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Artarmon Immediate Newletter
As an Artarmon Progress Association member benefit, local news and happenings will be occasionally distributed to APA members via email.
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August 2010 - Gazette Articles:
Artarmon @ Council
Items covered:
- Local Motion - sustainable travel project
- Conservation Areas
- Willoughby City Spring Festival
- Draft Local Environmental Plan
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Gardens for busy people
You would like to have an interesting garden but you are time poor? Perhaps both partners work and your children have continuing demands.
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Artarmon Public School News
When Owen Kimberley attended Artarmon Public School in 1918 he used a slate and slate pencil to write his lessons and his eraser was a sizable glob of spit!
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Sustainability Street - Guide to rebates and offsets for households
Past articles have described some of the simple things that we can do to reduce waste and use of water and energy resources.
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People of influence: Linda Klarfeld, sculptor
Tucked away in the Artarmon Industrial Area, artist Linda Klarfeld is producing monumental works of art which will stand the test of time.
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Artarmon lawyers celebrate Professor Ron McCallum AO
Artarmon Bowling Club was the scene of a memorable lunch on July 25. The lunch was held to honour Professor Ron McCallum AO of Artarmon, and was hosted by thirty Artarmon lawyers and their families.
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Preventation is the key to staying well over cooler months
Artarmon GP, Dr Doug Hor, has some useful comments and tips for staying health this winder and into spring.
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Youth Voice
A new column written by an Artarmon Youth - this month Karina Curry-Hyde reflects on her memories of her younger years.
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Team Artarmon saves over 100 lives - new players welcome!
Another year, another blood-drenched season!
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Pacific Highway and Mowbray Road Intersection upgrade
The intersection of a national route with a major state road on the edge of a residential area will always involve a tradeoff between allowing traffic to flow through the area and local residents to access their homes.
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Artarmon Vision Specialists joins Better Business Partnership sustainability project
Stuart and Natalie Schipp at Artarmon Vision Specialists recental had their prayers answered when they were intoducted to Willoughby Council's "Success through Sustainability" Better Business Partnership.
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20 July 2010 - Nick Tobin to Climb Mt Kilimanjaro
Nick Tobin (General Manager Willoughby City Council) is having a fundraiser to raise the $50,000 for the Humpty Dumpty Foundation required to allow him to climb Mt Kilimanjaro
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10th June 2010 - WLEP 2009 Submission
Draft Willoughby Local Environmental Plan 2009
The Artarmon Progress Association (APA) recognises that many of the changes proposed in the Draft Willoughby LEP 2009 have come about as a result of a number of state (and national) pressures.
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May 2010 - Gazette Articles:
Artarmon @ Council
Items covered:
We revisit Artarmon Reserve
It is almost ten years since I first wrote about walking in the Reserve. Much work has been done by Council and Volunteer Bush Regenerators in restoring what had become a weed investation with thickets of lantana and convolvulus.
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Artarmon Public School News
Artarmon Public School celebrates its Centenary - A brief history 1910 - 2010
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Book Review: All Rise Please
'All Rise Please', a novel by Mollie Shelley, is based on the life of her father, a country magistrate in NSW in the early 1900's.
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20 years of physiotherapy in Artarmon
Artarmon Physiotherapy Centre has been owned by Ann Liebert for the past 20 years. Her team of physiotherapists use a variety of treatments including low-level laser, electrotherapy, ultrasound, manual therapy and traction.
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10th March 2010
Wake up to Climate Change
Willoughby City Council invites you to attend a special breakfast event in appreciation of International Women's Day.
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Renovator Awards
Renovators chance to win awards
If you're a homeowner living in heritage listed house, within the Willoughby local government area, that has undergone renovation work within the last five years, then you're invited to enter the 2010 Willoughby Heritage Awards as part of this year's National Trust Heritage Festival.
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20th February 2010
Silk Road Audio Visual by Barbara Bryan
On February 20th Barbara Bryan of Artarmon will be showing an audio visual presentation at the Primrose Park Photography Club on her travels in China.
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February 2010 - Gazette Articles:
Artarmon @ Council
Items covered:
Artarmon's Heritage - exciting program for 2010
We really hope you enjoyed our 'Leadlights by Starlight' evening last year and saw our Leadlights exhibition in the library. Now we can reveal our exciting program for 2010.
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What's happended to my bin lids?
I was woken one Friday morning by a hammering sound. Yes, it was time to get up and go to work, but couldn't I steal a few more minutes of sleep? I peeked out my blinds to find some guy in a ute stealing the neighbour's bin lid...
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What We've Told Artarmon - 10 years of the Gazette
With this issue, the Gazette is celebrating 10 years of informing 'Artarmon 2064' on the stories and issues that matter in our suburb.
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Living with Brush Turkeys?
More and more people in Willoughby are catching sight of one of our mmore remarkable looking residents. Brush-turkeys are big pirds - up to 75 cm long - and are usually seen walking around. They don't fly very well, but can flutter into trees where they roost at night.
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Indoor Plants to Gardens and Back Again
There are plants in my garden, some of them great assets, which started life as indoor plants. They were retired for a variety of reasons - sometimes they had outgrown their pots, or were looking jaded or perhaps I'd grown tired of looking at the same old plant.
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Sustainable lifestyles - what's our next step?
With the New Year just underway, how many of us included in our New Year's resolutions a commitment to starting, or further developing, a sustainable lifestyle for ourselves and our families?
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Artarmon Neighbourhood Watch
Items covered:
What the FH is that?
As a child living in Adelaide we had a fire hydrant in the road out the front of our house and there was a white post about 1 metre high with a red steel cap on the top to indicate that the hydrant was there.
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November 2009 - Gazette Articles:
Artarmon Public School News
The Building the Education Revolution (BER) program was initiated this year to provide infrastructure funding from the Federal Government for each of Australia's 9,540 schools.
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The history of the former church in Tindale Road, Artarmon
The former church and its adjoining hall on the corner of Tindale and Artarmon Roads have been used in the past for community events and this will continue in the furure with the recent purchase of the site by Willoughby City Council.
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People of influence: Dr Peter D Barnard OAM
Three years ago Dr Peter D Barnard moved to Artarmon to make it easier to get to and from St Leonards where he continues with his honorary work for the Australian Dental Association.
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Second Hand Saturday
Willoughby City Council (WCC) has recently introduced 'Second Hand Saturday', a giant garage sale which provides an opportunity to promote community spirit whilst reducing the amount of waste going to land fill.
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Artarmon @ Council
Items covered:
Summer approaches - your garden needs help
We have had recent good rains; the grass is green, trees and shrubs have fresh new shoots and leaves but don't forget that this preceded by weeks of virtually no rain, one of those exceptionally dry periods we've been experiencing in recent years.
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Sustainability St - Where to, now?
The Artarmon Sustainability Street Group has now been in existance for some five years. What have we achieved in that time? What are we going to do next? What do we need to progress from here?
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Artarmon Neighbourhood Watch
Items covered:
- Post Office Holdups
- Police Community Safety Committee
- The Police Finger Print Car
- When you are on Holidays - Tips to Keep Your Home Safe
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August 2009 - Gazette Articles:
Artarmon Public School News
Artarmon art show - one of the hottest social events of the term, the annual Artarmon School Art Show, was held on Tuesday 7th July. It was a great success with over 320 entires from students across Kindy to Year 6.
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Artarmon @ Council
Items covered:
Team Artarmon saves 93 lives
After my article in the May 2008 Gazette, the results are in for "Team Artarmon" in the Chatswood Blood Bank's Club Red Program for the 2008/09 year.
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Local traffic update
Items covered:
- Elizabeth Street at Wilkes Ave
- I am NOT a pedestrain crossing
- Pedestrains can be fined by the police
- Cameron Ave carpark
- Ella St bridge (Dalleys Rd)
- Pedestrain refuge near Channel 9
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Star Search finals go off with a bang!
Well, didn't the finals of Star Search 2009 go off with a bang!
Really, they did! The opening act was a great tribute to Michael Jackson and as the trophy was lifted up in the air, it fell and landed in 2 pieces!
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Rail humour (not)
Joke one - Summer shade - On 12 May, local state Member Gladys Berejiklian MP asked the Transport Minister a Question on Notice about maintenance work at Artarmon railway station.
Joke two - Access
Joke three - The stairway access
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A short history of public plantings in Artarmon
1926 - The first Artarmon Street Beautification Committee - trees, palms and shrubs provided free by the Royal Botanic Gardens.
1968 - Flowering cherry trees planted on Artarmon Village Green as a monument to early pioneers.
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"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!"
I recently took a cruise through the Baltic Sea region, and was 'blown away' by the large number of wind turbines along the coastlines of Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands.
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Artarmon Neighbourhood Watch
Identity Theft - are you at risk? Identity theft is aprt of identity fraud and speciaffically refers to the theft and use of the personal identifying information of an individual.
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29 July 2009 - Bush Fire Risk Management Plan and Community Briefing
Willoughby City Council is holding a Community Briefing on the Bush Fire Risk Management Plan on Wednesday 29 July 2009. This plan is also on display at council and local libraries.
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28 July 2009 - Climate Change Forum
Willoughby City Council is holding a Public Forum relating to Climate Change on Tuesday 28 July 2009.
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May 2009 - Gazette Articles:
Artarmon Public School News
Artarmon Public School takes action against climate change: The P&C Sustainability Committee and Eleanor Hughes arranged for Willoughby City Council, with the assistance of staff and students, to conduct an audit of energy use and greenhouse gas emission at the school in late 2008.
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Artarmon Music Initiative Finds Success
Working closely with Matthew Walmsley, Director of Artarmon Public School Bands, a group of Artarmon parents took the initiative to establish Northern Youth Symphonic Wind ("NYSW"), a regional concert band for young musicians in their early years of high school.
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New community centre for former church
Willoughby City Council has purchased the former church on the corner of Artarmon and Tindale Rds, Artarmon for $2.1 million. The purchase of the property is being funded from Council's Property Plan Reserve.
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Nick Logan's Pharmacy wins national award
Nick Logan and the staff at Nick Logan Pharmacist Advice were recently named overall winner of the Australian 2009 Pharmacy of the Year award.
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Artarmon @ Council
Items covered:
Leadlights by Starlight
The stars shone brightly on a clear night for the APA's 'Leadlights by Starlight' community event on Sunday 5th April. Over 150 Artarmon residents and visitors took the opportunity to view Artarmon's leadlights and the southern sky at night.
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Those Dry Shady Areas in Your Garden
Trees are wonderful, we need them, the environment needs them. But like most good things in life there is also a downside. In this case it is an increase in dry shady spots where your normal gardening efforts come to nought. What can you do?
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Choosing Chooks
The death of our 16 year old cat Phantom at the start of 2008 was a milestone for our family. The children had never known life without her and all of us went through a grieving period before the inevitable question a rose. "Should we get another pet?"
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Artarmon Neighbourhood Watch
Police have advised that a couple of significant arrests in recent weeks have changed the patterns of crime in the area, really demonstrating the impact one or two criminals can have and also the importance of the public supplying timely information regarding suspicious activity in their neighbourhood to the police.
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7 April 2009 - Artarmon Loop
The Artarmon Loop is a free shuttle service travelling on a loop from St Leonards station through the Artarmon industrial area. The service commences on the 4th May.
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19 March 2009 - RNSH Public Meeting
Willoughby City Council Public Meeting relating to the Royal North Shore Acute Hospital and Community Health Facility Public Meeting to be held on the 19 March 2009.
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February 2009 - Public Information Meeting
NSW Planning Legislation
Speaker: Greg Woodhams - Environmental Services Director WCC.
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February 2009 - Gazette Articles:
Artarmon @ Council
Items covered:
- Cleanups
- Graffiti
- CouncilCab
- Cleland Park Playground
- Library redevelopment
- Brothel
- Street Tree removal policy
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Artarmon Public School News
The Artarmon Public School (APS) community welcomes Mrs Judith Learmonth as our new Deputy Principal.
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Artarmon's Ron McCallum appointed to UN Committee
Professor Ron McCallum AO, long time Artarmon resident, and foundation Blake Dawson Waldron Professor in Industrial Law in the Faculty of Law of the University of Sydney, was recently appointed to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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People of influence: Catherine Fox & Jane Caro
Two long-term locals, Catherine Fox and Jane Caro recently co-authored The F Word: How We Learned to Swear by Feminism, published in 2008.
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New rail timetable
The draft timetable incorporating the proposed changes once the Epping-Chatswood rail link comes into operation was released for comment by Railcorp in late 2008.
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Artarmon's conservation area: general tips for renovating and extending Federation and Inter War (California) Bungalow homes
Artarmon is outstanding for its early 20thC intact streetscapes. Our Federation and Californian Bungalow houses and the orginal subdivision pattern are distinctive and attractive and relatively unchanged since first laid down.
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Map of the Conservation Area
This is not a load of rubbish!
In the November Gazette, I wrote about what you can can and can't put in the recycling bin that is collected weekly. In this article, I look at what you can and can't recycle in the quarterly cleanups, and other recycling tips.
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I've been 'Busted'
I recently took up Willoughby City Council's (WCC) offer of a free home assessment to show residents how to reduce their household's carbon footprint.
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More about our street trees
At intervals over the last ten years I've written about the trees planted on nature strips in Artarmon This is not only because it is recognized that they are emotionally important to us and add to our sense of well-being.
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Artarmon Neighbourhood Watch
A representative from Artarmon NW regularly attends the 'North Shore Local Command - Community Safety Precinct Committee'.
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Artarmon Xmas Party Photos
The Christmas Party / Annual General Meeting was held at the bowling club on Sunday 30th November complete with a visit from Santa.
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