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11 New Kids Street Libraries Blue Mountains City Council would like to thank all the children and volunteers who helped establish 11 new street libraries throughout the City.

The Kids Street Libraries project promotes the benefits of reading for kids, from newborns to 12-year-olds.

When they asked children to help them find locations for the street libraries, they responded with passion and creativity!

Now that the beautifully constructed and decorated libraries are operational at the chosen sites, they are proving popular with the local communities. Check out the locations and the inspiring stories behind them at https:// yoursay.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/kids-say.

“I’m delighted that we now have 11 street libraries for children, at various locations throughout the Blue Mountains” Mayor Mark Greenhill said. “They are beautiful works of art designed by the kids themselves, making them distinctive as kids’ libraries.

“I’d like to thank all the children who took part in finding suitable sites and for the dedicated volunteers at the Central Blue Mountains Men’s and Blue Mountains Women’s Sheds for helping us create and install the library structures. The Women’s Shed volunteers brought the kids’ design ideas to life on the beautifully painted boxes.

“The project was a fantastic way for children to be involved in their local community and these little libraries are a wonderful way to promote the reading habit among the next generation”.

Council invited children’s participation in the project through their new online portal Kids Say which creates a space for children’s voices. The children asked property owners for permission and to take responsibility for each library, ensuring they would be safe for kids in the neighbourhood.

Eleven sites met all criteria and there is an even spread through the whole Blue Mountains local government area. The libraries are now stocked with books suitable for children of 0-12 years of age, kindly donated by Blue Mountains Library.

“Research shows that reading for pleasure is hugely important for children – not only for their literacy but for their emotional development too” said Cr Greenhill. “Reading builds resilience, happiness, empathy and communication, leading to improved life opportunities. This all contributes to a healthier, happier community”. r

Eva and Van Faull at the Blaxland Kids Street Library | Image/Article: Blue Mountains City Council

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Giving Voice to Survivors of Stroke Emu Heights local, Sean O’Brien, has been selected as a Stroke Foundation 2021 National Stroke Awards finalist in the Improving Life after Stroke Award category.

Sean suffered a stroke in 2013. The stroke had a major impact on Sean’s ability to communicate.

Sean has lost his ability to write, he has difficulty speaking clearly and he processes language slowly.

Sean was unable to return

to work.

Determined to find a way to live well with his new normal, Sean began the support group The Aphasia Awareness Delegation (TAAD) with two fellow survivors of stroke.

Aphasia is the term used to describe acquired communication disorders that impairs a person's ability to process language.

Aphasia does not affect intelligence.

Sean was on the board of Aphasia New South Wales and works closely with his speech pathologist to give presentations about aphasia to community groups and health professionals.

“It’s easy to stay home and lock yourself away after stroke, but that is the worst thing you can do. I have gained confidence and meaning through my roles," Sean said.

“Take the advice of professionals and other stroke survivors, ask for advice, try different therapies, volunteer for research projects and ask for a second option if you’re not satisfied.”

“It’s a long road to recovery, but it’s worth the hard work.”

Stroke Foundation New South Wales State Manager Rhian Paton-Kelly applauded Sean for his resilience and determination.

“Sean demonstrates there is life after stroke,” Rhian said.

The Stroke Foundation National Stroke Awards recognise the incredible individuals in our community who strive to make the future brighter for people impacted by stroke. This includes the stroke survivors, carers, volunteers, fundraisers, health professionals and researchers who are relentless in their mission to enhance recovery and make a real difference.

Ms Paton-Kelly said 2020 delivered unprecedented challenges to the stroke community, with many survivors of stroke self-isolating for months to protect themselves from the coronavirus (COVID-19).

“Survivors of stroke demonstrated resilience and innovation to adapt to the changed environment to continue their projects or goals,’’ she said.

“This is what we will be celebrating in Stroke Foundation National Stroke Awards.”

The 2021 Stroke Foundation National Stroke Awards were supported by major sponsor Ipsen. The Improving Life after Stroke Award was proudly sponsored by Australian Physiotherapy Association. Sean was one of five Improving Life After Stroke Award finalists. Almost 70 people were nominated for the awards this year across six categories: Improving Life after Stroke, Creative, Courage, Fundraiser of the Year, Volunteer of the Year and President’s Achievement.

Winners of the Stroke Foundation National Stroke Awards will be announced at a virtual ceremony on Wednesday, 5 May 2021. r

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The key upgrades taking place include: • New outdoor seating area and kids play opposite Nanna’s Café, which will be called ‘The Courtyard’ • New centralised seating area between Woolworths and Aldi featuring bespoke furniture, new floor finishes and natural light • New mall furniture and ceiling treatments throughout Centre • Enhancements to the Centre’s entries The Centre will be brighter, fresher, and more contemporary.

The new play area is a first for Lennox Village and families will be delighted by this. The beautiful gum tree remains a feature in the play area. In addition, between Woolworths and Aldi will be another casual seating area, which customers have been asking for, for a long time.

The works will be undertaken in stages, to minimise any disruptions to shoppers and will mostly be conducted outside of trading hours.

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Heritage Items Found At Emu Plains Commuter Car Park Site Melissa McIntosh, Federal Member for Lindsay and Stuart Ayres MP, Member for Penrith have announced that work at the site of the new Emu Plains Commuter car park project has been temporarily paused following the discovery of a number of Aboriginal heritage items on the site.

Federal Member for Lindsay, Melissa McIntosh said the items were discovered during field surveys and a formal process is underway to determine next steps.

“It is important to properly investigate the finds and consult with local Aboriginal community groups to ensure that any items of cultural or historical significance are carefully managed,” Ms McIntosh said.

“This find could tell us more about the Aboriginal history and culture in our local area, and we must allow the experts the necessary time to thoroughly assess the items and inform the progress of the project moving forward.”

Stuart Ayres said once complete, the Emu Plains Commuter car park will provide customers with more convenient access to public transport and help ease road congestion.

“Both the NSW Government and the Australian Government remain absolutely committed to delivering a new car park with extra spaces for public transport customers at Emu Plains,” Stuart Ayres said.

“Transport for NSW will continue to keep the community updated, which will include a revised timeline for the project once a further assessment of the items has been completed.”

The features of the new car park include: • up to 750 additional spaces located on vacant land to the west of Emu Plains Station, off Old Bathurst Road • additional accessible parking spaces and motorcycle parking bays • a new footbridge over Old Bathurst Road to provide safe and direct pedestrian access between the new car park and the station • a new intersection on Old Bathurst Road to allow vehicle entry and exit into the car park • landscaping including a vegetated drainage channel through the car park • provision for future electric vehicle charging spaces • Transport Park & Ride infrastructure (Opal operated boom gates) • CCTV, lighting and wayfinding signage for improved safety and security The Emu Plains commuter car park is jointly funded by the Australian and NSW Governments.

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Too Much Violence Don’t turn away. This is serious!

Our lives and our children’s lives are being eroded by this insidious crime every day, all day, for years and years on end.

It robs adults of their mental health and wellbeing and it robs

children of their potential.

It costs the Australian economy in excess of 13 billion dollars per year in lost productivity and support services and hospital admissions. Imagine if a government department was losing that amount of money every year, there would be a public outcry, a royal commission, politicians would be losing their jobs.

This problem is domestic and family violence (DFV). You have probably read the stats. It’s more prevalent than you are led to believe. And unlike any other crime, the victims are usually blamed for the problem – ‘why doesn’t she leave?’ ‘if she didn’t do this, he wouldn’t do that’. The victim blaming causes more inaction and the problem just gets worse.

What is DFV? It is a pattern of manipulation, coercion, control, and violence. It’s not just incidents of violence, it is not just hitting. One person systematically erodes the other person (a partner, spouse, or a family member) financially, verbally, spiritually, emotionally, psychologically, sexually, and technologically. The victim is degraded to such a point that they don’t know who they are anymore, they constantly second guess what they are thinking, feeling and experiencing. DFV undermines the parent’s ability to be the best parent they can be and children are victims too.

Sometimes the User of Violence is really sweet for a while and the victim thinks everything is OK, but it always comes around to what the user of violence does each and every day to exercise power and control over the victim. It is NOT about anger management because many Users of Violence do not behave this way in the community and at work. Users of Violence frequently minimise and deny their behaviours and they blame the victim. It’s part of the pattern of abuse. They’ll do anything to not take responsibility for their actions. To be clear - there is absolutely NO circumstance where anybody is entitled to use violence within their family.

The answer is to stop blaming victims and make Users of Violence responsible for their beliefs, thoughts, and actions. We need to raise our sons to be respectful towards girls, and we need to raise our girls to have self-respect and be attuned to the warning signs of coercion and control. Let’s stop it at the start.

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Emu Plains Cricket Club Crowned 2020/21 PJCA Club Champions Thanks to the efforts of all the junior players, coaches and parents, Emu Plains Cricket Club have won the Penrith Junior Cricket Association (PJCA) Club Championship for 2020/21 season.

The Club also finished second in the Nepean District Cricket Association (NDCA) Club Championship, narrowly missing out on repeating the win from last season. In a great season for the Club, four junior teams won their respective premierships, which were the Under 10 Blues, Under 11’s, Under 12’s and Under 14’s. 1st Grade, 2nd Grade and 8th Grade also won NDCA titles in the senior competition.

Capping off a successful year for the Emus, many of the junior players came together and made their way to Dukes Oval, where special photos were taken commemorating a great season.

Presentation days will be held at Emu Sports Club in Leonay this month, taking place on Friday 14th May (Seniors) and Sunday 16th May (Juniors).

After a well-deserved off season, the Club is looking forward to the start of the 2021/22 season with registrations commencing in late July. All new players are welcome to join the best Club in the District.

To find out more, follow Emu Plains Cricket Club on Facebook or keep an eye out on their website for news and information at www.epcc.com.au. v [Top] Junior cricketers from EPCC - PJCA Club Champions 2020/21[Left] Young champions | Images Supplied by Emu Plains Cricket Club

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Local Mum Making a Difference Mother’s Day is a time to reflect, recognise and thank mothers and grandmothers across the country for all that they do. Their selfless acts and love that they share bind our families together. Leonay resident Pam Savage is one such mum and a true, unsung hero.

Pam, who has two children, Brett (42) and Renae (41) and 5 grandchildren, works tirelessly for Tour de Cure, a national movement of people who walk, run, ride, and swim to raise awareness and support to help find a cure for cancer.

“I have been participating in Tour de Cure for 11 years now and have been part of 35 tours. 11 of them being our Signature Tour, which is our yearly major tour and the rest being Regional and Corporate Tours. Over the years, the funds that I’ve helped raise would be in excess of $35,000. In 15 years, Tour de Cure have raised over $68 million” explained Pam to the Emu and Leonay Gazette.

Pam’s husband was diagnosed with cancer in 2008. She was introduced to Tour de Cure in 2010 when her son Brett rode in the Signature Tour that year. After sadly losing her husband in 2011, she wanted to help find a cure.

“I took the opportunity to become involved in 2011 by being part of the support team – navigating or driving the support vehicles along with other duties and functions. I don’t want other families to go through what myself and my family went through because of this insidious disease” Pam said.

“Along with all the wonderful people I have met and the many sad stories I have heard, I can’t see myself stopping in the near future. With the monies being given for cancer research, we now visit schools to promote our program - ‘Be Fit, Be Healthy, Be Happy’ and have spread the word to over 160,000 children” she continued.

The lifesaving work that Pam and many others do relies upon money that is donated. It means more research and care can be spent to help Australians live happier, healthier, and longer lives.

“I’m asking that you consider a donation that impacts the lives of many. So far, our funded researchers have achieved 45 breakthroughs in cancer research and have funded 554 projects. Your donation will make a difference” Pam ended.

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Can We Please God? When I was young, I drove a car my parents had lent me to use but the arrangement was that one day I would buy it from them.

When the time came, do you know what they did? They said, “work out what it’s worth, and pay us half - the rest is a gift”. That was incredibly generous of them, wasn’t it? Had I earnt their kindness – certainly not! So how was I meant to respond? Well, I said thankyou and wrote them a thank you card. And it was clear from their reaction that was the right response.

We all know that there are different ways to please somebody who matters to you depending on who it is. The challenge can be knowing which way for each person. The same is true if you want to please God – knowing what pleases him!

What’s striking when you come to the Bible is that for all its good news, it’s underlined with some rather startling bad news – we can’t please him! Left to our own devices we’d rather play God in our own lives than let God be God, and that is deeply displeasing to God. But there’s an alternative that blows me away. It’s the message of good news that we can be forgiven by and have a relationship with God through Jesus - he pleased God where we could not! He lived the God pleasing life that I could not.

What’s left is responding the right way. That doesn’t earn the gift, but it also doesn’t leave us where it found us. The response that pleases God is to trust Jesus, and to follow his commands. He even gives us his Spirit so we can. He even invites us to trust his forgiveness when we don’t.

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So, are Some People Really Just “Inflexible”?

Folks often try stretching eventually resigning themselves to believing they’re naturally “inflexible”.

The key to their inability to lengthen muscles, comes down to two issues. Poor stretching: 1. regularity and 2. technique Usually individuals stretch for a few seconds, probably for less than 30. They often ‘push’ their stretches – to ‘feel the pain’, of a good stretch. Stretching-associated-pain is often a key reason why they don’t like to stretch and don’t do it for long. Stretching aggressively for short periods is often unlikely to gain effective long term increases in flexibility.

Little organelles ‘muscle spindles’, send signals from muscle to brain telling indicating muscle length. A bigger stretch sends a stronger signal. A strong-enough will elicit a ‘myotatic reflex contraction’ stopping you stretching your muscle further, and will be interpreted as painful. In short, flexibility has little to do with actual muscle and connective tissue length, but rather with how strongly and at what stretch-length the myotatic reflex elicits a contraction that resists further stretching.

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Done correctly over a period of weeks, regular stretching modifies the way the ‘spindle-brain’ system reacts to stretch: 1. It dampens the strength of the signal sent to the brain by muscle spindles, 2. It makes the brain less sensitive to muscle spindle signals, 3. Reduces the likely hood of a stretch being able to elicit pain, and 4. Reduces the likelihood of any stretch being able to elicit a myotatic reflex contraction.

Thus, after regular stretching it takes a lot more muscle length to generate a spindle-signal strong enough to stop you stretching. That is, your body ‘learns’ to stretch further.

Hopefully, you can now understand that stretching is simply just a ‘learned skill’! As with any other skill, correct repetition of the skill, improves performance. So, to become flexible, a person must practice stretching regularly, and keep stretching to remain good at it. Next month we will review how to stretch your hamstrings effectively so that your practice doesn’t hurt and can be done just once or twice a week in order to reach and maintain an excellent range of motion.

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The Mini Foxie Club of Australia has been around for more than 30 years with the aim of standardising, improving, promoting and safeguarding the breed. The Club is seen as the "peak organisation" for this iconic Australian breed around the world.

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It has been rescheduled to Sunday 30th May 2021, depending on Covid.

Start time: 10am Finish time: 3pm Entries close: 21 May 2021 Members are strictly for financial MFCA members and their registered dogs only.

Send entries to secretary@minifoxie.org or call the show secretary (Joanne Gregory 0437 703 353) The Mini Foxie Club of Australia has invited Dr Camille Brandt from Orchard Hills Veterinary Hospital to be a guest judge.

Check out the Mini Foxie Club of Australia’s website and Facebook: • https://www.minifoxie.org/shows-and-events • https://www.facebook.com/Mini.Foxie.Club.Australia If you are new to the whole show thing – relax – there are events that are fun and not too serious. Everyone can participate and we welcome visitors and their Mini Foxies. There will be fancy dress and other novelty events to enter.

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For two days in April outside of Woolworths at Lennox Village in Emu Plains, Lions collected 20 trolleys full of groceries from the generous Woolies customers.

These were distributed to flood-affected families in the Londonderry area.

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