Parents' Group
Covers the AGM , Council's 21 February vote to recommend to set protected settlement boundary to Seaward Drive; updates on the Strategic Plan and Parents' group
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Our next Working Bee will be
Clean Up Australia Day - Spreading out through Cape Paterson township, beaches and coastal reserve to remove any rubbish that doesn't belong there.
Allan Birt Reserve Playground and BBQ area, Hut View Road, Cape Paterson at 10 a.m. Register on Site or register via Clean Up Australia's webpage https://register.cleanup.org.au/fundraisers/marcikatz/cape-paterson-beaches-and-tracks-44722 BBQ lunch will be provided at the end of this working bee. Note that Parks Victoria land is excluded from this working bee.
Wear clothes appropriate to the weather conditions / environment that you'll be working in. Some equipment (rubbish bags, gloves) will be provided.
Without consultation and ignoring reports they commissioned themselves, the State Government extended Cape Paterson’s Northern Boundary.
This means the area north of Seaward Drive is open to MASSIVE overdevelopment. Currently there is a proposal for the addition of over 900 new houses, more than doubling the current size of Cape Paterson. It’s just too much.
FIND OUT THE LATEST, AND HOW YOU CAN HELPThe committee advising the Minister for Planning is currently reviewing the evidence and submissions from the last year and submitted a report in late June 2023. See the Victorian government website for a whole of shire overview.
Hot winds cease and temperatures cool. Iuk (eels) are fat and ready to harvest.
Binap (Manna Gum) is flowering.
Days and nights are of equal length.
Lo-An Tuka, the Hunter, is the star Canopus, seen almost due south at sunset.
'We used to set a fishing line at night time, mostly in the lagoons. We got eels out of that… they'd go down to where Badger Creek runs into the Yarra. If eels were running that plentiful they'd make a net and put that in.' Martha Nevin, 1969.