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WA Seniors Awards

7/17/2013

From John Quigley's office,
Here is an opportunity to recognise the incredible work done in the community for and by seniors. Please take time to acknowledge a senior in your community by nominating them in one of five categories.
The WA Seniors Awards encourage support for seniors, raise awareness of the varied and many ways that seniors contribute to society and recognise those who work with and volunteer for seniors.

Applications are available at www.communities.wa.gov.au and close on Monday 12 August.

Clean Up Australia Day in May 19

2/26/2013

We are registered for Clean Up Banksia Grove on Sunday MAY 19 (Not the March national date as it's usually too hot and a long weekend)
http://www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au/bgrainc is where you can pre-register, or you can register on the day.

Meet at the Banksia Grove Centre from 9.30am to collect your bags and register. If you would like to be involved but can't make it on the day I can drop some bags around to you, if we each just did along our own street we could make a massive difference!

BG Residents Association meeting

2/26/2013

The BGRA are planning to hold meetings once a term around the middle of each school term.

Our first meeting for 2013 will be Tuesday March 19, 7.30pm at the Westlakes home, 30 Turquoise Loop. All Banksia Grove residents are welcome to join us.

If you have a project or issue you would like to raise please contact Chris Nelson via e-mail bgranews@hotmail.com or by phone 0416 025 578 so I can add it to the agenda.

Five Key relationships

6/27/2012

Here's a good way to check your overall health in your community.

SELF - how is your relationship with yourself. Your physical, emotional, mental, spiritual health?
SOCIAL - do you have some good friends to share life with? Any relationships need repair? (www.peacewise.org.au)
SYSTEMS - how are your relationships with the various systems you're involved with, eg:
* government systems (school, health, amenities, Centerlink, etc.),
* economic systems (bank, insurance, phone, housing, etc),
* religious systems (ie church, mosque, temple, etc),
* social systems (sports, clubs, groups, activities).
SPIRIT - that other-dimensional, higher reality that most of us relate to. God, higher-power, etc. How's that part of life?
SUSTAINABILITY - the environment, caring for the earth. Are we part of the solution or the problem? What else can we do?

Look after these five areas of your life, and you're doing well!
The interesting thing is that help is available for all of them, should you feel the need for it. And we all need a little help sometimes. That's what community is about, yeah?

Barbagello Wanneroo V8 Supercars

4/4/2012

The V8 Supercars will affect traffic here, on May 4-6, 2012.
Especially from 3-6pm.
Make plans to stay in at that time.

Contact www.wascc.com.au for updated traffic advice and shuttle information.
Spread the word.

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BG Residents Association Issues

4/3/2012

Here are some local concerns residents are asking about.
If you are likewise concerned, please add your comments / voice.

1. Post Box: A post box for BG residents, somewhere handy near the main flow for both sides of BG - say where the old sales office is? When the old one was removed, we kind of assumed there would be a replacement, so...

2. Toilets: We probably need them near the amphitheater in Discovery Park. (They are not impossible to look after, since we do have public toilets at Peridot oval.)

3. Big Hole at the north end of Viridian Dv. Residents are wondering why they have the Grand Canyon opening up before them, and what the longer term outlook is.

4. BGP support for CREW protecting the Gnangara mound. Can Banksia Grove Partnership (developers) give weight / are they giving weight to this good cause?

5. BG Shopping Center: When will the BG shopping center be built. First Carramar, now Ashby has leapfrogged us with their's going ahead. We need a fuel station (last stop before the country road).

6. CATRA Rumour: An idea has been floated about joining with CATRA (the Carramar Tapping Residents Association.) But there are reasons against this as well as for. Many ideas don't make it. So if this worries or excites you, let us know. This is your association.

Any other matters? Let us know.

Banksia Buzz Christmas 2011 edition

12/20/2011

The Dec 2012 edition of Banksia Buzz is attached.
Some good news stories to read. Double-click to open.

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Round Table grapevine bears fruit

5/10/2011

The Round Table grapevine is working great! The latest test was this:
We are hosting the Watoto Childrens’ Choir again this year, and had agreed to a generous offer to promote this in a glossy magazine for every household in the suburb. But when we returned from camp and two weeks away, we could see that the glossy had been delayed and with less than two weeks to go, the community would be unprepared for this gem of a family concert / community event.

So I sent an email to the Round Table, and within a day:
- Cheers sent the event around the e-list
- the state MP, Paul Miles, had the event posted on his website,
- the newspaper had been contacted
- Bill volunteered to deliver 50 posters to businesses to display in their premises
- the schools added it to their newsletters
- school staff are asking can they bring their grandparents
- the glossy may still get to the homes, albeit the day before the concert.

When it counts, I’ll go with the trusted relationships over formal systems every time.
So browse this site for something you're interested in... get out there and mingle... and work together.
And see you at Watoto!

Date-Grabbers for 2011 in Banksia Grove

2/9/2011

Harmony Day March 19
Will be at Wanneroo Town Centre with many events for children and grown-ups, with multicultural groups show-casing their gifts to the diversity of Wanneroo.

Youth Open Day April 2,11-4pm.
at Banksia Grove Center.
Showcasing the center, especially what can be on offer for youth.
Contact the Center.

Watoto Children's Choir
are coming from Uganda to Banksia Grove for 2 concerts:
May 22 7pm - Community Concert for all.
May 24 930am - local Primary Schools combo event.
Billets wanted. Contact sallywestlake@gmail.com

CLEAN UP AUSTRALIA DAY

2/8/2010

I have registered us for clean up day again on May 23 from 9am. We even have a web page http://www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au/Banksia+Grove where you can register as a volunteer.

So mark it in your diaries and we would love to see as many people as possible get together to clean up Banksia Grove.

Even if you can't make it on the day you can still grab a bag and just clean up your street and together we can make a difference. We will put on a lunch again to thank all our fabulous volunteers.