Pittwater Life August 2018 Issue
To Your Health. Flood of Complaints. Matt Burke. B-Line U-Turn. Taste of the Beaches.
To Your Health. Flood of Complaints. Matt Burke. B-Line U-Turn. Taste of the Beaches.
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<strong>Pittwater</strong> News<br />
News<br />
Course to attract budding beekeepers<br />
The North Shore Beekeepers’ Association (NSBA) is running<br />
a two-day course for beekeeping beginners on Saturday 25<br />
<strong>August</strong> and Saturday 1 September at its Bee Garden and<br />
Club House in Terrey Hills. Club President Keith Pester says<br />
the course has been designed for complete beginners and<br />
is suitable for people who have or are looking to get either<br />
a traditional (Langstroth) or Flowhive. “Participants have<br />
the opportunity to get hands-on experience opening and<br />
inspecting a beehive,” he said. The course costs $250 for the<br />
two days (9am to 4.30pm) including lunch. The NSBA also<br />
runs other events open to the public including Club Open<br />
Days each month (Sunday 12 <strong>August</strong> and Sunday 16 September<br />
from 11am to 1pm) at 1c Myoora Rd (enter at Par-3 Golf<br />
Course), Terrey Hills. More info and registrations nsbka.org.au.<br />
Dee Why RSL vaults<br />
gymnasts into future<br />
Manly Warringah Gymnastics<br />
Club (MWGC) has a new<br />
bounce in its step following<br />
Dee Why RSL’s latest donation<br />
that has enabled it to<br />
purchase an international<br />
standard competition floor.<br />
MWGC CEO Ian Hardy said<br />
the much-needed acquisition<br />
would allow athletes to<br />
train at top-tier competition<br />
standard for the first time, as<br />
well as permit the Club to host<br />
national level sanctioned competitions<br />
at their now competition<br />
standard gymnasium at<br />
Cromer. MWGC is now one of<br />
the largest sporting clubs on<br />
the Northern Beaches and one<br />
of the most awarded gymnastics<br />
clubs in NSW. They broke<br />
records by having 33 athletes<br />
selected in the 290-strong<br />
State team that contested the<br />
recent Australian Gymnastics<br />
Championships in Melbourne.<br />
Mr Hardy says the club’s objective<br />
was to give every member<br />
the opportunity to reach the<br />
highest level that they were capable<br />
of. “To one child the goal<br />
maybe to do a cartwheel, to<br />
another it maybe to become an<br />
Olympic champion,” he said.<br />
Dee Why RSL have been steady<br />
supporters of MWGC for more<br />
than a decade, donating a total<br />
of $115,000, with an additional<br />
$15,000 committed in <strong>2018</strong>-19.<br />
Feel-good concert<br />
for human rights<br />
The light-hearted, uplifting,<br />
ad-hoc troupe of musicians<br />
Loosely Woven will be giving<br />
a free community concert in<br />
Avalon supporting human<br />
rights on Sunday <strong>August</strong> 12.<br />
Led by Wayne Richmond, the<br />
all-new ‘Feeling Good’ concert<br />
will feature 20 instrumentalists<br />
and singers presenting<br />
a wonderful arrangement of<br />
well-known songs, numbers<br />
that address social injustice<br />
and important issues and<br />
some original pieces all performed<br />
acoustically. “There<br />
are always lots of opportunities<br />
for audience participation<br />
24 AUGUST <strong>2018</strong><br />
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