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Dad’s day By Marcus Uhe A number of events were held across the South East to recognise and celebrate Dads for Father’s Day. Devon Meadows Primary School hosted a Dads’ Breakfast, as bacon and egg rolls prepared fresh on the barbecue by staff members went like hotcakes. Elsewhere, the Narre Warren Girls Brigade hosted a Star Wars-themed nerf gun night. More inside
Colin and his daughter Emily from Devon Meadows Primary School share an egg and bacon roll at a special Father’s Day breakfast. 297063 Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS
A load of rubbish By Marcus Uhe Results in the City of Casey’s community satisfaction survey placing it lower than state average for the appearance of public spaces did not surprise Cranbourne North’s Paul Smith. Mr Smith is fed up with the piles of hard rubbish left around the City, particularly outside the townhouses on his street, Tulliallan Boulevard. Recently he said that two piles of rubbish
featuring food scraps and broken glass were left unaddressed for “at least three weeks”. He believes the problem has gotten worse over the last couple of years. “Every time a tenant leaves, they just dump everything they don’t want on the nature strip,” he said. A change to the council’s waste collection policy has contributed to the problem, according to Mr Smith. Previously, the council assigned streets a
regular hard rubbish collection date. But in 2011 the council introduced a booked waste collection service with a maximum of two collections per property, per calendar year. Mr Smith believes this is inadequate for the high-density living spaces the townhouses provide, and called for the council to introduce a more proactive approach. “You can’t have 40 houses putting out hard rubbish twice a year. That’s 80 collections alone.
“Go back to collecting hard rubbish twice a year on specified dates to clean up the municipality. “It’s a disgraceful mess in nearly every street with piles of hard rubbish.” His frustrations with the collection service are compounded by the poor maintenance of parks and gardens that plagued the municipality following extreme weather conditions in late 2021. Continued page 15
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