Is there anything the Liverpool Hospital general manager, Robynne Cooke won’t do? Ms Cooke’s hands on approach knows no bounds apparently and this week meant sitting down to read books to a bunch of little ones from the hospital’s child care centre. The event was called Paint Liverpool REaD and was part of the 2015 Speech Pathology Week. It was done to emphasise the importance of shared book reading and the impact it can have on a child’s communication and long term literacy development. So well done Ms Cooke, whatever they’re paying you is not enough.
♦ On Friday, September 18, Campbelltown and indeed Macarthur will say farewell to Paul Tosi, the council general manager for more than 15 years. A proud local resident, Paul Tosi worked at Campbelltown City Council for 33 years and has been one of its most influential figures of the past couple of decades. Being a local, he knew all the real issues of concern for his fellow residents, so when he went in to bat for Campbelltown Paul Tosi knew what he was talking about. This will be a farewell of monumental proportions and Paul Tosi deserves nothing less.
♦ Talking of council bosses, the Liverpool City Council CEO, Carl Wulff, has recently been the target of union protests. The union this week even revealed his salary, around $450,000 a year. My council sources have confirmed the number is about right. But there’s something else that’s not so well known and that is Mr Wulff, a Queensland resident, is only in Liverpool Monday to Friday, flying in on Monday morning and flying home to Queensland on the Friday. Now Carl Wulff may be brilliant at his job and worth every cent he’s paid and more, but I doubt very much Campbelltown Council would have offered him a job unless he agreed to live in the area.
♦ As part of Small Business Week, Liverpool mayor Ned Mannoun and the deputy mayor Gus Balloott yesterday tried their hand at being baristas in Liverpool’s newest café, Macchina, pictured at left. Well, the South West Voice beat them to it by a day and we can tell you that Macchina Café, located at the Macquarie Street entrance to the Stathis Arcade, looks like a cool place and makes good coffee, too.
♦ The Baton Relay, an event marking 100 years of women in the NSW police force, came to Bigge Park last week. Liverpool Council, to its credit, organised a great day to acknowledge women in policing, particularly female officers in the Liverpool Local Area Command.
♦ Speaking of coppers, who will be the 2015 Liverpool Police officer of the Year? This great award put on by the combined Rotary clubs of Liverpool will be presented next Tuesday, September 1 at a special function in the Liverpool Catholic Club. You won’t be surprised to know that the chairperson of the combined Liverpool Rotary Police Officer of the Year awards is none other than June Young, one of the great community volunteers of the south west. June tells me the award was first put on by Rotary clubs in neighbouring Fairfield, but Liverpool weren’t far behind: they were second. Having attended one, I can tell you they are a great community function.
