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Parliament hears how truth, common sense and honour all failed in Kangy Angy selection M

ember for The Entrance, David Mehan, read a statement from the Kangy Angy Residents Action Group (KARAG) in the NSW Legislative Assembly on August 7, which included damning information about the role of the former Wyong Council in pushing the NSW Government towards building its facility at Kangy Angy, instead of Warnervale.

“When Premier Berejiklian was Transport Minister, she shook hands on a deal with the Darkinjung Land Council, to site a new Rail Maintenance Facility at Warnervale,” Mehan told parliament.

“For unknown reasons, Transport decided not to pursue this avenue.

“A list of over 20 sites was established, whittled down to eight, with (Darkinjung land at) Warnervale being the now preferred site.

“Warnervale fitted the criteria laid out for the proposal, Kangy Angy not even appearing on

David Mehan, Member for The Entrance, with Kangy Angy residents, during the campaign to stop the rail facility Whittaker said: was the previous Council of Wyong Council, the list. amalgamation Michael Whittaker, to Transport for NSW’s “We have documentary before site at Transport for NSW, on preferred evidence that threats with Gosford.”

Warnervale had “for many KARAG has October 9, 2014. were made to Transport if copies of The email was copied years been identified they pursued the prefferd obtained correspondence by the to then Mayor of Wyong, by Council for the Warnervale option. construction of the Link “We hasten to add this former General Manager Doug Eaton.

Road and development

of an education and business precinct.”

The email said: The proposed TfNSW site for the rails tabling and maintenance yard has completely unacceptable implications on both of these strategic initiatives

by Council.

“Wyong Council would like to convey in the strongest possible terms its complete opposition to the TfNSW proposal for this facility on this site.

“I also advise that Council will be taking action to initiate opposition to this proposal at a political level,” Whittaker said.

According to David Mehan’s parliamentary statement: “Instead of continuing down the list of possible sites, Transport asked Wyong Council for their recommendations.

“Wyong proffered the Kangy location, and without any onsite investigations into its suitability, Transport purchased what can only be called a lemon, in developmental terms.

“Transport failed to learn that the land was valued at $422,000, and purchased it for $17m.

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“Even now it is a major industrial site with all the things that go with it like dust, trucks running around there.”

Transport for NSW have even reneged on an offer to provide residents with town water and sewer, he said.

The main lesson for the broader Central Coast community is that the State Government is allowed to do this sort of thing on environmental land for “critical infrastructure,” Caldersmith said.

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Urgent recommendations from two year old consultant’s report ignored

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ore than two years after an east coast low savaged Wamberal Beach, the public has been given access to a consultant’s report that urged Central Coast Council, then under administration, to immediately remove inappropriate materials from the beach.

The report, by Coastal Environment Pty Ltd, recommended that Council made approaches to State Government and emergency services directly, for assistance with funding and resources.

“Foreign material introduced, whether from the collapse of building and landscaping from above or from exposure of buried posts, collapsed stairs, iron, tyres and glass from below, cannot only pose a risk to beach users immediately following the storm, but if not removed, can result in greater risk of injury in the future, when they are gradually exposed on the beach once again, or hidden just below the surface out of sight,” the report said.

“The first step in rehabilitating the beach is to remove all material from the beach area, seaward of the scarp toe, that is inappropriate or may cause a danger,” it said.

“This needs to be done prior to the sand building up on the beach as the beach berm recovers.

“Such a cleanup also provides the opportunity to remove inappropriate or unapproved structures or protection works from the public beach area.

“Scarp above rubble wall, building debris mixed with fallen vegetation, collapsed stairs, fencing, lighting on beach” following the June 2016 storm when report recommended removal of all hazardous and inappropriate materials Source: Coastal Environment, 2016

“Council needs to carefully consider the issue relating to responsibility and liability should these works be permitted to remain.”

The consultant recommended sand placement against the slope, through nourishment or beach scraping, as the best way to enable the safety and amenity of the beach to recover from the June, 2016, storm.

The report said the volume of sand required to do the job properly was substantial, estimated in the report at 8,000 cubic metres or 800 truck loads.

Coastal Environment Pty Ltd said that while the storm was significant, it was by no means extreme in impact along the Central Coast.

“The measured waves’ heights achieved and the peak (King) tide water level were

larger than normal, however, the recurrence period of both is less than a one in 10 year occurrence,” the report said.

The erosion damage was

those locations which pose an unacceptable risk to the public using the beach area”.

It said the elimination of unacceptable public risk was

“This is an opportunity to remove

inappropriate materials from the beach before they can be incorporated and buried during beach recovery.” focussed in the centre of the beach, between 21 Pacific St and north to 97 Ocean View Dve, affecting 40 properties along approximately 825 metres of the beach frontage.

The purpose of the report was to “assist Council in addressing the orderly remediation of the beachfront and to prioritise

its first priority.

“The current instability of the beachfront poses an ongoing risk to persons and property and is susceptible to coming weather conditions prior to natural recovery or remediation work being undertaken”.

The report also did individual

assessments on over 50 properties that had been impacted by the storm, and identified 12 properties as having high risk issues arising from erosion of the escarpment, and identified as posing a high risk to public safety.

While no dwellings were considered at immediate risk, many were located within an area defined as the immediate impact zone and “remain extremely vulnerable to further erosion or slumping of the erosion slope.

“We would recommend that for those 12 properties, a geotechnical and coastal engineering assessment should be undertaken prior to rubbish removal from the face of the slope or any slope stabilisation,” the report said.

Five older residences on surface footings and in

close proximity to an active escarpment were rated as at medium risk.

A further 24 erosion scarps were classed as medium risk and requiring some rehabilitation.

“Public safety is the immediate priority and a clean-up of the entire beach frontage is required to remove debris, inappropriate material and illegal or dangerous constructions from the public beach,” the report said.

The report said erosion had removed the dune and beach berm along the centre section of the beach, exposed ad hoc protection works along the beach, much of which was placed during the 1970s, and reactivated the high erosion escarpment (up to 6m steep and unstable).

The erosion event exposed old and inappropriate materials on the beach (and in the face of unstable slopes), the report said.

“It has also added further debris to the beach as more recent works on private land and the public beach have failed.

“Immediate response to reduce these risks is warranted.

“This is an opportunity to remove inappropriate materials from the beach before they can be incorporated and buried during beach recovery.

“This only raises the risk of them being exposed once more during future erosion events and they can pose an ongoing risk to beach users into the future.

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assive clearing in Ourimbah Rd, Kangy Angy, to make way for the NSW G o v e r n m e n t ’s Intercity Rail Fleet Maintenance Facility, has already turned pristine E2 and E3 bushland into a desolate w a s t e l a n d , according to residents.

E2 land at Kangy Angy before clearing

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Pristine environmental bushland turned into a desolate wasteland

E2 land at Kangy Angy after clearing

They know they’ve lost the war, but members of the Kangy Angy Residents’ Action Group (KARAG) do battle every day to hold to account Transport for NSW and its contractor, John Holland, as the land clearing commences to make way for the NSW Government facility that will maintain its new intercity fleet of trains.

It could’ve been built on industrial land at Warnervale, but the former Wyong Council, having other plans for Warnervale, encouraged Transport for NSW to acquire E2-E3 wetlands at Kangy Angy.

The sale of the Kangy Angy land went through while Central Coast Council was under administration.

A plea from the elected Central Coast Council to move the project to Warnervale was ignored

by Transport for NSW. Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Scot MacDonald,

recently turned the first sod for work at Kangy Angy to commence and, since then, residents continue to witness the devastation of their semirural neighbourhood.

A resident recently found a dead baby platypus, whilst another family believes endangered pigmy possums have been rendered homeless by the land clearing.

“As you turn right into Orchard Rd, it is horrendous, all the trees are gone,” said KARAG spokesperson, Tracey Stewart.

“Then when you come back out and drive along Enterprise Dve, at Chittaway Rd, all the trees are gone, because they are starting to take the trees out for the rail bridge,” she said.

“No, we did not anticipate it being this bad, especially along Ourimbah Rd, where we had the expectation that the foliage along the road was going to be retained.”

When the clearing along Ourimbah Rd commenced, residents called Jamie Seaton, the John Holland officer responsible for liaising with residents.

“He came down with a map and said, ‘oh no, because we are changing where the power lines are going, we had to take that foliage too.”

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JULY 19, 2018

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The Whitfields celebrate 60 years of marriage

Where have all the flowers gone?

Long-time Woy Woy residents, Mr and Mrs Keith and Joan Whitfield, have celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in July.

The concreted slabs have replaced flower beds in the War Memorial garden at Woy Woy Inset: The former flower bed in full bloom behind the memorial

Concreted over every one …

Central Coast Council has concreted over flowers planted in the shape of the Australian flag in the Memorial Garden in Woy Woy. The flowers have been replaced with coloured concrete slabs.

The move has been met with strong criticism from local residents.

Save Woy Woy Waterfront president Mr Ross Cochrane has described the concreting as “ridiculous, cheapskate, disrespectful”.

Phegans Bay events manager Ms Ylenna Zajec commented on social media: “Just wait until the graffiti artists start painting the concrete slabs.

“Maybe they will paint flowers.”

Cr Jeff Sundstrom said he had made ward councillors aware of

the issue along with the Mayor Cr Jane Smith and Council actingdirector Mr Boris Bolgoff.

In a written statement, Council chief Mr Gary Murphy said the concrete was installed because the plants were “continually affected” by salt “through sea spray and diffusion through the soil”.

The garden in Brickwharf Rd which contains Woy Woy’s cenotaph is adjacent to the Woy Woy Channel.

“This has significantly affected the survival rate of plants in the garden bed, often leaving the gardens sparse or bare,” he said.

“In addition, the popularity of Anzac celebrations at the site is increasing and the area is unable to effectively and safely accommodate the rising crowds.”

Mr Murphy said the Woy Woy and Ettalong Returned and Services League sub-branch had

“agreed that by concreting these areas it will provide more room for people to attend due to the reduced risk of trampling garden beds”.

According to the Register of War Memorials of NSW, the site was dedicated as a Soldiers Memorial Park by NSW Governor Sir Philip Game in 1932.

It commemorates those from the district who served in the various conflicts in which Australia has been involved.

It was originally erected in memory of the fallen and those who served in World War I. Those who died in World War II were added.

SOURCE: Media statement, 14 Jul 2018 Ross Cochrane, Save Woy Woy Waterfront Media statement, 26 Jul 2018 Gary Murphy, Central Coast Council

The Whitfield’s grew up and met in Ryde, became childhood sweethearts and married on July 11, 1958.

They had three daughters and moved their family to Woy Woy in 1964, building a modest home and planting a native garden.

The couple still live in the same family home and the garden has won several awards in the local garden competitions.

Mr Whitfield has had a history of service to the Central Coast.

He worked in the Post Office in Woy Woy for over 40 years, served as an alderman for the Gosford Council as well as deputy mayor.

Mr Whitfield was an instrumental figure in saving Riley’s Island from development as well as saving Woy Woy Library from being demolished.

He was an announcer on a local over 50’s Radio Station as well as an amateur actor in various local stage shows.

Mrs Whitfield managed a corner store with her brotherin-law at Booker Bay, then went on to manage local fashion and jewellery stores as well as provide book keeping services.

They raised three girls all of whom have successful careers.

One is a lawyer, one a counsellor and the other a teacher.

The pair celebrated their 60th anniversary at Saddles Restaurant, Mt White, with their family, friends and the original members of their wedding party – all bar one who sadly died a few weeks prior.

When asked what makes a happy and long marriage, Mrs Whitfield said: “Having love in home with your children, being loyal to each other despite your ups and downs.”

Mr Whitfield said the key to a long-lasting marriage was realising that no marriage will ever be perfect and that accepting the bad with the good was the true test of commitment.

“I find it unbelievable that some persons who have discussed long marriages report they never had a cross word, marriages were made in heaven – but so were storms and tempest.

“Good and bad days are to be expected.

“One of the blessings of marriage is companionship and like-thinking so we have enjoyed the ride,” he said.

The Whitfield’s have received cards and well wishes from the Queen, the Prime Minister, the Governor General and his wife, as well as Member for Warringah Mr Tony Abbott.

SOURCE: Media release, 21 Jul 2018 Louise Whitfield, Woy Woy

Jeanine Whitfield, Catherine Samuels, Keith Whitfield, Joan Whitfield and Louise Whitfield Photo by Niki Ryan

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arliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Scot MacDonald, and Member for Terrigal, Adam Crouch, have welcomed a 20-year framework for regional investment to guide the allocation of resources from the new $4.2b Snowy Hydro Legacy Fund.

MacDonald said the regional vision, launched by Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, and Deputy Premier, John Barilaro, will promote sustainable, longterm economic growth that will focus on job creation and economic development on the Central Coast.

According to MacDonald, the Central Coast local government area will be combined with Lake Macquarie to form a metro satellite Functional Economic Region (FER).

“This is a plan that identifies our industry sectors set for growth, and identifies the role of government in facilitating that growth,” MacDonald said.

“For the Central Coast, that means focusing on industries including agribusiness, forestry, tourism and hospitality, and technologyenabled primary industries,” he said.

“What’s so important about this vision is that the NSW Government has the financial backing to deliver it, with every cent of the $4.2b Snowy Hydro Legacy Fund being spent in regional NSW.” The other categories in the Vision document are Coastal, Growth Centre, Inland and Remote.

Other metro satellites are around the ACT, Wingecarribee, Kiama, Lithgow and the Hunter.

Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Scot MacDonald, with Premier, Gladys Berejiklian, at the launch of the 20-year vision

They are defined as relatively high-density communities on the outskirts of major centres of economic activity such as Sydney.

They include towns such as Gosford, according to the Vision document.

“Their higher populations reflect strong economic growth which is based on traded clusters, concentrations of industries such as mining, tourism, food manufacture and residential care, and bolstered by their proximity to growing major cities.

Central Coast and Lake Macquarie are the only “metro satellite FER” that consists of more than one LGA.

It is starred as one of the areas in NSW that will “add the most people” over the next 20 years.

“In the next two decades, Metro Satellites will transform from satellite areas of bigger cities, to become major hubs in their own right, attracting large numbers of families seeking new lifestyle and employment opportunities,” the Vision document said.

“Transport links are essential to existing and future Metro Satellites and nearby Growth Centres, to enable the flow of commuters, goods and services,” it said.

“Most of these increases will be in the Central Coast

and Lake Macquarie, where populations will reach nearly 725,000.”

According to the Vision, there will more jobs in the construction, retail, accommodation and food service industries.

“As these areas become major hubs, their selfsufficiency will increase and employment sources will shift towards local industries that provide goods and services beyond the immediate region.

“Metro Satellites’ key employing industry will be healthcare and social assistance.

“This will be particularly apparent in areas such as

… the Central Coast, where growing populations of retirees will generate demand for health and lifestyle services.

“Employment sectors in Metro Satellites are diverse, spanning health (particularly in the Central Coast and Lake Macquarie).

“While mining is a particularly large job cluster, future employment is hard to predict due to increasing automation and variable commodity prices.

“Mining in these areas will face significant competition from other states, and will need to improve productivity to remain competitive,” the Vision document said.

“This 20-year plan will ensure that our region benefits from the $4.2b Snowy Hydro Legacy Fund,” Crouch said.

“Over the coming months, I will be working to ensure our local area continues to get its fair share of funding through this new Regional Vision,” he said.

The vision outlined 10 key ‘engine industries’ that will drive growth in regional NSW, and set out a framework for how the government should direct its investment.

The vision brings together the NSW Government’s longterm planning strategies, including the Future Transport Strategy 2056, the NSW State Infrastructure Strategy and the regional plans.

The 20 year Vision document talks about “turbo-charging visionary projects so they don’t just sit on paper, but actually become reality”.

Shadow Minister for the Central Coast, David Harris, said the Vision was a “nothing” statement from the NSW Government.

“This is a nothing

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announcement from the Liberals that still does not give us any details about how the money will be spent,” Harris said.

“The NSW Auditor General found that 14 per cent of Restart NSW funds were spent on the regions in 2015-16, instead of the promised 30 per cent,” he said.

This is a cruel hoax from a government already caught out short changing regional NSW with less than half of the promised infrastructure spending.

“Labor has already announced that we will spend this money where it belongs, on vital projects across regional NSW.” Labor had initially raised questions about whether or not the Central Coast would even be considered a region for the purposes of sharing in the Snowy Hydro spoils.

Then NSW Opposition leader, Luke Foley, announced it would be spent on growing jobs and population in the regions.

The Government has responded with its vision and a list of things it will investigate within the next 5, 10 and 20 years, but it is not a detailed plan of how the Snowy Hydro money will be spent.

For instance, over the next 20 years, according to the document, NSW will be planning for and activating smart cities technologies in metro satellites.

Source: Media release, Jul 30 Kit Hale, office of Scot MacDonald Media statement, Jul 31 Zachary Harrison, office of David Harris Document, Jul 30 NSW Government, A 20-year Economic Vision for Regional NSW Jackie Pearson, journalist

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Environmental Defender joins fight to save Kangy Angy trees

CEN calls for more support for Kangy Angy residents

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he Community Environment Network (CEN) has called on the broader community to support the Kangy Angy residents who continue to fight the environmental destruction being caused to make way for the NSW Government’s intercity train fleet maintenance facility.

Kangy Angy residents in front of the threatened trees

he NSW E n v i ro n m e n t a l Defender’s Office (EDO) has stepped up to represent Kangy Angy residents as they fight to save a stand of mature trees in Orchard Rd that were not earmarked for removal in Transport for NSW plans for its innercity fleet rail maintenance facility.

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The EDO wrote to Transport for NSW on Tuesday, July 31, seeking to stop the removal of the trees and questioning whether Transport for NSW had consent to do so under the Federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC

Act).

According to the EDO, the trees constituted “habitat for the critically endangered Regent Honeyeater and the Swift Parrot.

“Those species are protected from actions which will have a significant impact on the species, without first obtaining (and complying with) a valid approval granted under the EPBC Act. “Our client is concerned that Transport NSW is proposing to clear a stand of native trees, including gum trees, blackbutts and bloodwoods, in the vicinity of Orchard Rd… without appropriate legal authority under the EPBC Act, or the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act

1979 (EPA Act, NSW),” the EDO said in its letter.

“Based on our review of the Review of Environmental Factors prepared for the Project, it would appear that the Project, as approved, proposes to retain the vegetation along Orchard Rd,” it said.

“We are instructed that our client has requested copies of the revised plans that Transport NSW says now authorises the clearing of these trees that were to be retained, however they have not been provided with any such plans.

“Without access to the relevant revised plans, it is not clear to us that Transport for NSW is now authorised to clear the trees that were to be retained.

“In order to confirm whether the proposed clearing is authorised by the EPBC Act approval for the Project, we require, as a matter of urgency, copies of the revised plans that Transport for NSW relies on to authorise the clearing of this area.

“If the plans have been submitted for approval by the Department, we require a copy of the plans and the relevant approval by the Department.

“Transport for NSW is required to obtain separate approval before trees are removed where the impact was not identified or assessed in the original environmental impact assessment for the Project.

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CEN Chairman, John Asquith, said: “As the destruction of local ecosystems is pushed through by the State Government, Kangy Angy residents continue to maintain their vigilance.

“In 2003, academic, Dr Glenn Albrecht, created a new concept called ‘solastalgia’.

“He has described it

as ‘the pain or sickness caused by the loss or lack of solace and the sense of desolation connected to the present state of one’s home and territory’.

“It is the ‘lived experience’ of negative environmental change.

“It is the homesickness you have when you are still at home.

“It is that feeling you have when your sense of place is under attack.

“Not only the Kangy Angy residents, but many people from across the Coast, are experiencing a deep sense of loss as this site begins to resemble a moonscape.

“Support the residents in their efforts to stop further environmental destruction,” he said.

Source: Media release, Aug 1 John Asquith, Community Environment Network

Central Coast Council planning assessment staff have recommended the refusal of the $30.3 million redevelopment of the Sporties site on the corner of Brick Wharf Rd and North Burge Rd, Woy Woy. The Remembrance Day service will be held at the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial on the Ettalong waterfront

Both service and festival to run on Remembrance Day A Remembrance Day service and the annual Oyster Festival will both occur in Ettalong on November 11.

The Peninsula Chamber of Commerce has agreed to move the Oyster Festival to the Ettalong Tourist Resort to enable the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the WWI armistice at the Vietnam Veterans’ War Memorial on the waterfront.

However, the arrangement has not come without a cost.

In the process, the Ettalong Diggers Memorial Club and its CEO, Mr Bill Jackson, resigned from the Peninsula Chamber of Commerce and have withdrawn their sponsorship of the Ettalong Oyster Festival.

This year the Vietnam Veterans, Peacekeepers and Peacemakers Association Central Coast Subbranch will run the Remembrance Day service.

Sub-branch senior vice-

The cleared area at Kangy Angy has been described as a moonscape and an open cut mine

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president Dr Stephen Karsai said he understood the Oyster Festival had clashed with Remembrance Day on three occasions during the past 10 years but 2018 was special because it was the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. “We asked if they would move the event to November 18 and they said no, so we had a stalemate,” Dr Karsai said.

“I then spoke to the deputy mayor Cr Chris Holstein, who suggested moving the Oyster Festival to the Ettalong Markets,” he said.

Dr Karsai said it was usually the Ettalong, Hardys Bay and Woy Woy RSL sub-branch that organised the Remembrance Day service but the Vietnam Veterans had been asked to organise this year’s event.

“We have organised for two World War I bi-planes to do circuits and then for an FA18 fly-over and we will have navy and army cadets

in attendance,’ he said.

Dr Karsai said he would like to thank the Ettalong Diggers Memorial Club chief, Mr Bill Jackson, for supporting the Veterans to ensure the commemoration went ahead as planned.

Peninsula Chamber of Commerce president Mr Matthew Wales said it would be business as usual for the Oyster Festival.

“The Oyster Festival is going ahead on November 11 but relocated at Ettalong Markets,” Mr Wales said.

“The Ettalong Diggers said it would withdraw its sponsorship and use of its carpark and streets if we did not change the date, so my committee unanimously voted to move to the Ettalong Markets,” he said.

SOURCE: Interview, 8 Aug 2018 Steve Karsai, VVPPACC Sub-branch Matthew Wales, Peninsula Chamber of Commerce Reporter: Jackie Pearson

The recommendation, which councillors cannot alter, will be presented to the Central Coast Joint Regional Planning Panel, which will meet to determine the application on August 23.

However, councillors have asked to see the assessment report and are expected to discuss it when Council meets today (August 13) to decide whether to make their own submission.

The Save Woy Woy Waterfront, the community group that has led opposition to the development is expected to speak at the meeting.

The group has also made submissions to the Joint Regional Planning Panel and is also expected to address the panel.

According to the assessment report prepared by Council staff, 94 submissions were received regarding the proposal to demolish the existing clubhouse and replace it with 63 seniors independent living units, a new registered club, five retail tenancies and a basement bowling green and car park across three buildings.

The assessment report gave a number of grounds for recommending refusal of the proposal includings its failure to address flood risk, noncompliance with planning controls and insufficient information being provided “for further assessment”.

The assessment report listed the application’s noncompliance with sections of the State Environmental Planning Policy (Housing for Seniors or People with a Disability) 2004, the Apartment Design Guide, Gosford Local Environmental Plan 2014 and Gosford Development Control Plan 2013.

Non-compliances included a 56

per cent variation to the maximum height of eight metres or less, a proposal for three storeys when a building adjacent to a boundary of the site must be no more than two storeys and a shortfall in the requirements for communal open space.

The proposed development also had a shortfall of 188 car parking spaces, according to the Council report.

The report addressed the concerns raised during the public exhibition of the proposal, one of which was that the redevelopment would be out of keeping with the intended recreational use of the land.

“Whilst the provision of a registered club and community facilities are permissible with development consent in the RE2 Private Recreation zone within GLEP 2014, seniors housing and retail facilities are prohibited,” the report said.

“The proposed development comprising seniors housing on No 186 Brick Wharf Rd and No 1 North Burge Road, Woy Woy, is permissible by virtue of the provisions of the …[State planning policy]…which provides the policy applies to land being used for the purposes of an existing registered club.

“The applicant was advised of the prohibition on the site relating to the five retail premises proposed, however, to date this issue remains unresolved,” it said.

According to the report, seniors housing is permissible at 184 Brick Wharf Rd which is zoned R2 Low Density Residential.

The Council report does, however, state that the proposal could not be supported because “Insufficient information has been provided to enable further assessment to occur”.

The report also strongly rejects the proposal on the bases of the “flood constraints of the site.

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Avoca Beach residents unhappy about another water main break T

hree properties on The Round Dve, at Avoca, were flooded, when a large water main burst, just after 6:00am, on Wednesday, August 8.

This is the second major water mains break that has resulted in damage to homes in Round Dve this year.

Central Coast Council announced it was alerted to the burst water main at approximately 6.20am that morning.

“As this was a large main, a sudden release of water impacted three properties on The Round Dve,” a Council media alert said.

“There has been some water damage across the three properties, including to the ground floor of property one, the garage of property two and the garden of property three.

“Residents of these properties were able to remain in their homes,” the alert said.

A Council team worked to repair the main as quickly as possible.

Repairs required the removal of a large, approximately 20 metre-high gum tree, which was believed to be the cause of the water main burst, as its root system was directly above the main.

The water supply had to be temporarily cut to approximately 110 residents living on The Round Dve, Parrendi Cl, Kumali Cl, Nurragi Cl and Baronga Rd. They were informed that an alternative drinking water supply was available at Hazlett Park, Gill Ave and Avoca Beach

Houses in The Round Dve Avoca Beach were inundated when a water main burst

Primary School.

The residents were without water until 11:15pm.

“Water main breaks will periodically occur across all water systems, and are typically caused by ground and weather conditions, tree roots and third party damage,” Council announced.

“Council works to resolve water outages as quickly as possible and apologises for any inconvenience caused when outages do occur.

“Council continually monitors the region’s water and sewer system and implements an ongoing renewal program for water and sewer mains.”

Council’s Acting Director of Assets, Infrastructure and

Business, Boris Bolgoff, said Council had a solution to minimise the risk of future water main breaks at Avoca Beach.

“We have a plan in place for Avoca Beach and we will action this plan as soon as possible in light of recent breaks and associated property damage in the area,” Bolgoff said.

“Our plan for maintaining and improving the Central Coast’s water and sewer system includes a region-wide water mains renewal program that began in July and has been prioritised based on areas that have experienced higher numbers of water main breaks in recent times.”

Council has already completed replacement of 575

metres of pipeline along The Round Dve and had identified plans to replace a further 1,600 metres of pipework which is currently planned to commence in October.

The new pipework will be constructed in the roadway, which will preserve trees and minimise water supply disruptions to customers during construction.

A burst water main at The Round Dve, Avoca, on May 21, resulted in four homes being flooded so severely that one occupant needed to be rescued from their home by emergency services.

Residents of The Round Dve affected by the flooding described the incident as a torrent of water descending

downhill towards their properties.

The flooding lasted for over an hour, but luckily the properties affected suffered no structural damage.

At the time, residents said it was the fourth time properties on The Round Dve had been impacted by the water main bursting, and they were fed up with Central Coast Council’s approach to fixing the problem.

Speaking to media following the May incident, The Round Dve resident, Ms Cherokee Neilson, said residents were tired of dealing with this.

“It’s happened to me this time, but the three times previously, it happened to my friends.

“We just really need the Council to step in and fix these problems,” Ms Neilson said.

Fellow residents, Mr Rob Jamieson and Mr John Vrkic, also spoke to media.

Mr Jamieson said residents went without any notice on the status of the water main until breaks and subsequent flooding occurred.

“The flooding has caused some severe damage to a lot of houses in the street,” Mr Jamieson said.

Like Ms Nielson, Mr Vrkic’s home was also effected by the May flooding.

Mr Vrkic said that whilst no structural damage had occurred to his home, he had been unable to return to his property for days whilst clean up and repair works were underway.

Despite being structurally sound, the homes of all residents affected suffered property and goods damage during the incident.

Mr Jamieson said it was time for Council to get the water main sorted.

“Council needs to allocate more money to redo the whole line,” he said.

“The Round Dve, Cape Three Points Rd, Avoca Dve, Yodalla Pl, Baronga Rd, Parrendi Cl and Nurragi Cl experienced a water outage on May 21, from 4:00pm to 6:00am on May 22, as the broken water main was repaired.

Source: Media alert, Aug 8 Media release, Aug 9 Central Coast Council media Website, May 21 Central Coast Incident Alerts

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Parliament hears how truth, common sense and honour all failed in Kangy Angy selection M

ember for The Entrance, David Mehan, read a statement from the Kangy Angy Residents Action Group (KARAG) in the NSW Legislative Assembly on August 7, which included damning information about the role of the former Wyong Council in pushing the NSW Government towards building its facility at Kangy Angy, instead of Warnervale.

“When Premier Berejiklian was Transport Minister, she shook hands on a deal with the Darkinjung Land Council, to site a new Rail Maintenance Facility at Warnervale,” Mehan told parliament.

“For unknown reasons, Transport decided not to pursue this avenue.

“A list of over 20 sites was established, whittled down to eight, with (Darkinjung land at) Warnervale being the now preferred site.

“Warnervale fitted the criteria laid out for the proposal, Kangy Angy not even appearing on

the list.

“We have documentary evidence that threats were made to Transport if they pursued the prefferd Warnervale option.

“We hasten to add this

Caption was the previous Council of Wyong Council, before amalgamation Michael Whittaker, to with Gosford.”

Transport for NSW, on KARAG has October 9, 2014. obtained copies of The email was copied correspondence by the to then Mayor of Wyong, former General Manager Doug Eaton.

Whittaker said: Transport for NSW’s preferred site at Warnervale had “for many years been identified

by Council for the construction of the Link Road and development

of an education and business precinct.”

The email said: The proposed TfNSW site for the rails tabling and maintenance yard has completely unacceptable implications on both of these strategic initiatives

by Council.

“Wyong Council would like to convey in the strongest possible terms its complete opposition to the TfNSW proposal for this facility on this site.

“I also advise that Council will be taking action to initiate opposition to this proposal at a political level,” Whittaker said.

According to David Mehan’s parliamentary statement: “Instead of continuing down the list of possible sites, Transport asked Wyong Council for their recommendations.

“Wyong proffered the Kangy location, and without any onsite investigations into its suitability, Transport purchased what can only be called a lemon, in developmental terms.

“Transport failed to learn that the land was valued at $422,000, and purchased it for $17m.

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Parliament hears how truth, common sense and honour all failed in Kangy Angy selection M

ember for The Entrance, David Mehan, read a statement from the Kangy Angy Residents Action Group (KARAG) in the NSW Legislative Assembly on August 7, which included damning information about the role of the former Wyong Council in pushing the NSW Government towards building its facility at Kangy Angy, instead of Warnervale.

From P1 “Transport, without checking, accepted flood mapping from Wyong Council that was blatantly inaccurate, and recommendations that this parcel of land did not flood and was fit for purpose.

“The usual practice of submissions from residents was solicited,

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and for nearly three years, we have been informing Transport that the land is not fit for purpose.

“Indeed of the myriad of issues, Transport’s arguments have not stood up to scrutiny once.

“This confirms the lack of expertise in design, engineering and technical knowhow within the department.

“Even now, as the protected trees have been cleared, there is still only an artist’s impression of the plans, and the response to other issues is that ‘we will deal with them as they arise’.

“To say that the proposals are fluid, is an understatement.

“Our arguments have been based on a comparison with Warnervale.

“Our submission shows that Transport massaged the figures to produce the results they wanted.

“They continually

David Mehan, Member for The Entrance, with Emma McBride, Member for Dobell and Kangy Angy residents assert that Kangy Angy was the preferred site over Warnervale.

“We can prove comprehensively this is not the case.

“On every single issue, Warnervale is the superior site, less that

10km further North, and Central Coast Council endorsed.

“Kangy needs a $50m bridge and extensive road works to access the site, while Warnervale does not.

“Kangy floods regularly,

causing road closures, it is a wetland and water storage floodplain, while Warnervale does not flood.

“Kangy’s position means slow moving trains enter and exit a busy 80kph main line, endangering workers, lives where no such problem exists at Warnervale.

“The parameters placed on the site by Federal Minister Josh Frydenberg are onerous: 3,984 Melaleuca Biconvexa, Mahony’s toadlet, Wallum froglet, habitat for endangered birds exist on this E2 and E3 zoned land.

“Warnervale is zoned industrial with no ecological issues.

“Do we now have to discover a political reason for Transport’s intransigence, because the political fallout from this proposal will be considerable at election time?

“At this point the

Source: Parliamentary statement, Aug 7 David Mehan, Member for The Entrance Email, Oct 9, 2014 Michael Whittaker, Wyong Council

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“The trees are gone.

“We won all the arguments but that was not enough.

“We were up against an adversary that didn’t play fair.

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“We the little people had no knock-out punch, even though we have right on our side.

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Environmental Justice Australia lawyers elta Electricity C o m p a n y Secretary, Steve Gurney, has labelled community concerns about the structural integrity of the ash dam at Vales Point Power Station as “mischievous”.

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The Vales Point Power Station has a 50-yearold coal ash dam, or dump, where it stores its coal ash, a by-product of burning coal to make electricity.

The NSW Environment Protection Agency (EPA) has confirmed it has been contacted by a member of the public regarding the Vales Point ash dam “and the EPA has met with the individual concerned.

“The Vales Point power station operates under strict Environmental Protection Licence conditions to protect the community and the environment,” the EPA statement said.

“If breaches of these conditions occur, the EPA will take action.”

The treeline along the Pacific Hwy Doyalson is littered with dead and sick vegetation He said such a monitored,” he said.

Mr Gurney said Delta Electricity was licensed revegetated area would However, according to to accept clean fill (VENM be the location for Delta’s Environmental Justice and ENM) from projects proposed solar plant at Australia (EJA), the Vales such as NorthConnex to Vales Point.

Point Ash “dump” has use as capping on the He confirmed the ash been identified as a major ash dam. dam was not required to public and environmental “We can take as much be lined, adding, “Ash health risk for generations is an inert product that to come. as we want,” he said.

“Delta’s actions “Once we have reached goes into a void, but we the point where a part of are required, under the at Vales Point have the dam is full, we cover Dam Safety Act, to have cemented its reputation as a bad neighbour, it with 45cm of VENM ongoing monitoring.

“We are one of those with a lax approach and then add topsoil and environmental revegetate,” Gurney said. sites that is heavily to and a regulated, heavily regulations

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disregard for community health,” James Whelan from the EJA said.

The EJA, citing reputable research from the United States, has argued that, rather than being inert, coal ash contains a toxic stew of chemicals, including chromium, lead, arsenic, mercury, cadmium and selenium.

Delta’s filling or rehabilitation of the ash dump at Vales Point is also fraught with environmental alarm bells, according to EJA. According to a compliance audit conducted by the NSW EPA in 2016, the Vales Point ash dam disposes of its ash by pumping it as a slurry to the purpose built ash dam adjacent to the power station.

It is a prescribed dam managed by the NSW Dam Safety Committee and an uncontrolled loss would be rated as “significant”, if it did occur.

Mr Gurney confirmed the contractor that Delta

uses to import clean fill to the Vales Point site has accepted fill from the NorthConnex project at the southern end of the M1 Motorway.

An anonymous member of the community told the Wyong Regional Chronicle that the weight of the fill is causing damage to the unlined dirt walls of the dump.

Dr Whelan said he had asked Central Coast Council and the NSW Government what they intended to do to manage “the toxic legacy of a massive landfill contaminating our community for generations to come”.

He said a current Senate inquiry into mine site rehabilitation had its terms of reference expanded to include ash dams, due to emerging problems related to ash dams in Australia.

“This needs a serious solution from the State Government; it needs to be managed more carefully,” he said.

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concerned about 400 hectare ash dam According to Whelan, even though Delta is covering parts of the Vales Point ash dump with fill, “ash is still going in.

“From the air, you can see the pipeline that carries ash into this 400 hectare ash dump, which is spreading south-west towards Wyee.

“This ash dump is as big as three suburbs.

“There is not another toxic landfill anywhere in the country as big as the Vales Point ash dump in an urban area.

“Councillors by and large look at me with concern but then say ‘isn’t that the responsibility of the state government?’.

“I asked NSW Environment Minister, Danielle Upton, three questions about the government’s standards for rehabilitation and remediation.

“She looked me in the eye and made a commitment to provide that information and she didn’t.

“Those three questions were how are you going to clean it up, how much is it going to cost and where will the money come from?

“The NSW Planning Minister also needs to answer the question, ‘what are you going to do with 400 hectares of toxic waste in the middle of a city, because that is where it will be as the Central Coast and Lake Macquarie expand.”

Whelan said the oldest part of the Vales Point ash dump was at the northern end [near Doyalson].

“That is where they intend to put their solar plant in an effort to raise their green credentials,” he said.

“We are a team of environmental lawyers, we love solar, but the only place in the country where we are concerned about solar is Vales Point, because it will be like putting icing on a toxic cake,” he said.

Another EJA lawyer, Bronya Lipski, said “Coal ash is the toxic waste

material that doesn’t go into the air when coal is burnt to make electricity.

“In most situations, including on the Central Coast, the coal ash is mixed with water and pumped to a muddy, toxic lake near the power station.

“This toxic slurry can leak into aquifers, contaminating groundwater.

“It can dry out and blow off premises causing air pollution.

“Coal ash contains significant amounts of heavy metals that can cause harm to human and environmental health.

“Coal ash is linked to heart disease, cancer, respiratory diseases and stroke.

“Unfortunately, in Australia, communities that live around ash dumps often don’t have a good understanding of the risks they’re exposed to while these facilities are operational.

“The Central Coast is one of the fastest-

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growing areas of NSW. “People are right to be concerned about living close to these ash dumps.

“Ideally, ash dams should be lined with upper and lower components that are impermeable.

“This will go some way to protecting groundwater from ash leachate and seepage.

“Strict monitoring of the ash levels is needed to prevent flooding and spills.

“There needs to be a comprehensive groundwater monitoring network so authorities know what contaminants are in the dam.

“Dam integrity is fundamental to protecting the community and minimising the likelihood of pollution occurring in land, groundwater and surface water.

“The EPA and the Dams Safety Commission must investigate any risk to dam integrity as a matter of priority.

“The consequences

of dam failure could be catastrophic to the local environment and potentially to people.

“We’re concerned about the absence of national best practice guidelines for ash dam rehabilitation.

“Industry practice is to dry out the ash and cover it with a glue-like substance, then cover it with 30mm of topsoil and grow grass on it.

“Given the toxicity of the material, I’m not convinced this is an adequate way to prevent future contamination risks to groundwater and soil contamination, and I’m concerned about the suitability for these sites for future land use.

“Rehabilitation is going to cost millions of dollars.

“As far as I am aware, the power stations in NSW are not required to maintain a financial assurance to the EPA to protect the taxpayer from footing the bill for rehabilitation.

“Ideally, all the power

stations should have closure and post-closure care plans for the ash dams.

“The communities that live nearby should be consulted throughout this process.

“They’re going to have to live with the toxic legacy, so they should be deeply engaged in the management and rehabilitation process,” she said.

EJA said it had also been alerted to community concerns about ground water contamination and the discharge of water from the power station into the lakes system.

Source: Media release, Aug 14 Josh Meadows, Environmental Justice Australia Interview, Aug 16 James Whelan, Environmental Justice Australia Media statement, Aug 17 Bronya Lipski, Environmental Justice Australia Interview, Aug 20 Steve Gurney, Delta Electricity Jackie Pearson, journalist

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Council to consider participating in Stra C

oordinator General for the Central Coast, Lee Shearer, has asked Central Coast Council to support and participate in a NSW Department of Planning Strategic Biodiversity Certification Project.

Council staff have recommended that Councillors vote in favour of the request when they meet on Monday, August 27.

According to Lee Shearer, “Ultimately, this work is aiming to deliver both the environmental and development outcomes identified in the Central Coast Regional Plan 2036, at least cost to State and local government and the private sector”.

According to a staff report, the project “is part of the NSW Government’s commitment to ensuring housing and employment growth supports the State’s economic prosperity and achieves environmental sustainability.”

It is being undertaken under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.

“The project will apply to important strategic growth centres identified in the Central Coast Regional Plan.”

In the former Wyong Local Government Area,

The former Wyong Council’s proposed biodiversity planning in the North Wyong Shire Structure Plan the focus will be on the North Wyong Shire Structure Plan lands and Darkinjung Local Aboriginal Land Council lands.

Council or private landholders may still apply for Biodiversity Certification of other areas.

“Biodiversity Certification is a

mechanism that integrates planning for biodiversity conservation with planning for proposed intensification of land use to support housing or employment.

“For example, conversion of rural or environmental land to urban or employment purposes,” the staff report said.

“Biodiversity impacts of future development are assessed at a landscape scale and offset early in the planning process.

“Once land is subject to Biodiversity Certification, the need for completing further biodiversity impact assessments, including retiring further biodiversity credits, is removed.”

The two types of Biodiversity Certification are Standard or Strategic.

“Standard Biodiversity Certification can apply to any proposal and can be coordinated either by landholders or planning authorities… from a single site to an entire growth centre.

“An example of standard Biodiversity

Certification is the project at the Warnervale Employment Zone (WEZ) currently being undertaken by Council.

“Strategic Biodiversity Certification is only available to planning authorities and provides additional options.”

Those options include the creation of State Conservation Areas and National Parks, local Development Control Plans (DCPs), the adoption of State Infrastructure Contributions (SIC) that allow biodiversity land to be purchased or enhanced, and any other measure determined by the NSW Minister for the Environment.

B i o d i v e r s i t y Certification operates within an impact assessment where development must avoid areas of high biodiversity value, such as those containing Ecologically Endangered Communities (EECs).

“Such areas should be established as Biodiversity Stewardship sites, or under some other conservation measure,” the staff report said.

The NSW Government’s Biodiversity Assessment Method uses a calculator to determine the number and type of credits required before a developer can clear land.

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tegic Biodiversity Certification Project Offset lands are called Biodiversity Stewardship Sites and have to be established through a Biodiversity Stewardship Site Assessment Report (BSSAR).

The report has to be accepted by the Biodiversity Conservation Trust.

“The BSSAR is prepared by an accredited assessor and consists of field assessment using a prescribed method and the input of field-collected data into the calculator, which determines the value of the Biodiversity Stewardship Site in terms

of the number of credits that are generated,” the staff report said.

The sites can be registered and credits placed for sale on a public credit register, to be sold on an open market where, for instance, rare species attract a higher value than common species.

“The main advantage of the project is that credits are more likely to be located and established within the local region, which may not occur under a standard … approach,” the report said.

“Significant areas of high conservation value vegetation occur in private ownership, or as vacant Crown Land in the Central Coast Local Government Area, such as over 1,500 ha of proposed COSS land [the Coastal Open Spaces System of the former Gosford Council] and large tracts of bushland in the Charmhaven and Doyalson areas.

“The Department of Planning and Environment (DPE) has shown a preference in attempting to establish Biodiversity Stewardship

sites over these areas, rather than outside of the Central Coast Region.

“This process may assist in the expansion of the COSS lands, or a similar scheme, into the former Wyong LGA.” Other advantages of Council participating in the project were listed as certainty to applicants that they can get consent for developments in “highly constrained locations.

“A number of sites may contain species where obtaining credits may be particularly difficult, or

not allowed, under the standard development assessment pathway.

“The DPE will fund technical studies, this saves applicants up to $50,000 per site,” the report said.

The Central Coast Regional Plan 2036 has a goal of protecting the natural environment through the protection and management of environmental values.

Direction 12: Protect and manage environmental value, and more specifically Action 12.3, focuses on identifying

and strengthening biodiversity corridors as places for priority biodiversity offsets.

“The areas considered for Biodiversity Certification are those identified as the major growth areas within the Central Coast Regional Plan 2036, and Biodiversity Certification will streamline development assessment in terms of biodiversity impacts in those areas,” the staff report said.

Source: Agenda item 3.1, Aug 27 Central Coast Council ordinary meeting

Council owned land as stewardship sites needs to be adding to region’s biodiversity C

o m m u n i t y Environment Network Chairman, John Asquith, has confirmed that CEN will be meeting with the NSW Department of Planning on Thursday, August 23, to discuss the NSW G o v e r n m e n t ’s S t r a t e g i c Biodiversity Certification Project for the Central Coast.

Asquith said CEN considered it essential that land to be saved as Biodiversity Stewardship Sites was located within the Central Coast, and preferably east of the M1 motorway.

“Land to the east of the freeway has been under so much development pressure and that is where most of the

Endangered Ecological Communities (EECs) are located,” he said.

“If you look around any of the Central Coast’s lakes, lagoons and waterways, there will usually be a type of swamp forest and they are all threatened.

“When the Central Coast was first settled and developed, people saw the swamp forests as flat and close to the water.

“All they had to do was clear and drain the land and they had a nice place to live near the water.

“That is why so many neighbourhoods have concerns about flood and sea level rise, but it also means much of the region’s swamp forest has gone.”

Another type of habitat that has almost been

eliminated from the Central Coast is Littoral Rainforest, which was easily cleared by the use of fire.

Finally, according to Asquith, the third type of habitat that needs to be retained as stewardship sites in the region, is wetlands.

“There are a lot around the Central Coast, but overall, NSW has lost over 50 per cent of its wetlands,” Asquith said.

Various threatened or endangered species are reliant on those three EECs for habitat and food, including gliders, and bird species such as the Regent Honeyeater and Swift Parrot.

“They move around and have quite a range, but they can’t survive on the Coast if the habitat that provides their food source, such as Swamp

Mahogany flowers, is not there anymore,” he said.

Asquith said the main reason for Central Coast Council to participate in the NSW Government’s Strategic Biodiversity Certification Project was to ensure the stewardship sites were located in the LGA and were “offsets worth having”.

“The problem we have with the Biodiversity Certification Act, and the legislation has been around in various forms for the past 10 years, is that the offsets don’t need to be identified until the project is completed,” he said.

According to Asquith, the Intercity Train Maintenance Facility development at Kangy Angy is a case in point.

Information about the land to be conserved as an offset for the loss of

the wetlands and EECs at Kangy Angy, although available on the Transport for NSW website, is heavily redacted.

The Kangy Angy Residents’ Action Group (KARAG) has been told it cannot have access to the information because it is commercial in confidence.

John Asquith said CEN told Transport for NSW that they would not be able to locate equivalent land to that which has been cleared at Kangy Angy.

“The fact is, they have not been able to find appropriate land and their response is to hide the facts,” he said.

“The process is supposed to be open and transparent to give it credibility.

“Time will tell, but it

looks as though they are not telling the truth, they should be able to say we have found xyz hectares of land that is equivalent to that lost at Kangy Angy,” he said.

As for the Council staff’s suggestion that Council-owned E2 and E3 land could be used as stewardship sites, Asquith said, before doing so, Council would still have to prove it was adding to the region’s biodiversity and not just “moving deckchairs”.

“If land is already protected, already has a high level of protection and is Council-owned, the offset credits would be discounted,” he said.

Source: Interview, Aug 21 John Asquith, Community Environment Network Jackie Pearson, journalist

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Staff report recommends acceptance of Strategic Biodiversity Certification Project A

staff report recommending C o u n c i l ’ s acceptance of the NSW Government’s Central Coast S t r a t e g i c Biodiversity Certification Project, also spells out the risks of Council deciding either to participate or not participate.

A report prepared by Council’s Natural Assets Unit, identified that Council owns 6,000 ha of land that may be suitable for use as Stewardship sites or offset sites, which presents a potential income in excess of $70m.

These would be parcels of land set aside for biodiversity, so developers can clear other land, including environmental and rural land, for housing or employment generation.

The Stewardship Sites have a certain number of “credits” allocated to them, depending on their sensitivity, and those credits can be traded on an open market.

The decision to establish Council-owned land as Stewardship Sites would be up to Council to decide, but the staff report also highlighted the need for community consultation.

“The community may not support using lands that are already protected under an RE1 Public Recreation, E2 Environmental Consideration or E3 Environmental Management land

use zoning, as future Biodiversity Stewardship sites.

“This is due to the perception that such lands are already adequately conserved, and as such, the establishment of Biodiversity Stewardship Sites over those properties would be double-dipping.”

According to Council staff, there are also potential risks that Council would need to consider if it decided not to be involved in the Strategic project, including that offset lands could be located outside of the Central Coast.

“This would result in a large loss of native vegetation within the LGA,” the staff report said.

“This will reduce the total regional biodiversity values and compromise the Community Strategic Plan objectives to protect and promote our rich environmental assets,” it said.

The scale of the NSW Government Strategic Biodiversity Certification project is large, with a large number of affected landholders, according to the staff report.

“It will be difficult to ensure all landholders agree to participate in the project, in allowing access to their land for the completion of targeted surveys as required,” it said.

“If individual landholders are not included, this could reduce the value of the process.

Targeted surveys will need to occur on all sites

Land in the North Wyong Shire Structure Plan area (2012) will be a focal point of the NSW Government’s Central Coast Biodiversity Certification Project for species that generate biodiversity credits, and Council staff warned such a process would be time consuming.

“A single visit to a site may not necessarily detect some cryptic flora species, which may result in impacts that are not appropriately offset.

“A guarantee is required from the Department of Planning and Environment that offset sites are to be located in the Central Coast Region, otherwise local biodiversity loss may occur,” the staff report said.

“Once the Biodiversity Certification Order is conferred by the Minister, the additional listing of threatened species under the Biodiversity Conservation Act,

including those that may have important strongholds within development lands, does not guarantee their protection.

“In other words, even if new information becomes available, this does not require additional consideration at the Development Application stage.

Approval of the proposed Biodiversity Certification under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act 1999, may still be required after the Order is conferred by the NSW Minister for the Environment, according to Council’s staff.

However, a letter from Central Coast

Coordinator General, Lee Shearer, encouraging Central Coast Council to cooperate with and participate in the NSW Government’s Strategic Biodiversity Certification Project, implied that the State was working with the Federal Environment Department to also push through EPBC Act approvals at a landscape scale, and early in the process, rather than on an individual DA basis.

It is unclear whether Council or the community fully understand the implications of this StateFederal cooperation.

Council staff argued in their report to the August 23 meeting, that while the need to prepare higher level biodiversity impact assessment is removed, other requirements to consider impacts on the environment are retained.

They list Section 4.15 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, 1979, Council’s Wyong Local Environmental Plan 2013, and the Wyong Development Control Plan 2013, as remaining in place.

“This means that mitigation measures, such as requiring that applicants offset the removal of hollow-bearing trees through installing nesting boxes in adjacent retained bushland, or that clearing is supervised by an Ecologist, can still be maintained through imposed Conditions of Consent,” the staff report said.

“The requirements to consider impacts on waterways designated as

Waterfront Land, under the Water Management Regulations 2011, and water pollution under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1994, still apply, and as such, applicants at the development application stage will still need to obtain appropriate approvals.”

Another risk of not being involved, is that Council would not have input into where future growth areas were located as part of the project.

“This may result in inconsistencies in how Council and State Government plan for future population and employment growth.

“A Strategic Biodiversity Certification Process that enables key greenfield housing and employment zones that are identified in Council’s Strategic Plans to be developed, should be encouraged.

“However, the process must ensure that the establishment of biodiversity offsets occurs on land within the Central Coast Region and integrates with lands in Council’s Biodiversity Investment Plan.”

The project requires the declaration of the Central Coast as an Interim Designated area under the new Act and it is unclear from the staff report, whether Council or the community have a proper understanding of the implications of such a declaration.

Source: Agenda item 3.1, Aug 27 Central Coast Council ordinary meeting

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Praise all round as trees saved

Amalgamation T under review he worthy efforts of staff in amalgamating the former Gosford and Wyong Councils were acknowledged when Council met on August 13, and Councillors called for community input into the future of Central Coast Council.

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Council staff and the CEO will now bring forward a number of reports for Council consideration, including community questionnaires and surveys conducted by the two former councils prior to amalgamation.

Councillors also asked for a realistic estimate of the costs involved in amalgamating the two Councils, and a timeline for completion, along with progress reports on various aspects of amalgamation.

Council will consider conducting a community survey to assess current community views of the amalgamation.

The elected Councillors also resolved to ask Council staff to estimate the cost, and outline the process, regarding a proposal

for a poll to be held at an upcoming election (either Federal or State) to gauge community support or rejection of the continuation, or the reversal of, the amalgamation.

Mayor, Jane Smith, said the community had strong views on the amalgamation process and how much it was costing that Council must listen to and be the voice of the community.

“We need to understand the full cost of amalgamation and whether it is what the community really want so we can move forward in the best interests of the Central Coast.

“Community surveys were conducted preamalgamation by the former Councils, but we have no real understanding about how the community are currently feeling about the amalgamation,” Mayor Smith said.

“Staff have done an incredible job delivering services and infrastructure for our community and they should be commended.”

Source: Media release, Aug 13 Central Coast Council media

ransport for NSW has announced that the section of road connecting Orchard Rd to its New Intercity Fleet rail maintenance facility site at Kangy Angy, is proposed to be re-classified to retain vegetation.

Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Scot MacDonald, said he was pleased an outcome had been reached, in response to community feedback, that will no longer see the remaining trees cleared, “I acknowledge the considerable concern raised by community members about tree removal during early construction,” MacDonald said.

“Transport for NSW has assured me that it is their commitment to deliver infrastructure while minimising impact to residents and the environment,” he said.

“I am pleased to confirm that Transport for NSW, their contractor John Holland, and Central Coast Council, met to explore options to quickly resolve residents’ concerns, and have reached a positive outcome.

“The road that connects the facility to Orchard Rd is proposed to be reclassified by Council as a rural road.

“Previously this was planned to be an industrial road.

“Re-classifying it means design adjustments can now be made.

“In particular, reducing the width and footprint needed to build the road,

The trees in Orchard Road so there is no longer a need to clear the additional trees.

“The access road will now be a similar width to Orchard Rd. “It will have a spray seal, with no kerb or guttering, or lighting.”

Transport for NSW and Central Coast Council will continue to refine the design of the Orchard Rd intersection, and this will be shared with the community, once finalised.

Central Coast Council Mayor, Jane Smith, said she welcomed the collaboration between Council and Transport for NSW, which will see 49 mature trees retained at Kangy Angy around the proposed new access road to Orchard Rd. Local residents have been calling for a change to the plans to save the trees, and this has been achieved, Smith said.

She said she was pleased residents’ concerns had been listened to and praised staff for their efforts in negotiating the

right outcome for the community.

“Council Directors, Boris Bolgoff, Scott Cox and their teams, must be congratulated and thanked for their strong leadership in making this happen.

“This is what true collaboration is, two levels of government working together with the community’s best interest at heart.

“Council commend the community for their vigilance and support in helping us keep our natural environment protected for us and for future generations.”

Elaine Johnson, Principal Defender for the NSW Environmental Defenders’ Office, said the residents were “very pleased” that Transport for NSW had determined not to remove to trees.

“This is a good outcome for the environment and community, and reflects well on TfNSW, as a Government agency having listened to, considered and responded to the

concerns raised,” Johnson said.

Member for The Entrance, David Mehan, also said it was a positive outcome for the community and the environment.

Mehan said he wrote to the Transport Minister and Council on July 27 after attending the protest, asking that clearing be halted and the design of the proposed access road be reviewed.

‘I want to commend the community and the Kangy Angy Residents Action Group for their vigilance,” he said.

“I also want to acknowledge and thank Council staff on the way they engaged with TfNSW on the re-design of the access road.”

Source: Media release, Aug 16 Kit Hale, office of Scot MacDonald Media release, Aug 17 Central Coast Council media Media statement, Aug 17 Elaine Johnson, NSW Environmental Defenders Office Media release, Aug 17 David Mehan, Member for The Entrance

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Future ownership of over 1,400 parcels of Crown Land to be decided T

he new Crown Land Negotiation Program Committee, formed by Central Coast Council, has commenced work on the Assessment Stage of the NSW G o v e r n m e n t ’s Comprehensive Crown Land Negotiation Program.

The program will determine the future ownership and management of over 1,400 parcels of Crown Land within the Central Coast LGA. It is meant to ensure NSW Crown Land is held by the most appropriate organisation, out of the State Government, Local Council or Local Aboriginal Land Council (LALC).

According to the NSW Government, its intent is to “achieve the most positive social, cultural or environmental benefits for the people of NSW”.

The Program includes voluntary, multi-party negotiations between NSW Government, Central Coast Council, Darkinjung LALC and the NSW Aboriginal Land Council.

Council’s Negotiation Program Committee consists of a Councillor from each of the five wards within the LGA, including Mayor, Jane Smith, (Chairperson), Deputy Mayor, Chris Holstein, and Councillors, Kyle MacGregor, Jillian Hogan and Lisa Matthews.

The Council resolved

A map of all Crown Land in the Central Coast Local Government Area on July 9 that the useful in that we went to represented by our Committee urgently different sites and each of councillors in considering meet to review the Draft the players talked about this process.

Central Coast Council what interest they had in “Council is not coming Principles for Claiming an that land. to it with a view of having Interest in Crown Land, “It gave all of us land that can be then sold and the first meeting of an understanding of off, that is not part of the the Committee was held the process and the conversation or thinking on July 19. negotiations that will at all,” she said.

Committee members, have to happen.

Under the new NSW Council staff, “For instance, Council Crown Land Management representatives from might say they have an Act 2016, the Minister Darkinjung LALC, NSW interest in a piece of has the power to vest Aboriginal Land Council land because its use is Crown Land in the and Department of public recreation, while Central Coast Council if Lands, Crown Land (DoL Darkinjung could say they it meets prescribed Local Crown Lands), attended had an interest for cultural Land Criteria and with an initial site visit. reasons, so it was really Council’s consent.

Various sites of Crown about just understanding The Local Land Criteria Land were visited and the process and where are whether the land: the parties had the that land might be vested. provides, or has potential opportunity to express “The size of the task to provide, a public good their interests in the is why Council identified for residents; use is, or Crown Land. principles to understand could be, consistent Mayor Jane Smith, who what Council’s interest in with the functions of took part in the site visit, each parcel of land is. local government; and, said it had been very “I understand the is, or has potential to be, useful. community’s concerns managed as a community “When the Crown about the legislation, I asset.

Lands Act changed, part think there has been a lot The Program is of those changes was of concern about that. using the Aboriginal that some land would be “We set up this Land Agreement (ALA) handed over to Council,’ committee to make mechanism under the Mayor Smith said. sure the interests of Aboriginal Land Rights “The bus trip was very our community are well Act, to reach agreement on approximately 1100

Aboriginal land rights claims that have been lodged in the Central Coast LGA. The Program consists of four stages: Preliminary; Assessment; Negotiation; and Post Negotiation.

The Central Coast Program is currently in the Assessment stage, with each party undertaking an assessment of the Crown Land in the whole area, and indicating which Crown Land they have an interest in owning and managing.

Council’s assessment will be based on its own Negotiation Principles, put forward by staff and amended by the Committee.

The Committee discussed the Councillor endorsement and approval stages of the program at its first meeting.

Committee members will receive a list of all properties that Council claimed an interest in and the basis for each claim at the end of the Assessment stage, which was anticipated to be the end of August.

Then, the Crown will prepare a spreadsheet that identifies land that more than one party has claimed an interest in.

Land with no or only one interested party may be retained by the Crown or vested in that party.

The land with overlapping interests will be divided up into several negotiation areas, which will then be the subject of detailed negotiations in

the Negotiation phase.

The Crown spreadsheet will set out details of the proposed negotiation areas (August to September).

Council endorsement will also be sought at this stage to proceed to the Negotiation Phase.

However, according to the minutes of the first Committee meeting, “The second stage for endorsement will be done using a structured approach that includes consultation with all Councillors, and does not require a formal report to Council.”

There will then be a report on the outcome of negotiations, including details of the land, or interests proposed to be vested in Council.

Approval will then be required for the vesting of interests in Council at the end of the Negotiation Phase.

At this stage, further consultation will be undertaken with the Committee, with briefings for all Councillors, and a report to Council for official endorsement.

Council will receive a report on progress with vesting every three months during the Post Negotiation period.

“The timeframes set out in the report will need to be reassessed as the project progresses.”

Source: Agenda item 5.7, Aug 13 Central Coast Council ordinary meeting Interview, Aug 14 Jane Smith, Central Coast Council Jackie Pearson, journalist

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Crown Land acquisition request principles finalised T

he principles that will be used by Central Coast Council to decide whether or not to claim interest in parcels of Crown Land included in the NSW Government’s Crown Land Negotiation Program, have been finalised.

Before the NSW Planning Minister decides to vest a parcel of Crown Land in the Central Coast Council, he must be certain that it meets one of three “local land criteria�.

The first is that the land provides, or potentially provides, a public good for residents in the LGA, or an adjacent LGA, consistent with local planning principles.

The second criteria is that the land’s use is,

or could be, consistent with the functions of local government.

Finally, the Minister must be convinced that the land is, or could, be managed as a community asset by Council or another body.

To meet the first principle, Central Coast Councillors on the Negotiation Program Committee will be looking to declare an interest in open space and recreation land zoned RE1, including active sporting and recreation facilities, and passive parks and recreation facilities already managed by Council.

It will also be making a bid for aquatic infrastructure that it already manages, and for Crown Land required for future sporting and recreation facilities and future parks.

Another type of land the Council will express interest in during the Negotiation phase will be existing recreation pathways managed by Council that are not within public reserves, and land required for future recreational pathways.

It will call for bushland and natural areas to either be vested to Council or remain in public ownership.

Likewise, it will bid for future biodiversity corridors that are in strategic planning reports.

Central Coast Council will also bid to take ownership of waterways and coastal reserves that it currently manages.

It will argue for those waterways and coastal reserves that, according to Council, are required for nature conservation to remain in public

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In terms of land consistent with local government, Council will ask to be vested ownership of its existing operational facilities and Crown Land required for future facilities.

Cemeteries, waste facilities and holiday parks already owned, operated or managed

by Council, will also be bid for by Council, along with heritage cemeteries managed by Council.

It will bid for land required for future commercial enterprises or for extensions to existing enterprises.

Central Coast Council will ask the Minister to vest to it existing water and sewer assets, and land required for future water and sewer infrastructure.

It will also ask to take

ownership of Crown Land that falls within the drinking water catchment area.

Existing road, drainage and infrastructure on Crown Lands and land required for future roads, drainage and infrastructure, including car parks, will also be subject to expressions of interest from Council.

Waterways and coastal protection infrastructure should either be vested to Central Coast Council or remain under the NSW Government’s control, according to Central Coast Council’s negotiation principles.

So too should Crown Land required for future waterways and coastal protection infrastructure.

Other assets that Council will express interest in include emergency management assets and infrastructure

(existing and future), and telecommunication facilities.

In terms of land managed as a community asset, Council will bid for existing community facilities it uses, occupies or manages, and those occupied or managed by another organisation or reserve trust, along with land required for future community assets.

All land vested to Council should be classified as community, which means it cannot be sold.

There is, however, a window of opportunity, for Council to argue for reclassification of land as operational, which would mean it could be sold via a resolution of Council.

Source: Agenda item 5.7, Aug 13 Central Coast Council ordinary meeting

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Development application lodged for a 160-lot subdivision at Woongarrah L

and within the Warnervale Town Centre urban release area continues to be activated for housing, with the most recent development application for a 160lot subdivision at 99 to 111 Sparks Rd, Woongarrah, lodged with Central Coast Council.

The residential subdivision also has frontage to Hakone Rd. The land is vacant and mostly vegetated, but according to the Statement of Environmental Effects submitted with the application, has been subject to several investigations through the preparation of a State Significant Site study to rezone it for urban purposes, and prepare the Warnervale Town Centre Development Control Plan (DCP).

The site is biodiversity certified with the NSW Minister for Planning, granted on January 30, 2014, and current for 25 years from that date.

Land zones include R1 General Residential,

B2 Local Centre, B4 Mixed Use, RE1 Public Recreation, E2 Environmental Conservation, and E3 Environmental Management.

The latest application is for stages 6-7 of a larger plan, and includes clearing of most of the site. “A separate DA for the development of the northern portion of the site (stages 8-10)‌will be lodged with Council soon,â€? the SEE said.

The development proposal consists of a two staged Torrens Title Subdivision (Stages 6 and 7) creating a total of 160 residential lots, one (1) commercial lot, one (1) lot for acoustic buffer purposes, and a residual lot for future residential development.

The lots range in size from 299 square metres up to 689 square metres.

One 2,202 square metre lot will be an acoustic buffer for dedication to Council, and another 1,802 square metre lot will be a temporary storm water basin.

The SEE includes 1.37 hectares of B4 land and another 14.08 hectares of land zoned R1, B2, B4,

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The proposed “As the land is bio development includes certified, consideration vegetation clearing, of the likely impact of including the proposed the development on residual lot, apart from the biodiversity values listed E2 and E3 land it contains, under the Threatened Conservation and construction of a Species distributor road, collector Act is not required. street and local streets. “The certification The developer will also in effect switches off construct stormwater the need to assess drainage, including the impacts on matters temporary water quality protected under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act. “However, the biodiversity certification does not cover threatened species or ecological

communities listed under the EPBC Act. “An EPBC Act ecological assessment, prepared by Travers Bushfire Ecology, concluded that the proposed subdivision is unlikely to result in a significant impact on any Commonwealth listed threatened or migratory species, population or threatened ecological communities. “The proposed action will not have any significant impact on any matters of National Environmental Significance (NES). “As such, no further assessments or referrals are required under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.�

The site contains part of a former landfill and, according to the SEE: “DA188/2015 was approved for the remediation of the site which includes a monitoring period. “Remediation works aim to transform the area into a future public park, known as Hilltop Park, that will service the Warnervale Town Centre. “While the area subject to remediation is located within the subject site, it does not form part of Stages 6 - 7.�

Use of the B4 lot will be the subject of a separate

DA. “The traffic assessment takes a holistic approach and addressed Stages 6 – 10,� the SEE said. “However, the proposed lot layout for Stages 6 – 7 maintains a broad road hierarchy and the road location objectives as envisioned by the DCP. “The traffic assessment report demonstrates that the proposed staged residential subdivision remains supportable on traffic planning grounds, albeit with a few minor departures.�

The SEE concludes: “The development satisfies the relevant statutory requirements and can be adequately serviced. “The proposal is considered suitable for the Site and provides residential land in accordance with the objectives of local and regional strategies. “The proposal is in the public interest and provides positive social and economic benefits to the local community through the provision of additional future housing and employment opportunities during the construction and subdivision stage of the development.�

Source: DA919/2018, Aug 21 Wyong DA Tracker, Central Coast Council

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Draft climate change policy to be placed on public exhibition A

new draft climate change policy aligned with Central Coast Council’s corporate vision “to build a vibrant and sustainable Central Coast”, will be placed on public exhibition for 28 days.

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The draft policy was debated at the August 13 Central Coast Council meeting and, following the meeting, Mayor Jane Smith said the resolution to place a draft on exhibition had been a highlight.

She said the target of zero emissions by 2050 was a goal that aligned Central Coast Council with the NSW Government’s stated emission targets.

“I would really encourage people to tell us what they think of that goal.

“That is the goal in the NSW policy, and they call it an aspirational goal, so it will be good to hear from the community.”

The Mayor confirmed there would be two community workshops held within the exhibition period with dates to be confirmed.

The aim of the Policy is to guide planning and development of the Central Coast as a region that is resilient and adaptive to a changing climate.

“This Policy will enable Council to align its operations and strategic planning with the NSW State Climate Change Policy Framework, and aspirational objectives to achieve net zero emissions by 2050,” a staff report to the Council

meeting said.

Once the exhibition period has concluded, and community feedback addressed so a final policy can be adopted, next steps will include the preparation of a Climate Change Action Plan and supporting strategies on sea level rise, urban sustainability, disaster resilience and energy, urban greening and biodiversity conservation.

The draft policy aimed for a “whole of Council” approach when dealing with emergency risks associated with climate change.

“Council recognised the need to review the policy positions of the former Wyong and Gosford Councils on climate change,” the staff report said.

According to the staff report, the former Wyong Council didn’t have a Climate Change Policy.

It adopted an interim Sea Level Rise (SLR) position as part of the Coastal Zone Management Plan on February 8, 2012, that aligned with the 2009 NSW Government Policy of 0.4m Sea Level Rise.

Then the NSW Government announced that the 2009 NSW Sea Level Rise Policy Statement was no longer in force.

Wyong Council, through a notice of motion at its Ordinary Meeting of October 10, 2012, resolved that its interim sea level rise position consist of compliance with the 1% AEP flood level and 500mm freeboard allowance.

In July 2013, the former Wyong Council

considered a report from staff proposing specific sea level rise allowance of 0.4m on top of the existing 0.5m freeboard for planning purposes, but resolved not to support the staff recommendation.

The former Gosford Council, at its Ordinary Meeting of 4 May, 2010, adopted a Climate Change Policy that committed Council to managing climate change risks by incorporating them into Council’s strategic decision making planning processes and operations.

This Policy informed the development of the Climate Change Mitigation Strategy, resulting in auditing of energy consumption and savings for Council operations, particularly the landfill, water and sewer operations (pumps), buildings, street lighting and fleet management.

In August, 2012, the former Gosford Council adopted a Climate Change Mitigation Strategy with a carbon reduction target of 20 per cent by 2025, based on 2010 levels.

In March, 2015, Gosford Council resolved to adopt medium sea level rise projections including 0.2m by 2050, 0.39m by 2070 and 0.74m by 2100.

Those sea level rise projections were used as part of the Brisbane Water Foreshore Floodplain Risk Management Plan, which required development to be located above the 1 per cent AEP flood level plus 500mm freeboard allowance plus SLR. The NSW Office of Environment and

Heritage (OEH) released the NSW Climate Change Policy Framework in 2016, outlining NSW’s aspirational objectives to achieve a net-zero emissions by 2050 and help NSW become climate resilient.

The policy framework outlines NSW Government’s role in reducing carbon emissions and adapting to the impacts of changing climate.

This was followed by two climate change and energy plans.

The NSW Government Framework provides policy direction for emissions savings that are consistent with achieving the Commonwealth Government’s interim and long-term emissions saving objectives.

Council’s draft Climate Change Policy commits to a place-based approach to planning for climate resilience, in partnership with the community.

The Policy commits Council to implement actions for mitigation, adaptation and on-going resilience planning.

These actions will be planned and implemented through the following strategies and policies.

An Urban Sustainability Strategy provides a roadmap to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across Council operations (waste management, energy management, plant and fleet, and sustainable built form), innovate ways to reduce environmental impacts, influence behavioural change, and facilitate

a circular economy through identifying opportunities for industrial organisations to participate in waste-toresource transfers.

An Energy & Emission Reduction Policy will provide the framework to manage Council energy and greenhouse emissions relating to its operations, assets and infrastructure.

A Sea Level Rise Policy will set a consistent flood planning level for the Central Coast based on the Representative Concentration Pathway Scenario RCP 8.5.

A Disaster Resilience Strategy will provide the strategic direction to embed emergency risks management, business continuity planning and risk management across Council operations and implement initiatives to enhance community resilience to disasters.

An Urban Forestry Strategy provides the opportunity to deal with the increasing urban heat island effect in developing and developed areas, carbon sequestration and improving urban biodiversity.

Finally, a Biodiversity Strategy sets the direction for ecologically sustainable development and best practice natural area management through identifying the risks posed by the changing climate and quantifying opportunities to conserve and enhance local biodiversity.

The Climate Change Policy allows Council to consider flood planning levels through a sea level rise policy.

This process is

undertaken through the Flood Plain Management Program and Coastal Zone Management Plans.

“The adoption of a policy on climate change would demonstrate strong leadership to the community in terms of responsible governance,” the staff report said.

The long term social impacts identified for not having an action plan for climate change have been identified as follows: pressures on agricultural and food availability; freshwater availability, competition and stress; rising sea levels within populated areas; human health; risk to life; pressures on emergency services; and, changing lifestyles.

The draft policy also contains a pledge to provide Council resources to educate and support the uptake of renewable energy, such as by hiring an internal renewable energy support officer or establishing an independent body.

Energy efficiency is another area addressed by the draft policy, with measures such as providing incentives (for example rate reductions) for best practice developments such as streamlined planning processes, and support for retrofitting energy efficiency measures for existing buildings.

Sustainable transport initiatives are also outlined in the draft policy.

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Hit and run driver faces court L

isa Curtale, the woman charged over the fatal San Remo hit and run of Adam Beattie, faced Wyong Local Court for the first time on Monday, August 20.

Curtale faced three charges, including dangerous driving occasioning death, and fail to stop and assist.

Beattie’s body was located in bushes just off Scenic Dve, near San Remo, on July 29.

Melakai O’Connor and Lillian Bridge found

Police allege that he was walking along Scenic Dve on the evening of July 28, when he was fatally struck.

Curtale presented herself to Toukley Police Station on July 31, after Tuggerah Lakes Police District put out an appeal for witnesses.

Her case has been adjourned until October.

She remains on bail.

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woman reported missing from The Entrance has been found safe and well in Sydney.

Tuggerah Lakes Police District issued an appeal for information pertaining to the whereabouts of 38-year-old, Samantha Watkins, after she reportedly disappeared from the area.

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Samantha failed to contact her family and friends, who reported her disappearance to local police as out of character.

There were concerns that Watkins may have fallen pregnant and been suffering from a mental health issue.

Tuggerah Lakes Police District reported that she had been found safe and well in Sydney on August 10.

Serious concerns were held over the safety of 14-year-old Glenning Valley girl, Melakai O’Connor, who disappeared from

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It was believed she was

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they observed a white utility run a red light at the intersection of Main Rd and Victoria Ave. Police attempted to stop the vehicle, but the vehicle failed to stop and drove off from police at high speed in the 40kph sign-posted area.

Police initiated a pursuit

for a short distance before it being terminated for safety reasons.

The youth was charged with Dangerous Driving, Unlicensed Driver, Police Pursuit and Red light offence, and was formally bail refused at Wyong Police Station.

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Northlakes Tavern brawlers have their day in court K

ane O’Meley, the Cessnock man accused of biting off another man’s ear in a wild brawl that lasted for almost half an hour at C h a r m h a v e n ’s Northlakes Tavern in 2016, has been found not guilty by a jury of his peers.

Following a three day trial, which concluded on Thursday, August 16, the 12 members of the jury decreed that the prosecution’s case had not satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that O’Meley was the culprit who bit off almost half of Rhys Greig’s ear during a wild brawl, described in court as “20 minutes of madness�, by local police who attended the incident.

O’Meley had already pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm on a separate charge from the biting of Greig’s ear, reckless wounding, assault and assault occasioning actual bodily harm for his actions during the brawl, but pleaded not guilty to the charge of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm relating to the biting of Mr Greig.

He was found not

Anyone with information about these incidents should call

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guilty of wounding Greig with the intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

During the trial, the court was told how the brawl broke out after a verbal altercation between two men degenerated into a physical confrontation between a number of people in the Tavern’s beer garden.

The court was told Greig became involved in the brawl after going to the aid of a friend’s father who had also become involved in the brawl.

Greig told the court that after suffering a blow to the head, he fell to the ground and assumed the foetal position, as at least five men began kicking and punching him.

It was during this time that he was bitten.

The brawl was captured on the Tavern’s CCTV cameras and the footage became the most crucial piece of evidence in determining

the outcome of O’Meley’s ear bitting charge, after forensic analysis of the dismembered piece of Greig’s ear failed to produce verifiable DNA of the assailant.

There was no witness evidence to suggest that O’Meley was the brawler who bit Greig, but the prosecution argued that O’Meley, as depicted by the CCTV footage from multiple angles, was the only person involved that had the opportunity to bite Greig’s ear.

The defence argued that there were no witness accounts that substantiated the claim that O’Meley was the one who bit Greig, and that the video footage could not prove beyond reasonable doubt that O’Meley was the bitter.

O’Meley will be sentenced for his other charges in Newcastle District Court in October.

Chad Gregory, Jarrod Jacobs, Beau Stangle and the accused cousin, Nathan O’Meley, all pleaded guilty to their respective roles in the brawl.

They were given suspended sentences and community service orders.

Source: Documents, Aug 13-16 Court File and Transcript 2016/00351862

Other Regional News - In brief Wyong Regional Chronicle focuses on news specifically relating to post code areas 2258, 2259, 2261, 2262, & 2263. Given the arrival of new Central Coast Council, following is a summary of news articles published in

the most recent edition of each of our sister Central Coast publications. The full articles and more, as well as all previously published editions, can be seen on line on our website www.CentralCoastNews.

net Copies of these other publications may be obtained from our offices in Gosford, by subscription, or from a myriad of locations in the areas covered by each publication.

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13 August 2018

Peninsula News focuses on news specifically relating to post code areas 2256 & 2257.

Both service and festival to run on Remembrance Day

Council assessment rejects Sporties proposal

A Remembrance Day service and Central Coast Council planning the annual Oyster Festival will both assessment staff have occur in Ettalong on November 11 recommended the refusal of the $30.3 million redevelopment of the Sporties site on the corner of Brick Wharf Rd and North Burge Rd, Woy

Developer asked to resubmit plans The developer wanting to build 27 residential units and seven town houses on the corner of Blackwall Rd and Farnell Rd, Woy Woy, has been told to resubmit more favourable plans by Central Coast

Teenagers use council facilities ‘in the dark’

Discussions start on rail crossing replacement?

Man charged over Killcare break-ins

Teenagers are using facilities at Umina oval in the evening, despite Central Coast Council not providing lighting for the area.

Discussions have started between the State Government and Central Coast Council over the replacement of the Rawson Rd rail crossing, according to the Peninsula Chamber of Commerce.

Police have charged a man following investigations into multiple break, enter and steal offences in mid-July at commercial premises in Killcare.

Threshold of 25 submissions recommended

Rotary club raises funds for drought relief

Probus club receives grant

The Empire Bay Probus Club has The number of submissions received a $994 grant from Central required for a development application to be referred to a public Coast Council.

Central Coast Council meeting may be dropped from the current 50 to 25 if a recommendation to the

The Rotary Club of Woy Woy will be raising funds for drought relief at an event on September 1 in Bourke Rd.

The full articles and more can be seen on line on our website www.CentralCoastNews.net They can also be seen on www.PeninsulaNews.info

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Avoca Beach residents unhappy about another water main break Three properties on The Round Dve, at Avoca, were fl ooded, when a large water main burst, just after 6:00am, on Wednesday, August 8.

IPART issues paper reveals underspending by council on water services The former Gosford Council underspent on both operating and capital programs for the delivery of water services between 2013 and 2017, according to an IPART issues paper, and the combined Central

Construction certifi cate granted for 57 unit development A construction certificate has been granted for a 57 unit residential flat building and ground floor commercial premises at 277 to 279 Mann St, Gosford.

Submission threshold reduced to 15

Liberals object to council’s lowering of threshold decision

Revitalisation of Gosford City Centre on exhibition

The number of submission s required for a development application (DA) to be referred to a public Central Coast Council meeting has been dropped from 50 to 15, following a debate in Central

The politicisation of Council has continued, with the Member for Terrigal, Adam Crouch, Member of the Legislative Council, Taylor Martin, and Central Coast Councillor Jilly Pilon, condemning

The revitalisation of Gosford City Centre as the vibrant, liveable capital of the Central Coast, reached another milestone on Thursday, August 16, with the release of the draft Development

299 residential unit development draws many objections The $90m proposed development of 299 residential units, over three stages, proposed for 87 to 89 John Whiteway Dve, Gosford, has already been the subject of almost 30 objections.

Gosford CBD and Waterfront Advisory Committee held inaugural meeting The Gosford CBD and Waterfront Advisory Committee of the Central Coast Council held its inaugural meeting on June 28, and devised a plan of action for the coming 12 months.

Draft climate change policy to be placed on public exhibition A new draft climate change policy aligned with Central Coast Council’s corporate vision “to build a vibrant and sustainable Central Coast�, will be placed on public exhibition for 28 days.

The full articles and more can be seen on line on our website www.centralcoastnews.net Coast Community News focusses on news specifically related to post code areas 2250, 2251, 2260 and articles can also be read and shared on your mobile phone by going to www.coastcommunitynews.com.au.

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If we don’t have Tourism, we die want to reply to the letter from M Sugar of Wyee, published on page 14 of the Wyong Regional Chronicle, on July 25, entitled, Tourists Not Welcome.

Well, M Sugar, I’m so happy that you don’t speak for all of us or we would still be living in the 1960s, but maybe that would be a good thing, because Tourism in those days made the Central Coast.

You obviously like Sydney enough to work and commute there every day, yet I wonder what they think of you being part of their Pennant Hills road congestion and smog?

If we don’t have Tourism, we die.

Go for a drive down to The Entrance, our iconic tourism destination, after 6pm any weekday, including school holidays, and you could shoot a shot gun down the main

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Other suburbs such as Toukley, Budgewoi or Wyee are ghost towns.

When I was a child, they were all thriving metropolises, with the merry-go-round on the corner working to late at night.

Prawning and fishing were rife, and the whole place survived off tourism and was totally buzzing.

Today, just about every strip shopping centre has vacant shops, with Woolworths not helping where I live at Lake Munmorah, by closing down the bakery,

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A national Coalition Against PFAS (CAP) has been established to highlight the growing number of contaminated sites nationwide.

Its President, Mr Lindsay Clout, said the EPA’s response to the detection of PFAS at Colongra and Munmorah is typical of its approach to all communities so far impacted by the chemical across the country.

“What we want to do is help people understand the symantics and spin that it has taken us years to understand,’ Mr Clout said.

“What they are trying to do is hide from it by saying that there is no consistent evidence that there are health impacts from this chemical, but if you take consistent out of that sentence, the whole argument collapses.

“Look at the

No fishing signs erected by GPM near Colongra Power Station and (inset) Colongra-Munmorah on a map of PFAS/PFOS contaminated sites in NSW epidemiology study in the US, that included 63,000 people, that concluded PFAS resulted in testicular cancer, prostate cancer, thyroid conditions and birth defects.

“We have been fighting for two years to get acceptance that this chemical is airborn and that is another pathway for ingestion.”

According to Mr Clout, the community living around the Munmorah and Colongra Power Station sites should form a community group and start demanding answers from the site owners and the EPA, about the exact levels of PFAS that have been detected in the soil, surface water and ground

water.

He said contaminated soil needs to be decontaminated.

“Yes, there is no question that the soil needs to be cleaned up; there are stockpiles of soil covered with black plastic that they don’t know how to clean up,” he said.

Mr Clout said the community around the contaminated site at Colongra-Munmorah also needs to understand that the chemical is mobile.

“My word it moves, it is very, very mobile in water, it is slower in soil, but every time you have a rain event, that chemical will spread,” he said.

“Communities have to stand up to the process of the suppression of information that is occurring because this is a multi-billion dollar problem and no one wants to put their hand up for it,” Mr Clout said.

D Per-and-polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are used in firefighting foam and are responsible for the contamination at Williamtown, impacting at least 750 homes.

There are at least 25 sites in NSW affected

by PFAS contamination including the MunmorahColongra site.

Generator Property Management (GPM) and

Snowy Hydro advised the EPA that PFAS had been detected in the soil, surface water and groundwater at, and around, the Munmorah and Colongra Power Stations in February, 2015.

The EPA did not respond until October, 2015.

An initial study was completed in May, 2016, and in December, 2016, the EPA reported to a Contaminated Site Review that information received was under assessment.

In October, 2017, it called for additional testing from Snowy Hydro and GPM, but that testing

did not get underway until April this year, more than three years after it was first reported.

Member for Swansea, Ms Yasmin Catley, said she had received confirmation from General Property Management that they had undertaken further ground water testing and found that all ground water flows were inward on the site.

“The fish testing is underway but has not been finished,” Ms Catley said.

“Snowy Hydro was required to pay for the fish testing but it has been coordinated by the EPA,” she said.

The EPA has identified a list of species to be tested and is working with commercial fishers to catch and test fish in the Tuggerah Lakes system over a six month period.

“I was concerned that this wasn’t happening quickly enough and that is why I am constantly contacting the EPA to find out where it is all up to.

“I report this information at every public meeting I go to, just to make sure that the community is informed,” she said.

“The fish testing has taken time but it is comprehensive and thorough,” she said.

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Pristine environmental bushland turned into a desolate wasteland assive clearing in Ourimbah Rd, Kangy Angy, to make way for the NSW G o v e r n m e n t ’s Intercity Rail Fleet M a i n t e n a n c e Facility, has already turned pristine E2 and E3 bushland into a desolate w a s t e l a n d , according to residents.

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E2 land at Kangy Angy before clearing

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E2 land at Kangy Angy after clearing

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They know they’ve lost the war, but members of the Kangy Angy Residents’ Action Group (KARAG) do battle every day to hold to account Transport for NSW and its contractor, John Holland, as the land clearing commences to make way for the NSW Government facility that will maintain its new intercity fleet of trains.

It could’ve been built on industrial land at Warnervale, but the former Wyong Council, having other plans for Warnervale, encouraged Transport for NSW to acquire E2-E3 wetlands at Kangy Angy.

The sale of the Kangy Angy land went through while Central Coast Council was under administration.

A plea from the elected Central Coast Council to move the project to Warnervale was ignored

by Transport for NSW. Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast, Scot MacDonald,

recently turned the first sod for work at Kangy Angy to commence and, since then, residents continue to witness the devastation of their semirural neighbourhood.

A resident recently found a dead baby platypus, whilst another family believes endangered pigmy possums have been rendered homeless by the land clearing.

“As you turn right into Orchard Rd, it is horrendous, all the trees are gone,” said KARAG spokesperson, Tracey Stewart.

“Then when you come back out and drive along Enterprise Dve, at Chittaway Rd, all the trees are gone, because they are starting to take the trees out for the rail bridge,” she said.

“No, we did not anticipate it being this bad, especially along Ourimbah Rd, where we had the expectation that the foliage along the road was going to be retained.”

When the clearing along Ourimbah Rd commenced, residents called Jamie Seaton, the John Holland officer responsible for liaising with residents.

“He came down with a map and said, ‘oh no, because we are changing where the power lines are going, we had to take that foliage too.”

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In the most recent Community Environment Network advertisement, Mr Asquith described “solastalgia” as the “pain or sickness caused by the loss or lack of solace, and the sense of desolation connected to the present state of one’s home or territory”.

Assistance will be provided to the farmers, but the scale of the problem is overwhelming.

The matter is receiving widespread coverage.

NSW, to use Mr Asquith’s description, resembles a moonscape.

Consider the same moonscape at Kangy Angy, and the vastly different attitude from the city relatives.

Destruction of the environment is supported by politicians and the

government in the name of progress and growth.

It is certainly a case study of environmental management in the country and in the city.

The moonscape at Kangy Angy has brought the same distressing conditions experienced

by NSW farmers to the NSW Central Coast and its residents.

Kangy Angy will not recover, the loss is permanent.

Another break in the chain.

Letter, Aug 6 Norm Harris, Umina

Focus on domestic violence not terrorism D omestic violence is the real terrorism here in Australia.

Politicians bay like werewolves about the risks and evils of terrorism, and spend billions of dollars fighting terrorism and American wars.

It is 40 years since the Hilton Bombing,

and in that period up to now, about 12 people have been killed here in Australia by terrorist acts, while in the same time, about 2,000 women have been killed by domestic violence, an average of one woman a week.

Imagine, one politician a week been killed by

domestic violence.

It would not happen, these protected species would be protected by a ring of security 24/7, thanks to the Australian taxpayer.

Direct action may be the only way to protect the women of Australia.

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EPA delays confirmation of PFAS contamination at power stations s the NSW Labor opposition makes an election promise to ban toxic PFAS fire-fighting chemicals, the NSW E n v i r o n m e n t Protection Authority (EPA) has not produced any new public information about PFAS contamination at Munmorah and Colongra power stations since October 2017.

Email, Jul 27 Gary Blaschke, Lake Munmorah

ohn Asquith’s c o m m e n t s relating to academic, Glen Albrecht, have wider implications, as NSW farmers deal with another disastrous weatherclimate event.

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butchers, news agent and poaching the Post Office.

I didn’t see you opposing the Central Coast Regional Plan 2036, when it revealed a further 40,500 extra homes around the north, mostly in Wyee, plus $180m of Mineral Extractions per annum from the region.

How about the Vales Point ash dams overflowing into Lake Macquarie after heavy rain periods, the hundreds of trucks on our roads dumping fill into the ash dams from the Connex projects in Sydney, or the PFAS contamination in Lake Munmorah and Colongra Bay? How about the Torrens University four year Cancer Cluster report for the Cancer Council, identifying regional suburbs being affected by nine different cancers, 20 per cent above the state average, and you’re having a whinge about 20 minutes being added to your daily trip?

Environmental Defender joins fight to save Kangy Angy trees

CEN calls for more support for Kangy Angy residents he Community Environment Network (CEN) has called on the broader community to support the Kangy Angy residents who continue to fight the environmental destruction being caused to make way for the NSW Government’s intercity train fleet maintenance facility.

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Kangy Angy residents in front of the threatened trees

he NSW Environmental Defender’s Office (EDO) has stepped up to represent Kangy Angy residents as they fight to save a stand of mature trees in Orchard Rd that were not earmarked for removal in Transport for NSW plans for its innercity fleet rail maintenance facility.

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The EDO wrote to Transport for NSW on Tuesday, July 31, seeking to stop the removal of the trees and questioning whether Transport for NSW had consent to do so under the Federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC

Act).

According to the EDO, the trees constituted “habitat for the critically endangered Regent Honeyeater and the Swift Parrot.

“Those species are protected from actions which will have a significant impact on the species, without first obtaining (and complying with) a valid approval granted under the EPBC Act. “Our client is concerned that Transport NSW is proposing to clear a stand of native trees, including gum trees, blackbutts and bloodwoods, in the vicinity of Orchard Rd… without appropriate legal authority under the EPBC Act, or the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act

1979 (EPA Act, NSW),” the EDO said in its letter.

“Based on our review of the Review of Environmental Factors prepared for the Project, it would appear that the Project, as approved, proposes to retain the vegetation along Orchard Rd,” it said.

“We are instructed that our client has requested copies of the revised plans that Transport NSW says now authorises the clearing of these trees that were to be retained, however they have not been provided with any such plans.

“Without access to the relevant revised plans, it is not clear to us that Transport for NSW is now authorised to clear the trees that were to be retained.

“In order to confirm whether the proposed clearing is authorised by the EPBC Act approval for the Project, we require, as a matter of urgency, copies of the revised plans that Transport for NSW relies on to authorise the clearing of this area.

“If the plans have been submitted for approval by the Department, we require a copy of the plans and the relevant approval by the Department.

“Transport for NSW is required to obtain separate approval before trees are removed where the impact was not identified or assessed in the original environmental impact assessment for the Project.

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CEN Chairman, John Asquith, said: “As the destruction of local ecosystems is pushed through by the State Government, Kangy Angy residents continue to maintain their vigilance.

“In 2003, academic, Dr Glenn Albrecht, created a new concept called ‘solastalgia’.

“He has described it

as ‘the pain or sickness caused by the loss or lack of solace and the sense of desolation connected to the present state of one’s home and territory’.

“It is the ‘lived experience’ of negative environmental change.

“It is the homesickness you have when you are still at home.

“It is that feeling you have when your sense of place is under attack.

“Not only the Kangy Angy residents, but many people from across the Coast, are experiencing a deep sense of loss as this site begins to resemble a moonscape.

“Support the residents in their efforts to stop further environmental destruction,” he said.

Source: Media release, Aug 1 John Asquith, Community Environment Network

The cleared area at Kangy Angy has been described as a moonscape and an open cut mine

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Breakthru celebrates 25 years of helping people with a disability T

his year marks a very special 25th anniversary for breakthru, a Tuggerah based organisation founded with a vision of changing lives and empowering people with disability to achieve their goals.

Breakthru is a non-forprofit organisation, an NDIS provider, Disability Employment Service (DES) and Registered Training Organisation (RTO).

Over the course of 25 years, breakthrough has helped thousands of Australians each year to realise their dreams and unlock their full potential.

Breakthru has been a part of the Central Coast community for the entirety of their 25 years, and was one of the original offices to be opened.

“On the Coast alone, breakthru has helped change the lives of over 10,000 customers, one of whom you may have seen on ABC’s recent documentary ‘Employable Me’ (episode 2) - the lovely Krystyna,” said breakthru’s, Callum Hayes.

“Krystyna contacted breakthru in 2016 for assistance in finding a job.

“Breakthru staff partnered with Krystyna to identify her gifts and talents and identify ways to bring these to job opportunities.

“One of Krystyna’s great talents is her photographic eidetic memory, and her keen interest in geographic locations, which breakthru recognised would be a great match for work experience at her local library.

“Breakthru negotiated with the library and

secured the perfect placement for her, and you can still view Krystyna’s story on ABC iView,” Hayes said.

“Over many years, breakthru has developed significant partnerships with local employers and other providers, to effectively deliver employment outcomes for their School Leaver Employment Support (SLES) and Find and Keep a Job (FAKAJ) customers.

“Some of the great options breakthru offer include work tasters and industry visits to give people a taste of potential career opportunities.

“Breakthru also offer life essentials core supports which have been extremely popular.

“With a rich history, and a long list of lives changed, breakthru continues to support the community and empower people with a disability to achieve their goals,” Mr Hayes concluded.

Source: Media release, Jul 9 Callum Hayes, breakthru

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University and Central Coast Health celebrate unique partnership T he University of Newcastle has celebrated its partnership with the Central Coast Local Health District (CCLHD) medical staff, acknowledging the important contribution they make in supporting the country’s next generation of doctors.

In 2018, the University of Newcastle celebrates the 40th anniversary of medicine, and the 10th year of its Joint Medical Program (JMP).

As Australia’s only joint medical program, delivered through a unique partnership with the University of New England, and te Central Coast and Hunter New England Local Health Districts, it enables more than 1,000 practising doctors, with a variety of backgrounds, to support students with hands-on, practical learning.

To acknowledge the partnership and thank CCLHD medical staff for their ongoing support of UON medicine students, the University hosted an event at Gosford Golf Club on August 9.

Clinical Dean, Central Coast Clinical School, Dr Amanda Dawson, said the University’s partnership with the CCLHD meant hat medicine students could

University of Newcastle Dean of Medicine, Joint Medical Program, Prof Brian Kelly, Clinical Dean, Central Coast Clinical School, Dr Amanda Dawson, Chief Executive CCLHD, Dr Andrew Montague and Member for Dobell, Emma McBride establish meaningful and productive networks with medical practitioners across the spectrum of clinical settings in regional and urban locations.

“Our unique partnership means students can access the best resources and educators.

“Learning is problembased, and supported by early and broad clinical experience.

“By graduation, our students have the knowledge and skills for contemporary and emergent medical practice, and are ready to play a key role in shaping future health care for individuals and communities.

“Together, we’re also helping to address the chronic shortage of

doctors in remote, rural and regional Australian communities,” she said.

Dr Dawson said the thank you event for CCLHD medical staff was an important acknowledgement of the valuable role health staff played in supporting the University’s medicine students on their journey to becoming health professionals.

“Many CCLHD medical staff were previous students of the JMP program and have liked it so much that they have stayed.

“This creates a strong sense of camaraderie and fellowship for our current students,” she said.

Student numbers at the Central Coast Clinical School have increased

ten fold since 2004.

In 2019, it will welcome an additional 40 students; and will be followed with the opening of the new Central Coast Medical School (CCMS) and Research Institute in 2020/2021, which will accommodate students from year one through to year five of the medicine degree.

The new CCMS will have state-of-the-art technology and will be situated in a Health and Wellbeing Precinct on the Gosford Hospital Campus, together with the Central Coast Medical Research Institute, as a partnership of the CCLHD and UON. Source: Media release, Aug 14 Carmen Swadling, UON Media

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Change.org petition has been launched to see a Wyong woman’s enduring battle with cancer added to the Guinness Book of World Records.

The petition was started to celebrate the bravery, strength and fortitude of, Elizabeth Ellis, who has fought and survived through multiple bouts of cancer over several years.

The petition appeared early in August and was

started by a group known only as the Elizabeth Ellis Fan Club.

“Elizabeth Ellis is a woman who has endured more than most.

“As you know, Cancer turns one’s body into a full-fledged war zone.

“This bastard of a disease has attacked her body on several fronts, over many years, and yet, she refuses to be defeated,” the petition read.

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with a solid foundation of honesty and humour.

“Liz has battled through several forms of treatment, and when it comes to chemotherapy, she truly outranks everyone, enduring 103 IV sessions over 420 tablets.

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Council must reassess locking disabled toilets T

he Chief Executive Officer of Charmhaven Tennis Centre is urging Central Coast Council to reassess its approach to the management of public disabled toilets.

Tennis Centre CEO, Brett Bevan, wrote to Council after centre users advised of their difficulty in accessing the Council managed disabled toilet that adjoins the centre, which they said was almost always locked.

In a letter sent to Councillors, Lisa Matthews and Jillian Hogan, Bevan outlined

the tennis centre community’s frustration.

“I am writing in a formal capacity on behalf of our organisation to express our immeasurable disappointment and disgust at Central Coast Council’s (CCC) current policy surrounding disabled toilets,” Bevan wrote.

“At present, council has an ongoing policy to lock public disabled toilet facilities 24/7 and further requires disabled ratepayers to pay private locksmiths to provide them with a MLAK key in order to be able to use the facilities.

“This policy is at its very heart discriminatory

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and unlawful, and with respect, must be changed immediately.

“The practical reality of such a policy now means that able bodied ratepayers can use toilet facilities without having to pay any money for the right to access these facilities, however disabled ratepayers now must pay a locksmith to get a copy of a key to meet their disability needs.

“A further example is, at present, Charmhaven Tennis Centre has a men’s and ladies able bodied public toilet, but we rely on an adjoining disabled toilet, controlled

by Council, to service those who use or attend the centre that require a disabled toilet.

“However under Council’s current policy, we are unable to qualify to get a key cut as we are not the owners of the building housing the disabled toilet, and are not a health or solely disability service provider.

“This means anyone attending our centre can no longer use or gain access to the disabled toilet, and the centre

cannot obtain an MLAK key to unlock the toilets for those in need of such a facility.

“This policy is in clear violation of Part 4A Division 1 2 3 and 4 of the NSW Anti-Discrimination ACT 1977, and needs to be remedied immediately and without delay.

“The process of forcing those who are disabled to have to pay any sum of money to be able to use a public accessible disabled toilet is outrageous, immoral and unconscionable.

“Frankly, I don’t care if Council’s intention, presumably, was to stop vandalism to disabled toilets.

“The current policy is unacceptable and cannot be allowed to continue.

“I firstly ask that Council immediately provide Charmhaven Tennis Centre with a workable MLAK key so we can at bare minimum, provide access to court users and any neighbouring community members who might be disabled, with access to the disabled toilet, located at Charmhaven Park, Parkside Dve, Charmhaven, immediately, and further, that Council suspend immediately its policy of locking its disabled toilets and moves to unlock all disability toilets.”

Bevan’s letter was passed onto Council’s Open Space and Recreation Unit Manager, Brett Sherar.

Bevan passed along Council’s response to the Wyong Regional Chronicle.

“While I appreciate the

impacts to your centre, the reason behind the decision to keep the disabled toilets locked was to support the community that need these facilities and can’t easily find an alternate option if the toilets have been vandalised or messed badly.

“This was a constant request from advocates,” Sherar said.

“Having said this, Council understands that your association, and other tennis centres, have visitors from areas outside the Central Coast that don’t use MLAK keys and that need access to disabled toilets “For this reason, Council gives approval for a locksmith to provide a MLAK key to Central Coast tennis court lessees for use on Council facilities,” he said.

Bevan was told to use Sherar’s statement as verifiable proof with a locksmith to source the

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Bevan said he was not satisfied with Council’s response.

“I know from experience that the only disabled public toilet in the suburb of Charmhaven has not been vandalised since the introduction of the night time locking,” Bevan said.

“We now don’t have an unlocked disabled toilet in Charmhaven.

“Council’s response still doesn’t answer questions about what happens if people forget their MLAK key or more so, what are out of area visitors supposed to do if they need to access a disabled toilet on the Central Coast, especially if their local area does not utilise MLAK keys,” Bevan said.

Source: Emails, Aug 13-14 Brett Bevan, Charmhaven Tennis Centre Brett Sherar, Central Coast Council

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Member for Dobell, Emma McBride, with Shadow Minister for Human Services, Linda Burney, and the newly formed VOICCD group

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ederal Member for Dobell, Emma McBride, was joined

by Shadow Minister for Human Services, Linda Burney, on Wednesday, August 1, to meet with locals concerned about the state of the NDIS and Centrelink.

McBride and Burney met with the newly formed, Voices for Central Coast Disability (VOICCD) group, to hear how uncertainty and access issues to vital services under the NDIS banner have impacted them and their families.

The pair also visited Wyong Centrelink,

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were they discussed the constraints of the government service and how it was negatively impacting on McBride’s electorate, particularly those reliant on the age pension, and Central Coast Centrelink employees struggling to keep up with demand.

“I am so concerned about Centrelink and the provision of services in our community,” McBride said.

“We have staff who are under enormous strain and people who are suffering,” she said.

Burney echoed McBride’s sentiments and said cuts to Centrelink under the Coalition Government and an abysmal Information Technology (IT) system were the root cause of the issue.

“There is enormous suffering out in the community thanks to the lack of Centrelink resources and continuous cuts to Centrelink.

“We know that waiting times, particularly for age pensions, are just blowing out.

“It’s taking months and months for age pensions to be processed and this means that older people who have paid taxes their whole lives, are using their savings or borrowing money just to survive,” Burney said.

“Staff have been cut and Labor is continuing to receive reports from Centrelink staff on just how stressful their job has become, and how people who are in desperate need are just not getting support,” Burney said.

Source, Video, Aug 1 Emma McBride MP

Woman dies from meningococcal disease

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entral Coast Local Health District (CCLHD) is reminding the community to be aware of the symptoms of meningococcal disease, following the recent death of a local woman.

The CCLHD said they could not provide the suburb in which the woman lived for privacy reasons.

CCLHD Director, Public Health, Dr Peter Lewis, said meningococcal bacteria are not easily spread from person to person, and the bacteria

do not survive well outside the human body.

“This woman’s tragic death, from the W strain of meningococcal disease, is an important reminder to be aware of the signs and symptoms of this disease, which can present very quickly, and to seek medical advice immediately,” Dr Lewis said.

The NSW Government has invested $17m into a meningococcal ACWY vaccination program since 2017, which provides the vaccine for free for upper high school students.

The Premier has announced an extension

of the program to include Year 10 students in 2019, as well as those in Year 11 and Year 12.

The Central Coast woman’s close contacts have been prescribed clearance antibiotics to reduce the risk of it being spread to anyone else.

Since the introduction of meningococcal C vaccination to the National Immunisation Program Schedule in 2003, there has been a marked reduction in cases of meningococcal disease in the region.

Source: Media release, Aug 6 Jill Warwicker, Central Coast Local Health District

New evidence-based integrated approach to suicide prevention launched

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uggerah Lakes Police District has supported the launch of a new Central Coast mental health support service, LifeSpan.

Representatives from Tuggerah Lakes Police District attended the launch of the LifeSpan and Suicide Prevention Central Coast website at the Gosford Entertainment Grounds, on August 9.

“LifeSpan is a new, evidence-based, integrated approach to suicide prevention,” said Tuggerah Lakes Police District Superintendent, John Gralton.

“It combines nine strategies that have strong evidence for suicide prevention into one community-led approach.

“LifeSpan aims to build a safety net for the community by connecting and coordinating new

and existing interventions and programs, and building the capacity of the community to better support people facing a suicide crisis,” Superintendent Gralton said.

Representatives from LifeLine, R U OK? and other mental health services were also in attendance in support of the launch.

Source: Website, Aug 9 Tuggerah Lakes Police District Facebook page

Hospital auxiliary AGM attended

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ederal Member for Dobell, Emma McBride, and Member for Wyong, David Harris, attended the Wyong Hospital Auxiliary’s Annual General Meeting on Tuesday, July 24.

“One of the most amazing community groups, amongst the incredible local groups that we have, is the Wyong

Hospital Auxiliary,” David Harris said.

“With only 19 members, they managed to support our local hospital with $81 000 worth of new equipment this past year.

“They run raffles, Bunnings barbecues, and the little craft shop in the main foyer.

“All members are committed to serving our local hospital, including 94-year-old Doris, who joined the Auxiliary 34 years ago,” Harris

continued.

“The Auxiliary is asking new members to help out, because in 2019, they want to raise $100 000.

“At the 2018 AGM, Emma McBride, staff and I were entertained by the Toukley 50 Plus Choir and a great fire safety talk by, Lenore Sutherland,” he concluded.

Source: Website, Jul 24 David Harris MP official Facebook page

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udgewoi Public School held a special fundraiser in support of drought affected NSW farmers.

“On Wednesday, August 15, the Student Representative Council hosted the fundraising

event,” said Budgewoi Public School Principal, Kerry Moore.

“Across Australia, thousands of farmers need our support to feed their livestock.

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farmers, all students were invited to dress up as a farmer and bring a gold coin donation with the proceeds going to the Buy a Bale campaign,” she said.

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Source: Newsletter, Aug 13 Kerry Moore, Budgewoi Public School

$12,000 raised to assist in the schooling of needy children “Why Go to the Opera”?

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ith an opera season landing on the Coast now is the perfect opportunity to answer

this question, especially if you haven’t been before or you think that you won’t like it?

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Santa was a special guest at The Freemasons’ Christmas in July luncheon

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he Freemasons of the northern Central Coast have, over the past few months, been collecting for The Smith Family, to assist in the schooling of needy children in the local area.

A luncheon was held in April, where $3,000 was raised, and this amount was matched, dollar for dollar, by MasoniCare, The Freemasons Grand Charity.

A cheque for $6,000 was handed over to

representatives of the Smith Family (A Start in Life) at a Christmas in July luncheon, which was held at The Wyong Masonic Centre, where another $3,000 was raised.

This was once again matched dollar for dollar

by MasoniCare.

The Freemasons on the Central Coast would like to thank the local businesses in the Wyong, Tuggerah, Lake Haven and Wadalba areas for their kind donations to raffles, where most of the monies was raised.

We would also take this opportunity to thank

MasoniCare for their generous donation.

A total of $12,000 has now been donated to this very worthy cause, and The Freemasons look forward to hearing on the progress of the recipients in the near future.

Their next charitable endeavour will be collecting tinned food and non-perishables to make up Christmas hampers for Mary Mac’s Place in Woy Woy. Source: Media release, Aug 14 Chris Matthews, Central Coast Freemasons

s part of the C o l l e g e ’ s Science Week activities, MacKillop Catholic College, Wa r n e r v a l e , welcomed some very special guests from The Australian Reptile Park to the College on Monday, August 13.

“Our Year 9 students were privileged to meet, Ranger Mick, from The Australian Reptile Park for Science Week.

“The group were able to get up close and personal with a variety of reptile friends.

“Thank you The Australian Reptile Park, for this handson, entertaining and informative experience,” said College Principal, Steve Todd.

Source: Website, Aug 14 Steve Todd, Marky MacKillop Catholic College Homepage

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The common perception of opera is of highbrow entertainment for affluent city folk that is expensive, difficult to listen to and understand. Being sung in a foreign language by individuals that command the stage because of their size, not acting prowess, is not necessarily appealing entertainment. Lets face it, who wants to go to a show where you have to read subtitles to understand what is going on with some big old guy warbling across the stage!!

But at the end of the day when you take a good look at what the genre actually consists of, this need not be the case. Operas such as La Boheme are really just complex musical theatre works. The music is stunningly beautiful and incredibly well composed, it was written by a genius! You are listening to an orchestra but that’s the same orchestral sound you hear in movie soundtracks.

Central Coast Opera is all about making opera accessible to all in our community. So what can you expect if you turn up to see La Boheme at the Laycock Street Theatre this August?

You’ll experience common themes and plots involving love and death with comedy thrown into the mix, all acted by singers with stunning voices that are engaging and easy on the eye. We usually kill off at least one soprano but don’t be concerned, she inevitably returns to the stage for the curtain call. I’ve never heard of a soprano missing a curtain call!!

You’ll experience glorious visuals, hearing a stunning sound track with the orchestra and conductor on show. Prepare to be emotionally moved (please bring tissues) and yes, you will understand what’s going, we sing our operas in English.

You don’t need a suit or cocktail dress and you can eat ice cream during the interval. Bring the kids, music is good for them!

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McBride facilitates mock parliament sessions with local students

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Emma McBride, Member for Dobell, with Wyong Christian Community School students

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ederal Member for Dobell, Emma McBride, has been visiting schools in her electorate to facilitate mock parliament sessions

with local students.

The sessions are designed to engage young people with politics and introduce them to some of the basic functions of parliament.

McBride conducted two sessions on Wednesday, August 8, one at Wyong Christian Community School, and another at Tuggerah Lakes Secondary College (TLSC), Tumbi Umbi

Campus.

McBride first visited Wyong Christian Community School, where participating students debated the role of homework. “It was a very successful mock parliament where the students voted to ban homework. “Imagine that,�

McBride said.

Years 9 and 10 students from TLSC Tumbi Umbi debated the mandatory drug and alcohol testing of drivers involved in accidents in their mock parliament session. “Demonstrating that we have some safe and sensible drivers in the making, the Bill was passed,� McBride said.

Source: Website, Aug 8 Emma McBride, Official Facebook page

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yong High School student leaders have orchestrated a new fundraising initiative at the school.

School Principal, Rodney Hill, has congratulated the leaders on their Wear a Blue Accessory Day fundraiser, which took place on Friday, August 3, in support of Stewart House. “We were blown away by the level of support and generosity from students across all grades, and congratulate

all students and staff on their fundraising efforts. “The competition for most impressive accessories worn by students was unquestionably led by the Year 12s, in Zorro masks, while Mr Hill and Mr Freeman led the staff with their best attempts to impersonate Smurfs. “A wonderful example of what can be achieved with respect and responsibility. “Well done,� Hill said.

Source: Website, Aug 3 Rodney Hill, Wyong High School

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Country Music Festival draws over 7,000 people

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enues across The Entrance came alive as the Central Coast Country Music Festival returned to the region for three jammed packed days of live music and entertainment.

A pair of chalk boots gave festivalgoers a taste of Council’s next event for Chalk the Walk

Kicking off on August 10 and running right through until the evening on August 12, over 35 different acts descended on the beachside suburb to ply their craft and entertain festivalgoers.

The 2018 festival showcased a massive line-up of quality Country Australian performers, including feature acts such as the Adam Eckersley Band, Homegrown, Peter Denahy, Gretta Ziller, Andrew Swift, and this year’s Toyota Star Maker Winner, Brad Cox. Memorial Park was

again the central hub for this year’s festival, which was the biggest and best one yet, according to Central Coast Council’s Community Partnerships Unit Manager, Glenn Cannard.

“It’s no secret that locals enjoy this format of music, which is why the festival has been so consistently popular over the past few years,” Cannard said.

“Council estimates that around 7,000 people attended the festival’s main venue of Memorial Park, but this doesn’t account for all the festivalgoers that visited other private venues hosting artists or holding their own special events over the festival weekend,” he added.

According to Cannard, the festival continues to be a highlight on the Central Coast calendar

as a family friendly event that has something for everyone.

“Over the three days, we had markets, food stalls, roving entertainers, amusement rides, games and other activities, and of course a huge lineup of live music to be enjoyed.

“The festival always ticks a lot of different boxes for different people and we attribute that to its enduring success.

This year’s event was also the first festival to utilise the newly improved facilities at Memorial Park, including the improved Memorial Park outdoor stage and recently refurbished barbecue and dining area next to the Memorial Park playground.

Source: Interview, Aug 20 Glenn Cannard, Central Coast Council Dilon Luke, Journalist

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Community invited to have their say about Toukley improvements

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t a n d - u p comedians, Mandy Nolan and Ellen Briggs, are bringing their hit comedy show, Women Like Us, to Mingara Recreation Club on September 8.

A vine-covered pergola to replace the dying Norfolk Island pines is one suggestion for Toukley’s town centre

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o make Toukley Town Centre a more vibrant place to visit and spend time, Central Coast Council is looking to the local community for ideas and feedback on the redesign of the Village Green and the reconfiguration of the Coles carpark.

Mayor Jane Smith said the successful delivery of the two projects would not only improve public spaces within the town centre, but would also be a large step towards activating Toukley.

“By relocating the existing amenity block from the Village Green to the Coles carpark, we will have a great new space that we can activate for local residents and visitors,” she said.

“As such, we would

like to hear from the community about their ideas on what they want to see in this new Village Green space, so it will be a place designed by the community for the community.

“The second project is the reconfiguration of the Coles carpark, making it safer for pedestrians.

“We’re calling on the local community to provide us with their feedback on our preliminary plans to reconfigure this space.”

Smith added that community members also have the opportunity to voice their opinion about the entire Toukley Town Centre via a survey.

“Having the community fill in this survey allows us to update, prioritise and continue to deliver projects and activities that we identified in the 2013 Toukley Town

Centre Masterplan, and in turn inform our future works programs and capital works budgets.

“We value feedback from the community on such projects, so please make sure you have your say.”

Community members can have their say on these two projects, and complete the survey, by visiting www. yourvoiceourcoast.com.

They can also have their say at one of the pop up stalls: at the Village Green on August 23, from 9:00am to 11:00am, and at Toukley Markets on August 26, from 7:00am to 1:00pm.

Consultation on these projects closes on Wednesday, September 5.

Source: Media release, Aug 10 Central Coast Council media

The duo have spent the last three years touring the country with their show, performing almost 90 shows to over 25,000 people.

Their formula of performing two hours of stand up, an hour a piece, has proven a hit with audiences.

“This is a no-holes barred, tell it how it is, comedy by women who are tired of the messages being fed to women that they’re too fat, too thin,

too old or too young.

“It’s not just a comedy show, it’s a movement,” said Nolan.

Throughout the show Briggs and Nolan share reflections on their failure to parent, the beauty industry, strange surgeries, special diets, obsessions, frustrations, and at the end of the day the serious politics of “who unpacks the dishwasher”.

Nominated for Best Comedy at Perth Fringe Festival, Women Like us sells out at nearly every stop.

Nolan is a columnist for the Byron Shire Echo, and writes regularly for Mamamia.

She has appeared on ABC’s, Q and A, SBS’s, Mum’s The Word, and, About Women, and is in demand as a corporate

and club performer around the country.

Briggs is a national finalist for RAW comedy and a winner of Foxtel Comedy Channel’s, Be A Comedian.

She has performed internationally with Arj Barker and Gordon Southern, and features on comedy stages around the country.

Both women are regular feature acts on the national circuit, and in 2016 they were selected to perform at Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s, Upfront Showcase.

“Women Like Us is not just a show for women.

“This is also a show for men who love women.”

Source: Media release, Jul 17 Mandy Nolan, Comedian

One-on-one access to Councillors L

ake Haven Shopping Centre, in the Budgewoi Ward, will be the venue for the first Central Council Councillor listening post, on Saturday, September 1, from 10:00am to 12:00pm.

Residents will have the opportunity to talk to their local Ward Councillors about what matters to them and their suburb.

Councillor Listening Posts will visit each of the five Wards across the Central Coast between September and December, to provide the

community with one-onone access to Councillors that represent their local area.

Mayor Jane Smith said Councillors wanted the opportunity to engage directly with their community on local issues and get a better understanding of the things that matter in suburbs and local neighbourhoods.

“Councillors want to understand first-hand community concerns so they can be addressed at the local level,” said Smith.

“Councillor Listening Posts will be held on

weekends at local shopping centres or community events in each Ward, to reach as many members of the community as possible.”

Councillor Listening Posts will be held in The Entrance Ward on November 18 and Wyong Ward on December 1.

“I encourage the community to drop by a Councillor Listening Post near them and engage with their Councillors on the issues that matter to them,” Mayor Smith said.

Source: Media release, Aug 20 Central Coast Council media

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he Watoto Children’s Choir, a group of 18 vulnerable children from Uganda, have commenced their six-month Australian tour, and will be visiting St James Anglican Church, Wyong, on Tuesday, September 18.

Their concert, Signs and Wonders, will feature songs that share the stories of the children and the hope they have because of God’s love.

All performances are free and open to the public.

Since 1994, Watoto Children’s Choirs have travelled the world sharing the plight of Africa’s orphaned children.

Each child in the choir has suffered the loss of one or both of their parents.

They live in a Watoto village, or a neighbouring community, where they are supported by Watoto’s Neighbourhood project.

Watoto is a holistic child-care solution initiated to serve the dire needs of the people of Africa.

Ivan Masembe (13) is excited to be part of the Watoto Children’s Choir, touring Australia in 2018.

Before he joined Watoto, his father had abandoned their family, leaving his unemployed mother without support.

Through the Watoto Neighbourhood project, his mother was also equipped with practical skills to help support herself and her family.

Ivan was also offered the opportunity to be educated at a Watoto school.

“Since joining Watoto they have taught me how to respect people, work with others, and help my mother” Ivan said.

“The concert is suitable for all ages, and families will especially love it,” said St James Anglican Church’s Administrative Assistant, Annie Harris.

Source: Media release, Aug 21 Jayson Myhill, Watoto Children’s Choir

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Central Coast Garage Sale Trail to take place in October

Watoto Children’s Choir to perform for free

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entral Coast households, schools and community groups are set to join over 400,000 people across the country on Saturday and Sunday, October 2021, as a part of the eighth annual, Central Coast Garage Sale Trail.

A multi awardwinning community and sustainability event, the Garage Sale Trail is powered by over 140 local Councils nationwide.

It is expected that this year’s weekend long event will involve more Australians than ever before, all choosing to reuse at over 15,000 garage sale events across the country.

Now in its eighth year

The Central Coast Garage Sail Trail is returning this October “Green was identified nationally, the program has grown from a grass as a key theme in our Strategic roots idea in Bondi Community Beach, where it started in Plan, One Coast, and the Trail is just another 2010.

Central Coast Mayor, way that Council is on this Jane Smith, said that delivering the Trail presents a promise to our region by fun and social way for educating our community environmental Council to encourage about and sustainability through sustainability and reuse and repurposing, conservation and help educate the protection of our natural community about taking assets,” she added.

Last year the average responsibility for the household sale made waste we generate.

“Garage Sale Trail $370, with sellers and connecting provides a great way to shoppers with an average of 50 meet your neighbours people from their local and connect with the area. broader community, whilst decluttering and raising money for yourself or for local causes.

“We’re really pleased to be involved in this grass roots event that, like the reuse movement, is growing year on year,” said Mayor Smith.

Sellers are encouraged to think of a creative and attention-grabbing name for their sale to encourage shoppers to see what they have to offer.

Registrations are open now, and the first 1,250 sellers to register, will receive a free seller pack, with posters, price tags and more, to help maximise their sales success.

For more info on how to get involved in this year’s Garage Sale Trail, visit Council’s website.

Source: Media release, Aug 17 Central Coast Council Media

WYONG DISTRICT GARDEN COMPETITION

7-9 SEPTEMBER Art Show Exhibition and Sales 10am-3pm Friday and Saturday 11am- 1pm Sunday Held at Lakes Anglican Church 274 Wallarah Rd, Kanwal Displays of various art works including paintings, photography, quilts, textiles and more.

Entry is $2

ENTER YOUR GARDEN! ENTRIES CLOSE SEPTEMBER 12 2018 schedules

Phone: 4392 3271 or obtain at your local library or nursery

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Seven-piece band from the Tiwi Islands showcase B

uilding on their international touring acclaim, B2M (Bathurst to Melville), are embarking on their first major national tour, and will perform at The Art

House, Wyong, on Saturday, September 8.

“Come and see this seven-piece band from the Tiwi Islands as they showcase their new album with its unique blend of contemporary

and traditional sound”, said Emily Miller, The Art House spokesperson.

Mamanta, meaning 'friend' in Tiwi, is a pumping RnB performance, Tiwi style.

Incorporating footage and imagery of the

Tiwi Islands, Mamanta is a vibrant cultural experience told through a mix of dance, chants and song.

In an historic show of support from the Tiwi Elders, B2M have gained permission to

use traditional Tiwi chants and blend them with modern musical elements.

Hailed as Australia's answer to the Backstreet Boys, this unique boyband have conquered China, East Timor, Taiwan

and Ireland.

See page two of this edition to see how you can win tickets to their performance.

Source: Media release, Aug 15 Emily Miller, The Art House Wyong

NOT FOR PROFIT ORGANISATIONS COMMUNITY GROUPS Bateau Bay Men’s Shed Environment for mature aged men to repair items, share and learn skills and socialise 9am to 1.30pm Tue to Thur 1 Bay Village Road, Bateau Bay 0435 807 633 bateaubayshed@gmail.com

Bateau Bay Neighbourhood Centre Information, Child & Adult Groups & Services, Youth Worker, Free Counselling, Energy Account assistance (EAPA), Food Assistance (incl. Food Store), Op Shop, Computer Lessons, Equipment (PCs, Laundry Facilities & Lawnmower),Community Events.

4332 7450 admin@bbnc.org.au https://bbnc.org.au/

Berkeley Vale Neighbourhood Centre Information & Referral, Talks & Information Sessions.

Energy Account Assistance (EAPA), Counselling (concession available), Food Help, & Access to PCs, Internet & Printing.

Toy Library, Community Garden & Activities Groups including Cards, Indoor Bowls, Mah-jong & Berkeley Vale Walking for Pleasure.

School Holiday Activities & Workshops.

4388 5801 manager@bvnc.org.au www.bvnc.org.au

Central Coast Caravanners Inc 3rd Sun Monthly Visitors - New Members welcome, Trips Away, Social Outings, friendship with like minded senior folk Details from Geoff 0447 882 150 Central Coast Community Legal Centre Not for profit service providing free legal advice.

Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm

4353 4988 centralcoast@clc.net.au

as well as campaign for plus social outings & trips community services, events, local labor candidates and projects, workshops, arts away - New memebers and Members of Parliament. programs and an open visitors are invited to attend Museum & Historical www.friendlytravellers.com 2nd Mon 2pm The community garden.

Society Wyong District Entrance Leagues Club 4353 1750 Groups/Schools Welcome Lake Munmorah Senior 4332 2907 Morning tea/lunch for Citizens Club Wyong Toastmasters group bookings, wheelchair Computer Classes, dancing, Warnervale Branch Club friendly, Alison Homestead exercise, pilates, yoga, craft, A friendly way to improve - NSW Labor Party 1 Cape Rd Wyong carpet bowls and Tai Chi. To support and promote public speaking and Open Sun-Thur 10am-2pm 4358 8390 50pssg@gmail.com NSW Labor within the leadership skills, stay sharp, 4352 1886 Warnervale area. and increase confidence. www.alisonhomestead.com.au Long Jetty Senior The Creative 3rd Tue 7pm 1st, 3rd, 5th Friday Citizens Club Compassion Centre Inc. Hamlyn Terrace 10:30 - 12:30 Wyong RSL. Computer classes, line Secondhand Shopping, Community Centre All welcome. dancing, tai chi and zumba Upcycling Minimalism, 0419 128 497 0432 570 935 SOUNDWAVES warnervale.labor@gmail.com gold - M-F, 9am to 3pm Creativity, Community A cappella harmony for Men Wyong Uniting Church for full list of activities Lounge Area, Free Wifi, or a – new members welcome.

Sunday Service 9am 4332 5522 cuppa and chat, call in Rehearsals Mondays All welcome - Bible study and see us at 5/22-32 7.00pm to 9.30pm Central Watanobbi Road Wyong Tuggerah Combined Long Jetty Over Weekly writers group Pacific Highway Coast Leagues Club, Dane Probus Club Inc 50s Club 4352 1528 (Next to BYO Cellars) Drive, Gosford Indoor bowls, computers, Opening hours Ring Max on 4324 3631 Meet new friends and enjoy social events. exercises, yoga, lineMon-Sat 9-4pm or Kieran 4324 1977 2nd Thur., 10:30am, guest dancing, tai chi and more 0437 048 815 Central Coast Coastal a Cappella 9am to 3pm speakers.

Permaculture Vibrant women’s a 4332 5522 Social outings 3rd Thur.

Country Women’s meet friendly like minded cappella chorus Woodbury Park Community Association of NSWpeople at our information new members welcome.

The NSW Justices Hall, Mardi Toukley night held at Tuggerah Music eduction provided Association Inc 4351 0450 Monthly Market 9am-2pm Community Hall on the 3rd Seeking volunteers for Rehearsals Tue 7pm 175 Main Rd, Books, bricTuesday of each month. added community desks Gosford TAFE Probus Club a-brac, cakes, Devonshire 6:30 for 7pm start in Wyong Area Lots of Performance of Wyong Inc tea, handicrafts, plants, Bob on 0412 133 808 Free Insurance and opportunities, or hire us preserves, sausage sizzle, meet at wyong golf club training provided fun, fellowship, fundraising for your next event.

4th Mon, Morning Tea, 0418 493 388 Meetings 1st Wed monthly 0412 948 450 Guest Speakers, regular marketing@nswja.org coastalacappella@gmail.com 10am - Market Day 2nd Sat monthly outings monthly 9am Better Hearing 4352 3692 Toukley Presbyterian probuswyong5509@gmail.com 0402 800 502 Australia Central Coast Church Hearing loss management Australian Labor Party Hargraves St & Victoria Ave Support and educational Gambling Solutions Ourimbah/ Narara Family Service (Sunday Gambling help counsellors groups providing practical Branch Inner Wheel Club School 9.30am) providing free confidential experience and confidence Discussion/action Wyong professional service to Cafe Church - informal (in Learn the benefits of community issues gamblers, family and friends Women’s club with the hall 5pm) hearing aids 3 levels of Government Woy Woy, Kincumber, common interest of giving Community Activities 4321 0275 Niagara Park Primary Gosford and The Entrance back to the community ALL WELCOME School 7.30pm 1st Mon 4344 7992 while developing lasting toukleypc.org.au 0410 309 494 Central Coast Prostate friendships. kyle.macgregor@hotmail.com 4392 9904 Cancer Support Group Freemasons 7.00 pm 3rd Wed Wyong (Wyong) Annual event 4th Thurs in Central Coast Greens Uniting Church Volunteering Meet last Mon May each year The Central Coast Greens 4393 2755 Central Coast Toukley RSL Club, Regular event 4th Thurs For a fairer, more transparent iiw.au.wyong@gmail.com Refer potential volunteers monthly from 10am Holmes Ave Toukley and accountable government to community organisations Ladies are invited based on democratic principles 10.00am to 12 noon The Lions Club of and provide support to Morisset Masonic Centre Local, state-wide, national 4356 9300 Wyong Inc Westlake Daylight volunteers and community www.pcfa.org.au and international issues and 47 years supporting Masonic Lodge campaigns - Council and organisations. local activities parliamentary representation 5 Yambo Street Morisset Training for volunteers and GROW Support Groups Join us - Meet new friends Developing a new economy Jack Harris 4392 1231 managers of volunteers Small friendly groups 4th Tues Monthly 6:30pm Protecting our environment Information Sessions held formed to learn how Peaceful conflict resolution Don Small / Lions Freemasons regularly across the Coast to overcome anxiety, Community participation retirement village Lodge Toukley 933 4329 7122 depression and loneliness We meet monthly every 3rd Meets 1st Wednesday each Call James recruit@volcc.org.au and to improve mental Thu - Details and info: month - Toukley Memorial 0415 909 269 health and well-being. centralcoast.nsw.greens.org.au www.wyong.nsw.lions.org.au Hall Pearce Street Toukley Wyong Neighbourhood Anonymous, free and open centralcoastgreens@gmail.com John Jenkins 4392 1631 Centre to all. Weekly meetings at The Rotary Club Supporting disadvantaged NSW Labor Party Bateau Bay and Wyong of the Entrance Inc. Friendly Travellers vulnerable and isolated The Entrance Day Branch 1800 558 268 A small, friendly and Caravan Club members of our community Monthly meetings to www.grow.org.au effective club supporting Caravans, Tents, Mobile offering a range of discuss and debate policy many local organisations, Homes, All welcome

HISTORY GROUPS

Central Coast 50+ Singles Social Group Invites Ladies & Gents for dinner, dancing - BBQs & Socialising each w/e.

Monthly programme for all areas of the coast 0412 200 571 0437 699 366

MUSIC

PROBUS CLUBS

GARDEN CLUBS

HEALTH GROUPS

POLITICAL GROUPS

SERVICE GROUPS

and international Rotary Activities.

Meetings 6.30 pm Tues Mingara Recreation Club 0409 449 498 rotarytheentrance@gmail.com

SPECIAL INTEREST Biz Plus Networking Association Grow your business and in the process build worthwhile relationships.

Biz Networking breakfasts Every Thur 7:15- 9am Erina Leagues Club Geoff Neilson network@bizplus.com.au

Central Coast Tenants’ Advice and Advocacy Service Free telephone advice and advocacy for all tenants as well as residents in residential parks 4353 5515 cctaas@hotmail.com

Central Coast Soaring Club Inc Gliding Club, Learn to fly, Instruction FREE to members.

14 Y/O and up for Training Thur, Sat, Sun (weather permitting) Bloodtree Rd Mangrove Mountain 0412 164 082 0414 635 047 www.ccsoaring.com.au

Tuggerah Lakes U3A Long Jetty - Discussions, play reading, cryptic crosswords, talks, readers group, Mahjong Toukley - Creative writing, French conversation Berkeley Vale - Music Appreciation Chittaway Bay - Movies 4390 2451 www.tugglakesu3a.info

SPORT KI-DO Mingara Judo Academy Junior boys and girls Mon and Wed Two classes 6-8.30pm from 7yrs Kangy Angy 0413 237 010 www.kidomingarajudo.com.au

If you would like your Community Organisation listed here, see www. duckscrossing.org or www.centralcoastnewspapers.com for the forms or contact Central Coast Newspapers on - 4325 7369

Entries in the Not For Profit Community Organisations Directory are free.

However, we require each organisation to subscribe to each newspaper to ensure that someone from that organisation keeps their entry up to date.

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Wyong pipped by a field goal in clash with Wests T

he Wyong Roos were pipped 2524 by the Western Suburbs Magpies, in the final ever ISP Cup game to be played at Kanwal.

The Wyong club made the decision earlier in the year that this was to be their last season in the premier NSWRL competition, an involvement that commenced in 2013.

A tremendous battle unfolded between the Central Coast powerhouse and the Sydney foundation club, with the score line seesawing throughout the contest.

The Roos took a healthy 20-12 lead into the break after Wests

Magpies forward, Josh Aloiai, attracts a mob of Roos during a drama charged second half

Photos Andrew Stark

had led 12-6 mid way through the opening stanza.

The second half was full of drama and with the scoreboard reading 20 a piece with 20 minutes to play.

The visitors looked to have blown their

chances when back rower, Josh Aloiai, was sent from the field after collecting Wyong skipper, Mitch Williams, high in a tackle that ultimately ended the game for both men.

Wyong took the lead five minutes after the

The Wyong Diary For events in post code areas 2258, 2259, 2261, 2262 and 2263 Wednesday, Aug 22 Albert Lee in concert, The Art House Wyong, 8:00pm to 10:00pm, tickets essential

Saturday, Aug 25 Cheese Making Masterclass, Crock and Pickle Tuggerah, 9:00am to 4:30pm, tickets essential Prada’s Priscillas, The Art House Wyong, 8:00pm to 10:00pm, tickets essential Isacc Butterfield Comedy Show, Club Toukley RSL, 7:00pm to 10:00pm, tickets essential Lions District Disaster Appeal Need for Feed, Lions Club of Toukley, 8:00am to 10:00am

Sunday, Aug 26 Ladies Day Out, Wyong Race Club, 11:00am to 6:00pm tickets essential Yarramalong Artisan Market, Yarramalong School Community Centre, 10:00am to 3:00pm

Tuesday, Aug 28 Wyong

Regional

Mitch Williams makes a half break in the play that led to Josh Aloiai’s send-off

Chamber of Commerce 2018 Annual General Meeting, Pullman Magenta Shores Resort, 7:00pm to 11:00pm, tickets essential

Friday, Aug 31 Carlton Draught Wyong Golf Cup Day, Wyong Race Club, 11:00am to 6:00pm, tickets essential Travel Associates Erina Fashions on the Field, Wyong Race Club, 1:00pm to 4:00pm

Saturday, Sep 1 The Woman in Black, The Art House Wyong, 2:00pm to 4:00pm, tickets essential Long Jetty Produce Swap, Long Jetty CWA Hall, 10:00am to 11:00am

Sunday, Sep 2 Father’s Day Car Meet, Westfield Tuggerah, 10:00am to 2:00pm, entrants must register to participate Father’s Day Festival, The Beachcomber Hotel Toukley, 12:00pm to 10:00pm, bookings essential

Game of Thrones Trivia Night, The Beachcomber Hotel Toukley, 6:30pm to 9:30pm Urban Kulture Wyong NSW Mushroom to Mushroom Workshop, Wyong Neighbourhood Centre, 6:00p, to 8:15pm, tickets essential

Friday, Sep 7 Ian Moss: Solo Acoustic and Intimate, The Art House Wyong, 8:00pm to 10:00pm, tickets essential Him and Her, Royal Hotel Wyong, 8:00pm to 11:00pm Women’s Health Week Yarn Up, The Glen Rehab Centre Chittaway Point, 8:00am to 11:00am The Wolf Brothers, The Entrance Leagues Club Bateau Bay, 8:00pm to 11:30pm, tickets essential

Saturday, Sep 8 Grant McBride Memory Walk, Saltwater Creek Reserve Long Jetty, 10:00am to 1:00pm, tickets essential B2M Mamanta, The Art House Wyong, 8:00pm to 10:00pm, tickets essential

Thursday, Sep 6

See the Peninsula News for events in post code areas 2256 & 2257 and the COAST Community News for events in post code areas 2250, 2260 and 2251 If you’ve got something happening in the Wyong Region over the next few weeks, let us know about it and we’ll list it here for you, for free. Contact details are on page 2.

send-off, when, Lachlan Lam, struggled his way over in the caravan park corner; the attacking set made possible by a booming 40/20 kicked by his halve’s partner, Mitch Cornish.

Despite trailing by four and playing with one man down, the Magpies weren’t done with yet.

With seven minutes left to play, right centre and team captain, Braden Robson, levelled the scores when he swooped on a, Tui Lolohea, grubber kick.

Mitch Cornish missed

a field goal attempt with four minutes on the clock.

A minute later, and after a strong surge up centre field from the impressive, Robson, Wests five eighth, Tyson Gamble, kicked a low and ugly looking drop kick that just snuck its way over the northern crossbar to push the Magpies to a one point lead.

Western Suburbs won the day 25-24 in a game that followed a very similar script to that of the first encounter

between the two teams played at Campbelltown earlier in the year.

That day it was Wyong who kicked a late field goal to snatch a 23-22 win.

With both sides currently in line to play finals football come September, there may well be another one point thriller in store between the Roos and the Magpies before this year is out.

Source: Media release, Aug 20 Andrew Stark, Gosford Kariong Storm RLFC

WYONG SERVICES

DIRECTORY Ambulance, Police, Fire 000 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Organisations Aboriginal Legal Service 8842 8000 Community Options 4351 3388 Bungree Aboriginal Association 4397 7700 Mingaletta 4342 7515 Aboriginal Home Care 4321 7215 Drug & Alcohol rehab 4388 6360 Respite Care Options 4351 3388 Eleanor Duncan Aboriginal Health 4351 1040 Darkinjung Local Land Council 4351 2930

Accommodation Dept. of Housing Wyong 4352 4400 Regional Youth Support Services 4323 2374 Coast Shelter 4324 7239 Neleh House 4340 1052 Elandra Women and Children’s Refuge 4396 4263 Kara Women and Children’s Refuge 4323 1709 Coimba Mens Refuge 4324 7239 Rumbalara Youth Refuge 4325 7555 Wyong Youth Refuge 4351 1922 Youth Angle 4341 8830 Woy Woy Youth Cottage 4341 9027 Maya Young Womens Refuge 4323 1636 Pacific Link Com Housing 4324 7617 Rumbalara Youth Refuge 4325 7555 Samaritans Youth Services 4351 1922 Youth Angle • Woy Woy 4341 8830 Temporary Accommodation 1800 152 152

Indigenous Call Centre 136 380 Family Relationship Advice Line 1800 050 321 Family Drug Support 1300 368 186 G-line - Gambling Helpline 1800 633 635 Credit Helpline 1800 808 488 Child Support Agency 13 12 72 Australian Injury Helpline 1800 223 363 Veteran Affairs Network 1300 551 918 Mens Domestic Violence 1800 000 599 Sexual Assault Resource 1800 199 888 Gay and Lesbian Counselling 1800 184 527 Gay and Lesbian Support 1800 249 377 Youth Sexuality Network 4320 2856 Vietnam Veterans 1800 043 503 Victims Support Services 1800 633 063 Translation and Interpreting Service 13 14 50

Family and Relationships Parents Helpline 132 055 Oasis Youth Centre 4353 9799 Horizons (For families) 4351 5008 Interrelate - Family Relationships 1300 736 966

Health Wyong Hospital 4394 8000 Cancer Hotline 131 120 Mental Health info Service 1300 794 991 Beyond Blue (Depression) 1300 22 4636 Community Women’s Health Centre 4351 1152

Legal Legal Aid 4324 5611

Animal Rescue

Problems, Habits & Addiction

Wires 1300 094 737

G-Line Telephone Counsel 1800 633 635 Gamblers Anonymous 9726 6625 Alcoholics Anonymous 4323 3890 Narcotics Anonymous 4325 0524 Quitline 131 848

Counselling Mensline - talk with a bloke 1300 789 978 Lifecare Family Services 1300 130 225 CatholicCare: 4356 2600 Relationship Australia: 1300 364 277 Interrelate: 1800 449 118

Emergency Police Assistance Line 131 444 Crime Stoppers 1800 333 000 Wyong Police Station 4356 6099 Energy Australia 13 13 88 Gas Emergency 131 909 Wyong Shire Council 4350 5555 Marine Rescue - Central Coast 4325 7929 SES - Storm and Flood Emergency 132 500

Crisis Services and Helplines Lifeline - 24 hr. 13 11 14 Suicide Helpline 1800 191 919 Kids Helpline 1800 551 800 Parents Helpline 13 20 55

Phone services: Mental Health Line 1800 011 511 Beyondblue 1300 224 636 Domestic Violence Line 1800 656 463 Lifeline 13 11 14 Kids Help Line 1800 551 800 Griefline 1300 845 745 Suicide Call Back Service 1300 659 467

Welfare Services Coast Community Centre 4325 3510 Horizons Family Services 4351 5008 Meals on Wheels Wyong - 4333 6942 Department of Community Services Wyong 4352 6500 The Salvation Army 4325 5733 Samaritans Emergency Relief 4393 2450 St Vincent De Paul Society HELPLINE 4323 6081

also, see the Not for Profit organisations directory inside

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ANTENNAS

BUILDERS

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WALK THE LINE CONSTRUCTIONS

Antenna & Digital

Installations & Tuning New home specialist Credit cards OK HAYWARD VIDEO All areas

ENTERTAINMENT

Builder - Carpenter Cabinetmaker

For all your building and renovation needs Call Ben 0405 838 489

Gosford 4323 6367 Woy Woy 4344 4414 Warnervale 1800 244 456 0412 685 555

ben@walkthelineconstructions.com.au Lic 266808C

ASBESTOS

CARPENTER

Asbestos Removal Fully licensed and insured asbestos removals from houses, garages, sheds, bathrooms etc.

Carpenter Handyman Odd jobs

Ph: Tom 0422 653 794 or 4393 9890

BRICKLAYING

ELECTRICIAN

Bricklayer Over 40 year’s experience Small jobs welcome All aspects of brickwork Free quotes Ph: Will 0481 331 945

M The Troubadour Folk and Acoustic Music Club

Home maintenance and repairs - Decks, Pergolas and Patios Small jobs welcome 30 years’ experience Ph: Glen 0424 265 324

Safe Work NSW Lic. AD212564

Netball team qualifies for finals of the NSW TAFE Schools Cup

Lic 178637c

AUG 25 at 7pm

JIM JARVIS St Luke’s hall - Woy Woy

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No job too small.

Seniors Discount.

Classified advertising is the cheapest form of newspaper advertising. This newspaper is published on line on the night before publication date, and is read that way by hundreds of people. All advertisements, including these classified advertising pages, appear in full on-line as an additional benefit for free.

See www.CentralCoastNewspapers.com www.CentralCoastNews.net

or

Central Coast Newspapers’ advertising rates are relatively much lower than in other newspapers and at the same time much larger than in other newspapers, with the minimum size being 50mm X 42mm. Approximately 16,000 copies of each newspaper are printed and distributed every fortnight.

Non Business and Not For Profit Organisations As Central Coast Newspapers are community newspapers, the cost of advertising not for profit organisations’ events is subsidised. This makes them the same rate as non business advertisements.

A mono 5cm advertisement only costs $33. Each additional cm costs $6.60 as does colour, and/or a photograph or a logo. Private advertisements need to be paid for at the time of booking.

Business rates The minimum size of 5cm X a single column only costs $40 + GST in mono and an extra $8 + GST for colour, a logo or a photograph, every two weeks. Most businesses choose to advertise on an ongoing basis and discounts apply for multiple bookings, if they are paid for in full, in advance.

Having an advertisement run for 3 months only costs $215 + GST, for 6 months it is $385 + GST, and for 12 months advertising, the total cost is only $700 + GST – Approximately $14 per week.

Artwork is free and advertisers are encouraged to change their advertisements frequently

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Same day service Guaranteed

4342 6716 Your total acoustic blues/roots package, top to toe, and then some.

Minnie the Moocher to Eagle Rock and on into indie roots, beatnik jazz, backhills bluegrass and prog folk. Available as duo, trio or band negotiable for your party, event or venue.

tomflood@hotmail.com

4787 5689

GARDENING AAA. A ADEPT GARDENER

Classifieds advertising rates - in print and on-line

PLUMBING

PLUMBER

Lic number 265652C

4308 6771

“On Tuesday, August 14, our Year 7/8 and 9/10

Price $10, $13 and $15

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a c K i l l o p Catholic College Warnervale’s Year 9/10 netball team are off to the state finals of the NSW TAFE Schools Cup.

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CALL ANDREW : 0449 170 008

MASSAGE

Calming Souls

Blocked drains, Leaking taps and toilets, Hot water and all aspects of plumbing drainage and gas fitting.

Lic number 265652C

4346 4057 POSITIONS VACANT

Full time cleaner required Hornsby Day shi . Car licence, reference required. Experience in food manufacturing industry favourable.

Wri en applica ons to: 2/489 Highe Rd Highe VIC 3190 georgek@hygiclean.com.au Fax 03 9532 3818

Horse Handler required for casual and fulltime work at Wyong.

Must have previous experience working with horses and be available weekends.

Please call Robyn on 0447 100 079 or email robyn.hartney@gmail.com

TILING

Massage Remedial Massage Therapist Infant Massage Instructor Paediatric Massage Consultant

Call Kate 0423 150 561

Tiling Wall & Floor Property Maintenance 0439 589 426 homes2nv@gmail.com

calmingsoulsmassage@gmail.com

Source: Website, Aug 15 Steve Todd, MacKillop Catholic College, Warnervale Homepage

PUBLIC NOTICE FREE FAMILY FUN DAY 10a.m.-2p.m.SATURDAY 22nd SEPTEMBER,2018.

Toukley Presbyterian Church, cnr. Hargreaves St. and Victoria Ave. FUN ACTIVITIES: Jumping Castle. Fire Truck. Musical items Facepainting.Craft Table.

Novelty races.Puppet Show.

FREE Morning Tea.10-12.

FREE BBQ Lunch.12-1.

FREE Afternoon Tea. 1-2.

EVERYONE WELCOME. Enq: 4392 9904

WANTED

CASH PAID for good quality Swords, Knives and War memorabilia.

For large collections home visit available Shop 12 - Ebbtide Mall - 155 The Entrance Rd - The Entrance - 4333 8555

The Shame File CENTRAL COAST NEWSPAPERS has a very liberal credit policy for advertisers and realises that from time to time, people, businesses and organisations get into financial difficulty and may need assistance and time to get things back on track. However, some people, businesses and organisations take advantage of this generosity they use advertising but simply don’t pay their account after several months and need to be taken to court to do so. From time to time, as necessary, we will name these people, businesses or organisations as a warning to our readers so that they will be wary when dealing with them.

• Golden Scissors Hairdressing, Wyong • Tony trading Roofing

as

Fitzpatrick Futurtek

• Bakefresh, Wyong • Frazer Park Pty Ltd formerly trading as The Big Prawn at Crangan Bay • David Hill, Long Jetty

To advertise here call us on 4325 7369

“Well done to all girls on their participation and sportsmanship on the day.

“A great netball performance all round,” Todd concluded.

netball teams travelled to Maitland for the regional final of the Cup,” said College Principal, Steve Todd.

“Our Year 9/10 girls played superbly all day against some very strong competition from Newcastle and northern region schools.

“Winning their way to the grand final, they then played Hunter Sports High School and won.

“This means they now qualify for the state final of the Schools Cup, to be played at Homebush later this year,” Todd said.

“Congratulations to our Year 9/10 and we wish them luck for their state final.

“Our Year 7/8 team also played consistently all day in a difficult pool.

“They won three games and lost two.

“The two teams they lost to were the grand finalists on the day, so some very tough competition.

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fter the popularity of the 2017 inaugural event, SportsFest is back again in September, and will showcase a variety of Central Coast sports and recreational opportunities.

This family-friendly event will be held over the weekend of September 22-23, from 10am-5pm, at Bateau Bay’s EDSACC sporting precinct.

Central Coast Council Acting Director Assets, Infrastructure and Business, Boris Bolgoff, said that this is a not-tobe-missed event.

“SportsFest’s

promoting a fun and free community event that promotes healthy living. “ S p o r t s F e s t encourages residents of all ages and ability to get connected and active in our sports community, through active participation, volunteering or spectator support,” Mayor Smith said.

“We are pleased to invest in an event that not only will appeal to all ages, but also supports local businesses, groups and organisations that encourage active lifestyles,” she added.

festivities will include interactive sporting activities, professional demonstrations, live entertainment, market and food stalls, and a dedicated KidZone,” said Bolgoff.

“Over 40 sporting codes and numerous related organisations have already secured their place as exhibitors, so there’s sure to be something for everyone’s taste, from the water to the court, from traditional to the more obscure, and everything in between,” he added.

Central Coast Mayor, Jane Smith, said that Council is proud to be running SportsFest again and looks forward to

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Sportsfest to return in 2018 A

22 August, 2018

Source, Media release, Aug 6 Central Coast Council Media

his season’s Central Coast Junior Rugby League semi-finalists have now been determined, as competitions in all the various age divisions head toward their t r a d i t i o n a l S e p t e m b e r conclusion.

Central Coast league powerhouse clubs, the Wyong Roos and The Entrance Tigers, have dominated the Division One competitions this season.

The Roos have claimed the minor premierships in both the Under 17’s and Under 10’s age groupings, while The Entrance has dominated the Under 13 and Under 14’s competitions.

Under 13’s second rower, James Miller, on the charge for the Tigers against Wyong Photo Andrew Stark

The Tigers Under 14(1)’s are undefeated in 2018, and they wound up the home and away rounds with a thumping 38-6 victory over the fourth placed Terrigal.

The Blue Haven Raiders snuck through to claim the Under 12(1)’s

Minor Premiership after previous competition leaders, The Entrance, were held to an unexpected draw by the Alex Moore coached, Berkeley Vale Panthers.

Source: Media release, Aug 17 Andrew Stark, Gosford Kariong Storm RLFC

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Kyle Farrell is bowling for NSW L

ocal tenpin bowler, Kyle Farrell, received his State Representative Award to recognise his selection to the NSW Cole Cup Ten Pin Bowling team on August 11.

The Entrance MP, David Mehan, with tenpin bowler, Kyle Farrell

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David Mehan, Member for The Entrance, was on hand to present Farrell’s award.

Farrell represented NSW in the Cole Cup National Disability Championships at Woodville, South Australia, in June.

“I congratulate Kyle on this fine achievement.

“Representing NSW in any field is something to be very proud of,” said David Mehan.

This was the 30th National Tenpin Bowling Championship for persons with a disability to be held, and Farrell placed sixth.

Mehan also praised the efforts of Central Coast Challengers Disabled Tenpin Bowling Leagues’ event organisers, who coordinate a weekly event for disabled bowlers and their families.

“I love tenpin bowling,” Farrell said.

“I am very grateful for the support I have received from Autism Central Coast,” he said.

Source: Media release, Aug 13 David Mehan, Member for the Entrance

Ourimbah are favourites to win Union Premiereship O

u r i m b a h , Terrigal, Woy Woy and Kariong, are confirmed as the 2018 Central Coast Rugby Union Competition finalists after Round 18, the final round of the contest, wrapped up on Saturday, August 18.

“The Central Coast Rugby Union season proper ended with some very good rugby on display,” said Central Coast Rugby Union’s Football Officer, Larry Thomson.

“In what has proved a wonderful season of local rugby, the results have seen the Final Four settled in the very last round,” he said.

Ourimbah continued their winning way when they defeated Warnervale at Woongarrah Oval by 43 points to 22.

They certainly did not however have it all their own way in the early stages of the match.

In fact, Warnervale played so well in the first half, that they went to the halftime break leading by 15 points to 12.

It seemed an upset was on the cards.

However, Ourimbah hit their straps in the second half and were able to post a further 28 points on the scoreboard.

Best players for Ourimbah were winger, Jayden Pearson, who crossed for three tries, and locks, Tyler Jones and Josefa Biu. Warnervale were best served by NSW Country forward, Kevin McNamara, five-eight, Joey Walton, and winger, Tom Kaati.

The final 40 minutes demonstrated why Ourimbah are the Minor Premiers this year, and they go into the finals series as Premiership favourites.

They were clear Minor Premiers by a large 16 points over the second placed Terrigal.

However, it all starts again during the finals.

Warnervale would be pleased with their final performance but would have some regrets about what could have happened this season.

They were always close to the finals and would rue some results during the season.

The Lakes ended their season with a win over Avoca Beach at Heazlett Park, running out winners by 26 points to 19.

Both teams went into the match with an outside chance of reaching the finals, but the win by Kariong put all those hopes to bed.

Despite this, it was an exciting match from start to finish.

Both teams played entertaining rugby with some exciting tries on display.

The Lakes scored four tries to three, and that was probably a clear indication of the tightness of this match.

The Lakes played well and their best performers were fullback, Macai Raulini, Peni Raulini, and Pio Seru.

The Lakes have had a great season and just missed out on the finals.

They will look back with regret at that slump at the midway point of the season, where they lost several matches in a row.

All looks good for them for 2019.

Source: Media release, Aug 20 Larry Thomson, Central Coast Rugby Union

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Usain Bolt is looking forward to bringing home the trophy F

resh from his first training session with the Central Coast Mariners, the world’s fastest man, Usain Bolt, addressed a media pack at Central Coast Leagues Club on Tuesday, August 21.

With Mariners’ Head Coach, Mike Mulvey, at his side, Bolt’s message to the assembled media was simple: “I am ready for work”.

“I am not setting any targets, I am here to push myself and learn as much as possible,” the eight-time Olympic Gold Medallist said of his open-ended training stint.

When asked why he had chosen the Mariners, Bolt said he had considered arrangements with clubs in Spain and France, but there was a language barrier.

He said he enjoyed Australia and “the Mariners decided to give me the opportunity”.

Usain Bolt described himself as “very cool under pressure” and said his other strengths were his ability to understand things very quickly.

However, he kept coming back to the key message which was, he

Usain Bolt with Mariner’s defender Kalifa Cisse and attacker Matthew Simon had to work on his basic skills and the rest was “up to the coach”.

He will be taking things “one step at a time” and “day by day” and wants to be treated “like a worker, a footballer,” he said.

Bolt was asked to respond to the media chatter that his stint with the Mariners was a marketing stunt.

“I’m here,” he said with an enormous grin.

“People can say what they want to say.”

When asked about his reputation for partying and whether he would be tucked up in bed at 10pm every night, he said: “I am a professional footballer

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Usain Bolt and Mike Mulvey at the media conferenc now, you know what I mean”.

Bolt’s love of football is obvious.

He said he started playing as a goalkeeper in primary school and “moved forward” as he got older.

He played centre back and on the wing during high school, and was playing centre forward, his preferred position, by the time he completed high school.

“I always played sixaside with all my friends twice a week, every Tuesday and Thursday,” he said.

He is a “massive fan” of English Premier League Club, Manchester United.

“Football has always been a passion of mine,” he said.

As for whether locals should be shy if they see him at any of their favourite Central Coast spots, he said, “Fans build clubs, they make

sport what it is, and I try to always give back.

“Some people just want to have a conversation, that’s all they want,” he said.

Mariners’ Head Coach, Mike Mulvey, was taken aback when he entered the room to see rows of TV cameras on tripods, and dozens of photographers and journalists eagerly awaiting the arrival of Bolt.

Mulvey said he hoped

“all the people here today would hopefully come back for a normal training session.”

He described Bolt as a “fantastic athlete, and we are absolutely delighted to have him here.”

Usain Bolt’s presence was far from the biggest challenge of Mulvey’s training career, he said, pointing to Central Coast Mariners’ record, stuck at the bottom of the ladder, in recent years.

“This club has overachieved in the 14 years of the A-League,” he said, but unfortunately that had not been the case in the lead-up to his appointment as head coach.

He said he believed the Mariners had been “used to losing”, so he needed to lift the bar and described the Mariners as being in a rebuilding phase.

Mulvey said the club needed to be “innovative and creative”, and that Chairman, Mike Charlesworth, was OK with that.

“How much more

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innovative and creative can you be than bringing Usain Bolt here for a trial,” he said.

He described, Bolt, as “a winner”, and said that required “great mental capacity”, and added he would be happy if Bolt “could pass any of that on to my players as they are coming out of the cellar”.

Bolt would be treated as “one of the lads” with “no special treatment”, Mulvey said.

He was unlikely to select the track and field superstar for the trial match against Newcastle being staged at Maitland on Saturday, August 25, but said Bolt may be a chance for the Central Coast Select match, to be played at Central Coast Stadium, on Friday, August 31.

Usain Bolt said he was adjusting to the climate, he trained in track pants, gloves and beany, but said the community had welcomed him with warmth.

Mulvey said if it took 12 months for Bolt to be ready for a contract, he would be quite content with that.

Bolt said he would not be disappointed if the Coach said he was not good enough, but ever-confident, finished the marathon press conference by saying, he was “looking forward to bringing home the trophy”.

Source: Media conference, Aug 21 Usain Bolt, Central Coast Mariners Mike Mulvey, Central Coast Mariners Jackie Pearson, journalist