Terry Manns, the president of the Campbelltown Collegians Little Athletics, once told Greg Warren the club badly needed a buggy to help with injuries and other logistics during track and field meetings.
Since that chat almost two years ago Warren has become the MP for Campbelltown but he hasn’t forgotten.
He recently delivered the buggy and handed it over to Terry Manns and the Collegians, who boast almost 600 local kids in their books.
The buggy came after Mr Warren gave the thumbs up to an $11,000 Community Building Partnership grant.
“Campbelltown Collegians Little Athletics has a long history of supporting our local kids over many years in our city and I am just delighted to be able to support them,’’ the MP said after the buggy delivery.
“I feel supporting and investing in clubs like Collies is an investment in our kids future – they are not only active and getting exercise but learning some of the invaluable principles they will carry through their lives – Devotion, discipline teamwork and reward, amongst others.’’
♦ The council elections are well and truly over so here’s a couple of personal highlights:
The first one is the Labor volunteer at Kentlyn Public School who not only handed out for his party but also grabbed one from Fred Borg’s volunteer to give to voters as they came in. That just about sums up democracy Australian style.
The second one was the good natured camaraderie of the candidates themselves at pre-poll in both Campbelltown and Ingleburn.
You left the place thinking: these people are political enemies?
And finally a yarn about Campbelltown Council’s longest serving member, Labor’s Meg Oates, who was re-elected and will probably set some sort of record by the time she retires in 2020 – if indeed she retires.
Labor leader George Brticevic says Meg Oates is the party’s experience and never ceases to amaze him. He said Meg, who enjoyed a career as a teacher, now teaches the teachers or selects teachers for jobs.
He said that during the campaign he and Meg ran into some local residents who had migrated from Chile and they were quite fond of Meg because they remembered her from when she taught them to speak English at the East Hills migrant hostel way back in 1973.
♦ Campbelltown Council is inviting local residents to take part in an online survey to help shape the look and feel of some of the local parks and playgrounds.
Residents are encouraged to participate in the survey by Friday, September 30. To see a full list of playgrounds to be renewed, or to participate in the survey click here.
♦ An interesting exhibition called See Me, Hear Me is currently on display at Campbelltown Arts Centre.
Artworks featured in See Me, Hear Me have been created by people living with mental illness. They include Campbelltown artist Teigan Blackshaw who suffers from the condition known as fibromyalgia and who was recently featured in the Voice in Macarthur.
The exhibition will run until September 26.
♦ England cricket star Monty Panesar, who has signed on to play for the Campbelltown Camden Ghosts this year, will miss the start of the 2016-17 season. Club sources tell me the mighty spinner will miss a couple of games, arriving late this month or early October.
♦ Just a reminder to young lasses that Campbelltown Council is seeking eligible entrants for the 2016 Miss Princess Quest as part of the annual Festival of Fisher’s Ghost. The deadline for entries is September 30. Click here for more details or to enter.
♦ “Campbelltown locals will be able to make a splash at the newly opened Campbelltown Aquatic and Recreation Centre at Botanic Grove,’’ said the press release that landed in our Inbox this week.
Botanic Grove, Botanic Grove, we thought, there must be some mistake.
Yep, there was indeed, in the press release from the Minister for Regional Development Fiona Nash – it was for Campbelltown in South Australia not NSW.
