Parra News March 12 2024
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The Community Love exhibition can now be seen at PHIVE. Photo: City of <strong>Parra</strong>ma ta.<br />
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ou’ve heard of ‘Humans of New York’,<br />
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The personal stories of migration, strength,<br />
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in the <strong>Parra</strong>ma ta community are being<br />
celebrated through a brand new exhibition –<br />
‘Community Love’.<br />
Open until June 29 at PHIVE, ‘Community<br />
Love’ is an interactive exhibition that features<br />
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One of the people captured in the series<br />
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it’s <strong>Parra</strong>ma ta that has made her who she is<br />
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“It makes you feel [like] who you want to be.”<br />
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Sameer Pandey and Peter Wynn in front of Wynn’s portrait. Photo: City of Pa rama ta. Community Love participant Tahera Nassrat and Lord Mayor Sameer Pandey.<br />
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A<br />
Merrylands woman who left her two<br />
children in an una tended vehicle<br />
has been fined $1000.<br />
Maryam Hosseini, 33, fronted <strong>Parra</strong>ma ta<br />
Local Court last week charged with ‘leaving<br />
children in a motor vehicle, causing emotional<br />
On December 28, 2022, Hosseini left a<br />
two-year-old and six-year-old inside her<br />
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Mitch Moses in action during<br />
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vehicle while she went into Woolworths in<br />
Granvi le. The court heard tha they were in<br />
the car for at least 20 minutes before police<br />
were alerted by a concerned witness.<br />
According to police, the front and rear<br />
windows were down about an inch. They say<br />
they managed to force a window open, unlock<br />
the doors and ca l an ambulance to assis the<br />
children who were sweating, flushed and<br />
appeared to be dehydrated.<br />
Hosseini told police that “she had to<br />
purchase something in the store and it did not<br />
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take her that long”. She further stated that it<br />
was her firs time leaving the children in the<br />
vehicle una tended.<br />
Hosseini, with the assistance of a Dar interpreter,<br />
pleaded guilty a the earliest available<br />
opportunity.<br />
She was represented by a lawyer who asked<br />
Magistrate Kate Thompson to consider giving<br />
her client a Community Correction Order<br />
without conviction.<br />
The court heard that Hosseini has no prior<br />
criminal record and is otherwise a person<br />
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of good character. However, the Magistrate<br />
expressed concerns over leaving children<br />
una tended at any time, let alone during “the<br />
height of summer”.<br />
She told the court that there needs to be<br />
general deterrence so other good and caring<br />
parents do no take the same shortcut in the<br />
future.<br />
“The consequences can be devastating,”<br />
Magistrate Thompson said.<br />
Hosseini was convicted of the single o fence<br />
and fined $1000.<br />
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