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Come along on Saturday 3 August, from 3-8pm
Lyneham Shops
With less than 2 months to go, planning for Light Up Lyneham is well on track. You can see preliminary details of the event at the Light up Lyneham 2024 web page.
We’re still in need of some volunteers for specific tasks. Please let us know if you can help.
We’re urgently looking for a few people with time and a towbar to help collect six trailer mounted pieces of equipment for us on Friday 2 August, and return the same on Monday 5 August. If you can help, please email lightuplyneham@lyneham.org.au. Alternatively, if you have a vehicle with a towbar and are willing to lend it those days, please let us know.
Also see an opportunity below to join the Light Up Lyneham Singers!Light Up Lyneham is made possible through the generous support of the following sponsors. We encourage you to support these businesses who are supporting us. |
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The Tradies Dickson
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| Light Up Lyneham Singers One of our lovely locals, Kirsten, is again organising a group of people to sing next to the Lantern Walk route at Light Up Lyneham. Please contact her to join in! As the chill of a Canberra Winter settles on us, some folks’ minds turn to heading outdoors into the early dark, warmly clad and carrying a candle and a song-sheet, to sing carols in the time-honoured tradition and then retire for a warming beverage. If this idea resonates with you, please join us on August 3rd as part of the Light Up Lyneham festivities.When we last sang, a few years ago, we drew on a small repertoire of local carols, such as “Lyneham Light, Canberra Night”, “Well Rest Ye Merry Lynehamites” and “Good Sir William Lyne Looked Out, ‘Cross the Plains of Canberra”.
As you can see, it would be good to expand this repertoire, so the first invitation is for talented readers of this newsletter to put pen to paper and tailor some of your favourite Yule-tide songs to the suburb (or environs).
The second invitation is to join a couple of practices before the event. Tentative dates would be 26th July and 2nd August, in the evening after dinner – but you’ll hear more closer to the event.
The third invitation is to join us on the 3rd, whether or not you can come to a practice, to make a merry noise and call back the light to the world! If you have any questions or wish to offer a carol, please contact Kirsten on 4kirsten@gmail.com |
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Art Installations Got an idea for a light-based display at the wetlands during Light Up Lyneham? Why not give it a go, on your own, with a friend, or as a group. We’ll pay $50 or more for the first 10 displays, depending on their size. Get in touch now to reserve your spot. Email lightuplyneham@lyneham.org.au. |
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Annual General Meeting OutcomeThanks to everyone who came to the AGM in May, and to our local politicians for making themselves available.
The outcome of the AGM was as follows:
Chair: Trevor Vickers
Deputy Chair: Karlene Dickens
Secretary: vacant
Treasurer: Gordon McAllister
Ordinary Committee members: Dianne Roberts, Jayne Roberts, Angie Seymour, Kay Walsh
At our recent committee meeting, Kate Sieben joined the committee as an ordinary committee member. |
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| Car Park UpdateWe’re pleased to say the Attorney-General, Shane Rattenbury, was swayed by our collective requests to appoint a contradictor, and instructed the Solicitor General to act. The Supreme Court on 17 July will hear an application for the well-respected barrister Prue Bindon to be appointed as amicus curiae in the appeal. This will be at no cost to the LCA. A directions hearing (when the date for the appeal is expected to be confirmed) is set for 25 July. |
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| Help regenerate our local parksThe Friends of Magpie Hill holds monthly working bees to regenerate this iconic local landmark. The group was recently awarded a substantial ACT Government adopt-a-park grant for erosion control in the park, focusing on the informal path between Wattle and Lambert Streets which has become very eroded in the last few wet years. For more information and to be added to our mailing please email magpiehill@lyneham.org.au.
Anyone is welcome to join our monthly working bees. |
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North Lyneham park regeneration projectThanks to those people who helped make significant progress with this project. Lots of mulch, plants and hard work has recently gone into rejuvenating the garden beds in the neighbourhood park on Goodchild Street.
We still need more assistance for planting in the parks on Cossington Smith Crescent before our ACT Government grant runs out. If you can help then please email contact@lyneham.org.au |
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Lyneham Commons
Working Bees are held at Lyneham Commons on the first Sunday of the month. Tasks 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 |
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Gazebo and table for loanIf you’re holding a social or community event and need a 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. |
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New membersWe 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 (north of Macarthur Avenue). Join online at lyneham.org.au/join. |
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