Monthly Archives: May 2015
Blackwattle Park Picnic
Posted on 8th May 2015The sun shone on our small group of Glebe Society members enjoying a picnic by Blackwattle Bay on Sunday 29 March – good food, wine, conversation, views –- a lovely way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
Energy Efficiency Master Plan
Posted on 8th May 2015The draft Energy Efficiency Master Plan for the City of Sydney is open for comment until 4 May. The Master Plan is a good news story as it provides strategies that will achieve significant greenhouse gas reductions while saving money for business and residents.
News from the Blue Wrens Subcommittee – May 2015
Posted on 8th May 2015On Thursday 7 May 2015 at 6:30 pm in the downstairs meeting room at Benledi (Glebe Library), Dr Holly Parsons from BirdLife Australia, will give a talk to the Society entitled ‘Little birds in a big city – the lives and times of Superb Fairy-wrens’. Dr Parsons is the Program Manager for Birds in Backyards […]
Extreme Weather Events and Public Housing
Posted on 8th May 2015The City of Sydney unit of SES was called on to respond to scores of requests for assistance (RFAs) during the recent torrential rains. At some HNSW properties the lack of maintenance by HNSW had obviously increased the potential for such problems.
How Are Women’s Refuges Faring?
Posted on 8th May 2015It is just a year since the much repudiated ‘Going Home Staying Home’ initiative of the NSW State Government radically altered the way in which social services to the homeless and most needy in our community are managed.
Bays Precinct Sydneysiders Summit
Posted on 8th May 2015Urban Growth is holding the Bays Precinct Sydneysiders Summit on Saturday 16 May and Sunday 17 May 2015. Members are urged to register for this Summit. It may be our last chance to influence what goes into UrbanGrowth’s strategic plan for the Bays Precinct!
Anzac Centennary Grant
Posted on 8th May 2015The Society has received a grant of $28,796 from the Federal Government under the Anzac Centenary Program. The grant is to be used to mount an exhibition entitled Sacrifice, Struggle and Sorrow: Glebe’s Great War 1914-1918. The exhibition will examine the impact of the First World War and its immediate aftermath on the Glebe community.
Lone Pine for Sydney University
Posted on 8th May 2015On the eve of Anzac Day, a special planting ceremony took place in the grounds of Sydney University. The Glebe Society had donated a Gallipoli Pine sapling to the University in memory of all who fought, but particularly in memory of the Glebe men who were associated with the University of Sydney as academics, support staff or students and who enlisted in World War I.
Lone Pine for Foley Park
Posted on 8th May 2015To commemorate the centenary of Anzac, a Lone Pine was planted in Foley Park on Thursday 23 April by Lord Mayor Clover Moore. The pine tree was grown from seed collected from the lone pine at the Australian War Memorial, which in turn was grown with a seed from a pine cone taken from Gallipoli in 1915.
