There is still time for local green thumbs to enter this year’s Campelltown City Garden Competition and have a bash at winning some of the prizemoney on offer. This year there are 12 categories for entrants to choose from, with the introduction of the Anne Haddock Best Cottage Garden category. Other categories include Best Native… Read more »
This year’s Riverfest will be held on Saturday, August 30 between 11am and 3pm Koshigaya Park, Campbelltown. A report to Campbelltown Council at its July 29 meeting noted that a number of exciting and interactive workshops and displays will feature at the event to ‘‘ensure the environmental and multicultural education is rich and entertaining’’. The… Read more »
Visitors to Campbelltown library will soon be able to enjoy a cup of coffee to accompany their reading. Council has backed plans for a coffee shop at the HJ Daley Library, and also the civic centre in Queen Street. A report to council for the July 29 meeting noted that a number of other councils,… Read more »
Business owners in the Liverpool/Macarthur region have joined forces to create the next generation of business clubs, where the focus is on being inspired, learning and connecting. The club is called ConnectFX, has no membership fees, uses online technology to deliver content useful to its members and holds monthly events at Macquarie Links Golf Club. ConnectFX… Read more »
I’ve listened to the entire speech and whilst profoundly sensible for everybody; being a business owner it resonates on a different level as well. Jim Carrey is funny, but he’s also deeply profound — a side he revealed to graduates at Maharishi University. While his entire speech is great, we jumped to 10:18, where he… Read more »
The Wests Tigers missed a golden opportunity to move up the NRL ladder tonight, when they found a way to lose a game they should have won. In front of a miserable crowd of just over 6,000 hardy souls on a cold Campbelltown night, Robbie Farah’s decimated team just couldn’t take a trick against a… Read more »
How do you start your business day? A walk to get a coffee to help you through the mountain of emails that just never seem to end; only to rinse and repeat again tomorrow. A thought provoking article from my friends at Real Time Minds on why email is killing us, with some suggestions on… Read more »
Liverpool City Council has come to the aid of local hip hop crew, The Pioneers, with a grant of $5,000 to assist their campaign at the World Hip Hop Dance Championships. The Pioneers, a group of 28 dancers from Liverpool-based youth development project The Street University, are this week competing at the world championships in… Read more »
The East Campbelltown Eagles downed Mounties 34-12 in the NSW rugby league Sydney Shield competition on Sunday. The match was played at Waminda Oval and Eagles players wore specially designed jerseys in memory of Benny Stevens. It was also Old Boys day, so the Eagles had an extra couple of reasons to go for victory…. Read more »
NSW Police Force has launched the 2014 Missing Persons Week campaign to raise awareness of the issues and impacts surrounding missing persons. In 2014, the National Missing Persons Coordination Centre has partnered with Alzheimer’s Australia for the theme Dementia and Missing Persons… Learn how to prevent these words appearing in the same sentence. Operational Communications… Read more »
Appin Men’s Shed and the Airds Bradbury Men’s Shed have been selected to receive $3,300 and $6000 in funding through the National Shed Development Program. The Sheds were two of 102 organisations selected for funding in round seven of the national program. Federal Member for Macarthur Russell Matheson said the Appin Men’s Shed and Airds Bradbury… Read more »
Volunteers are a special feature of Australian culture and the Macarthur region is no different. Where Macarthur is different is in singling out and honouring the local volunteers who keep the engines of its community life ticking over. And that is pretty much what the Federal Member for Macarthur, Russell Matheson, said last week in… Read more »
