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DUNBAN ROAD WOY WOY ~ PHONE : 4341 1866 Informat ion for members and thei r guests EVERGLADES COUNTRY CLUB

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The newly-extended and renovated Woy Woy library will open in around four weeks time, although an exact date is yet to be set.

Councillors recently took a tour of the soon-to-be-finished library facility.

At the time, there was about another week and a half's work to be done, the driveway and parking area was still to be completed and the security system was also still to be installed.

New automatic doors have been installed and the step at the front door has been removed, creating easy access for wheelchairs and motorised "gopher" style scooters.

Library services manager Mr Alan Flores said: "We have a whole new customer service

desk with an automatic checkout machine so people can check their own books out.

"There will be a full security system in place on the front door and throughout the library.

"All the wood panels have been replaced to be just like the originals.

"We went and found another company that manufactures ones exactly the same," Mr Flores said.

The library now has a digitized monitoring system, so the computer will store a digital recording instead of a tape.

"If anyone were to break in instead of ringing the police and sending them the tape we just e-mail them the pictures," Mr Flores said.

There are eight cameras throughout the new library inside

and outside, as well as an alarmed smoke detector system.

A heritage architect did the conservation plans for the new library, and the whole building complies with those plans.

The new Woy Woy library is a result of combining the old library building, the new library building and the old council chambers.

The result is a building which is on three levels.

The three levels are easy access for wheelchairs, with ramps between each level.

The land to the rear of the building adjoining Woy Woy Oval will be paved to provide library parking.

The back fence will be shared with the oval and the car park will have gates which can be closed at night.

Jonathan Reichard, August 16

At a recent inspection of the nearly completed Woy Woy library renovations, from left, Gosford City

Library to re-open next month

A public meeting convened by Gosford Council to discuss the Correa Bay report has called on the Environment Protection Authority to take action over the Bulls Hill Quarry.

The meeting of about 100 people unanimously resolved that: "This public meeting calls on the Environmental Protection Au thor i t y to d i rec t the Department of Land and Water Conservation to address their responsibilities and immediately carry out restoration works at Bulls Hilt Quarry."

Letters will be sent to the Minister for the Environment Mr Bob Debus, Gosford Council's director of environment Ms. Louise Gee and Member for Peats Ms Marie Andrews.

The meeting decided to r e c o n v e n e o n S u n d a y , September 22, at 10am at Bulls Hill Quarry, for an inspection of the quarry site.

The council convened a public meeting on Sunday, August 11, at the Everglades Country Club to facilitate the Correa Bay Water Q u a l i t y M a n a g e m e n t Committee's report being presented to the community.

Committee chairman Mr Derek Britton spoke to the meeting, using the Council's overhead projector to present photographs and a survey of Correa Bay and its catchment area.

He said the committee had found two sources of pollution entering Correa Bay - chemical

and sedimentary. Chemical pollution in the form

of leachate had been leaving Woy Woy Tip, entering Correa Bay via Tip Creek.

Sedimentary pollution from Woy Woy Creek was sourced at Bulls Hill Quarry and Robson's Quarry; Tip Creek at Woy Woy Tip and Everglades Creek, from residential land adjoining the creek.

Mr Britton said the bulk of the sediment entering Woy Woy Creek and then Correa Bay came from Bulls Hill Quarry.

He reported that Gosford Council had spent approximately $1.6 million to contain leachate within Woy Woy Tip and thus terminate the chemical pollution.

He said the council had suspended a water testing program which included Correa Bay.

It was one of the committee's recommendations that water testing be reinstated in Correa Bay to identify any further chemical escape from Woy Woy Tip or any other source within the Correa Bay catchment area.

Mr Britton also reported on negotiations with the Department of Land and Water Conservation to carry out remedial works at Bulls Hill Quarry.

He said that only the previous tenant's security deposit of $30,000 had been spent, which was not sufficient to prevent further sediment escaping the quarry site.

Letter, August 21

Call for EPA action on Bulls

Hill quarry

Tuesday night council meetings may be held at Peninsula Community Centre in the future after Gosford Council makes a determinat ion tonight (Tuesday) on information supplied by council staff.

Council at its meeting on May 7 resolved that “steps be taken to hold council meetings in other locations in the city”.

The Peninsula Community Centre was named in a short list of possible venues which have

been investigated by the council staff since the May meeting.

If council were to proceed with its proposal to hold meetings at other locations within the city, it has been recommended the three council meetings for a particular month should be held in the one location.

Council meeting times and locations would be advertised.

It was suggested that members of the public wishing to attend meetings may be confused if council attempted to have meetings at different locations

each week. The report stated that

"considerable staff resources" would also be required to ensure that the facilities were properly set up for the council meetings.

There would be additional cost to the council to ensure that the meeting locations were suitably set up for council meetings, including possible hiring charges for the facilities and additional catering costs.

Council agenda FS.121, August 27

Gosford Council may meet here Gosford Council has organised a community w o r k s h o p t o s e e k community input into the development of the Draft City Management Plan 2003-2008.

The workshop also offers an opportunity to provide feedback on the 2002 State of the Environment Report.

The City Management Plan comprises the Council’s Strategic

Plan and Capital Works Program, the Program Budget and Revenue Policy, and Counc i l ’ s S ta te o f the Environment Report.

The community is also invited to comment on the Draft 2002 State of the Environment Report.

Everyone is welcome to attend the workshop 9.30 to 11.30am on Thursday, September 12, at Woy Woy Little Theatre, 93 MacMasters Rd, Woy Woy.

Press release, August 12

Community workshop

We would like to set the record straight on Gosford councillors voting for the Regional Aquatic and Leisure Centre to be built at Woy Woy.

Representat ives of the Peninsula Basketball Association have attended every meeting of the planning committee for the proposed centre and have been in the council chambers every time the matter was mentioned.

We can confirm that at the meeting of the April 23, the council decided unanimously to approach the Minister to approve a rate rise of 3.96% to rebuild the six surf clubs and the Regional Aquatic and Leisure Centre.

The minutes of this meeting state that the vote was unanimous.

The only councillor who was not present was Cr Brooks and all other councillors, including Cr Wales, voted to approach the Minister seeking a rate rise.

It is important that such matters be recorded correctly so that the community is fully informed on how councillors vote.

On April 23, we left the council chamber delighted that all councillors present were behind this project which we believe will be a wonderful asset for the whole Central Coast community.

Michelle Van Der Neut and Donna Crosbie

Peninsula and District Basketball Association

Welcome to Edition 49 of Peninsula News In this edition we would like to welcome another member

to our team, Cassie Baber. Cassie comes to us with some computer experience and

in the few days that she has been with us, she has already proven her ability and potential, taking on all tasks with speed and efficiency.

Cassie hopes to be with us two days per week and will no doubt become more valuable as time passes.

I would ask that all readers that have any dealings with her, please make her feel welcome.

Cec Bucello, Manager Contributors: Winsome Smith, Alison Branley, Cielle

Mangold, Cassie Baber, Jacob Bronsing, Joan Fenton, Lynne Bockholt, Debra Wales, Larry Thomson, Riley Sohier, Sarah Judd, Rebecca Fenton, Frank Russell.

Committee: Kevin Butler, Carolyn Carter, Stephen McNamara, Mark Snell, Carl Spears, Michael Walls.

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I have never written anything before but, when I turned 80 last March, I had a gentle nudge from my wife and daughter to write my memoirs.

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Liberal candidate for the State seat of Peats, Cr Debra Wales, has called on sitting Member Ms Marie Andrews to make a pledge of support for the new community bank on the Peninsula, rather than "wave around a useless petition" about a branch closure.

"Surely Ms Andrews did not honestly expect that simply writing to the Commonwealth Bank requesting they reconsider the closure would actually change their minds," said Cr Wales.

She was commenting on Ms Andrews' criticism of the Commonwealth Bank for closing its Ettalong branch, reported in Peninsula News (July 30).

"The recent closure of the Commonwealth Bank at Ettalong Beach was indeed a blow to the town and an unfortunate sign of

the times, as banks look to fatten profits at the expense of face-to-face service," said Cr Wales.

"However, for our State Member, Marie Andrews, to lament the closure and wave around a useless petition is too little too late.

"To then attack the Federal Government about the lack of banking regulations was a real cheap shot.

"Ms Andrews should remember that it was her very own Federal Labor counterparts that sold off the Commonwealth Bank in the first place.

"But significantly, while Ms Andrews tables petitions in Parliament and runs around blaming the Federal Government, the Ettalong Beach community have actually done something about the problem by starting the process of forming their own Community Bendigo Bank.

"I am proud to be part of that group and experience the energy

and enthusiasm that these people have for solving problems," said Cr Wales.

"As has been shown in many other towns across New South Wales, community banks are a great way to return banking infrastructure to centres that have been deserted by the major banks.

"It is fine to lament the passing of the last bank and we should quite rightly be outraged at the loss.

"But now is the time to get on with solving the problem and make sure that the push to restore banking services is successful."

This could be done by sending pledges of financial support to the Community Bendigo Bank steering committee, through Cr Wales on 4342 7510.

"A pledge from Ms Andrews would be a wonderful surprise," she said.

Cr Debra Wales, August 12

A public meeting convened by Gosford Council has endorsed plans for a railway underpass at South Woy Woy and called for a by-pass of Bull's Hill through the National Park.

Approximately 120 people attended the recent public meeting held to discuss the community’s preferred option for the replacement of the railway level crossing and underpass at South Woy Woy.

The meeting resolved 79 to eight with some abstentions that:

a) Council continue with the current planning for an u n d e r p a s s , i n c l u d i n g commissioning an environmental assessment and detailed costing to be followed by a further public meeting.

b) Further investigations be undertaken on a route linking Nagari Rd in the south to Woy Woy Rd in the north, passing through the National Park to the west of Woy Woy Rd.

In 1998, council held two public meetings where several opt ions were d iscussed, including road bridges across the railway line.

The community strongly supported the option of the underpass under the railway at the bottom of Bull's Hill.

Council resolved the same year to unanimously support this option.

Since that time there has been little progress on the matter because of a lack of funding from the State Government however, council has been pursuing the matter and the public meeting was held to update the community.

Council officers informed the community that recently a Value Management Workshop on the proposed closure of the level crossing and its replacement had

been held. The workshop was attended by

the RTA, the SRA, the Rail Infrastructure Corporation (RIC), Emergency Services, the NPWS, Council officers and community representatives.

The workshop had discussed all the options in detail and had agreed that the option chosen by the community and endorsed by the Council was the best option.

At the public meeting Council’s Director of Engineering Services, Mr Stephen Glen, gave a brief overview of the workshop, including the information provided by the RIC that the S t a t e G o v e r n m e n t w a s continuing to investigate options for a fast train from Sydney to Newcastle.

Mr Glen also stated that goods trains as long as 1.8km long could soon appear on the line with the resultant increase in down time for the level crossing.

This was a serious matter as already emergency services were being held up at the crossing for several minutes when trains were crossing and this would be exacerbated as the trains got longer.

Concept plans were on display showing the proposals for traffic handling measures along Woy Woy Rd at Horsfield Rd, Woy Woy Bay Rd and Banyo Close.

There was some discussion over whether Bull’s Hill should remain at two lanes or become four.

This would largely depend on the width of the underpass and Mr Glen stated that that decision had not yet been made.

Council officers stressed that everything was still in the proposal stage and that funding for the underpass was not included in the recently released Traffic Management Study for the Central Coast.

Lynne Bockholt, August 21

Road by-pass wanted for Bulls Hill

A charity fundraiser was held at Linton Gardens in Somersby on Saturday, June 22, to acknowledge Marilyn Riehs, formerly of Bensville.

Marilyn died of breast cancer in October 2001.

The night was held to recognise her contribution to the many lives she touched and also to raise funds for the

Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

The night raised around $4000 with the support of many local businesses and the work of Marilyn’s daughter-in-law, Allison Riehs.

Allison is still collecting donations for the cause. She can be contacted on 0414 435 792.

Empire Bay newsletter, August 18

Charity fundraiser

Andrews challenged to support bank The community bank branch at East Gosford, similar to the one proposed for Ettalong

Over the last few years, the Environmental Heritage Committee of Gosford Council has been reviewing a list of prospective "heritage items" of the City.

The places include houses, shops, churches, wharves and sculptures.

Heritage consultants from outside the City were employed to help assess the items and the property owners were contracted and asked to comment.

The Heritage Committee then recommended to Council that the places assessed as having heritage value be put into a Draft LEP for public exhibition and comment, with a view to adding them to the City’s heritage list subject to the submissions received from the community as well as the owners and occupiers.

On August 6, Gosford Council resolved to prepare a Draft LEP but only for those properties where there had been no objection from the owners when recently contacted.

Many places assessed as having important historic and social significance will thus be excluded from the Draft LEP and the community will have no opportunity to comment.

These places include Rose

Cottage at Bensville, the Wagstaffe store, 55 Hills St Gosford (Maddocks), George Frost’s House at Kincumber, "Set-tree" at Davistown and the Avoca Theatre.

There are many others. The places excluded from the

Draft LEP will be scrutinised by councillors at a strategy-policy Forum (a quasi-confidential Committee of Council) sometime in the future, to determine whether they should go into a separate Draft LEP.

There may never be an opportunity for the community to comment on what must be assumed to be our most vulnerable (‘at risk’) heritage places.

The term “heritage item” is usually applied to places on a “heritage list” in a planning instrument, but a planning instrument doesn’t give places heritage value - it simply (and importantly) helps to preserve that value.

If the limited heritage of the Central Coast is not to be lost entirely during the 21st century, env i ronm en ta l ed uc a t i on programs will have to give increased attention to the "built" environment as it relates to places we need to keep.

Beryl Strom, Killcare

Reference is made to Margaret Lund's letter to the editor (Peninsula News, August 13) regarding the recent decision by the Minister of Planning, Dr Refshauge, to decline the C o u n c i l ' s d e z o n i n g proposals and retain the current land zonings on the Peninsula.

Mrs Lund made the comment that developers and the Chamber of Commerce would be overjoyed.

Overjoyed is an unfair comment to make.

Our organisation was pleased that the Minister has taken a

more ra t ional , long- te rm approach to planning issues rather than a clumsy quick-fix approach.

The Chamber of Commerce certainly supported the Minister's decision as the notion that medium density land should be dezoned was both naïve and simplistic.

Dezonings do not solve the issue of proper land management and the provision of much needed housing choices.

Nor does it address the issue of town revitalisation and the improvement in design quality of residential and commercial building stock.

It has always been the

Chamber's position that nothing short of an integrated planning strategy for the Peninsula is needed.

This view has been repeatedly supported by Planning NSW to the point where such a review of planning guidelines will now be undertaken over the next 12 to 18 months.

The business community shares Mrs Lund's concerns regarding our local environment as we have a vested interest in doing so.

We all live and work in the local area and have chosen to do so because of the quality of life that the Peninsula offers.

It is for this reason that the Chamber has been pro-active in determining the future of our area through contributions to the G o s f o r d C o u n c i l C i t y Management Plan and initiated the Peninsula Economic Strategy (Peninsula Vision).

Only through a co-operative approach can we resolve the issues that affect our daily lives.

Greg Sandell, Vice-President Peninsula Chamber of

Commerce

At the corner of Woy Woy Primary School, facing Blackwall Road, stands a school sign featuring the usual upbeat messages.

For the past week the message has intended to praise school results in a State competition where three Woy W o y k i d s a c h i e v e d "acheivement" status.

Does this cavalier disregard of t he no rm a l s pe l l i ng o f "achievement" indicate that Woy Woy teachers are returning to the 1970s belief that spelling doesn't matter (it's the thought that counts) or is it just that none of them ever look at the damn sign?

Either way, leaving a patently mis-spelled school sign on view for a week or more says nothing for the principal and staff and degrades the efforts of the children who achieved the honour.

It doesn't say much for the parents who daily deliver their kids past the sign as well, but then, most of those deliverers haven't learned to read the speed limit signs either.

Ray Parkin, Woy Woy

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[email protected] or on disk to save us having to retype them. Forum contributors are reminded that full con-

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J Fallon's letter to the editor (Peninsula News, August 18) regarding multi-storey zoning in Ettalong Beach was quite offensive and deliberately misleading.

I was quite surprised that Peninsula News saw any merit in printing such a concoction of rubbish that had absolutely no basis in truth.

Mrs Fallon inferred that there is a mysterious plot to allow multi-storey developments in Ettalong Beach.

If she had any understanding of the current p lann ing guidelines, she would realise that multi-storey buildings are already allowed in Ettalong Beach or, for that matter, any CBD on the Peninsula.

In fact, Gosford Council has

supported the multi-storey Ettalong Beach Club and has recently agreed to the issue of consent orders for the four-storey Ettalong Beach Hotel.

That is hardly a covert plot. The proposal advanced by

property owners in the CBD several years ago to review zonings was aimed at ensuring that future development of the Ettalong Beach town centre was both integrated and coordinated.

It sought building heights commensurate with the State Government's Coastal Council Guidelines.

However, in view of the recent decision of the State Government to undertake an Integrated Planning Strategy for the Peninsula, these proposals were withdrawn to allow a full community consultation process

to proceed in conjunction with both the Council and Planning NSW.

Again, that is hardly a covert plot.

However, her shabby attempt to connect me with development companies really does demean J Fallon.

I have been the main street coordinator for Ettalong Beach since 1995, well before my election to Gosford Council, and have undertaken much of the work over the last seven years on a voluntary basis.

I have lived, worked and raised my family on the Peninsula for most of my life and will not be deterred by those who simply look for sinister ulterior motives to t hwa r t p rog res s in ou r community.

Cr Debra Wales

The mis-spelled sign at Woy Woy Public School

Damning with mis-spelt praise

No mystery on multi-storey development

Dezonings not the answer

Community comment needed on heritage

properties

The Lions Club of Woy Woy will hold a trivia night on Saturday, September 14, at Woy Woy Bowling Club.

Tables of six will make up teams on the night and guests are asked to bring their own nibbles.

A table theme is optional and there will be a prize for the best table.

For tickets, contact president Lion Bob Willis on 4341 8535, secretary Lion Hope Brady on 4369 8707 or treasurer Lion Barry Hicks on 4341 1345.

Guests are asked to arrive at 7pm for a 7:30 start.

The cost of the night is $10 per head with proceeds going to Woy Woy Hospital general ward refurbishment.

Press release, July 26

The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has told Gosford Council that the Ettymalong Swamp arm of the Kahibah Creek system is an "endangered ecological community", subject to the provisions of the Threatened Species Conservation Act.

It has identified the area as an important habitat of the grey-headed flying fox, a protected species under both State and Federal law.

The service recommended that ei ther a species impact statement or a comprehensive rehabilitation plan be prepared for the area.

It was responding to the council's proposal to remove at least 200 swamp mahogany trees from the area.

Gosford Council's Review of Environmental Factors (REF) was described as inadequate.

"The NPWS considers that the l e v e l o f e n v i r o n m e n t a l assessment in the REF is inadequate in relation to threatened species and is of the view that a more comprehensive assessment of impacts of the proposal is required," the council was told in a letter in January.

The council review contained "a number of inaccuracies and

important omissions", according to the NPWS.

These inc luded under -estimating the number of trees to be removed, mis-identifying the type of ecological community involved and failing to consider clearing of native vegetation as a "key threatening process".

The review failed to give a full l is t of species, omit t ing melaleuca species present at the site, and it ascribed the wrong status to the flying fox.

"There is no comprehensive discussion about the ecological impacts of removing habitat," the service's letter stated.

The letter recommended that a number of issues be addressed.

"The issue of compensatory habitat needs to be resolved before Gosford Council can properly make a decision about whether or not to approve this proposal."

Other issues "which need to be a d d r e s s e d … i n c l u d e urbanisation, encroachment from neighbouring properties, garbage dumping and the proliferation of weeds".

"The NPWS supports Gosford Council's intention to remove exot ic species from the Ettymalong Swamp arm of Kahibah Creek and believes this alone will see a marked improvement in flows through the Kahibah Creek system."

Mark Snell, August 21

News

27 August 2002 – Peninsula News –

Bogas

Monster

Watersedge

Presentations made in recognition of money collected for the Peninsula Community Centre. The latest amount is $2600 donated last month for an outdoor illuminated sign which is about to be put up. Pictured from left to right are Minister for Community Services, Carmel Tebbutt, and the Peninsula Lions

Group, Maud Lewis, Elmo Caust, Bob Willis, Paul Blake, and John De Coque

Council told of endangered ecology

The prospect of a rail overpass or underpass at Koolewong has been raised in a progress association meeting with the Member for Peats, Ms Marie Andrews.

In response to "concerns regarding Koolewong level crossing", Ms Andrews told the June meeting of the Koolewong and Point Clare-Tascott Progress

Association that it was State Government policy to do away with level crossings.

However, she said that competing budget priorities meant that it awaited funding availability.

Ms Andrews detailed plans for Brisbane Water Drive, a major concern of the association.

Attendees raised with her the inadequacy of current provision

for pedestrians in various sections of the road.

Ms Andrews said that paving provision was a local government responsibility but that she would follow up the matter, and especially aspects of road construction that appear to have led to poor visibility and other hazards.

Newsletter, July 30

Rail overpass at Koolewong

W oy W oy Hosp i ta l Auxiliary will sell Fathers' Day raffle tickets this week.

The auxiliary will sell the tickets outside Instep Footwear, 327 West St, Umina Beach, from Monday to Friday, August 26 to 30.

Letter, August 12

Lions Club trivia night

Raffle tickets on sale

A van from Health Check Australia visited Woy Woy from July 29 to August 6 to test the health of local residents.

The Health Check van is run by a non-profit organisation based in Queensland.

Its vans tour Australia providing speedy results for tests such as cholesterol, blood glucose, iron anaemia, blood pressure, height, weight and cardiovascular disease.

Bill Pogan, an ex-ambulance officer, ran the tests at Woy Woy.

He has been travelling around Australia with his van for the last two years.

"I live where my pillow happens to be, and at the moment it happens to be on the Central Coast," he said.

Mr Pogan said that he was impressed with locals' awareness of health matters.

"I've been very busy and that indicates that there is a greater awareness of the general public and that’s a good sign.

"It's been better than I anticipated," he said.

Mr Pogan said that he would have liked to have seen more people in their 30s.

"We become creatures of habit

and by the 30s we tend to start to isolate certain food groups from our diet because we don’t like certain things.

"This can lead to certain deficiencies in certain areas which leads to problems further down the track.

"So to see people coming in from their 30s upwards is very good.

"It's better than waiting until people reach 60 or 70 and then have to try to fix up something that they’ve had for 30 or 40 years," he said.

Mr Pogan said that people should opt for preventative measures when it comes to their health and realise the risks associated with fad diets and fad lifestyles.

He said that the largest number of tests he had done in the area was for cholesterol and diabetes.

"In light of the fact that last week you had the breast clinic van here, one of the tests that we also feel is very important is for men of a senior age is the check for prostate cancer," he said.

"More and more men are becoming more conscious of that now and we have the opportunity of doing a simple blood sample test to indicate whether they have a potential problem or not."

Mr Pogan said that the health check van was an easy alternative to going through the local medical system as the tests were easy and delivered within half an hour.

"A little pin prick - it doesn’t hurt me a bit," he said.

"If they have a problem, we try to guide patients with the correct information, depending on the range of problems they might have."

"Hopefully, they walk out with a smile on their dial," he said.

Most people visiting the van in Woy Woy were over 50.

The cost of the health checks ranged from $15 for a diabetes check to $150 for a full body check. Some private health insurance schemes covered the cost.

Alison Branley, August 2

Health


Judds

Denture clinic

Jacob Bonsing has raised money for the Cancer Council of NSW

On May 4, 64-year-old Jacob Bonsing ran from Ettalong Beach to the Westmead Hospital, a distance of 100km to raise money for the Cancer Council of NSW.

He has raised a total of $12,900.

Mr Bonsing expressed thanks to Ettalong Beach Club and director Les Fitzgerald, GL Jackson Real Estate, Budget Rent-A-Car East Gosford, Central Coast Transport, Ray and Helen Austin, fellow runner Mark Griffin and his support crew for all of their assistance.

Donations in the form of a cheque or postal order made out to the Cancer Council of NSW can be sent to PO Box 328, Ettalong Beach 2257.

Jacob Bonsing, August 21

Funds raised for

Cancer Council

The Peninsula Women's Health Centre is holding three very d i f ferent information sessions early next month.

The subjects will be auras, family law and reflexology.

The first session is about Colours of the Chakra and Aura.

Those attending this session will be told that the body has energy centres called Chakras.

"Chakra means wheel and each chakra is a spinning wheel just outside of our physical body in the electrical energy our body generates," said teacher Shirley Darby.

"Each Chakra spins at a different rate and is a different rainbow colour going from red to violet.

"Each Chakra works on a

different part of the body and the organs and glands contained in that part of the body.

"When it is known which part of the body has a problem it is known which Chakra and which colour to work with to improve health."

The session will be held on Tuesday, September 3, between 10am and noon.

Next session is Family Law and Child Protection on Wednesday, September 4, between 10am and noon.

The objective of this session is to discuss the difficulty for separated women who have concerns for their children's safety and family court orders for residence and contact in place.

The teacher is Susan Nanlohy. Next session is Reflexology

Basic First Aid For the Body. Reflexology is the stimulation

of the body's own natural healing response by applying pressure with the thumbs and fingers to reflexes found in the feet and hands.

In a talk, the group will hear how an ancient form of foot therapy was rediscovered in the early 1900s and how it has continued to evolve until today.

Students wil l have the opportunity to experience and learn some valuable techniques which can help with day-to-day health problems.

The teacher is Cheryl Sue Waters at the session on Thursday, September 5, from 10am to noon.

A gold coin donation is appreciated.

Women's centre sessions

Woy Woy Hospital Auxiliary has raised $18,750 of a total of $128,000 donated to Central Coast Health by local hospital auxiliaries.

Central Coast Health's area director of nursing, Ms Jenny Becker, has praised the six auxiliaries for their fundraising efforts.

Speaking at the Long Jetty auxiliary's annual meeting, Ms Becker said: "Every year at this time, starting with Ourimbah and finishing with Long Jetty, the hospital auxiliaries hold their annual meetings and announce the amount of funds donated to our hospitals during the year.

"This is a tremendous result for the auxiliaries and our hospitals and this wonderful group of

volunteers is to be congratulated. "Through their hard work and

generosity, we have been able to purchase medical items including beds, wheel chairs, and e n d o s c o p y s t e r i l i z a t i o n equipment, and to help areas such as our Cancer Care Centres and Wyong Dialysis Unit."

Over the last five years, the auxiliaries had raised a total of $547,396, Ms Becker said.

Central Coast auxiliaries had about 215 members, with Woy Woy the largest with 60 members.

Anyone interested in joining a hospital auxiliary can contact Central Coast Health on 4320 2803 for information.


Auxiliary donations

Resident's health

News


Continued from small front page

The ceremony was attended

by a large contingent of Vietnam veterans many wearing their campaign medals, as well as Member for Peats Ms Marie Andrews and officials from the Gosford City Sub-Branch of the Vietnam Veterans' Federation, family and friends.

The veterans marched from their office to the Ettalong waterfront near the memorial where they were met by a catafalque party made up of soldiers from B Coy (Erina Depot) 2/17 Royal NSW Regiment.

Appropriate music for the occasion was provided by the Gosford City Brass Band, including a bugler playing "The Last Post".

President of the Vietnam Veterans' Federation Gosford City Sub-Branch, Mr P Bright, acted as master of ceremonies and reminded all present of the circumstances surrounding Australia's involvement in the war in South Vietnam.

He told those assembled that Australia's 10-year involvement in the Vietnam War made it Australia's longest involvement in an overseas conflict.

" In total , over 60,000 Australians served in Vietnam of which 18,000 were conscripts", he said.

"Of 840, 000 registered for conscription, 63,000 were called up.

"By comparison, the USA sent over two million troops and lost more than our entire force.

"Australian troops operated in a different manner to their US allies.

"US troops moved in large numbers and blasted their way through, where Australian troops worked in smaller numbers and patrolled using stealth and precision.

"Australian troops spent longer periods in constant danger with an average of 314 days in the bush every year.

"This led to ongoing stress problems which have had a lasting effect."

He said that the Vietnam war resulted in three times more amputations than World War 2 and "503 servicemen and women lost their lives and over 2000 were wounded".

"Since 1987, 15 years after the war ended, over 3000 people have died of war related injuries," he said.

The Reverend Father Max Sainsbury officiated and wreaths were laid as part of the act of remembrance.

The Federation thanked The Department of Veterans' Affairs, Palmdale Memorial Park, Gosford Quarries, W R Dixon & Co and Ocean View Printing for their donations.

Lloyd dedicates Vietnam memorial

The Glades Motel

Plans for upgrading The Glades Motel at Woy Woy are under way after it came under new ownership six weeks ago.

The motel, which overlooks Everglades golf course, currently has three and half-star rating but with renovations the new owners are looking to push it up to four stars.

They plan to give the motel a beach-side theme, upgrading the paint work, furnishings and recreation facilities of the hotel.

A new barbecue area is planned as well as gardens, a spa, a games room, new driveway and some refurbishing of the rooms.

The new owners of the motel are locals: Josie Goodwin, a hairdresser in Woy Woy for 30 years and husband Noel Goodwin of Goodwin Car Repairs in Woy Woy.

They are enthusiastic about the planned renovations to the motel.

"When we got here everything

was just brown. I hate brown," Josie Goodwin said.

"The motel had a happy colonial-style, forest-type theme.

"We want to make the motel more beach-side, make it more resort style and tourist style," she said.

As for the Spike Milligan Internat ional W ing, Josie Goodwin has not yet decided its fate.

"I'm not going to promote it," she said.

The Goodwins bought the motel earlier this year after deciding it was time for a change.

"Instead of having a mid-life crisis, I decided to buy a motel," Josie Goodwin said.

"My parents had motel in Yass many years ago and I knew I could run a motel," she said.

After looking up and down the NSW Coast, the Goodwins decided to stay in the Peninsula area to be close to family and friends.

"Mum and Dad still live here. "My son just started uni this

year. "I've got two other sons in the

area," she said. Business for the new owners

has been good and already they have spotted trends.

"We've only been here six weeks, but if you have a busy weekend you will have a quiet week.

"If you have a busy week, you will have a quiet weekend," she said.

"The motel doesn't have a lot of opposition.

"When you look at Coffs Harbour or Port Macquarie, there's hundreds of motels.

"What I do get a lot of, and this surprises me, is people who come out looking for real estate.

"They stay here while they are looking for it.

"We get a lot of workmen too at the moment - people doing shops up, the workmen who did Subway stayed here and the OTIS people doing lifts," she said.

Alison Branley, August16

The Glades Motel upgrades

Cr Debra Wales has expressed disappointment at the State Government's recently announced Central Coast Transport Action Plan which completely ignores the Rawson Rd rail crossing.

"The elimination of the Rawson Rd rail crossing and the construction of the new rail underpass at the base of Bulls Hill are absolutely essential as part of the long term transport planning for the Peninsula," said Cr Wales.

"After attending the public meeting at the Everglades Country Club over the weekend, it was evident that residents of South Woy Woy are quite rightly concerned that there is absolutely no funding for this project.

"Further, the State Government

seems to have completely ignored the issue as the Transport Action Plan makes no m ent i on o f the p ro jec t whatsoever.

"It seems to have gone the same direction as the Very Fast Train. Nowhere.

"It's not that the State Government hasn't known about the issue.

"I remember quite distinctly at the last State Election that this was a big issue.

"It would appear that this is no longer a vote winner so it doesn't rate a mention in their transport planning."

Cr Wales said that the meeting was advised by Council's staff that any substantial action on the elimination of the Rawson Rd rail crossing was at least five years away.

"What was even more

disturbing to me at the public meeting were comments that the State Government was planning to increase the size of freight trains using the Main Northern Rail line to 1.8km in length.

"That's double the current size," she said.

"Can you image the length of time that such a long freight train will take to pass through the Rawson Rd rail crossing?

"I am also very concerned at the noise impacts on local residents if this advice is truly correct.

"The fact remains, however, that the rail underpass will not eventuate unless the State Government provides the required funding.

"This seems unlikely if it doesn't even rate a mention in the Transport Action Plan."


Transport plan disappoints

Gosford Council officers have recommended the d e m o l i t i o n a n d reconstruction of the Woy Woy fishing platform at the bridge at the entrance to W o y W o y B a y b e undertaken in the 2003-04 financial year.

An engineer's report to council has said that the platform was a hazard to the public due its dilapidated state.

The Woy Woy Fishing Platform recreation area was created by the council in 1988, following the decision to demolish the old road bridge at the location.

Council resolved to remove the original bridge and retain an area 8m by 10m to be used as a fishing platform.

While the facility was popular, the structure had reached the end of its serviceable life, the report to be considered at tonight's council meeting stated.

The area had been fenced for a number of years because it was unsafe.

However, recreational anglers still used the site.

Consultant engineers Slater

Lomas Pty Ltd prepared a structural evaluation.

They recommended the removal of the structure due to the advanced state of decay of the pylons and structural members.

Council sought quotations from suitably qualified contractors to carry out the demolition.

The cost of demolishing the existing platform would be $29,590 and the cost of reconstruction $40,000.

Reconstruction would be undertaken in conjunction with the proposed new cycleway bridge.

The council's transport section was undertaking the design of the project as part of the regional cycleway network.

Consu l ta t ion would be undertaken with local fishing groups and the public regarding timing of the proposed works and design of the replacement facility.

Funds would be allocated for the project from the recurrent budget and contributions plan.

Jonathan Reichard, Council agenda CS.043, August 27

Fishing platform may be rebuilt


History

Fabric Price Cutters

M uch ev idenc e has survived confirming the rich history of human activity prior to 1788 in the district.

The higher regions are abundant with relics, the most common types being rock engravings and axe-grinding grooves.

Rock shelters containing charcoal and ochre drawings are found throughout the district.

Many hundreds of locations of relics have been recorded; however, in the South Woy Woy area, little is known of the former Aboriginal occupants.

Some written records survive, following the arrival of the First Fleet in January 1788, that not only describe the people that were found here, but some of the locations in the district.

One such record is found in a volume published in 1792 in London, which was compiled from the journals of Lieutenants Shortland, Watts and Ball and Captain Marshall.

“On the 2nd of March Governor Phillip went with a long boat and cutter to examine the broken land, mentioned by Captain Cook.

This bay proved to be very extensive. The first night they slept in the boats, within a rocky point in the north-west part of the bay [Pearl Beach], as the natives, though friendly, appeared to be numerous; and the next day, after passing a bar that had only water

for small vessels [Half Tide Rocks] they entered a very extensive branch, from which the ebb tide came out so strong that the boats could not row against it in the stream [The Rip]; and here was deep water.

This opening appeared to end in several small branches, and in a large lagoon which could not then be examined, as there was not time to seek a channel for the boats among the banks of sand and mud.

Most of the land in the upper part of this branch was low and full of swamps.

Pelicans and various other birds were here seen in great numbers.

Among the rest an uncommon kind, called then the Hooded Gull, and supposed to be a non descript; but it appears from a

drawing sent to England to be of that species called the Caspian Tern, and is described as the second variety of that species.”

The various journals left by those in Phillip’s party all mention the ‘numerous natives’ to be seen, and the many camp fires alight at night.

What ‘happened’ to the Aboriginal population in the district can only be surmised.

No doubt the smallpox or chickenpox epidemics in the years following the arrival of the First Fleet took their toll.

Although there are records in the local Magistrates’ Bench Books (from 1823) of conflict between white settlers and Aboriginal people in the northern areas of the Brisbane Water Police District, there is no

evidence of the same sort of conflict in the south.

Perhaps this could have been one area in the Colony where harmony existed between the two groups.

In the 1820s, Police Magistrate Willoughby Bean reported to the Colonial Secretary that there were five family groups of Aboriginals in the district.

For census purposes, Bean bestowed names on these groups according to their locality: Broken Bay, Narara, Erina, Tuggerah Beach and Wyong.

The ‘Broken Bay’ group would have included any in the Woy Woy district.

Bean estimated the number of people in these groups at a total of 65 persons.

In the 1830s, a number of the Brisbane Water Aboriginals were arrested and sent to Sydney for trial, mainly on charges relating to what seemed to be an on-going feud between William Cape of Wyong and the Aborigines in that district.

The young men who were arrested were tried, found guilty of robbery or similar crimes, and were then either sent to Van Dieman’s Land or imprisoned in Sydney.

No evidence has been found indicating that any of them returned from this incarceration, and indeed, there are records of several of their deaths.

The removal of these young men from the local family groups would have had a devastating effect on the groups’ survival.

Throughout the next 50 years, the Magistrates’ registers record a diminishing number of blankets being distributed to the local native population.

The only other records that survive that tell us anything further are an occasional mention in diaries of individuals.

In the 1830s, Mrs Sarah Mathew, wife of a surveyor, met many of the local people, and was very impressed with the Aboriginal population in the Narara area.

On April 29, 1857, the Rev Alfred Glennie, an Anglican Minister who lived at Gosford between 1850 and 1862, occasionally ‘borrowed’ an Aborigine from a neighbour in order to paddle him around Brisbane Water in a small boat, also borrowed.

In recent times, further evidence has been uncovered that links the present day with the time before white settlement: in 1997, a small Aboriginal cutting tool was found at Point Clare.

As the band of enthusiastic local historians has grown, early maps have been found in various archives showing the recording of Aboriginal names for localities and landmarks, and which mark Aboriginal activity, such as the sites of fish-traps along the

Human activity on the Peninsula before 1788

As it might have been in March 1788, when Arthur Phillip explored Brisbane Water.

Taken in 1988, during a re-enactment. Photo: Joan Fenton

The Gnostic mana café in Woy Woy is the host of a growing monthly support group for small business owners.

"The Spare Room Tycoon" is run by Susan Leith-Miller of Davistown and meets in Sydney, Chatswood and on the Central Coast.

Susan Leith-Miller started up "The Spare Room Tycoon" in 2000 and has since been featured in the business sections of the Sydney Morning Herald,

The Australian and The Manly Daily.

She started her business after it became obvious to her that people starting a business needed help.

"They need to be able to see themselves as a business person," she said.

Ms Leith-Miller got the idea for her group from the book "Spare Room Tycoon" by American author James Chan.

Ms Leith-Miller was previously a partner in a market research company, before she retrained and drew on her experience in small business to form "The Spare Room Tycoon".

"The Spare Room Tycoon" group provides an opportunity for small business owners to discuss their ideas, problems and progress and to provide each other with help when they run into trouble.

The group costs $35 per person, per session and helps its member acquire the basics of starting a business from business cards to brochures, giving them the confidence to go out into the market place.

The first hour of the group is discussion with members sharing the problems and solutions.

In the second hour, Leith Miller presents a paper on some aspect of business from selling to product promotion.

The Woy Woy group currently has six members and meets the third Wednesday of every month

in the Gnostic Mana café Woy Woy.

Ms Leith Miller said that she hopes more Peninsula business people will be encouraged to join.

Participants in the group have run businesses ranging from wedding video production, lotto syndicates and massage therapy to interior decorating, garbage bin cleaning and a nursery

Mary Holstein, owner of the Gnostic Mana Café in Woy Woy, has been a member of the Spare Room Tycoon support group for six months since it first held its meetings in her cafe.

"It is helpful because you listen to other people's solution to their business situation and you can adapt that to your own," she said.

"We're working through a program, each topic is different.

"The latest one is on selling and how to make sales.

"We have done ones on presentation and how to present yourself in business and others on promotion and products."

Ms Holstein also said that she had enjoyed participating in the group, learning important lessons.

"If you admire someone in another business, the qualities you admire in them are qualities you have as well. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have noticed them.

"You see that someone else has the ability and we forget that we have that too," she said.

Alison Branley, August 16


Dining

Travellers net

Patonga Health

Anthony's

Corner table

KB Thai

Fish Heads

Gnostic thingy

Ettalong War Memorial Club's new restaurant Lizotte's at Ettalong Beach has taken out a coveted award at the Peninsula Business Awards.

Less than a year after the Italian-style restaurant opened, it has been named the best business on the Peninsula in its category.

The award was accepted by restaurateurs Brian and Jo Lizotte at the recent presentation dinner.

"We are delighted by the recognition, and impressed the community on the Peninsula has been quick to embrace our business."

Club general manager Mr

Peter Hale has also welcomed the award.

"I'd like to congratulate the team at Lizotte's for its commitment to the restaurant.

"It consistently delivers quality food and an outstanding service."

The award fol lows the introduction of a live music line-u p , w h i c h h a s s e e n per formances by W endy Matthews, Jenny Morris, Rick Price and other top Australian artists.

Popular country music star James Blundell will perform in coming months.

Lizotte's at Ettalong is open Thursday to Sunday for lunch and dinner.


Lizotte's wins award

A Spare Room Tycoon group session at Gnostic Mana, from left, Caroline Beechey of Gnostic Forest, facilitator Susan Leith-Miller, Mary Holstein of Gnostic Mana, Shaun Grantham, and Peter Briggs.

Support group for businesses

What’s on in and around the Peninsula i

- Peninsula News - 27 August 2002

Compiled by Winsome Smith Following is a comprehensive listing of events planned for the Peninsula over the next two weeks.

To have information about your group's events and activities included, let us know by fax, email, or post, or drop in to our office.

Contact details and deadline date are shown on page two.

DAILY EVENTS

Visitor Information Centre,

Watersedge Gifts and Souvenirs, 18-22 The Boulevard, Woy Woy.

Enq: 4341 2888 Woy Woy Pelican Feeding , 3pm

Pelican Park, Fishermans Wharf.

WEEKLY EVENTS EVERY FRIDAY Old Wags Bridge Club , Wagstaffe

Hall each Friday except 4th 130pm Enq 4360 1820 or 4360 1612

Woy Woy Leagues Club, free entertainment, Players Lounge 5.30pm.

Men’s 18 hole Golf event, Everglades Country Club.

Active over 50s classes, Aqua-fitness, Woy Woy Pool, 9:30am.

Enq: 4341 4150 Active Over 50’s Exercise Class

Ettalong Progress Hall 9.15am Enq 4342 9252

Ettalong Senior Citizens Centre Line Dancing– 9am; Bridge– 12 noon; Painting– 9am Enq: 4341 3222.

Peninsula Pastimes Ettalong Baptist Church, Barrenjoey Rd. 10 am, (in school terms), $1.50 incl. Morning tea. Creche Enq 4323 2493

Grocery Grab Game Show, Ettalong Memorial Club, 1.30pm

Enq: 4341 1166 Brisbane Water Bridge Club

Ocean Beach Surf Club. 12.30pm Enq. 4341 0721

14+ yrs Boxing/sparring ( gym) 5.30pm PCYC Enq 4344 7851

Alcoholics Anonymous Woy Woy Group 6pm at John the Baptist Hall, Cnr Victoria St & Blackwall Rd., Woy Woy Enq Phillip 4342 7303

Silk Painting Sue Saunders, Ettalong Beach Arts & Crafts Centre 1.30pm – 3.30pm Enq Penny Riley 4360 1673

EVERY SATURDAY Free bike tours every Saturday .

2pm Ettalong Bike Shop, your bike or hire a bike. All fitness levels catered for. Enq: 4341 3906

Cash Housie St Mary's Hall, Ocean View Rd Ettalong 7.30pm – 10.15pm Free Tea and Coffee. Cash Prizes Enq: 4369 0626.

Social Bingo Progress Hall, Woy Woy Rd at 12 noon

Snooker Ettalong War Memorial Club at 8.30am Enq 43417307

Cabaret dance & floor show, 8pm free, Everglades Country Club, Dunban Road, Woy Woy

Dance Club Ettalong Beach War Memorial Club at 1pm Enq: 4341 2156

Classic Night Spot – over 30’s, free 8pm, Live band plus Dj, Woy Woy Leagues Club

Men’s 18 hole golf event; Men’s triples bowls 1pm; Everglades Country Club.

Old Time & New Vogue Dancing; 1pm, Pat Walsh organist, Ettalong Beach Memorial Club Enq: 4341 2156

Dancing Mod, Seq Dancing 2pm, Ettalong Senior Citizens Club, Enq: 4341 3222

Brusbane Water Bridge Club, Woy Woy Leagues Club 12.30pm, Ocean Beach Surf Club Enq: 4341 0721

Patonga Bakehouse Gallery. Every Weekend 10.00 am— 4.00 pm

EVERY SUNDAY Junior Snooker Ettalong Beach

War Memorial Club at 9am

Coas t Com m un i t y Chur ch Services 9am and 5pm Enq 4360 1448

Patonga Bakehouse Gallery. Every Weekend 10.00 am— 4.00 pm

Children's entertainment Ettalong Beach War Memorial Club 11.30am Clowns, jumping castle, disco, $2. Children must be chaperoned.

Free Jazz or duos 4pm, Players Lounge, Woy Woy Leagues Club.

Mixed and men’s 18 hole golf; men’s bowls pairs-9.30am; mixed tr iples bowls-1pm; Everglades Country Club.

Champagne Breakfast, 9am, Game Show 10am, Ettalong Memorial Club, Enq: 4341 1166

Blue Swimmers Male only swimming club Pearl Beach Rock Pool. 9am

EVERY MONDAY Old and Bold Snooker Ettalong

Beach War Memorial Club at 10am Enq 4341 7307

Yoga Wagstagffe Hall 9.30 am Enq 4360 1854

Bowls Ettalong Memorial Club at 1.30pm Enq 4344 1358

Outreach Crisis Recovery Group 7.30pm Rear Hall, Anglican Church 151 Blackwall Rd Woy Woy. Addiction, dependency & crisis help.

Enq: 4325 3608. Free Punters Choice Race Game,

Ettalong Beach War Memorial Club, 12.30pm, Enq: 4341 1166

Free Bingo Woy Woy Leagues Club 11am.

Mahjong Pearl Beach Progress Hall, 3pm Enq: 4341 1243

Aquafitness, Active over 50s classes, Woy Woy Pool, 1.15pm. Enq: 4341 4150

Gentle Exercise, Ettalong Fitness City, 10.30am & 11.30am, Enq: 4341 3370; Ettalong Senior Citizens Centre, 1pm, Enq: 4341 3222.

Strength Training 11.30am Fitness City Ettalong Beach Club Enq 4343 0130

Ettalong Senior Citizens Centre activities; Dancing- 9am; Indoor Bowls- 9am Mahjong- 1pm; Fitness 1pm Enq: 4341 3222.

Boxing/fitness training, 3.45pm-U14, 4.30pm 5.45pm-14yrs+,Tae Kwon Do 7pm Circuit Boxing (girls) PCYC, Enq: 4344 7851

Child and Parents Support Service (CAPS), coffee and chat, 10am, 50 Neera Rd, Umina 24 hour Enq: 4343 1911

Brisbane Water Bridge Club Ocean Beach Surf Club. 12.30pm Enq. 4341 0721

Fairhaven Cash Housie Umina Beach Bowling Club, Melbourne Ave., Umina 7.30pm Enq: 4325 3608

Bingo Umina Beach Bowling Club Melbourne Ave., Umina 11am Enq 4341 2618

Evening Bowls Ettalong Beach War Memorial Club at 6pm Enq 4341 9656

Card Club 500 1pm Ettalong Beach War Memorial Club Enq 4341 1166

EVERY TUESDAY Judo all ages $3, 5.30pm:

Peninsula Community Centre, Ocean Beach Rd., Enq 4342 4121

Free movies Club Umina (Umina Beach Bowling Club) 7.30 pm Enq 4341 2618

Boxing/fitness training U/14 yrs 4.30pm 5.30pm 14+ boxing/fitness (gym) PCYC Enq 4344 7851

Free Bingo , Woy Woy Leagues Club 11am.

E t t a long P e l i c ans Mas ters Swimming Club Woy Woy Indoor Heated Pool, 7.30pm Enq: 4360 1220

Ladies Golf, 18 hole stableford, 8am; Ladies outdoor bowls , 9.30am; Everglades Country Club.

Active over 50s classes, Gentle Exercise Level 3 Ettalong Fitness City, 8am, Enq: 4341 3370.

Ettalong Senior Citizens Centre activities; Ladies Indoor Bowls- 9am; Handicraft- 9am; Cards- 12.30pm; Tai Chi-9am.Enq: 4341 3222.

Have-a-chat meeting 10am,

Discussion Group, 11am, Rumikin or cards, 1pm, School for Seniors, Peninsula Community Centre. Enq: 4341 9333, Judo, Seniors/Women, 6.30pm $3 Enq: 4342 4121.

Car Club Euchre 7.30pm Ettalong Beach War Memorial Club 4341 1166

Chess Club Ettalong Beach War Memorial Club 1pm Enq 4341 1166

Alcoholics Anonymous Woy Woy Group 6pm John the Baptist Church Hall, Cnr Victoria St & Blackwall Rd Enq Julie 4379 1132

Tai-Chi classes Wagstaffe Hall 12pm except school holidays Enq 4360 2705

Rotary Club of Woy Woy 6pm Everglades Country Club, Dunban Rd., Woy

Competition Darts , Ettalong Bowling Club, 7pm Enq: 4341 0087

EVERY WEDNESDAY Rock’n’Roll Dance Class Ettalong

Bowling Club 7pm Enq 4341 0087 Just Company Social Group

Everglades Dining Room 12n singles welcome 30’s – 70’s Enq 4369 0131

Table Tennis Ettalong Memorial Club at 7.30pm Enq 4341 9263

Bridge Ocean Beach Surf Club. 9.30am and 7.30pm Enq 43410721

Social Bingo Progress Hall, Woy Woy Rd at 12 noon.

Peninsula Choir rehearse 7.30pm St Andrews Hall Umina. Men welcome

Pearl Beach Play Group 10am Pearl Beach Progress Hall

Enq: 4342 7182 Brisbane Waters Scrabble Club,

Woy Woy Meals on Wheels Hall, 6pm - 10pm New players welcome.Enq: 4341 9929

Men’s 18 hole golf event; Men’s triples bowls , 1pm. Everglades Country Club.

Dancelot Ettalong Beach War Memorial Club at 7pm Enq 4341 1166

Active over 50s classes, Gentle Exercise, Ettalong Fitness City, 8.00am, Enq: 4341 3370,

Seniors fitness Ettalong Progress Hall, 9am, Enq: 4385 2080;

Ettalong Senior Citizens Centre activities; Indoor Bowls- 9am;Fitness 1pm Leatherwork- 9am; Table Tennis- 9am; Bridge– 12 noon. Scrabble 1pm Enq: 4341 3222.

Social Darts , Ettalong Bowling Club, 7pm Enq: 4341 0087

Oil Painting, 9am Multi-craft needlework 10am, School for Seniors, Peninsula Community Centre, Enq: 4341 9333

Ladies BJP School of Physical Culture, 8.30pm, $3.50, Peninsula Community Centre, Enq: 4342 3747.

Playgroup 10am Boxing/fitness training, 4.30pm U14, 7pm circuit boxing (girls) PCYC, Enq 4344 7851

Mega Raffle , Ettalong Memorial Club, 2.30pm, Enq: 4341 1166

Leatherwork Classes Ettalong Senior Citizens Centre Enq 4341 3222

Bowls Ettalong Beach War Memorial Club 10am Enq 4341 5293

St Johns Ambulance meets at Umina PCYC Osborne Ave from 7-9pm. Enquiries phone 4341 3341

Killcare Wagstaffe Playgroup at Wagstaffe Community Hall every Wed morning in school terms. 9.30 – 12pm Enq 4360 2065 4360 2757

Umina Beach Bowling Club Melbourne Ave., Umina Beach Club Bingo & Cash Housie 7.30pm $12. Bookings essential 4342 2618

EVERY THURSDAY Free entertainment Ettalong

Bowling Club 6.30pm – 9.30 pm Enq 4341 0087

Senior Snooker Ettalong Beach War Memorial Club at 8.30am

Enq 4341 7307 Fitness Wagstaffe Hall 9.30 am

Over 60’s welcome Enq 4360 1971 Drumming – Bouddi Women’s

Drumming 1.45 – 3.00 91 The Scenic Rd $5. Enq 0408 794 083

Scrabble Progress Hall, Woy Woy Rd 12.30pm.

Tai Chi , Pearl Beach Progress hall, 9.30am Enq: 4341 1243

E t t a long P e l i c ans Mas ters Swimming Club Woy Woy Indoor Heated Pool, 7.30pm Enq: 4360 1220

Ladies 18 hole golf event; Everglades Country Club.Enq 4341 1866

Active over 50s classes, Ballroom Dancing, 10am. Ettalong Beach Bowling Club Enq: 4340 1057, Gentle Exercise, Ettalong Fitness City, 10.30am & 12 noon, Enq: 4341 3370.

Gentle Exercise Senior Cits Centre, Broken Bay Rd, 1pm Enq 43413222

Ettalong Senior Citizens Centre Activities; Dancing- 9am; Indoor Bowls- 9am; Table Tennis- 12.30pm; Fabric Painting- 9am; Cards 12 noon. Enq: 4341 3222

Judo all ages $3, 5.30pm: Peninsula Community Centre, Ocean Beach Rd., Enq 4342 4121

Female Boxfit class, 9.30am: (child minding): 10.30am Tap Dancing, 5.30pm 14+ Boxing/fitness 7.15pm: Circuit Boxing PCYC, Enq: 4344 7851

Bingo Ettalong Beach War Memorial Club, 9.30am, Enq: 4341 1166

Brisbane Water Bridge Club Ocean Beach Surf Club. 12.30pm Enq. 4341 0721

Bridge Ocean Beach Surf Club. 12.30pm Enq 4341 0721

Line Dancing Umina Beach Bowling Club, Melbourne Ave., Umina 9.30am. Enq 4341 2618

PCYC Doubles Pool Comp 5pm 14+ boxing/fitness (gym) 5.30pm. Girls boxing class 7pm.

Card Club Euchre 1pm Ettalong Beach War Memorial Club Enq 4341 1166

Killcare Wagstaffe Playgroup at Wagstaffe Community Hall every Wed morning in school terms. 9.30 – 12pm Enq 4360 2065 4360 2757

EVENT CALENDAR Tuesday August 27 Combined Pensioners Association

meeting, games, dancing, afternoon tea (2nd & 4th Tuesdays) Ettalong Senior Citizens Centre 1pm. Enq 4341 3222

Library Bookmobile, Ki llcare Heights. Fortnightly Thursdays Cnr Scenic Rd & Beach Drv 10.35am; Wagstaffe Community Hall 11am

Toastmasters Ettalong Memorial Club (4th Tue) at 7pm Enq 4341 6842

Wednesday August 28 Umina Progress Association Umina

Community Hall. 1.30pm (last Wed) CC Cancer & Palliative Care Fund

Inc. meeting (4th Wed) Grevillea Cottage 19 Kingsley Ave., Woy Woy Enq 4341 6309

The Effects of Loss & Grief. 2.30pm Peninsula Womens Health Centre. 10am – 12pm Enq 4342 5905

CC Cancer & Palliative Care meeting Grevillea Cottage 19 Kingsley Ave., Woy Woy 1.30pm Eneq 4341 6309

Thursday August 29 Library Bookmobile Daleys Point,

Peridon Village Fortnightly Thursdays 10.15am Peridon Retirement Village Hall 10.30am.Empire Bay Opposite Post Office & bottle shop 11am Near park & local shop Bensville local shop 11am

Friday August 30 Civilian Widows meeting Ettalong

Senior Citizens Centre (Last Fri) 1pm Saturday August 31 Saturday Supper Dance 8pm –

12am. BYOG & nibblies. (Last Sat) Woy Woy Masonic Hall, Railway St., Woy Woy Enq 0407 207 918

Monday September 2 Deepwater View Club Fashion

Parade by Jodi of Umina, Uniting Church Hall, Picnic Pde, Ettalong 11am. Enq 4342 2046

Pretty Beach Public School P&C Resource Centre at school (1st Mon) 7.30pm Enq 4360 1587

Tuesday September 3 Buffalo Primo Lodge No 9 (1st Tue)

Umina Community Hall 7pm Colours of the Chakra & Aura

Peninsula Womens Health Centre. 10am – 12pm Enq 4342 5905

Wednesday September 4 Family Law & Child Protection

Peninsula Womens Health Centre 10am – 12pm Enq 4342 5905

Woy Woy Older Womens Network 10.15am (1st Wed) Woy Woy Leagues Club Enq 4343 1079

Seniors Shopping Day, Deepwater Plaza. Woy Woy. (1st Wed) Enq 4341 4206

Killcare Wagstaff Rural Fire Brigade. The Shed. Stanley St., Killcare 7.30pm. Enq 4360 2161

CWA Woy Woy Branch Social Day (1st Wed) 10am Handicrafts 1pm meeting. The Boulevarde Woy Woy. Enq 4344 5192. 4341 6533

Thursday September 5 Everglades Country Club Gala Day,

(1st & 3rd Thurs) Dunban Rd Woy Woy Enq 4341 1866

Woy Woy Hospital Auxiliary Stall outside Instep Footware, 327 West St., Umina, cakes, jams, pickles, Enq 4341 2739

South Woy Woy Progress Assoc. (1st Thur) 7pm. Progress Hall, Woy Woy Road.

Reflexology. Basic First Aid for the Body. Peninsula Womens Health Centre 10am – 12pm Enq 4342 5905

Friday September 6 Bus trip, (1st Fri), School for

Seniors, Peninsula Community Centre Enq: 4341 9333

Legacy Ladies Ettalong Memorial Club 10am (1st & 3rd Fri) Enq 4343 3492

Free first release movie, 8pm (1st Fri) Everglades Country Club

Ballroom supper dances, 7.30pm, Ettalong, all ages. Professional teachers available. (1st Fri) Enq: 4344 5432

Troubadour Folk Club. 8pm Guest performers, Hottentot.

Modern & traditional folk idioms. CWA Hall, opposite Fishermans Wharf, Woy Woy

Saturday September 7 Volunteer Bush Fire Brigade’s

Produce Stall Killcare Cellars (1st Sat each month)

Save the Children Australia garage sale and fete. 70, 72 Cambridge St., Umina 9am

Sunday September 8 Buffalo Lodge Gosford No 63 (2nd

& 4th Sun) 1pm Umina Community Hall

Buffalo Lodge, Woy Woy 381 Umina Community Hall, 11am (2nd & 4th Sun)

‘Hymns That Live” Ettalong Baptist Church 2.30pm Enq 4332 8965

Monday September 9 RSL Womens Auxillary Ettalong

Memorial Club (2nd Mon) 9am Pretty Beach Wagstaffe Progress

Association Inc Wagstaffe Hall (2nd Mon) 7.30pm Enq 4360 1546 or 4360 1546

Killcare Heights Garden Club (2nd Mon) 10.30am Enq 4344 4520 or 4360 1631

Cent ra l Coast Bus iness & Professional Women’s Assoc. dinner meeting. (2nd Mon) 7pm for 7.30pm Central Coast Leagues Club. Enq 4341 1844

Tuesday September 10 Toastmasters Ettalong Memorial

Club (2nd Tue) at 7pm Enq 4341 6842 Umina T.P.I. Ettalong Memorial

Club (2nd Tue) at 1pm Enq 4341 4644 Combined Pensioners Association

meeting, games, dancing, afternoon tea (2nd & 4th Tuesdays) Ettalong Senior Citizens Centre 1pm. Enq 4341 3222

Madness & Melodies, Ettalong Beach War Memorial Club, 10.30am. (2nd Tues) Enq: 4344 1124.

Pearl Beach Craft Group, 1.30pm,

Friday, August 16, at the Troubadour Folk Club in Woy Woy was a successful night with loads of laughs.

Arch Bishop and John Grenenger teamed up to form a comedy duo delivering a wide range of humorous and witty songs and poems.

Comedy floor spots were presented by members and two visiting poets.

The audience was in good form and eager to join in the choruses.

The evening was recorded by Rob Willis for the National Library in Canberra.

Next month, the Troubadour will be bringing the meeting night forward by one week to the first Friday night, September 6, due to the Jamberoo Folk Festival.

The guest performers will be Hottentot.

Two time winners of the prestigious Dolphin Awards for Album of the Year, in 1998 and

1994, the Hottentots are promoted as a "noticeably different act" coming out of the Australian folk world scene.

Carl Cleves and Parissa Bouas compose and sing music inspired by the various cultures that they have lived in.

W ea v i n g m o d e r n a n d traditional folk idioms, they create a style of contemporary world-folk music of their own.

Frank Russell, August 11

27 August 2002– Peninsula News -

Arts and Entertainment

Club Umina

Patonga

Bakehouse

Two friends from Ettalong have won two Keno jackpots using the same numbers in two different draws in the same club on the same day.

They were celebrating one of the men's 49th birthday at Ettalong Bowling Club when they noticed the eight-number jackpot was on the rise.

The men play Keno together every weekend and usually take a Quickpick on the highest increasing jackpot game.

"We were watching the screen and counting off the numbers.

"I really didn't believe we had won when it flashed up that there was a winner in the club," said the 53-year-old man.

"My friend went pale and started shaking."

It is the first time the eight-number jackpot has been won twice at the same club using the same numbers on two different games.

The men won $88,437.10 between them with the numbers 3, 11, 33, 34, 35, 45, 61, and 68.

They won $68,393.20 on the first jackpot and $20,041.90 on the second jackpot.

With a minimum of $20,000, the eight-number jackpot was reset immediately after the first win.

The odds of winning the jackpot game are one in 230,115.

"I've been working all my life so it has certainly made things easier," said the 53-year-old man.

"My friend has been saving for a boat so now he's set and my wife and I will be able to plan our trip around Australia."

The two men, both members of the club, shouted everyone a drink before celebrating with their families.


Umina Beach Bowling Club starts a new combined Club Bingo and Cash Housie on Wednesday, September 18, at 7:30pm.

A courtesy bus will be ava i l ab le . Book ings a re essential.

All proceeds will go to Fairhaven Services Ltd, a Central Coast Charity providing

employment and residential care for people with an intellectual disability.

Phone the club on 4342 2618 for further details.

Umina Beach Bowling Club is located at Melbourne Ave, Umina Beach.

Cost to play for the whole night will be $12.

Flyer, August 20

More than 90 individuals involved in the arts and culture from all over the Centra l Coast came together at the Peninsula Theatre for a day of networking, last Friday, August 23.

Representatives of Darkinjung Aboriginal Land Council, Gosford City Youth Council, Wyong Council and Central Coast Multi-arts Confederation as well as artist, theatre companies,

multicultural festivals, heritage groups, musical organisations and craft groups will be working with Gosford Council to provide input to council's cultural plan on the day.

Workshops will focus on topics such as the audience on the Central Coast, art in public places, cultural identity and heritage and the art and culture of indigenous Australians.

To provide a perspective on cultural developments in New South Wales as a whole, guest

speakers included cultural officer Michelle Halland Clarissa Arndt from Blacktown Arts Centre.

Entertainment inter ludes included music from the Central Coast Conservatorium string quartet, and new works in the form of a theatrical piece "Conjuring Maat" and a song by Rebekah Brown of Fluffy Stumps.

Media release, August 20

One of the workshop groups at the FUSION arts and culture summit

Arts and culture summit

Rare Keno combination

Bingo and housie combined

Loads of laughs at folk club The Hottentots appearing at the Troubadour Folk Club in Setember

Pretty Beach Public School celebrates its 75th birthday this year.

A grand picnic is planned for Saturday, September 14,

between 11.30am and 3:30pm. There will be student art

exhibitions, choir items, craft stalls, buskers and activities for the children.

S t e a k a n d s a u s a g e sandwiches and Devonshire teas will also be available.

It is hoped many former students will come along, bringing their stories and photos to share with today’s students.

For more information, contact school librarian Dee Finlay during schoo l hours Tuesdays , Wednesdays or Thursdays on 4360 1012

Bouddi newsletter, August 19

Peninsula News is running a colouring competition for young readers as part of the "Live Energy Smart" campaign.

The campaign is aimed at raising local awareness of the effect local people are having on climate change.

The competi t ion design features the Energy Smart Zone characters "Gusto", "Sola", "Squirt", "Fluro" and "Watt" from t h e w e b s i t e www.energysmartzone.com .

People without home access to the internet can book time at Gosford Council libraries, or ask about allowing children access to the energysmartzone site at their school.

Staff from Ettalong Public School's art department will judge the competition and will choose a winner on Monday, September 16, from all entries received by last post on Friday, September 13.

The prize pack is valued at $60 and includes a Whirlpool sports bag, a Live Energy Smart calico bag, an appliance thermometer to check appl iances are operat ing at the correct temperatures, a two-in-one fridge magnet that can be used as a photo frame.

It also includes a colourful postcard that lists all of the free

brochures available from the Energy Smart Information Centre, six stickers featuring the Energy Smart Zone characters, with fun advice on saving energy around the home and a brochure packed with information on how to save money on energy bills.

Retravis ion, a long wi th Whirlpool and the Sustainable Energy Development Authority of NSW (SEDA), are conducting the "Live Energy Smart" campaign from August 11 to September 15.

have launched a campaign to encourage Central Coast residents to live energy smart.

According to Umina and Woy Woy Retravision owner, Alan Hardy, the campaign is designed to encourage Central Coast residents to consider energy efficiency when purchasing electrical appliances.

"The average NSW home emits twice as much greenhouse gas as the family car every year," said Allan.

"By choosing an appliance with a high star rating, not only can customers save considerably on water consumption, but because of the energy efficiency, they can also save on energy bills.

A "Reach for the Stars" Consumer Buyer Guide will be available at Umina and Woy Woy Retravision, detailing useful information on the energy rating

of appliances to assist local customers.

"We are also pleased to have in store the new SEDA brochure "How to Live Energy Smart", packed with tips and information on how to live more energy efficiently, reducing your energy bill and your greenhouse gas emissions," said Alan.

Live Energy Smart is a NSW Government initiative raising awareness of the environmental impacts of household energy usage, and profiling initiatives, products and policies that help reduce greenhouse emissions from the residential sector.

In a recent email to Peninsula News, author of the Earth Garden building book "Design and Build your own House" suggested that building homes with strawbale walls would make a significant reduction to greenhouse gas production.

Dr Bob Rich said: "Straw is a major waste product o f agriculture, and millions of tonnes are burnt each year.

Burning one tonne of straw generates the same amount of carbon dioxide as burning one tonne of wood.

"Forty-five percent of all the energy consumed in the world is used in the manufacturing and transportation of building and construction materials.

"The making of one house brick generates one kilogram of carbon dioxide.

Building using straw bale walls reduced greenhouse gas emission by both reducing the amount of straw being burnt and the amount of energy consumed in manufacturing wall materials, he said.

"Imagine the environmental benefits of a strawbale city!"

Jonathan Reichard, August 16

– Peninsula News– 27 August 2002

Education

Church Group

Students at St John The Baptist School showed their mastery of computer and science skills when they completed in the recent Australia Schools Computer Skills and Science Competitions.

The best performance came from two students who received Distinction Awards in each competition.

The modern curr iculum required all students to develop computer skills in all subject areas at all ages.

The competition tests skills called for in the curriculum and also provides a range of questions to challenge the computer wizards.

Skills tested include using common operating systems, software and hardware.

At a higher level, it also tests internet skills, understanding

communications and networks and programming and systems analysis.

The science competition was designed to cater for a range of student abilities and the test papers were in full colour with stimulating graphics.

Skills tested were observing and measuring, interpreting visual data, inferring, predicting and concluding, investigating, reasoning and problem solving.

This year, the Computer Skills Competition attracted more than 102,000 students from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region.

The Science Competition attracted over 450,000 students from the same regions.

The Aus t ra l ia Schoo ls Competitions are an initiative of the Education Testing Centre at the University of New South Wales.

Press release, August 21 Kip McGrath

Brisbane Water Secondary College is calling for nominations for its annual excellence awards.

These awards are for students who have made outstanding achievements both in the school system or in the community.

Achievements may be in sport, creative and performing arts, leadership, citizenship, or academic achievements.

Students may be nominated by students, teachers, parents or themselves.

Nomination forms can be obtained from the Woy Woy campus office and should be lodged by Friday, September 20.

Successful students have their names placed on the honour board in the school hall, plus a certificate for display.

Students nominated must be "good citizens", shown by having a good attendance record, being

co-operative with staff and other students and showing respect and concern for the good name of the school.

Nominees must have: (a) Reached regional, state or

national level or equivalent, eg. a member of State-National sporting teams, winner of state competition, in the top 10 of an HSC subject, in the top 10% in a State-National competition such as Maths, Science, English, Com pu t i ng S tud ies and Geography.

(b) Won through against tough competition, through dedication and perseverance or achieved consistently at a high level over a period of time, eg an outstanding SRC Leader, Queen’s Scout Award recipient.

Achievement can be either in the school system or in the community in general.

School newsletter, August 9

Energy Smart colouring competition

Excellent nominees wanted

Students master science and computer

skills

School turns 75

Review brings down five recommendations The Departmental Program Review on Teaching and Learning in years 10, 11, and 12 at Brisbane Water Secondary College has b r o u g h t d o w n f i v e recommendations.

The recommendations were: 1. To align campus quality

systems with the college vision. 2. To develop and implement a

whole college approach to literacy.

3. To establish roles and responsibilities for the executive aligned with the college vision.

4. To implement strategies to increase expectations within the campus.

5. To provide training and development to support the campus vision.

All recommendations focus on supporting the campus vision. Here is the explanation of the recommendations provided to parents.

Recommendation one: The campus quality systems

need to be aligned to the college and campus vision to ensure that po l ic ies , procedures and organisation are consistently implemented and focused on the learning needs of senior students in an adult learning environment.

Specific areas for focus should include Student Welfare, Library, Technology, Communication, Programming, Teacher Support and Supervision.

Strategies for implementing this recommendat ions are as followed.

Use the college vision to develop alignment in the philosophy of the welfare practices of the middle school campus and the senior campus.

All strategies developed should recognise the need for welfare s t ruc tu res that a re age appropriate.

Ensure that the transition from the middle school to the senior school has a strong focus on welfare practices.

Develop shared belief and practices regarding management of unacceptable behavior and consistency of approach and implementation in discipline matters.

Establish a library committee that will develop a vision for the library as an adult learning resource and develop an action plan to realise that vision and have representation on the campus finance committee.

Es tab l ish a techno logy committee with representatives from all Key Learning Area which will develop a strategic plan to ensure that technology resources support learning for senior s tuden ts and techno logy r es ou rc es a re m an ag e d effectively.

Head teachers and senior executive monitor teaching programs to ensure there is consistent implementation of campus policies relating to programming for year 10-12 and that all teaching and learning programs are consistent with the key accountabilities in Leading and managing the School.

The school programming processes should ensure that cons istent approaches to supporting and supervising

teachers are developed and implemented.

The college principals continue to develop communication and collaboration across the college in areas such as learning, programming, li teracy and student welfare.

Recommendation two: A whole college approach to

literacy be developed and implemented.

Strategies for implementing this recommendation are as follows:

Establish a college literacy committee under the leadership of the college principal.

The membership of the committee would include the district literacy consultant and staff from a range of Key Learning Areas from both campuses.

The committee would develop a college literacy policy. Develop and implement a as matter of priority strategies which focus on the explicit teaching of writing skills to the current Year 10 and Year 12 students. Develop a common college philosophy on book marking. Develop a college editing code and identify the training and development needs of teachers in the area of literacy.

Analyse data to identify literacy needs. Data analysed should include ELLA results from 2001 and 2002 and School Certificate results.

All faculties should identity the literacy needs of all courses.

Develop clear and precise processes that support staff and ensure that all staff integrate explicit and systematic literacy strategies into teaching and learning programs.

Teachers at the middle school campus will participate in training and development that will increase their understanding and k n o w l e d g e o f l i t e r a c y assessment.

Consideration should be given to including teachers from the senior campus who express interest on the junior campus, in this training and development.

Recommendation three: The senior campus establish

roles and responsibilities for the executive which support the changed needs of staff and students on a senior campus and are aligned to the campus vision.

Strategies for implementing this recommendation is as followed.

Through consultation revise current role statements to ensure that there are clear expectations of the role of head teachers and the senior executive in supporting learning.

These expectations should be consistent with the expectations of DET.

Role statements for principals, deputy principals and head teachers.

The role of the head teacher in monitoring and supervision is documented and communicated to all staff.

The role statement should recognise the role head teachers and senior executive have in identifying areas for individual development, including the provision of positive feedback to teachers, supervision of teachers programs and the monitoring of mandatory requirements.

The role of all executive in

welfare and discipl ine is documented and communicated to all staff and there are clear expectations of the role executive have in data management and using it to inform teaching programs.

'N' award processes should be reviewed and streamlined.

P r o c e s s e s s h o u l d b e developed to ensure that the administration and tracking of 'N' awards is centralised.

Campus executive could visit other schools to identify good practice in this process.

Through consultation identify the essential roles expected of executive and remove from the role statements responsibilities inconsistent with the expectations in the DET role statements.

Recommendation four: The campus develops and

implements strategies that will lead to increased expectations in all groups within the campus community.

Strategies for implementing this recommendation is as followed.

Build on the successful initiatives already achieved by the campus such as the positive image and impact of the new uniform and the celebration of sporting success.

Establish a media strategy to promote college and campus achievements.

Part of this strategy should include the establishment of communication protocols which focus on the development of high quality written and verbal c o m m un i c a t i on w i t h t h e community.

The process used to develop the strategy should be inclusive of all groups within the campus community.

Develop strategies to ensure that there is regular public recognition and celebration of student and staff success across

the college. Develop transition stragies that

ensure students at the middle school campus are aware of the opportunities available to them at the senior campus.

Ensure that all staff have a detailed knowledge of student outcome data so that there are heightened expectations of what students can achieve.

Recommendation five: The campus will ensure that

the provision of training and development supports the achievement of the campus vision.

Strategies for implementing recommendation is followed.

The development of a campus training and development plan which focuses on teaching and learning and builds on the directions established by the learning conference.

Senior executive and head teachers support staff to develop i n d i v i d u a l t r a i n i n g a n d development plans which are focused on achieveing the campus vision and which meet the identified needs of the individual.

The individual plans should identy staff with changed roles and the support needed to effectively undertake the roles.

Training and development opportunities should take into account the needs of those teachers who may move from the middle school campus to the senior campus.

Training and development provided for all staff in the use of data to inform teaching programs and practices.

A significant proportion of the staffing betterment achieved by the establishment of the senior campus be targeted to support strategic and targeted training and development.

At Woy Woy Campus staff

meeting this week, we went through the Report looking at the findings.

These findings were checked against the strategies that the Program Review teams have suggested.

T o i m p l e m e n t t h e recommendations some project teams are being set up who will be responsible for making recom mendat ions to t he coordinating team.

The coordinating team will be responsible for coordinating the i m p l e m e n t a t i o n o f t h e recommendations.

It needs to be remembered that this exercise is about improving teaching and learning so that the vision can be achieved.

The school must implement the recommendations and the Department will be checking progress at the end of this year and throughout 2003.

The time line is therefore twelve to eighteen months.

The support and commitment of all of the school community will be needed in developing the necessary procedures and implementing them.

Students and parents are being asked to work with the school on the coordinating team and the project teams.

The coordinating team will comprise a student to represent each of years 8, 9, 10, and 11 as well as two parents.

Senior executive, teachers representing each of the Key Lea rn i ng A reas , and a representative of the Support and Administrative staff will also be on this team.

The Project teams are student w e l f a r e a c r o s s b o t h campuses;library; technology; literacy across both campus; promoting student achievement; professional development and procedures.

School newsletter, August 16


Education

Last week was book week and Gosford City Library celebrated with storytimes at Umina Library.

The national theme for this year was "Book Week: A Book

Feast." The library took that theme one

step further with storytimes themed "A Teddy Bear's Picnic."

Children were encouraged to bring along their favourite bear or soft toy for a morning of stories,

songs, rhymes, games and morning tea.

Book Week is an annual event to celebrate excellence in Australian children's


Children and carers listening to a story at Umina Library for Book Week

Story times at Umina Library

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– Peninsula News - 27 August 2002

The Troubadour Folk and Acoustic Music

Club brings musicians, poets and story tellers to the

Central Coast to perform with and

entertain local residents

This month, the club meets on Friday, September 6. All are welcome.

Our guests, all the way from Byron Bay, are THE HOT-

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Winsome Smith Phone: 4344 6986

Hardworking 25y/o man with: FORK LIFT TICKET

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CONTROL CERTIFICATES Will give anything a go. Call Greg : 0404 231 401

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Cert. $120 Ph: 4324 5660 after school hours

Expressions of Interest

Retail Outlet Everglades Country Club is seeking “Expressions of Interest from persons wishing to operate the

“Half Way House, a shop within the golf course,

next to the Greenkeepers Shed,

selling food and refreshments.

Those seeking the License to occupy and operate the facility are invited to register their interest at the Club’s reception desk and receive the relevant

documents. Inspection by appointment.

“Expressions of Interest” to be received at the Club by 5.00pm, Monday, 2 September

2002 addressed to: The Secretary Manager

PO Box 297 Woy Woy NSW 2256

FREE SEWING & OVERLOCKING

DEMONSTRATION Friday, August 30

10am to 11am at Fabric Price Cutters,

17 The Boulevarde, Woy Woy

♦ Free help with any sewing problems

♦ Have your overlocking questions answered

Experienced sewing teacher:

Monica Poole

Empire Bay Fishing Club has started its competition rounds for this year although there was noticeable lack of fish at the first weigh-in day.

Organisers suggested that anyone wanting to join the fishing club should join now before points start to go on the board.

Phone Mark on 4369 5931 for details on how to join and which weekends are competition time.

Empire Bay newsletter, August 18

The water temperature was 14 degrees on Sunday, August 18, when 45 member of the Umina Blue Swimmers Club swam in club competition.

Winners in the 30 metres heats were Chad Walsh, A Sutherland, D Hayes, J Quinell, G Cole, Steve Walsh, M Hayes, F Holmes, and A Moffitt.

Winners in the 30 metres finals were Drew Hayes and Fred Holmes.

Winners in the 60 metres heats were A Sutherland, M Norquay, D Hayes and G Webster.

Winner in the 60 metres finals was Drew Hayes.

The relay result was Lo bs te rs , B u rg l a rs , Hoboes, Tinglers and Bulls.

President's Race went to Graham Tangye and Grant Hayes.

"Fox of the week" was Geoff Webster.

N e x t S u n d a y , September 1, is the final day of the Blue Swimmers winter season, and is the da te o f t he c lub championships.

This is the day when all those swimmers who have been "foxing" all year and t ry ing to con the handicapper will have to show their true form to win their age group races.

Any spectators, who would like to see some of the fastest swimmers in the area in action, are welcome at Pearl Beach rock pool at 9am on Sunday morning.

The Um ina B lue Swimmers Trivia Night held on Saturday, August 17, raised "a substantial amount of money" for the Careflight Rescue Service.


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Fishing comp underway

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The Brisbane Water Secondary College (BWSC) Umina campus rugby union team has reached the state quarter-finals, the last eight teams in the state.

The school has had success in this competition over the years, with a big win in 1999 of the State tltle.

After a bye in round one, BWSC defeated Gosford High and Berkeley Vale High in the early rounds.

In round four, the team had a win over Kincumber High at Kincumber.

This was a close and intensely-fought match.

Tim Bovis in the centres played well, and crossed for two excellent tries.

His goal-kicking was also a feature and he landed some great goals from the sideline.

Winger Kyall Walford also scored a good backline try.

The team has an excellent backline and the forwards were able to win enough ball to put the cleaners through the Kincumber High side.

The final score was a 19-5 win to the Brisbane Water side.

This win made the team Central Coast Champions for 2002.

Umina campus then played Morisset High, the Hunter Champions, for the Eastern Province title and the right to enter the State quarter-finals.

There have been some tough games with Morrisset in the past and this was no different.

Brisbane Water Secondary College won the game 29-12.

The BWSC team ran in five tries, with inside centre John Crocker scoring two, half Chris Hyde, five-eight Alex Brown and fullback Daniel Nichols all scoring one each.

All the tries were scored by the backs.

However the best player on the field was prop Shane Lewis who never stopped going forward all day.

Another good forward was second-rower Luke McDonald.

The team now plays Galston High in the quarter-final.

Larry Thomson, August 21

A junior touch football compet i t ion for the Peninsula’s youth is about to become reality.

A group of local parents have formed the Peninsula Junior Touch Association.

The association’s president, Mr Tony Harris, said: “This is something the youth of the Peninsula really need.

"There is so much interest in the sport of touch in this area, it’s a shame that it hasn’t happened earlier."

Joel Weeks, a Brisbane Water Secondary College student and current New South Wales CHS S c h o o l b o y s U n d e r 1 6 s representative, agrees with Tony Harris.

“There are so many great young players who don’t have the opportunity to play junior

touch in the Peninsula area. "I think it’s great that they now

will have that chance,” Joel said. Association vice-president and

State selector, Mr Geoff Staunton, said that it was long overdue.

Geoff said: “The kids on the Peninsula are as good as any kids any where in the State.

“There will be many more junior players like Joel Weeks, now that kids will be given the opportunity.

"The idea has been suggested before but never followed through.

"Now it is a reality. "I always knew that there was

a market for a junior competition on the Peninsula."

For more information, contact Tony Harris on 4341 9839 or Geoff Staunton on 4341 1025.

Riley Sohier, August 16

Woy Woy Peninsu la residents Louise Purcell, 15, Simon Buckley, 21, and Rebecca Fenton, 25, were a part of a spectacular martial arts display on August 3.

The students, all members of Black Belt Karate Studios, were chosen to be part of the demonstration team, which gave two performances: one to the public and one to a group of VIPs

including Gosford mayor Cr Robert Bell and other Gosford councillors and Member for Peats Ms Marie Andrews.

The demonstration was part of a celebration for the opening of Black Belt Karate Studios' new location in Brooks Ave, Wyoming, and the opening of Mad Cow Theatre Company next door.

The day included the martial arts demonstrations, theatre skills

demonstrations, games, rides and a free barbecue.

The demonstration team included children as young as five, and displayed the team's self-defence, sparring, forms and board-breaking skills.

During the demonstration, Cr Bell broke a board to officially open the new building.

Rebecca Fenton, August 21

Silver white hair and an aging face is the image of a typical retired 60-year-old.

But what about the sun kissed skin, defined muscles and the determination and stamina of the Masters of surf lifesaving?

It is a warm Sunday morning; hundreds of bronzed Aussies are crowded onto a popular surfing beach.

The familiar red and yellow flags are distinct between the number of events that are taking place in the sand.

It is the beginning of the masters' heats: 50 to 55-year-olds, 55 to 60-year-olds, and 60-year-olds and over.

The gun fires and the odd mixture of competitors race out to sea on their surf rescue boards.

One of the race competitors, 61-year-old Woy Woy resident Bill Heber, is typical of the new face of retirees.

A bank manager of 35 years, Bill retired in 1994 and has spent the past eight years in a retirement only dreamed of by his parents.

Like many of his generation, Bill has used his retired years to travel and be active.

For Bill, retirement is just “more time to put into other interest and activities”.

Bill’s tanned skin and robust

physique reflect his active lifestyle.

Golf , bowls, swimming, paddling and the surf club take up the majority of Bill's week and that of his 62-year-old wife, Helen.

Their circle of friends are already involved in some or all of the activities.

Bill says: “Other retirees have been introduced into the surf club, swimming or paddling which has improved their health and involved them with other people.”

Bill has become a member of the Surf Life Saving Club.

“I regard the Surf Life Saving Club as a community service with more effort and enjoyment.”

Helping the nippers, assisting with running the club, patrolling the beach and competing in carnivals has been much more rewarding for Bill both mentally and physically.

As a result, he was awarded 2002 Best Carnival Competitor.

The long hours of a city bank manager, the many lunches with clients deciding whether to have mudcake or lemon baked cheesecake with extra cream are a world away from the lifestyle Bill is now leading.

Now he is deciding what sporting hobby to tackle next.

Having t r ied absei l i ng,

canyoning, and the good old Aussie Rotary Romps, the Hebers' latest venture is sea kayaking.

“This is a new sport we have both taken up with different degrees of involvement.”

Scheduled into both Bill and Helen’s week are the regular twilight paddles on Wednesday evenings and adventure paddles on Saturdays.

Bill and five friends all around the same age have formed the Tea and Coffee Club.

The six men pack vacuum flasks and stop off during their kayaking for morning tea.

"Over a period we have built up our endurance and a four-hour paddle is easily achieved.”

Last year, with a small group from people around Australia, Bill and Helen travelled to Turkey and padd led down the Dardenelles into Anzac Cove on portable sea kayaks.

Bill admits: “We chose this trip because it had a bit of adventure in it”.

Having not travelled overseas, experiences such as touring the ancient ruins of Troy, has given them a feel for travel and they are planning more holidays and adventures for the future.

Sarah Judd, August 18

UMINA Surf Club Masters and friends with Bill Heber kneeling at the front

Surf lifesaver Bill Heber - the new face of retirees

College rugby team in state quarter finals

Martial arts on display

Junior touch to start on the Peninsula

Touch football in action

No 49 The newspaper that cares about the Peninsula community 27 August 2002


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Member for Robertson Mr Jim Lloyd officially dedicated the new Vietnam Veterans Memorial at the Esplanade, Ettalong Beach, on Saturday, August 17, at 4pm.

The ceremony took place on the waterfront opposite Ettalong Beach Memorial Club.

“This is a very significant day for

local Vietnam veterans and the memorial was made possible with a grant of $759 from the Federal Government,” Mr Lloyd said.

“It is appropriate that this memorial is dedicated on the weekend of the anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan, Sunday, August 18,” Mr Lloyd said.

Vietnam Veterans Day was an opportunity for all Australians to pay tribute to those young Australians who

served with distinction in Vietnam, especially the 520 Australians who made the ultimate sacrifice.

“Those Australians who served in Vietnam did so with pride and professionalism in a very important and challenging time in our social and military history,” Mr Lloyd said.

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Vietnam veterans attend the memorial dedication ceremony A catafalque party at the service

Lloyd dedicates Vietnam memorial

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