Louisa Hinsby Park ...

In order to meet our yearly costs –including $900 for the public liability insurance we need to do such things as run community events – we really need about 100 of you to join each year. Annual family membership of the TCA costs only $10 and gives you four newsletters and representation on matters relevant to Taroona.

Subscriptions fall due on September 1, so if you paid towards the end of last year or early this year you are up to date. Thank you to those people who have already joined.

To join you can do a bank transfer to the Taroona Community Association: BSB 067102

Account number 28011079 or pop $10 in the letterbox at 19 Oakleigh Avenue.

Thank you in anticipation – TCA committee

Local residents are very excited about the imminent opening of Louisa Hinsby Park.

Council’s Urban Design Officer, Roy Langman, and the Parks and Reserves crew, are putting the finishing touches on the reserve over the coming few weeks.

Gates will be quietly opened when the crew consider the new grass tough enough to withstand the first ball kicks by happy children.

An entry arbor, which will include Louisa’s story along with interpretive plant labels, will also add to this wonderful new community park.

A Community Picnic for local residents (but open to everyone) is being organised by our new Councillor Kaspar Deane, who is lucky enough to live opposite the reserve.

A Formal Opening and second planting session is planned for Tuesday 9 May with Mayor Wreidt, Councillor Deane, and Taroona Primary School Grade 3-4s. To this event we’ve also invited several Hinsby descendants, and local resident Hilary Wallace. Hilary, and her late husband Alan, generously funded the production of the interpretive plant labels and Louisa’s story panel.

Everyone is most welcome to attend either event being held.

Good Friday (April 7), from 10:00am.

BYO morning tea (Easter-themed). All welcome.

Tuesday 9 May, 9:00–11:00am.

All welcome.