Waste Champions
The latest waste champions are the children at Solo Way Family Day Care Centre in Hornsby Heights. They created artwork from reused materials, in response to this year’s Remagine Art Prize theme ‘Planet Earth: The future is Circular’. The name of their artwork is ‘Be wise, use it twice’ and represents how we can all […]
Year One Reading Club back for 2022
DO YOU KNOW A CHILD IN YEAR ONE AT SCHOOL? The Year One Reading Club is back for 2022 and children are invited to join. This special initiative is designed to help students improve their reading skills and develop their imaginations through literature. Participants receive a logbook when they join, and then a sticker each […]
Tons of E-waste Collected
Did you know that approximately 88 per cent of computers and TVs in Australia will end up in landfill, but 98 per cent of their parts can be fully recycled? More than 1000 residents dropped off old computers, televisions and accessories at this year’s electronic waste collection at the Castle Hill Showground. The event was […]
Building thriving Box Hill: The Story Continues
Watch Box Hill come to life via an interactive story map illustrating current and future development in this thriving Box Hill region. Available on Council’s website, the Story Map uses interactive mapping, images, graphics and text to explain the story of Box Hill so far. Users are able to scroll through at their leisure while […]
‘Tall Trees’ Metro Walk
BREATHE IN THE SOOTHING SMELL OF EUCALYPTUS ON THE TALL TREES WALK! Starting at Rouse Hill Metro station, this circuit will guide you through the riparian valley of Smalls Creek, along which tall eucalyptus trees preside. Along with paperbarks, eucalyptus trees are the only bird-pollinated trees on earth that form large forests, and wattlebirds and […]
Waves of Excitement
GET TO KNOW YOUR BRAND NEW POOL AND FITNESS CENTRE THE GRAND OPENING DAY FOR WAVES FITNESS AND AQUATIC CENTRE IS LOOMING! DESPITE A NUMBER OF CHALLENGES, GREAT PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE AND THE $52M PROJECT WILL OPEN MID-YEAR. When the Hills Shire Council resolved to replace the Shire’s ageing swimming pool in 2018, no-one […]
Become a Bushcare Volunteer Today!
BUSHCARE HAS RETURNED AND GREEN TH UMBS, ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SIGN-UP TODAY SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR TOMORROW. Bushcare Volunteer The program provides the perfect opportunity to meet like-minded individuals, make friends and have fun, all the while giving back and helping the local environment to survive and thrive. […]
Relay For Life Springs 2022
By Bev Jordan THE HILLS RELAY FOR LIFE SPRINGS INTO ACTION ON MAY 21ST, A RETURN TO THE 24-HOUR FORMAT THAT ATTRACTED THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE TO CASTLE HILL SHOWGROUND IN 2019. And just like 2019, Hills Relay For Life coincides with the Federal Election. There will be a polling booth on site. It’s a welcome […]
Galston Seventh Day Adventist Church
May has arrived! And I am having some flashbacks right now to when I was studying for my bachelor’s in Ministry and Theology. We used to call it ‘mad may’. All the assignments were due within a few weeks of each other, and you could almost visibly see the stress levels rising. I would like […]
Bushcare Restarts
This volunteer-based program focuses on the restoration and maintenance of Council bushland. It has now restarted following closures caused by COVID19. Bushcare group volunteers are incredibly important to protecting the native bushland, as well as preserving natural flora and fauna and removing harmful plants that could comprise these natural environments. They complete hands-on work as […]
