EDITION 493 YOUR REAL INDEPENDENT LOCAL NEWS 4 MAY 2020 Woy Woy Peninsula Community Garden Nine groups granted a total of almost $200,000 Nine Peninsula organisations The Women’s Health Centre in Public School and the PCYC in at Umina will receive $2500 for Building Partnership program have been granted a total Woy Woy was granted $15,000 for Umina each will receive $10,000. speakers at the community centre. was initiated by the then Labor of almost $200,000 under information and communication The Surf Life Saving Club Member for Gosford Ms Liesl Government in 2009. the Community Building technology, while St Vincent de will use the money to buy a new Tesch said the grants reflected Ms Tesch said the next round of Paul Society will receive the same inflatable rescue boat. community infrastructure needs. Community Building Partnerships Partnership program. amount to refresh of its Woy Woy The school’s Parents and “These community funding would open on May 4. The largest grant was $100,000 Charity Shop. Citizens Association spend the organisations do so much to More information can be made to Umina Beach Men’s Shed Peninsula Environment Group money on an outside play area. support all of our locals through found at https://www.nsw.gov. to build permanent premises. was granted $12,153 for security The PCYC will upgrade its the good and bad times and they au/projects/community-building- St Luke’s Anglican Church in improvements at Woy Woy garden. are very deserving recipients,” she partnership. Woy Woy was granted $25,000 Peninsula Community Garden. Mingaletta Aboriginal and said. SOURCE for a kitchen upgrade in the church Umina Surf Club, Woy Woy Torres Strait Islander Corporation Ms Tesch said the Community Media release, 29 Apr 2020 hall. Liesl Tesch, Member for Gosford Petrol is cheaper at Broken Hill than on the Peninsula Petrol is cheaper at Broken whether the new United service companies to demand an end to the Peninsula petrol stations has company yet to respond was a Hill than it is on the Peninsula, station that’s going to open on appallingly high petrol prices on fired me up even more,” she said. “wishy washy” reply from BP saying according to a Blackwall Ocean Beach Rd will follow the the Peninsula. “The entire world is in upheaval, it was a “geographical” matter. resident who monitors local prices of the Empire Bay United “Despite plummeting global fuel dealing with the global coronavirus “The hairpin bend at the bottom where prices are not necessarily prices, Peninsula fuel prices are pandemic and locally we are of Woy Woy is not a geographical petrol prices. the cheapest but still reasonable, sitting over 35 cents per litre higher experiencing the virus, the fear excuse, considering delivery trucks Mr Allan Nash said he started or whether it will join the cartel. than Gosford fuel prices and the and the economic downturn, yet also have to go over Rip Bridge to posting comparison petrol prices “We’ve heard all the reasons average fuel price in NSW,” she petrol companies seem oblivious Empire Bay where the prices are daily to community group social from the fuel companies before but said. to the vulnerable communities on cheaper,” she said. media sites about a month ago. none of them hold water. “Petrol companies have been the Peninsula. Ms Tesch said Mr Nash had “All I do is post the list of petrol “To say there is a lack of price gouging Peninsula residents “It disgusts me to see how been following the price hikes for prices on the Peninsula compared competition mystifies me - five for too long and I’m disgusted by these companies are ripping off years. to other nearby suburbs and service stations on the Peninsula the inaction. Peninsula residents who are doing “He’s right – this has been people can make up their own sounds like competition to me.” “I’ve written to the Australian it tough, while local businesses going on for too long and enough minds, but blind Freddie can see “The petrol stations on the representatives of the big oil and locals in general are doing is enough,” she said. how ridiculous it is. Peninsula know there are many companies on behalf of all their very best to support their Ms Tesch says she’ll continue to “You can actually buy fuel elderly people on restricted residents and demanded an end to community. fight for what’s right. cheaper in Broken Hill than at a licenses who can’t get their petrol this appalling behaviour.” “The trouble is that by petrol “I will continue to fight for a fair Peninsula petrol station. anywhere else and I don’t think Ms Tesch said Peninsula prices stations over-charging, they’re price, and I urge you all, if you can, “The figures speak for the coronavirus crisis has made had always been higher than hurting the businesses around to fill up somewhere else.” themselves,” Mr Nash said. a difference to prices because others on the Central Coast and them because people who go SOURCE “Like the Shell, Caltex and BP they were high before Covid-19 she had worked hard to try and elsewhere to get their petrol will Media release, 22 Apr 2020 at West Gosford, for example, are and they’ve been high during the boycott the fuel prices, speaking in likely be shopping elsewhere too Interview (Sue Murray), 28 Apr 2020 all far lower prices, no matter what pandemic too.” State Parliament about the issue and that is a loss for Peninsula Gosford MP, Liesl Tesch. fuel you buy, they’re all cheaper. Interview (Sue Murray), 28 Apr 2020 Member for Gosford Ms Liesl over the years. businesses.” “It will be interesting see Allan Nash, Blackwall Tesch said she had written to oil “This recent fuel price stunt by Ms Tesch said the only oil THIS ISSUE contains 40 articles - Read more news items for this issue at www.peninsulanews.info Office: Level 2, 86-88 Mann St, Gosford - Phone: 4325 7369 - Mail: PO Box 1056, Gosford 2250 - E-mail: [email protected] - Website: www.coastcommunitynews.com.au Page 2 - Peninsula News - 4 May 2020 News Driest fortnight this year Only 10mm of rain fell in the last two weeks of April, the Peninsula News is a fortnightly community newspaper owned by driest fortnight this year, Woy Woy Community Media Association Inc., an incorporated, non- according to figures supplied profit association. by Mr Jim Morrison of Umina. 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