By LEAH PAGE and Geilston Bay High grade seven students APPROXIMATELY 1400 students from 52 schools across Tasmania recently attended the inaugural Fairer World Festival, including Geilston Bay High School that played a special role at the event. The festival, organised by the Tasmanian Centre for Global Learning, saw students from around Tasmania coverage in [...]
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Dune repair work to begin following storm damage
CLARENCE City Council will begin works to repair and rehabilitate priority areas of damaged dunes at Roches Beach in Lauderdale following the July spate of severe weather, high tides and destructive ocean swells that damaged areas of the coastline. Council undertook immediate remediation works to dunes adjacent to the houses that were inundated or under [...]
Midway Point veteran celebrates 100th birthday
MIDWAY Point’s ALAN Peacocke, celebrated his 100th birthday with friends and family at a special birthday party held at the Sorell Providore last month. Mr Peacocke was surrounded by family and friends who came to help him celebrate his milestone birthday, with several close friends from Lewisham, Western Australia and New Zealand travelling the distance [...]
Arts Centre makes space for local textiles
THE Bellerive Community Arts Centre recently hosted the launch of a text, texture and textiles exhibition as part of the Clarence City Council’s community grants program. The program aims to provide support to local communities to progress their health and wellbeing through arts and culture, community development, heritage and history, and sports and recreation.
Big feat as little feet limit carbon footprint
STUDENTS at Corpus Christi School at Bellerive extended their own footprints, while at the same time reducing their collective carbon footprint worked to reduce their collective carbon footprint when they participated in Walk Safely to School Day recently. Corpus Christi was judged to have put in the best performance on the day, held in May, [...]
Students roll up their sleeves for real career advice
MACKILLOP College Year 9 students recently took part in the World Skills Try’a Trade event which was held at the Derwent Entertainment Centre. More than 900 students from virtually every secondary school and college in southern Tasmania had the opportunity to experience, hands on, several of the 25 trades on offer during their session.
Scouts tackle local cleanup
A GROUP of enthusiastic members of the Howrah Scout Group conducted a clean up of Pindos Park in Tranmere recently. The volunteer group, made up of members of the Joeys (ages six to eight), Cubs (ages eight to 11) and Scouts (ages 11 to 15), got stuck into cleaning their local environment as part of [...]
Focus on land use strategy
THE Eastern Shore community is being urged to take advantage of opportunities to give their feedback on the future use of Clarence council-owned land. Clarence City Council is releasing a number of proposed land use plans for the management of the City’s natural areas during the consultation period of the draft strategies.
Mellers family a catering coup for Tasmanian cricket
KEN and Di Mellers have been in the catering and events business more than 30 years and have been the caterers of choice at Bellerive Oval just on two decades. While they are certainly an institution at the venue, the new face of Bellerive is son, Oliver Mellers.
Weather gods smile on school fair
THE sun made several bright appearances as crowds gathered recently at Emmanuel Christian School’s fair in Rokeby. The annual fair attracted large numbers of people to enjoy the variety of events on offer including rides, show bags, hot food, fairy floss, auctions, music, and the ever-popular Oliebollen.
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