Francine Buttigieg from Silverdale recently went to Brisbane as a finalist for the Australian Stockholm Junior Water prize. She was one of just 3 senior students selected to compete for the national prize. Francine, aged 18, studied mulching techniques and the watering methods used with her father’s cabbages and interviewed other cabbage farmers to determine [...]
Continue reading...6. May 2010
The biggest residential development in Sydney in the past 10 years has opened at Oran Park, near Cobbity along The Northern Road. Landcom, with the private landowner Greenfields Development Company, will build more than 7,500 homes around the site of the old race track. The $50 million first phase of Oran Park Town includes two [...]
Continue reading...6. May 2010
Ashleigh Kuipers from Mulgoa is just 13 but already has a prize winning Australian lowline heifer. Sweetpea won the ‘Supreme beef exhibit’ at the Luddenham show and went on to be second in Royal Canberra show. She was then going on to the Royal Easter Show in Sydney. St Paul’s Grammar school student, Ashleigh, has [...]
Continue reading...25. March 2010
Senior Constable Perwaiz is the new local policeman and he wants to work in partnership with the local community to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour. As part of this partnership, it is important that victims and witnesses of crimes support police by providing statements for their investigations. Senior Constable Perwaiz said, “The community are the [...]
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6. May 2010
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