Community News
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Trentham Community Hub name decision
Social media has been active, with various suggestions, including ’The Billy O’Connell Hub’ and ‘Wombats Den’.
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Building life skills
Year seven, eight and nine students from Castlemaine Secondary College have begun a 16-week program combining physical training, mentoring and life skills for teenagers.
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The Compost Conversation – with Mikaela Beckley
Moisture monitoring: Give your compost a squeeze This week we’ll look at how to tell if your compost is wet enough, but first, let’s just remind ourselves why the correct moisture content is so important in our compost. The beneficial microbes that do the hard work in our piles need a thin layer of moisture…
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Supporting local families in need this Christmas
Kyneton Baptist Church, Sunbury Cobaw Community Health and Macedon Ranges Shire Council are once again partnering to support local families in need at Christmas.
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Hunter’s uphill fundraiser
Gisborne’s Hunter Williams is cycling 3500km through Europe to raise funds for Australian families caring for someone with an eating disorder. The 19-year-old is raising funds for Eating Disorders Families Australia and his campaign, Hunter’s Uphill Fundraiser, pays tribute to the challenges families face. “Looking after someone with an eating disorder can really feel like…
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The Compost Conversation – with Joel Meadows
Pre-soaking for happy summer compost Now that the weather is getting warmer, our compost piles can start to suffer from drying out too much. Letting our compost piles dry out will force our compost microbes to go into a dormant mode, protecting themselves from the dry with an impervious layer and taking a break from…
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Tee off for a local cause
Wooling Hill Memorial Estate is hosting a community charity golf day for Kyneton Health on Sunday, October 22. The event at Kyneton Golf Club will be a mixed four-person Ambrose competition – which means golfers of all skill levels will be able to contribute as part of a team. “We know how much the Macedon…
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A drawcard for refugee family fun
Dozens of refugee families from the city were among those enjoying the fun of Kyneton’s annual Daffodil Festival parade and fair. The visitors, many of them children and parents from Myanmar who now live in the Pakenham to Springvale area, were guests of the Macedon Ranges Rural Australians for Refugees. They were treated to a…
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Braemar plants for a purpose
Samantha Lisle and Lucy Sykes, year eight, Braemar CollegeTerm three has been busy for a group of year eight students at Braemar College who worked in partnership with Newham Landcare to plant 180 indigenous plants at the school’s Woodend campus. This project was a part of a community service initiative to replenish an area of…
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Co-operative looks to take next step
A crowd of about 50 community members turned out to the public meeting convened by the newly formed Castlemaine Community Co-operative at Castlemaine Town Hall last Wednesday night. The co-operative aims to set up a dedicated not-for-profit organisation with the goal of purchasing Castlemaine’s historic building ‘The Hub’ and retaining its tenants many of which…
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The Compost Conversation – with Joel Meadows
Chop till you drop? Imagine what it might be like being a helpful microbe in a compost pile, building the proteins of your body from nitrogen-rich food scraps, getting energy for your work from the carbon-rich additions in the pile and all the while swimming on the film of moisture around these materials, breathing in…