Student Survey

Caitlin Waugh is a Year 11 Student at Arndell Anglican College who is undertaking her Senior Geography Project researching the effects of high levels of precipitation (caused by the recent La Nina weather event) leading to landslides. She is asking for anyone who was either impacted by last year’s closure of Galston Road, or who […]

Outback Mission

Sending staff and students on mission trips to serve in remote townships has been a feature of Pacific Hills Christian School for many years. The teams come back energised and with a fresh understanding of how other people groups live. The most recent trip this year was to Outback areas in South Australia and the […]

Roslyn Kean: Along The Way

Roslyn Kean is a nationally and internationally recognised printmaker renown for her exquisite, spiritually charged woodblock prints. In this exhibition, for the first time we sense a continuum in Kean’s art from the earliest obsessive and intricate colour theory paintings, then some of the London screenprints, through to the most recent floating seas of suspended […]

Top Negotiation Tips For Buyers

Negotiating a property purchase is a serious business, so it’s important to be armed with as many tactics as possible to give yourself the advantage. If you’re in the market to buy a property this winter, here are our top tips to help you negotiate your property purchase like a professional and seal the deal. […]

Bromeliad Society Of Australia

GUEST SPEAKER HORTICULTURALIST HELEN LOVEL The next Bromeliad Society of Australia meeting will be on the 10th June with plant sales from 10am with the meeting commencing at 12 noon, at Federation Pavilion, Castle Hill Showground, off Showground Road into Doran Drive. Guest speaker, Helen Lovel has fifteen years experience as a Horticulturist as well […]

All That is Gold Does Glitter

Arcadian resident, Alison Gold, has been a dancer all her life, but it wasn’t until she was in her twenties that she took up Tap Dancing in a serious way. In 2018 Alison and a couple of her friends began a small social Tap group in the Auditorium of the Dural Country Club which soon […]

Hornsby Art Prize 2023 – Entries Open 5 June

Hornsby Shire Council invites entries for its popular national art competition, the Hornsby Art Prize, from 5 June. The well-recognised annual event promotes and celebrates Australian Contemporary Art. The 13th Hornsby Art Prize is open to all visual artists living in Australia. Artists are invited to submit works in the following categories: Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, […]

Community Bush Dance 17th June 6pm

The Glenorie Community will again host their annual Bush Dance at the Glenorie Memorial Hall. The Hall was built in 1932 and provides the perfect setting with a classic country feel, for a bush dance. Every year the timber floor boards echo with the stomping of boots as young and old blast away the winter […]

Castle Hill Art Society

DEMONSTRATION – SATURDAY 8TH JULY 2.00PM Robyn Langford-Brown “Botanicals in watercolours” Robyn is a Botanical Artist painting in watercolour and is a long-time member of the Botanical Art Society of Australia. During the demo Robyn will explain what is botanical art with the use of transparent watercolours, limited palette and tonal graphics. Botanical art starts […]

Sydney Hot Shots Are the Largest Male Revue Company of Their Kind in Australia

They are renowned for their high energy routines and fabulously fit physiques. Grab your besties and book a table for a fun ‘girls night out’ and enjoy a two hour show of laughs and masculine mayhem! Recently I had a chance to talk with Sydney Hotshots CEO, and regular cast member, Paul Reynolds who is […]