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22,000 copies / month Community News, Local Businesses, Local Events and Free TV Guide 18TH AUGUST - 3RD SEPTEMBER 2017 VOL 34 - ISSUE 17 Spring Fair – The New Secret Garden and Nursery, Richmond NSW Saturday 9 am to 4 pm Details on page 2 Sandstone MARK VINT FIRST HOME Special Offers Special Offers FIRST HOME BUYERSBUYERS Available Available Sales 9651 2182 FIRST TIME Insider Information Buy Direct From the Quarry and Help Insider Information 270 New Line Road FIRST TIME INVESTORSINVESTORS and Help Help for Dural NSW 2158 DEBTS & LOANS Everyone 9652 1783 DEBTS & LOANS Help for [email protected] 0414 903 443 / 9653 2034 Everyone Handsplit ABN: 84 451 806 754 www.everyloan.com.au 0414 903 443 / 9653 2034 Random Flagging $55m2 WWW.DURALAUTO.COM www.everyloan.com.au 113 Smallwood Rd Glenorie Community News Spring Fair – The New Secret Garden and Nursery, Richmond NSW Saturday 9 am to 4 pm – free entry and parking A vast array of beautiful plants for sale grown on-site at very reasonable prices. Delicious Devonshire teas, stalls, BBQ, face painting, farmyard animals, kids’ activities and live music!! The New Secret Garden and Nursery is a wonderful community hub and retail nursery set on 25 beautiful acres incorporating Riding for the Disabled and Men’s Shed, with farmyard animals, fairy garden and a unique children’s playground. Run by North West Disability Services, a not-for-profit organisation, our focus is horticultural therapy offering a safe, supportive and educational environment for people with a range of abilities. Enjoy a delightful day out with family and friends. Come and see the garden’s progress since our move to the new site in April this year, or discover the Secret Garden for the first time. Located at Clydesdale Lane, Western Sydney University, Richmond Campus. Entry via Vines Drive off Londonderry Road, Richmond – follow the signs. Ph: 0414 784 460 St Albans Writers’ Festival 2017 8–10 September 2017 8th to 10th September 2017 Australia’s most intimate literary celebration will see a bounty of the best and brightest of Australian writers gathered in the tiny historic town of St Albans for a weekend rich with talks and ideas surrounding the theme of ‘Escape and Explore’. This year’s stellar lineup includes: Tom Keneally, Hugh Mackay, Melina Marchetta, Nikki Gemmell, Jane Caro, Sebastian Smee, Caroline Baum, Stan Grant, Mark Tedeschi, Justin Gleeson SC, Fiona McFarlane, and many more. Journalist and author Tony Jones will deliver the Friday night Opening Address. Special Escape the city, cross the secret river and discover a place where landscape and literature meet. Explore the past, present and future with Tom Keneally, guest Academy Award-winning Nikki Gemmell, Stan Grant, George Miller, Fiona McFarlane, George Gittoes, Mark Tedeschi, Hugh Mackay, Kathryn Heyman director George Miller will open a and many others. Saturday night screening of Mad Max: Fury Road. There will also be campfire stories, Simmone Logue’s delectable cooking, workshops, talks, and activities to make this the perfect weekend escape. Visit the website for full program details and accommodation options. Tickets are limited, so get in quick! Location: St Albans, Central Macdonald, NSW Contact: Festival Committee on enquiries@ – www.stalbanswritersfestival.com – stalbanswritersfestival.com.au 2 18 August 2017 | Hills to Hawkesbury Living Read online: www.hillstohawkesbury.com.au Community News Gardening Spring Fair – The New Secret Bromeliad Spring Show Warrah Spring Fair Garden and Nursery, Join Us for a Day of Food, Fun & Entertainment at the Warrah Spring Fair Richmond NSW The Warrah Society will host its fourth annual Spring Fair on Saturday 9 am to 4 pm – free entry and parking Saturday, September 9 at their Harris Road Dural campus from A vast array of beautiful plants for sale grown on-site at very 10am to 3pm. reasonable prices. Delicious Devonshire teas, stalls, BBQ, face The fun-filled family day will feature live music, boutique markets, painting, farmyard animals, kids’ activities and live music!! fresh organic produce including an organic BBQ, an international The New Secret Garden and Nursery is a wonderful community food stall, handcraft and fine art exhibition, a white elephant stall hub and retail nursery set on 25 beautiful acres incorporating and more! There will be lots of enjoyable activities for children, Riding for the Disabled and Men’s Shed, with farmyard animals, including a jumping castle, plaster painting, craft, and a Kids fairy garden and a unique children’s playground. Run by North West Disability Services, a not-for-profit organisation, our focus is horticultural therapy offering a safe, supportive and educational environment for people with a range of abilities. Enjoy a delightful day out with family and friends. Come and see the garden’s progress since our move to the new site in April this year, or discover Spring is the perfect time to check out the varieties and the Secret Garden for the first colours available in the bromeliad world. This is the season, time. when many are displaying their very beautiful flower spikes Located at Clydesdale Lane, and intense colour. The best place in Sydney to see hundreds Western Sydney University, of bromeliads on display is at the Bromeliad Society of Richmond Campus. Entry via Australia’s Spring Show being held at the Federation Pavilion, Vines Drive off Londonderry Castle Hill Showground, Showground Road, Castle Hill Road, Richmond – follow the during September. signs. Ph: 0414 784 460 This is an opportunity to see and purchase from many local, interstate growers and collectors of exquisite and rare bromeliads. The show includes 2 days of public sales on Saturday, 23 September 9am – 4pm and Sunday, 24 September St Albans Writers’ Festival 2017 10am – 3pm. 8–10 September 2017 8th to 10th September 2017 Admission is free and there is plenty of parking on site. The Australia’s most intimate literary celebration will see a bounty Spring Show includes a bromeliad display, 20+ plant sales of the best and brightest of Australian writers gathered in the tiny tables, competitions, literature, information and advice. Please historic town of St Albans for a weekend rich with talks and ideas bring a box along for your purchases. surrounding the theme of ‘Escape and Explore’. The most popular varieties of bromeliads for home gardens This year’s stellar lineup includes: Tom Keneally, Hugh Mackay, that most recognized are Aechmeas, Guzmanias, Vrieseas, Melina Marchetta, Nikki Gemmell, Jane Caro, Sebastian Smee, Neoregelias and Tillandsias. Caroline Baum, Stan Grant, Mark Tedeschi, Justin Gleeson SC, If you are keen to create a tropical garden effect or searching Corner. Tours of Warrah’s Biodynamic Farm will run throughout Fiona McFarlane, and many more. for something suitable to under-plant in shade where nothing the day. Journalist and author Tony Jones will deliver the Friday night grows, then bromeliads are perfect. Warrah is a community based organisation that has been serving Opening Address. Special They are, very easy to grow, easy care, inexpensive and Escape the city, cross the secret river and discover a place where landscape and guest Academy Award-winning Sydney’s north-west for over 50 years. The Warrah Spring Fair is a literature meet. Explore the past, present and future with Tom Keneally, reward the grower with spectacular, long lasting blooms Nikki Gemmell, Stan Grant, George Miller, Fiona McFarlane, George Gittoes, director George Miller will open a great time to come and visit our beautiful main campus in Dural Mark Tedeschi, Hugh Mackay, Kathryn Heyman and ornamental foliage in a variety of brilliant colours. They and many others. when it’s at its best. Warrah provides quality services to adults and Saturday night screening of Mad require very little watering and come in a wide range of sizes children with disability in Sydney’s North West. A broad range of Max: Fury Road. There will also from tiny miniatures to the incredible giants. be campfire stories, Simmone services includes Warrah Special School, supported independent There are over 3000 known varieties of Bromeliaceous and Logue’s delectable cooking, living, and community support services including courses and the first recorded bromeliad was 500 years ago. workshops, talks, and activities workshops. Alongside Warrah’s services sits Sydney’s only certified to make this the perfect weekend Within the last hundred years, bromeliads have become biodynamic farm, growing biodynamic and organic produce. escape. more widely used as ornamental plants. Originally only Warrah’s on-site social enterprise, the Farm Shop sells a broad found in royal botanical gardens or the private collections. Visit the website for full range of high quality organic produce, groceries, meat and dairy. Their popularity has grown such that today bromeliads are program details and accommodation options. Tickets are limited, “We want to promote what it is that makes Warrah unique and more available to the home gardener and the bromeliad so get in quick! extraordinary”, said Georgina. enthusiast. Location: St Albans, Central Macdonald, NSW Funds raised from the Warrah Spring Fair benefit people with a For further information visit www.bromeliad.org.au. Email: disability through Warrah’s innovative projects. We look forward to Contact: Festival Committee on enquiries@ [email protected]. Contact Ian Hook, President – www.stalbanswritersfestival.com – seeing you on the day. stalbanswritersfestival.com.au Bromeliad Society