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Student Councillors elected from Emu Plains Public School
Penrith City Mayor Kevin Crameri OAM has selected a student to be ‘Junior Mayor’ and another 14 students as ‘Councillors’ to participate in a mock Council meeting and discuss a topic in depth during Local Government Week in August. The competition was open to all primary school students who reside in and attend school in Penrith [...]
Continue reading...Guitarist Gig at The Basement
31. May 2010
Local Emu Plains jazz guitarist Chris Komorowski has performed at the Basement in Sydney playing music from his debut CD which is due to be released. This is the first time he has performed under his own name as a soloist and was supporting well known jazz and blues artist Pugsley Buzzard. Chris has performed with [...]
Continue reading...Coming Up Roses At Emu Plains Public School
31. May 2010
Recently a team of over 60 dedicated members of the Emu Plains Public School community shared a sunny autumnal Sunday sprucing up the grounds of their historic school. Under the expert direction of the P & C Committee, this amazing band of parents and children completed the front rose garden, planted natives around the Anniversary paver [...]
Continue reading...Skate Park Petition
10. May 2010
Karyn Paluzzano recently met with local parents and children to petition for a skate park to be built in Emu Plains. Karyn has written to Penrith City Council on their behalf, requesting that a skate park be built for the benefit of young people in the area. Karyn has also started a Facebook group ‘Emu Plains [...]
Continue reading...Jamison Creek Bushcare
10. May 2010
Funding from the NSW Environment Trust has been granted for a new 3 year programe for bush management along Jamison Creek which connects Huntington Reserve and Hollier Reserve in Emu Plains through to the Leonay wetlands. Penrith Council Bush Management Officer, Janet Rannard, can now coordinate the work along the creekline. The priority is weeding, bush [...]
Continue reading...River Road Riparian project.
4. April 2010
In the past nine months bushland management works within the River Road Riparian Corridor have included: Bushland contractor work north of the M4 road bridge focussing on spraying extensive areas of weed vines, in particular Madeira vine, maintaining and extending areas that were worked in the previous year and maintaining planted areas where secondary weeds were [...]
Continue reading...Storing rainwater in local aquifers
16. March 2010
Penrith Council has been investigating options for a non potable water supply, in which Managed Aquifer Recharge plays a significant potential opportunity. This is an exciting project using the existing aquifer at the council reserve in Wedmore Road and the detention pond near the oval in Leonay to store captured stormwater to be used when needed [...]
Continue reading...Helping Haiti
15. March 2010
Children at Emu Heights Public School are determined to let the people of Haiti know they care for them in this incredibly tragic time. The school Student Representative Council has constructed a large jigsaw puzzle of a map of Haiti with each class holding one piece with an envelope attached. Children have been challenged to do jobs [...]
Continue reading...Local artists
2. December 2009
Georgia Garland, 8, from Emu Heights Public School and Jordan Lewis, 12, from Leonay Public School are both famous artists! They each have a painting in the 2009 Western Sydney Environment calendar. Jordan’s colourful wetlands design was chosen for the front cover and the background at the award ceremony. Georgia’s cute platypuses are featured in December.
Continue reading...Move Over Master Chef
2. December 2009
There will be a couple of celebrity chefs looking over their shoulders when Emu Heights Public School Kindergarten children get older. Each week the children take part in a developmental activities program which focuses on language acquisition and social skills through a range of small group activities. This term the activities include computer tasks, craft, painting, creative [...]
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22. June 2010
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