New sports uniforms at Woy Woy campus
Netball teams wins its way to third round
Testing for Years 3 and 5
Information session about kindergarten classes
School to enter recycling competition
Check-in reminder
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Umina women top soccer ladder after win over SEU
Bridge pairs charity day raises $1300
Bridge beginners play graduation games
Under-13 girls start season with a win
Lions win against Avoca Beach in 'minor upset'
Southern and Ettalong have 5-0 win over Avoca
Men of League bowls day at Ettalong
Umina bowls pennants results
Mothers' Day raffle sales
Grade changes in junior netball
Peninsula netball results
Ducks at State softball championships
Ettalong bowls pair defeated in semi-final
Southern Spirit to hold annual meeting
Peninsula players in regional championships
Veterans' bowls day at Everglades

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To stop the rot, residents must fight their own council

Apart from the departure of Mr Persson, there are other upsides for the community in its attempts to stop the sale of valuable community space.

With no elected councillors standing between the community and our council, we can now find out who are these faceless Council staff that "recommended that our community land and assets be sold".

Fortunately the NSW Government has announced a public inquiry into this fiasco which will "provide an independent, open and transparent process" where the first business should be requiring these faceless staffers, the community's employees, to explain their decision to sell our few remaining open space and local parks.

We should reject any notion that Council staff prepare a "master plan.... before it sells of any assets."

It must be realised that the selling of public assets is a non starter.

If council staff can't come up with more creative ideas than this, they should do the right and noble thing and resign.

Recent "progress" in my neighborhood highlights the disaster that this council now is.

This week critical habit for native flora and fauna has been compromised by the removal of healthy paperbark trees (melaleuca quinquenervia) at the rear boundary of a development with a creek reserve.

One creek to the east, a complete demolition of an old home and every tree on the block has left highly erodible sand plain sand pushed within a meter of the creek with not even a token sediment fence, as is required by state legislation.

When I moved to the Central Coast some 30-odd years ago, every council envelope had a silhouette of a tree and stated that Gosford was a tree-friendly council.

We needed council approval to remove or trim these leafy assets.

Now developers know they can do whatever they like, and Council will do nothing.

If residents want to stop the rot then they have to be prepared to fight their own council and travel to Wyong to do it.

What a sad state of affairs.





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