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Gully spoil site. There will be widespread THROUGH THE TUNNEL noise impacts and some vibrations. DOWN THE SLIDE An independent committee will assess Part of the WHT was approved any property impacts and there will on the eve of Australia Day be a substratum acquisition process. Unfortunately, the EIS has many to-be- With the Western Harbour Tunnel (WHT) announced options which can lead to late and Warringah Freeway, part of the $14 changes and delays. billion toll-road project being approved Our lovingly restored, rare urban on the eve of the Australia Day holiday bushland at Flat Rock Gully is to become weekend, many in the community may the temporary dive site for tunnel spoil feel their objections have gone unheard. from 2023 to 2027. However it’s not all bad news, 75 additional Above ground operations would be plans and notifications are required as a result of community feedback. The Monday to Friday 7am - 6pm and conditions of approval of these can be Saturday 8am - 1pm and underground found online on the NSW Government activities would operate 24 hours a day Major Projects Planning portal. seven days a week.

3 Unfortunately, at this stage, we still A large amount of spoil (500 m ) will will get a 30m unfiltered tunnel fumes be allowed to be housed outside the acoustic shed at Cammeray, raising major stack at Cammeray, a lot of noise and ARTISTS IMPRESSION OF PROPOSED SLIDE the possibility of the area becoming the dust concerns. The Naremburn Park Playground in U-Turn bay for hundreds of huge trucks. The community is calling for real time/ Station Street is to be renovated at a This stage of the works is due to start in alert style monitoring at Bicentennial cost of $625,000. The playground will earnest next year (with preparatory works Reserve and Northbridge Baths. Road be expanded by over 50% and while it prior) and the planned completion is 2026. widening works will be carried out and will retain some favourite features, it An enormous amount of spoil will lights placed at the bottom to allow 565 will boast some exciting child-skill- come out at Cammeray and head south heavy vehicles per day to use Brook St. enhancing equipment. across the Harbour Bridge with a likely The shared user path will be diverted as drop off point being the new airport at New equipment will include; flying will Flat Rock Creek and no doubt the Eastern Creek. The trucks will return fox, curved hill slide, climbing net, school bus to Cammeray. After 40 years of to the Cammeray site from across the hammock swing, quad swing, a wide rehab half the trees from the dive site area Bridge but will need to turn around embankment slide, a timber balance will be removed but below ground issues somewhere to access the Cammeray Golf challenge and new sit-on springers. are also significant. Course Construction site entry point on There are also some new picnic Warringah Freeway. The question is how The mainline tunnels will be excavated settings, shelters and tree planting. and where? The project team confirmed in three directions and the very large recently that problem has not been drawdown impact may have more worked out. ecological implications as will the large TRUE OR FALSE volume of wastewater discharge into the The Beaches Link and Gore Hill Fred Stolle, Grand Slam tennis Creek. Much of the risk management Freeway EIS are on exhibition at centres champion, completed his relies on procedural management rather around Naremburn, with works due for Intermediate Certificate at than project design and unfortunately completion by 2028. accidents can happen. Naremburn Public School. Our heritage suburb, a highly residential ANSWER ON PAGE 12 With still no publicly available business area surrounded by children’s sports case or alternative public transport study with a precious urban wildlife corridor, is set to have the twin tunnels passing it is difficult to understand how this is the directly underneath it, as they travel very best option or in fact the only option? from Cammeray down to the Flat Rock LARISSA PENN FOLLOW AND SHARE YOUR PHOTOS ON SEE INSIDE ON HOW YOU CAN ACT NOW AND HAVE YOUR SAY INSTAGRAM @ NAREMBURN

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WHAT CAN YOU DO

CRA F T BEE R REAL ESTATE FISH & CHIPS ABOUT THE IMPACT PODIATRY OUT & OF THE WHT ON YOU? • REVIEW the EIS and make ABOUT a submission/ objection at https://www.planningportal. nsw.gov.au/major-projects/ project/10456, • WRITE to our local State Although COVID-19 remains an ongoing of writing this article, the submission representative Premier Gladys restriction to our “normal” life patterns, period for Beaches Link closes on Berejiklian and copy in your many of us have also been very busy in 1 March 2021. (WFU and WHT projects local councillors, wrestling with the massive 12,000 page have previously closed for submissions Beaches Link Environmental Impact and in fact have recently received final • WRITE to the Environment Statement (EIS) in trying to understand approval from the NSW Minister for Protection Authority and the ongoing effects, be they financial, tell them more about Flat Planning and Public Spaces.) Several environmental, traffic congestion, community groups are lodging Rock worries and your mental and physical health on ourselves applications for an extension to the contamination concerns. and our families. These effects will closing date, but they are by no means remain with us for far more than the assured of any success. So in any event, seven plus years of construction, indeed Join our community action group you are strongly encouraged to make the effects will become part of the to save our precious Gully a submission – online via https://www. “background” of the entire Beaches Link/Warringah Freeway Upgrade/ planningportal.nsw.gov.au/major- Western Harbour Tunnel (BL/WFU/ projects/project/10456, telephone WHT) series of projects and once enquiries on 1800 931 189 or by mail to commenced, will be here to stay. Customer feedback, Transport for NSW, Locked Bag 928, North Sydney NSW Transport for NSW (TfNSW) is the 2059. And remember – time is short, proponent for these massive road submissions close 1st March 2021! infrastructure projects, currently estimated to cost in the region of $14 All the best with your reading, Go to Save Flat Rock Gully billion, and have invited the public or saveflatrockgully.org to make submissions of support or ROGER PROMNITZ objection to the proposals. At the time PRESIDENT

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Peter Chauncy – McGrath ON THE BUSES

Alterations to some State Transit bus routes and timetables across Willoughby, have been made by Transport for NSW to ‘improve the frequency of services on key routes’.

Transport for NSW has worked closely with State Transit (STA), to determine the changes, using Opal data and customer feedback.

Connections for customers travelling to the city or within the local area have had over 700 extra weekly services added to the network.

• In the Willoughby area, existing routes 272, 340 and 343 will be replaced by new routes 115 and 120.

The back end of 2020 was an encouraging in Naremburn. Most notably, just before • The new all-day frequent route 120 year for the Naremburn property market Christmas we broke the suburb record will replace existing routes 272 and despite the uncertainty of the global with the off-market sale of 13 Rhodes 340. This will serve both Wynyard pandemic. Economists predict that the Avenue Naremburn, a four-bedroom and the QVB in the city. Sydney market will continue to accelerate renovated Federation home selling • Customers travelling between the with record low interest rates combined for $5,000,000. Willoughby area and North Sydney with minimal supply of property can use new route 115, which will available and high demand. It’s the Off-market transactions have been a replace existing route 343 services. perfect amalgamation. popular choice in recent times with many sellers wanting to test the market Route 343 will continue to operate We have seen this firsthand ourselves before moving forward. Having strong between Kingsford and the city with with a large number of prospective buyers relationships and understanding buyers’ the same service frequency and hours inspecting open homes within the first requirements allows us to match people of operation. week of campaigns. We believe this rapid to the right property. In December and • Minor changes have been made growth will continue to do so in the January alone, we sold eight properties off to routes 200 and 333 after the short term. market achieving some exceptional results withdrawal of route 340. Route 200 There have also been strong enquiries for our owners. will now operate between Artarmon coming from expats with DFAT figures (Campbell Street) and Bondi Junction. If you are thinking of selling and want to showing 390,000 Australians returning take advantage of the favourable market Signs have been installed at bus stops home since March of last year. This is conditions at present or if we can assist informing customers of the upcoming adding to the already increasing demand you with any of your real estate needs changes. Details of bus service for property in blue chip areas such please get in touch. improvements and updated timetables as Naremburn. are now available online and you are Our team were involved in some great PETER CHAUNCY encouraged to plan ahead https:// results with various records set across the MCGRATH CROWS NEST transportnsw.info/trip to make the house, townhouse, and apartment sector 0402 036 489 most of the extra services.

Easter Bells and, we trust, for the community. During You are most welcome to come. restrictions the handbell group has been On Good Friday the tenor will be tolled developing its skills, ringing various before the 3pm ceremony. The bells methods under the tutelage of two of the will be rung before the 10.30am Mass As we go to press, we are hopeful that best handbell ringers in Australia. on Easter Sunday. the 2sq metre rule has come into effect, Ceremonies at St Leonards Catholic Bells Inspire! thereby enabling us to ring on 6 bells! Church over the Easter period will be held GEOFFREY GEMMELL What a joy that is for us as bell ringers on Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

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Cammeray’s golfers happy, for now …

The widespread predictions that the Northern Beaches- Beaches Link Tunnel excavations would be a near-fatal blow to Cammeray’s golf course seem to have been exaggerated - at least in the short-term. More good news is access to the site The club members should realise the Although the layout of the nine-hole mainly will be by way of the Warringah Beaches Link project is still under public course will initially be disrupted, Freeway. Two construction-vehicle-only consultation and that the construction as it is beside one of the project’s major access points will be built for direct entry impacts will continue long after the construction sites, the good news is the from and to the motorway, so no vehicles Western Harbour Tunnel is complete. bad news could have been worse. will cross the course. There will be a The Beaches Link project’s Environmental second entry/exit point on Ernest St. Transport for NSW will resume some Impact Statement shows construction of the course from June 1, but says, in a “From June 1 parts of the course may be continuing to 2028 and that’s only if they media release, that it is “continuing to closed. We intend to keep as much of the are able to achieve the overlapping of the work with the Cammeray Golf Club to course open and playable, but limited, in two projects - which we doubt. minimise impact to the use of the course”. this period,” the club website reports. It is good news the department is allowing The Cammeray Golf Club, on its website, Transport for NSW says on completion the club to redesign the course, which says it is up for any challenges of adapting and commissioning of the tunnel and wasn’t the original plan. Green space must the layout of the course for about five facilities the site will be rehabilitated and be returned to the community. years, but, strangely, club manager Layton returned to Cammeray Golf Club. The club and Transport for NSW have Gauld, when contacted by NM, would However, as spokeswoman for the Stop signed a confidentiality agreement, over only say “no comment”. Gauld would only The Tunnels campaign, the golf club the project, which we believe is unhealthy say that all information regarding changes members should be aware of many other from a community viewpoint. to the course will come from Transport problems which will affect the club for for NSW. years to come. LARISSA PENN “This will be a disrupted year at NAREMBURN RESIDENT AND There will be massive dislocation of traffic Cammeray but it is not a cause for alarm,” BICENTENNIAL RESERVE AND FLAT and parking in the area with thousands of the club says on its website. ROCK GULLY COMMITTEE workers involved at the Cammeray site., According to Transport for NSW, Cammeray’s members and thousands of social golfers who throng the course, have been assured it still will boast nine holes for play.

Members say only a few holes will be seriously affected, the worst being the loss of the sixth hole, the famous over-the- water challenge, due to the dam being used for construction purposes.

“A portion of the course, next to the Warringah Freeway, will be resumed during construction and for setting up some permanent facilities, the Transport for NSW release reported. “We have adjusted our sites and included provisions for the course to stay open as a nine-hole layout, the design of which will be decided by the Cammeray Golf Club.”

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FLAT ROCK GULLY SITE LETTERS As the mother of two children nearing Government is not going to do anything a Stop The Tunnels supporter tells me school age, I am distressed to think unsafe or detrimental to the health of that “buried” in the current North Connex that pupils at Cammeray Public and school children or the community.” he and Northern Beaches tunnels formal Cammeraygal schools will be exposed said. Please filter the tunnels. proposals are instructions that such daily to harmful emissions from unfiltered KATE STEWARD CROWS NEST road signs will be mandatory. What do smoke stacks attached to the Northern these signs tell us? Tunnel pollution and A blowhard friend of mine was saying Beaches Harbour Tunnel for almost their unfiltered stacks are dangerous, that all the road-tunnel pollution soon whole school-life. As Larisa Penn, a writer that’s what. would be eliminated with the planned in Naremburn Matters, said on the ABC FELICITY THOMSON CAMMERAY dominance of electric vehicles (EV). website in late January on the government However he thought more soberly when approval; “The route of these tunnels Given the complete traffic chaos that has I pointed out that the earliest projection goes through Sydney’s largest school been caused by the minor construction of any total EV takeover in Australia - zone. About 20,000 kids will experience of the Amherst Sound Wall over recent given the current government’s total lack weeks, with traffic backed up Brook St really high-level construction impacts of any EV-introduction policy - is decades and the local school drop-off run tripled for over 10 years. Those impacts aren’t a away. It will be our kids and grandchildren in time, one can only imagine what will passing inconvenience, they’re significant. who suffer over that time before they happen if construction for the Northern The kids will have a dozen unfiltered have to fix another life-threatening planet Beaches Tunnel goes ahead. smoke stacks around them between problem left to them by their petrol- Rozelle, Cammeray and Balgowlah by pampered parents. Naremburn residents, many of whom can the time these projects are finished” only exit their streets via Brook St, can JOHN DAVIDSON NAREMBURN And all the Minister for Transport could look forward to years of sitting in traffic offer on the ABC was to tell residents How is it that the following advice is behind the constant stream of trucks, the Government’s Chief Scientist “had online at the NSW Health’s “Road Tunnel if they want to leave their homes. And considered the health and environmental Air Quality” page: “While Sydney’s I certainly wouldn’t feel confident letting impacts of the ventilation stacks”. And tunnels meet air quality standards set to my school kids cross that busy road alone what did the Chief Scientist offer after protect public health, NSW Health advises to walk to school, once trucks these considerations? According to the that closing your windows and switching block all visibility. Minister, nothing worth repeating: “The your vehicle ventilation to re-circulate will For Naremburn residents, it really is all reason the Government engaged the Chief further reduce your exposure to vehicle pain, no gain! Scientist to assess ventilation is to give emissions.” The M5 tunnel belatedly had that confidence so that people know the road signs fitted with the same advice. And EMILY BATES NAREMBURN

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These before-and-after pictures of the overnight as occurred over several days in PRICE PAID tree-clearing at the huge Willoughby late January. by Mirvac residential development in As a US popular singer of another era, Joni Artarmon Road clearly show the initial Mitchell, wailed in her long-standing hit FOR PROPERTY environmental impact of such a project Big Yellow Taxi, “Don’t it always seem to on an admired leafy area. go. That you don’t know what you’ve got PROGRESS No doubt there is a strong argument till it’s gone.” that such a levelling of the landscape Development cynics possibly can take will ultimately provide much-needed heart from the long-standing success of accommodation for about 460 families the leafy 50-year-old Castle Vale complex to enjoy the local wonderful lifestyle – which stands directly below and east of Willoughby offers. the Willoughby by Mirvac project.

And there is no suggestion that the To quote from the Castle Vale official highly respected Mirvac developers were internet website, “The complex has operating outside the confines of their been the recipient of several housing development application for the site. and landscape awards, including the prestigious Housing Industry In fact an integral part of the already Association award.” popular stylish project will be the 6000sqm green space which has been set Castle Vale was developed by Mirvac aside for the residents’ outdoor pleasures. in the late 1970s.

It’s just that many local people were BILL COLHOUN shocked that the quaint old tree-dotted NAREMBURN RESIDENT Channel Nine compound with its 20-plus quirky cottages, housing individual show productions, could disappear almost

Insider’s Outlook on real estate

Have you noticed how Styling is changing the whole look of real estate, and it’s fast becoming what people now expect when they go to an Open Home. Some owners have lovely furniture that photographs beautifully, but for others, sometimes it’s hard to give up the old family favourite couch or dining table. The challenge though is that for buyers to fall in love with a home, it’s got to feel like they could live there, not having to visualise living with you to live there. Here’s the trick, styling doesn’t have to cost a lot, and styling doesn’t have to occur only when you’re selling. You can style your home now, and live in a home that has a beautiful magazine feel that you’ve always wanted. There’s inexpensive ways to get a luxe look too for your home, utilising companies such as Lounge Lovers or James Lane for example. For selling, that’s where we can help you, and sometimes it’s just a partial style. MATTHEW SMYTHE NAREMBURN RESIDENT Either way, staying or selling, enjoy the home you’re in even more. 0410 280 280

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COUNTING OUR LOSSES

In September I wrote about the benefit of our Long Gully Reserve, to me and to our community. We await and carefully scrutinise the planned Northern Beaches Autumn 2021 Tunnel Project that will impact our local area, its natural resources and bring increased pollution.

To have achieved its present state, nature Naremburn Community Gardens has survived vandalism but has survived. In the early 1900s Flat Rock Creek or The rain has been wonderful for the The Naremburn garden usually has Long Gully Creek formed a natural garden. Now is a good time to mulch plenty of compost available. Please drop northern boundary to Naremburn. Its the garden to keep the temperature by on a Sunday morning if you would waterfall just east of Willoughby Road and water content even into the cooler like some. was a popular tourist attraction. Children months. Plenty of free mulch is available bathed in the unpolluted pools along the If people have prunings or lawn at the Council depot at the corner of creek. In the 1930s Depression retaining clippings we are happy to take them at Punch St and Lambs Rd Artarmon. walls were built along the creek, past the Bongalong St garden in the wire cage time work undertaken to qualify for The New Year has brought the gardens next to the Aerobin. sustenance payment. The introduction some new volunteers. We are always Lost Property of the Incinerator on Small Street in 1934 ready to welcome new gardeners and This quarter we have a clip-lock led to dumping of excessive rubbish into have plenty of work to be done. We container. the gully area. The area, home to foxes, are also happy to organise classes to echidnas and tortoises, flora such as teach various garden skills, such as SUE HOWES Christmas bells, waratahs, native orchids, BONGALONG STREET transplanting seedlings. If you are and boronias degraded. Fortunately a [email protected] interested please drop me an email or newly formed body called F.R.A.C.A.S. swing by on a Sunday morning. the Flat Rock Area Conservation Action Society photographed much of the prevailing flora. These records are kept at house and do not phone the police. the Willoughby District Historical Society. Just post about this suspicious SEVEN WAYS TO In 1976 there was another crisis when behaviour on Facebook. Council gave permission to TCN9 for ‘WELCOME’ BURGLARS 6. ‘Allow’ mail or parcels to build up in helicopter landings along the eastern area of Flat Rock Gully Drive. The NPA Thefts from houses and units full sight of the road while you are opposed this on the grounds of excessive unfortunately are on the rise in our area absent from your house or unit. noise, dust and unauthorised landings. and if, perversely, you would like to ‘assist 7. Leave a message on your answering Council withdrew its permission. burglars’ here are some tips: machine, or on Facebook, to ‘advise’ any would-be burglars that you are on Since writing the September article I have 1. Leave empty boxes from recent away on holiday. seen the regulars at this beautiful area, deliveries of new products in view young and old walkers, family groups, outside, so that burglars are able to see OR, seriously, we could all actually try to cyclists on the shared pathways and only what new items you have just bought. be less ‘helpful’ to burglars in 2021 and recently became aware of the Saturday do none of the above. 2. Leave any doors or windows unlocked morning group of some 500 joggers who to ‘assist’ unlawful entry. Join Willoughby Neighbourhood Watch do the 5km circuit commencing at the on Facebook for useful tips to prevent Leisure Centre. 3. ‘Hide’ your spare keys in popular spots crime. https://www.facebook.com/ such as under door mats or under real Nature has been very forgiving in its groups/WilloughbyNeighbourhoodWatch or fake rocks. revival to its current status. Are we facing its destruction? 4. ‘Ensure’ that car keys are visible to anyone illegally entering your home. DAVID AND LINDA STICKLAND That way they also can take your car. KEVIN FITZPATRICK CENTRAL STREET 5. ‘Ignore’ any people you don’t know loitering near or entering a neighbour’s

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Autumn news from Naremburn library

Refreshed library In the meantime: Talks@Willoughby are continuing online, the Tech Bar open on Wednesdays at Chatswood is open every Friday 11am- 12pm either online or face-to-face with a Naremburn’s Library has been included booking, and preschoolers storytime has in a new rotation system which will allow returned to Chatswood for 2021. some of the collections to be shared among all of the Willoughby We appreciate your patience as we evolve City Council libraries. our library service to maintain a safe and healthy space for our community This will allow a regular refreshing of and staff. new items available to be borrowed. And sadly, the Naremburn Library has All branch libraries are now open been missing one of its friendliest staff weekdays at a reduced capacity so please members since it has reopened following follow the guidelines of NSW Health. the retirement of the very popular Check opening hours and available long-term librarian Diana Revington in services before your visit. December. Naremburn Matters hopes to The Naremburn Library hours at have an interview with Diana in our 7 Central St are: Wed 1.30pm–5:00 pm. June edition.

And remember to keep a lookout for the LIZ PARKER return of other interesting activities on COMMUNITY INFORMATION our website or at the library. AND PROMOTIONS LIBRARIAN

any odour coming from nails. If you activities; or if you have any structural Post-summer are experiencing: itchy, dry, flaky or or gait concerns with your child, blistering skin, visit one of our friendly visit the clinic for an extensive foot care podiatrists for advice and management. biomechanical assessment. Additionally, kids are heading back to For more information, please After enduring the warmest months school after a long summer break. If call 8964 6648 or visit www.naremburnpodiatry.com.au. of Sydney, especially February being your child has any aches or pains which known as the most humid month. is restricting participation in sporting JAMES TEOH PODIATRIST We commonly see a rise in fungal infections of the nails and skin, known as onychomycosis and athlete’s foot or NAREMBURN tinea pedis, respectively. Fungus thrives WE TREAT: in warm and moist environments, Lower Back Pain PODIATRY and with the added effect of socks Knee Pain and enclosed shoes, fungus tends to Foot Pain overgrow in this area. 276 Willoughby Road, Furthermore, Sydney-siders have Naremburn 2065 been cooling down at the beach or at We care for your • Corns & Calluses • Diabetic Foot Care public swimming pools in the recent • Heel and Knee Pain • Footwear Store summer months, leading to an increase • Ingrown and Fungal Toenails • Nail Surgery in the amount of people sharing public Health fund, showers, which can increase likelihood DVA & Medicare of developing these fungal infections. rebate available

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COVID-19 VACCINES JOIN THE Are we ready? NPA NAREMBURN As we prepare for the PROGRESS COVID-19 vaccination ASSOCIATION program, it is time to Q: Do the vaccines prevent severe talk about the readiness COVID-19 infection and death? Become an active of the vaccines. A: Both Pfizer/BioNTech and Oxford member of your University/AstraZeneca vaccines Naremburn community Q: Why are there different provide protection from covid-19 and have your say. COVID-19 vaccines? infection but may not prevent the spread of infection between silent Join or renew your A: We have been waiting for the carriers. The vaccines are given in membership at effectiveness of the different vaccines, two doses. www.naremburnprogress. which needs to be scientifically org.au/membership/ proven. The first vaccine to meet join-renew/ Q: Who will receive the the Australian standard is the Pfizer/ vaccine first? Annual membership BioNTech vaccine. due 1 January A: National covid-19 vaccine strategy, will take place in three stages. https:// Q: How safe are these vaccines? Fees: $15 ($10 concession), www.health.gov.au/initiatives-and- plus $5 joining /lapsed A: The vaccine safety regulator, the programs/covid-19-vaccines/about- member. Therapeutic Goods Administration covid-19-vaccines/covid-19-vaccine- If you would like to (TGA) of Australia, has high standards and-treatment-strategy for screening new vaccines. volunteer to assist on the Committee, or could help Q: Which vaccine is suitable prepare Naremburn Matters Q: What about other vaccines? to have? please call Helene on A: Only a minority of vaccines have A: Most in the community may 0403 015 004 made it to the final phase. Hence receive the Oxford University/ the vaccines approved by Australia, AstraZeneca vaccine. would have met the highest possible safety profile. Q: Is the vaccine safe in pregnant women? Q: Does having the vaccine stop me from social distancing and A: There is insufficient information at wearing masks? present. A: Not yet. Q: Do I have to have the vaccine? Q: What side effects are expected? A: No. It is free and voluntary. It is important to make an A: Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine has caused informed decision. local reactions like redness, to mild flu like symptoms. You can find Face masks further information on US Centers for Q: What do I do if I have had are still mandatory Disease Control (CDC) website: https:// previous allergic reactions on public transport and www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/ to vaccines? fines will be issued. index.html and Australian site: https:// A: It is important to discuss these issues www.health.gov.au/initiatives-and- with your GP who will provide NSW Health advises programs/covid-19-vaccines further information. Face masks are strongly recommended Q: Will I get COVID-19 infection DR LALANA KAPUWATTE in taxis, hire cars from the vaccine? DR RADEEKA LIYANAGE and rideshare. A: No. WILLOUGHBY MEDICAL PRACTICE

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MULTIPLE MOGGIES are trampling on my garden beds and digging them up to cover their excreta, I have been a and that, plus the dog dung on my lawn, happy resident of attracts flies. I have found bird feathers. Naremburn for At night I am woken up by cats yowling, 40 years, but am dogs barking and my outdoor lights currently struggling tripping. And on a sunny morning a with the problem of passer-by can see a collection of cats multiple pets next basking on my front lawn as if they owned door. My neighbour is it! All this is very stressful, and constitutes a very elderly woman, not only nuisance but also health issues. and in September I contacted council and suggested to my CATS AT NEIGHBOUR’S BACK DOOR IN NOVEMBER her daughter moved neighbour that she do so too, to help her back to look after her, EDITORS NOTE: place some of the pets. I initially also bringing a retinue of If you would like to know more about cats and dogs. She assured me that this wanted to help, but it is becoming clear rights and regulations for cat/pet was only temporary, she would be giving that this a case of pet hoarding. ownership in Willoughby follow some away. I have counted 20 cats and The council ranger, Chris Delaney, has these links: four dogs on the premises. been understanding, but he is restricted https://www.willoughby.nsw.gov.au/ The first impact was on my two cats - they by regulations regarding cats/pets. He found their territory overrun and were says numbers are irrelevant and I need Residents/Pet-ownership too fearful to go out - but by November to gather evidence of impact to mount a https://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/ the situation was severely impacting on case… can anyone give me some advice? html/inforce/current/sl-2018-0441 me and my visitors. There is the constant stench of urine outside my house and CATHERINE JONAK If you have an issue with your neighbour’s coming in through my windows, the cats NAREMBURN pets, please contact Council.

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EASTER BUNNY CUPCAKES VOLUNTEERS YOUR KIDS CAN MAKE URGENTLY NEEDED FOR INGREDIENTS NAREMBURN • 450g pkt vanilla cupcake mix MATTERS TO • 60g butter, softened KEEP IT GOING .... • 2 Eggs If you have some free time • 1/2 cup (125ml) milk and have some experience • 1 cup desiccated coconut in producing a newsletter, • 12 white marshmallows we would like to hear from • 6 pink marshmallows you. You don’t have to live • 24 brown M&M’s Minis METHOD: Preheat oven to 180°C. Line muffin pan (12 x 80ml) in Naremburn. • 12 pink M&M’s Minis with paper cases. Mix cupcake batter according to the packet • 145g pkt Creative Kitchen • Editor directions. Bake. Set aside to cool. Fairy Sweetheart Toppings, • Article co-ordinator 24 pink hearts only Icing: Mix butter in a bowl of an electric mixer until pale. Add • Writers • Dark chocolate writing icing icing sugar in batches, mixing well after each addition. Add • Production assistant ICING milk, vanilla and chocolate, beat until combined. Place coconut • Advertising manager in a small bowl. Reserve one tbsn of icing. Spread remaining • Walkers to deliver • 180g unsalted butter, softened icing sugar on the cupcakes. Dip each cake in coconut. Cut (urgently required) marshmallows in half. Cut the pink ones in half again. Attach • 13/4 cups icing sugar mix Email naremburn.matters@ • 2 tablespoons milk pink to white with icing mix to make ears. Use reserved icing naremburnprogress.org.au • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence to attach ears, brown M&Ms for eyes, pink for noses and pink to chat about the roles. • 150g white chocolate, melted hearts for a mouth on each cake. Use writing icing for whiskers.

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Community activities Due to COVID please use contact details below for current availability.

Naremburn Community Centre Activities 9967 2917 [email protected]

Contact the Centre, for room hire availability. ARTISTS IMPRESSION OF PROPOSED FLYING FOX

Naremburn Progress Association 0419 227 986 (Roger Promnitz) 2nd Thursday bimonthly 7.30pm Message from the Mayor February, April, June, August, The new year has got off to a positive start with the October and December construction of the revamp of Naremburn Park Playground commencing at the beginning of February. Playgroup (for children 5 years of age and under) The upgrade includes a new quad swing, wide [email protected] embankment slide, insect rockers and timber balance Wednesday 9.30am – 11.30am logs. The playground extension area includes a flying fox, climbing net, hill slide and hammock swing.

Northern Suburbs Philatelic Society There are also new picnic settings, shelters, planting and 9419 7354 (Paul Storm) additional paths to improve accessibility. A new higher ball fence has been installed along Dalleys Rd to prevent balls Breastfeeding Association running onto the road. The works are due to be completed [email protected] by early April. 1st Tuesday 10.00am – 12noon Council has made a ‘Your High Street’ grant funding application to the NSW Government Willoughby Community Pre-school for streetscape improvements around the Naremburn shops. The program aims to 9437 4260 enhance the amenity and functionality of high streets to support local business, improve Monday to Friday 8.00am – 4.00pm the experience for the community and enable permanent improvement projects. If successful, the grant will allow a more ambitious program of works and activities than Naremburn Library originally planned with the current $350,000 budget. Council expects to receive news on 7 Central St | 9439 5584 the grant funding in May. This will then allow planning for the design and community consultation phase to commence.

I’m keeping a close eye on the Beaches Link and Gore Hill Freeway Connection project. Next NPA meetings I wrote to the Premier and relevant Ministers to express council’s disappointment at The next NPA General Meeting the short turnaround time in which to view and make comment on the Environmental and Annual General Meeting Impact Statement. I’m asking for an extension to the March deadline to allow the 7:30pm - 8 April 2021 community and Council enough time to properly consider it and make a submission. Given the impact on local traffic, I encourage you to view it and make your own Naremburn Community Centre 7 Central Street submission to the Department of Planning, Industry and Environment.

All members and residents are welcome All the best for a safe and happy 2021. Please get in touch it you have any questions or comments: [email protected]. Next issue, June 2021 issue deadlines: MAYOR GAIL GILES-GIDNEY Advertising: 1 May 2021 WILLOUGHBY CITY COUNCIL Articles: 1 May 2021 [email protected]

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