Dural Public School

Dural Public School held their annual Colour Explosion Fundraising Walkathon recently on a beautiful sunny Friday afternoon. This event is a wonderful opportunity for the school community to come together and celebrate the amazing and generous fundraising contributions made to the school. The Colour Explosion involves students wearing crazy hair, bright colours and a white […]

Revolve Recycling Donates Bikes to Warrah Specialist School, Making A Big Impact

Warrah Specialist School has received a generous donation of six children’s bikes from Australian social enterprise, Revolve Recycling. The donation has had a positive impact on the students, allowing them to improve their physical abilities and providing them with a sense of freedom and independence. “Bike riding is an excellent way to improve our students’ […]

Brave Students Shave for A Cure

On Wednesday, 3rd May, the Galston High School’s Student Representative Council held its annual World’s Greatest Shave event. The World’s Greatest Shave is a charitable event held every year across Australia, organised by the Leukaemia Foundation. Participants fundraise by shaving or colouring their hair, demonstrating solidarity with those experiencing hair loss due to cancer treatment. […]

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, […]