Campbelltown councillor Margaret Chivers told a lovely story last week of how she had gone back to a local school where she was a teacher back in the day.
Councillor Chivers was representing the Mayor when she visited Campbellfield Public School as part of their 2017 reading project for students.
As part of her visit, the councillor said she was chuffed to read Room on the Broom to the children.
But before leaving, staff asked her if she by some chance remembered the location of a time capsule buried within the school when she was teaching there around 1988.
Apparently nobody currently at the school had any idea where the capsule was located.
“I did remember and actually walked them over to the exact spot to show them,’’ Cr Chivers told council.
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♦ Newbie Liberal councillor Ralph George has been sporting a moon boot at the last couple of council meetings.
I happened to be walking in at the same time as him at last week’s meeting, and being a nosy old journo – apologies for the tautology – asked him about it.
Cr George very politely told me it was the result of an accident a work.
As for the details, I’m afraid I can’t pass any of it on.
All I can say is that it’s in the category of, yes, I can tell you, but then I’d have to kill you sort of thing.
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♦ Former – very, very former – councillor Frank Ward, who lives at Shoal Bay these days but still takes a keen interest in what’s doing in Campbelltown and Macarthur, sent me a little note about his lovely gesture for the coming Mayor’s Charity Gala Dinner, a fundraiser for a new playground at Beverley Park School.
“As I cannot make it to this function I have paid for two tickets and asked the principal to select two of the school’s volunteers to go in my place,’’ wrote Frank, who is a couple of years short of his 90th birthday.
“If you attend I would be pleased if you could meet these people as from my many years of membership of Beverley Park Special School committee I know that there are so many wonderful people who have nothing but a very generous heart and spirit that they give to the children year in year out so I know that the principal will have a difficult job choosing just two.’’
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♦ And while on the June 17 Beverley Park fundraiser, it’s also good to see that Campbelltown Mall has jumped on board as a platinum sponsor.
By the way, the Mayor’s Charity Gala Dinner, sponsored by Campbelltown Mall, has been sold out, almost a month out, so well done to everyone involved.
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♦ Last week’s horrible tragedy in Manchester drew a strong statement from local federal member, Angus Taylor:
“On behalf of all Hume constituents, I am expressing the deepest sympathy to the families of the victims. As the father of four teenage children, the horror I feel at these young lives being targeted is hard to put into words. This is a crime of cowardice and malice. It is a direct threat to the freedoms by which we live. There must continue to be the strongest condemnation of this attack.’’
Hear, hear.
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♦ When a local Campbelltown resident reported a sighting of wild pigs behind their home, council set up a surveillance camera, which proved this was indeed the case.
Footage from the camera caught three wild pigs roaming the bushland in Kentlyn behind this property.
But it also captured images of a hell of a lot of foxes, nearly 30 of them.
Which is fair enough, but what are wild pigs doing in Campbelltown? We’re not that close to Razorback Mountain, apart from anything else.
We hear the council is looking into it as part of a wider investigation into issues such as a rabbit plague in parts of Kentlyn.
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♦ Dr Mike Freelander is the new “doctor in the house’’ in federal parliament.
The Labor MP for Macarthur, who was elected in July last year, has apparently been unofficially handed the metaphorical stethoscope.
All it means of course is that other MPs will seek to get free medical advice from time to time when they bump into Dr Mike.
You look so cute!!!!