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Newsletter
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Offshore Residents
of Pittwater, Australia - Volume 11, Issue 535
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Editorial Well another amazing year packed with all sorts of wonderful community events and happenings has almost come to an end, and as usual, we finish off with a flurry. The famous Dog Race, Floating Choir, Carols at Carols, Gone Fishing Gallery opening, Self employed lunch celebrations and more, all happening in the next four weeks. Hopefully we have covered most of them here, however please don't hesitate to make contact if there is something you would like to add. This year we are looking for a good number of photos to add to our online photo gallery. We would like to document all our local events leading up to and including Christmas and the New Year celebrations - so please take your camera with you and send in your photos in the new year. Finally, a very Happy Christmas to all of you loyal PON readers, and thank you to all those who have provided assistance, contributions and encouragement during the year. Julian Contents
 Floating Choir Tuesday December 21, Frog Hollow at 7:00pm then on to Church Point around 8:30pm  If people would like to listen, they should pack a picnic, bring their bells to shake during jingle bells, fire up the tinny and make sure they've got a stern anchor or, if they are available, they can raft up on any spare moorings. We're suggesting that everyone download the words to the carols from the WPCA website and bring them along to join in on the night. When we've completed the program at Frog Hollow, we will continue to Church Point, where we will tie up and do a repeat performance Penny from Church Point Ferry Service is happy to co-ordinate a ferry service for this as long as there are enough people interested - please contact her as soon as you can. Penny Gleen Church Point Ferry Service www.churchpointferryservice. penny@churchpointferryservice. 0433 038 408 Scotland Island Dog Race  It's on again! Same time same place! Christmas Eve 6pm @ Church Point DETAILS: Register your Dog before 5:30pm Entry fee is 1 Longneck (Cold) and 1 x Large Tin Dog Food Official starting time 6pm (or thereabouts) Contact Rus from Pittwater Offshore Services on 0415-464-733 for information Carols at Carols Sunday, 19 December  5-6pm - Start, Harold Reserve, Carols wharf 6.30pm - Mystery Guest arrives 8.00pm - Carol singing accompanied by local musicians  An
evening for the whole family. Bring along a picnic blanket, drinks,
food, torches & your best singing voices.To help our Mystery Guest, please bring a small gift with your child's name on it. Please keep gifts under $5. Self Employed Christmas Celebrations December 17, Friday from midday at Church Point Cafe. For all those self employed people who don't get to have an Office Christmas party, come and join with other self employed folk celebrating at Church Point Cafe. Bring along a present for under $10 for the chris cringle. No set menu or cost, choose whatever you want from the Cafe menu. Bookings are essential and must be lodged before the 12th December Contact Melanie or John at PMC Hill real Estate to reserve your spot. Phone 9999 4902 Scotland Island Mugs  Do you remember these beautiful mugs from the festival? Well we have a few left and think they would make lovely Christmas presents. They cost $8 each. Sales on a first come, first served basis, so call now to reserve your mugs and arrange a collection point. Barbara: 0400377056. All funds raised for your very own Scotland Island Kindy' Gone Fishing Gallery at Pasadena Opening Sunday 4 December 3-5pm  Energy Australia-Private Service Wire Clearance EnergyAustralia have historically received sporadic requests from private residents on the island to clear private service wires. These requests are then referred to our company to action. In view of the fact that the island is a remote location it is not practical to send teams over to do one off jobs as they arise. In an attempt to make our operations more efficient, EnergyAustralia have authorised us to advise residents of the opportunity to have their private service wires cleared. In order for the process to be initiated the interested residents will be required to fill out the attached form. Included is a cover letter explaining the process with our contact details. Interested residents have the option to either e-mail, fax or mail their completed forms to the office. We are aiming to visit in January. Therefore we would require forms to be submitted prior to the 24th December to facilitate the authorisation of this work by Energy Australia. Greg Narker Operations Manager Australian Urban Tree Services greg@auts.com.au tel 9460 7044 fax 9460 7055  Request form - download HERE
The Northern Beaches Highway Patrol and other local police will be carrying out a comprehensive campaign against drink-driving in the lead-up to Christmas and throughout January. Senior Sergeant Rick Janssen said last year northern beaches drivers were Sydney’s worst for drink-driving, with 849 people charged with being over the limit between July 2009 and June 2010. As the holiday season gets underway, mobile random breath testing units (RBTs) will be stationed around Pittwater’s streets targeting drinkers who get behind the wheel of a car. Pittwater Council’s Road Safety Officer Michelle Carter said that pubs and clubs and other venues will be issued with free resources such as posters, coasters and T-shirts for bar staff promoting the You Won’t Know Where…You Won’t Know When campaign. Bottle shops will also be issued with paper containers for wine displaying the campaign message, as well as advertising placed in key locations such as on bus shelters. “If you are planning to go out and drink alcohol we suggest you plan in advance how you are going to get home. We urge you to leave your car at home,” said Ms Carter. “It’s also important to be aware that you can still be over the legal limit the next morning as alcohol can stay in your system for a long time. Sleep, coffee, water or food won’t change this - only time will, “ she said. “We’re not only targeting people who’ve been out to restaurants, pubs and clubs but also drivers going to private parties or dinners,” said Ms Carter. “Figures from last year show that while 41% of drink drivers had been to a licensed premises, 42% were detected after leaving a private residence.” TheYou Won’t Know Where. You Won’t Know When campaign will begin on Thursday 2 December and will run for two months up to the end of January. For more information about the campaign visit www.pittwater.nsw.gov.au/local services and click on road safety. Media contact: Michelle Carter, Pittwater Council Ph: 9970 1196 Unclaimed Dinghies go on Sale Pittwater Council will hold a sale of unclaimed dinghies and other watercraft at its Warriewood depot on Saturday 4 December. All items can be viewed between 8.30am and 10am at Pittwater Council’s Depot at 1 Boondah Road Warriewood. The vessels have been held by the Council while attempts have been made to track down their owners. Steve Lawler from the Council said staff carried out a thorough search in an effort to locate the owners of the abandoned craft. “If the vessels are not claimed, we retain them for a further month before offering them for sale,” he said. Mr Lawler said that under the NSW Impounding Act, the Council could offer impounded water craft for sale if they remained unclaimed. “For residents who wish to keep a small boat or kayak near the water the Council provides a number of storage options,” he said. “For a small annual fee there are storage facilities at Avalon, Bayview, Church Point, Newport and Palm Beach.” The craft for sale on 4 December can be viewed up to10am, by which time sealed bids (in even dollar amounts) must be placed in a specially marked box. Bids will be announced from 10.30am and the highest offer will be accepted. Items can be purchased by cash, Visa or Mastercard (a 1% surcharge applies to credit card payments) or cheque. Items purchased at the sale must be taken away by 12 noon on the day. For enquiries about storage facilities or the sale contact Tanya Carmont on 9970 1353 during business hours. Steve Lawler, Pittwater Council Ph: 9970 1359 Free Road Safety Calendar for Seniors Northern Sydney Councils will promote road safety for seniors by producing a Senior Road Safety Calendar full of local photos, useful tips and information for 2011. Research shows older road users are particularly vulnerable and are more likely to suffer serious injury from car accidents. Pedestrian crashes involving older road users are of particular concern in the Northern Sydney area. Data obtained from recent NSW Roads and Traffic Authority crash data reports that a high per cent of pedestrian crashes involved older road users. The free 2011 Senior Road Safety Calendar, produced by Pittwater, Warringah, Manly, Mosman, North Sydney, Lane Cove, City of Ryde, Hornsby and Willoughby councils, aims to prevent accidents and raise awareness of road safety issues important to seniors. A road safety message is displayed on each month of the calendar, along with a number of valuable hints that can help reduce risks. Topics include the risk of mixing fatigue and driving, safety tips at roundabouts, in driveways and when merging, blind spots, safe driving distances and changes to licensing conditions. The calendar also offers tips on keeping safe when out walking, particularly when walking at night or when using shared paths with cyclists. There is also a list of useful phone numbers such as police, medical, hospital, home nursing and community aid. The calendar will be available through local senior groups and centres, retirement villages and council facilities across the northern Sydney region. Michelle Carter, Pittwater Council Ph: 9970 1196 Scotland Island features on ABC Radio National www.abc.net.au/rn/360 Walking the Bridge has been developed for ABC Radio National's 360 programme from the exhibition of the same name, created for Scottish Year of Homecoming, by photographer, writer and sound artist Judith Parrott. Judith’s exhibition series, Place Matters, looks at the importance of community, cultural identity and connection to place. In this programme the focus is upon a group of Scottish immigrants to Australia, all of whom have been there now for around 20 to 30 years. We hear of how they have adapted and settled in their new home, and the challenges they face. Having returned to Scotland to live, Judith also reads from her letters back to Australia from Scotland, telling us of her impressions on returning home. The programme can be listened to on ABC Radio National's 360 programme which will be broadcast in Australia on Saturday 4 December at 2 pm and Wednesday 8 December at 1 pm. The programme can be listened to online at www.abc.net.au/rn/360 on or after 4 December. There will also be 2 slide shows of images for Walking the Bridge at the ABC web address, including a slide show of images and sounds from Scotland Island. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/360/stories/2010/3074036.htm Judith Parrott Telephone: 07 38443111 (Australia) 01700 501875 (Scotland) Email: judyparrott@gmail.com Web: www.judithparrott.com Scotland Island and Western Shores Indigenous Interests Group Report for 2010 1. Indigenous Education: Issues of Culture and Community, 2 March Dr Jennifer Barr, who was Indigenous Research Officer for the Australian Anglican Schools in 2008-09, talked about her now-completed project on how Independent schools might try to narrow the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous educational achievement. Jenny gave us a very interesting follow-up talk to her talk last year and explained some of the major findings and recommendations in four key areas: 1) raising awareness of Indigenous issues in schools; 2) developing ‘sister school’ type arrangements; 3) scholarship programs, and 4) the development of Indigenous-specific educational programs/schools. All have plus and minuses but there is plenty of scope for schools to get involved. 2. Traditional Aboriginal music in contemporary life, 17 June Dr Myf Turpin researches the relationship between language and music, Aboriginal songs and the Arandic languages of Central Australia. She has worked for many years on language and music maintenance projects. Myf’s talk focused on the contemporary role of traditional Aboriginal music. It gave us all a very good insight into how important music continues to be for members of aboriginal communities. We also discussed how to organise a workshop on cross-cultural awareness and communication (to be held in 2011) with an Aboriginal elder, MK Turner, from Alice Springs. 3. Exploring traditional Aboriginal sites in Kur-ing-gai Chase, 5 September Marni Lachrymia is an Indigenous man from Katherine NT, who currently teaches science at Epping Boys’ High School. He took a small group to several sacred sites in the Brooklyn area and explained to them about the dreaming. It was a spiritual journey and involved short periods of meditation. We hope to repeat this experience next year for those who missed out. 4. Yajilarra, Film and talk, 12 September, at the 200th Anniversary of Scotland Island, ' Looking at Ourselves -Past, Present and Future'. Melanie Hogan, one of the directors of the film, showed the film and discussed various aspects in the film tent. Yajilarra is about a group of Aboriginal women from Fitzroy Crossing in remote northern Western Australia. They are determined to save the town and their children from the scourge of alcohol abuse, domestic violence and foetal alcohol syndrome. The women in Yajilarra decided that enough was enough as their community had experienced 13 suicides in 13 months. Reports of family violence and child abuse were commonplace and alcohol consumption was rising at an alarming rate. Many of the Aboriginal women from across Fitzroy Valley came together and with the support of some men, they lobbied the West Australian government to impose a ban on the sale of anything but low alcohol beer in the town. The results are inspiring and have set the community on a path of healing. Halls Creek has followed suit. Melanie and her crew are now making a second film. Thanks to all who supported us this year and especially to those who helped on the Indigenous Tent at the SI Festival. We raised some money towards MK Turner’s visit. Robyn Iredale Found Navy blue padded jacket One navy blue padded jacket with hood, size 8 (8 yr old child presumably) found Thompson St, hanging on branch near corner of road going down to Carols Wharf. Please contact Rod or Jo Smith on 9979-1671. Missing Gone Missing white kayak Trusty old white kayak from front lawn at 51 Richards Rd., gone missing sometime last week, would like the the kayak back as it is my dry ride to Church Point. Please return to 51 Richards Rd. or call Aran on 0412 007 952. Wanted Dave Wilkinson is looking for an old classmate from Epping public School and would like to make contact with the Fillery's who lived at Epping and then moved to Scotland Island. Dave Wilkinson wilkods@hotmail.com For Sale Ticket for Sale The Pretenders & Blondie Special guest ADALITA Tuesday 7 December 2010 @ 7.00pm Enmore Theatre, Newtown Lounge Row G Seat 26 Original price $115.00 Will sell for $50.00 Call Shirley 0411 540 674 The Local Guide Community Information
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Archived Newsletters A complete set of past electronic newsletters since May 2000 can be found and read at https://www.ymlp.com/pubarchive.php?sira or by clicking here or by visiting the Mona Vale Library. The Island website is at www.scotlandisland.org.au To Contribute If you would like to contribute to this newsletter it's easy!. Send an e-mail to the editor (editor@scotlandisland.org.au) or by clicking here. Type your contribution (100 words or so would be fine) and assuming it is of general interest to the community, does not include matter of a political nature and is not offensive, it will appear next month. Subscription Information To get on and off this newsletter, click here or got to: http://www.scotlandisland.org.au/signup . To change your address, click the 'modify' link at the bottom of this newsletter or send an email to the editor@scotlandisland.org.au  The Online Local Guide - Community Information Click HERE to load The
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