June 2023 Newsletter

 

Light Up Lyneham 2023

Light up Lyneham is back, from 3:30pm to 8pm on Saturday the 29th of July.

This year the event is being co-hosted by the LCA with support from the Lyneham Primary P&C. Light Up Lyneham will be an enchanting community celebration that illuminates Lyneham Shops and Wetlands with a dazzling display of lights, colour, music, wonder and joy.

 

Light Up Lyneham will showcase a diverse range of local musicians and performing artists including the beloved Canberra Prosperous Mountain Lion Dance Group who will lead the lantern walk and Canberra’s very own Magician who will be wowing the crowd and holding magic workshops. We’ll also have local musicians including Mr Tim, Toby Cole and local school bands, and circus acts and even Drag Storytime. There really is something for everyone. Please check out the Light Up Lyneham website or the Light Up Lyneham Facebook Event page for the full list of performers, and the incredible sponsors who have helped us bring back Light Up Lyneham as a free and inclusive community event.

Letterboxing Volunteers for Light Up Lyneham

Things are moving quickly now for Light up Lyneham 2023. We need your help to get the word out about the return of the lantern walk and the other exciting music, food and entertainment events planned for the day. We will have 4000 flyers that will need dropping into letterboxes across 21 zones in Lyneham and O’Connor.

If you can spare about two hours between 6-13 July to deliver some flyers, please sign up using the link below and we will assign you a delivery zone, some instructions and an address for your flyer bundle pick up by 5 July.

Light up Lyneham – Letter box drop: volunteersignup.org/CMXCF

We will also have a range of volunteer tasks for the night, so please keep an eye out in the next newsletter and in your email inbox.

Family Friendly Bike Ride (pre Light Up Lyneham)

A family friendly bike ride will be held on Saturday 29 July from 2pm to 3pm before Light Up Lyneham. The ride will start near the Lyneham Primary School, near the water tank behind the school hall, and go around the wetlands, finishing near the Lyneham Shops (just in time for a rest and a snack before Light Up Lyneham). The ride is co-hosted by Walk Cycle Lyneham (LCA) and Pedal Power ACT. 

For more information email contact@lyneham.org.au or Walk.Cycle.Lyneham@gmail Please ‘watch this space’ for updates and ways to get involved in this program.

 

Petition to Stop Private Car Parks on Protected Open Spaces

Our petition to Stop Private Car Parks on Protected Public Green Open Spaces has received over 1000 signatures. We are eager to protect public green open spaces in our region, and ensure that public land is managed with respect, transparency and the safety of our communities and environment.

It’s not too late to sign, but hurry because the petition closes at the end of July. 

 

Farewell to Mee Sing

The Mee Sing Restaurant has closed its doors after 58 long and memorable years at the Lyneham Shops. Family run since 1965, Mee Sing has played a crucial role in the creating a friendly, vibrant, and welcoming atmosphere at the Lyneham Shops. The restaurant holds a special place in the hearts of Lyneham residents who have formed cherished memories visiting the restaurant. 

The Mee Sing Restaurant Family recently reflected that “Lyneham Shops has always been about the community and the community spirit. We have been more than neighbours and small business owners. We have been family and we have been a community”. 

Mee Sing plans to hold a food stall at Light Up Lyneham and we are sure that many locals will be looking forward to the scrumptious Mee Sing food that we know, love and miss. 

 

Active Travel to School in Lyneham: ACT Health Promotion Grant

The LCA were recently successful in being awarded an ACT Health Promotion Grant. The grant will support us to implement a behaviour change program aimed at reducing barriers to cycling to school for Lyneham children and young people. 

The program will run over three years. The first year will focus on understanding the specific place-based obstacles that inhibit children from riding to school in Lyneham.

Then we will aim to remove some of the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ obstacles, along with engagement activities to promote behaviour change and build a shared love of bike riding and lifelong active travel habits. We will be working with Pedal Power and the Lyneham Primary School, and welcome others to get involved. More details to come!

 

Working Bee Sunday 30 July 9.30 am to 11 am, near Earle Street

The Magpie Hill rejuvenation project continues, with the Friends of Magpie Hill now holding working bees generally on the last Sunday of each month.

Most of the work is focussed on weeding and regenerating the no-mow area between the basketball court and Earle Street to create a haven for indigenous native plants. We would also like to revitalise the picnic table area and do more erosion control around the park.

Anyone is welcome to join our working bees. For more information and to be added to our mailing list please email magpiehill@lyneham.org.au. 

North Lyneham park regeneration project

We are also looking for more volunteers to help implement our tree planting project in three neighbourhood parks in North Lyneham for which we received an ACT Government grant. If you are interested please email the committee.
Lyneham Commons
Two Working Bees will be held at Lyneham Commons in July, on Sunday 2 July, 10am – 2pm (the usual working bee, held on the first Sunday of the month)  and Sunday 9 July, 10am – 1pm
Tasks at both bees may include: weeding and clearing, planting some ground cover type plants, mulching paths, pruning wattles and other trees. For more information email lyneham.commons@gmail.com 
 

Gazebo and table for loan

If you’re holding a social or community event and need an 3m x 3m portable gazebo or 2m long folding table, LCA now have them for short-term loan to members.

Just send an email to contact@lyneham.org.au with your dates a week or two in advance. There is no charge but a refundable bond of $50 will be required.

New members

We love new members, and want even more! Please encourage your local friends and neighbours to join. The more members we have, the more support we can provide each other and the more attention we can get from our politicians.

Joining is free and open to everyone over 16 years of age, living in Lyneham or north O’Connor. Join online at lyneham.org.au/join.

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