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We covered the story and a benefactor, who does not want to be identified, stepped in and paid a year’s rent for the Hills home and has promised to cover the rent for a further two years. LHF Founder Aileen Mountifield, her staff and clients are overjoyed. This is how it transpired. “A few weeks ago I was in my local medical centre’s waiting room, and I picked up a copy of the Hills to Hawkesbury News. Inside was a story about the problems being faced by a local who we are, women and children’s domestic violence refuge shelter. Until then I wasn’t aware of the Lisa Harnum Foundation or the halfway house, let alone that they were in trouble. On the what we do passing of my father some years ago I was put in charge of the charitable foundation he started. As a result, I’m able to lend a helping hand to people facing challenges.” You may have noticed changes in The Hills to Hawkesbury Community News “I’m really pleased that things have gone well, and that over the past few months. thanks to my late father’s business acumen and generosity I Our fortnightly publication is a much-loved project by our small and passionate was in the lucky position to take advantage of being in the right team. It is not run to make a profit but to provide a platform for community groups, place at the right time to offer some help. Domestic violence is not for profit organisations, and social enterprises in Hills and Hawkesbury area to a scourge on a civilised society.” showcase what they do. As passionate community people ourselves, we recognise “I wish the women and children who are taking a breather there are less and less options to connect a community. in the accommodation provided by the LHF all the very best as The Hills to Hawkesbury Community News aims to connect our community they put their lives back together. Bless them.” both in print and online. We have had some stunning results, with one reader “And a huge thanks to Hills to Hawkesbury magazine, using her family trust to save the Lisa Harnum Foundation’s refuge from closing because without that article I’d never have known I could help.’’ and securing its future for the next three years. Obviously it costs money to publish and distribute 10,000 copies of the Hills to Hawkesbury Community News each fortnight. That is why our advertisers play an important role in enabling us to do what we do. Without advertising we cannot provide this service to you. Please support them. We have also changed our free television guide by reducing it to two days a page to enable more room for news and advertising. MAX POTENTIAL We would love to hear from you about what you think about the changes William Eisenhuth, a Year 12 student at Oakhill College, Castle Hill has and what you love about the Hills to Hawkesbury News and be in the running to been collecting children’s books for a cause. His Books to the Bush win a $100 dining out gift voucher courtesy of Momento Hospitality. drive is the community service project he has created as part of the Email [email protected] subject Feedback and please Max Potential Leadership Program and so far he has 500 books. support our advertisers. As soon as his HSC is over he plans to deliver the books to the NSW Central West Lifeline branch in Bathurst to “provide refuge for The charity organisations we have supported so far this year include: those struggling in the drought”. Hills Community Aid Positive Vibes Foundation The Max Potential program has been running at Castle Hill Hills Relay For Life Foster Care Angels RSL for more 10 years and is run in partnership with Clubs NSW. The Lisa Harnum Foundation Destiny Rescue Run over five months, it offers one-on-one coaching, workshops Red Cross Salvation Army and a focus on delivering community service projects to make a Riding For The Disabled North West Disability Services difference. The Hills Women’s Shed Zonta Sydney Hills Students from eight schools took part in this year’s program: Soroptimist International The Hills Community Migrant Resource Centre Castle Hill High, Crestwood High, Kellyville High, Marian Catholic Guide Dogs NSW Rotary College Kenthurst, Model Farms High, Oakhill College and Rouse Hill The Hills Winter Sleep Out Anglican College. There are many others. Please help us to support you. For more information visit www.maxpotential.com.au DIANA PATON | publisher [email protected] | 0408 011 193 advertising KAREN TAYLOR RANIA SALLOUM [email protected] [email protected] www.hillstohawkesbury.com.au | Facebook @hillstohawkesbury 0499 040 726 0439 034 187 Owner: Compton Media Group | Publisher: Diana Paton | 0408 011 193 BEV JORDAN | journalist IVOR JONES | contributor Advertising email: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Editorial: [email protected] 0451 519 088 2 Hills to Hawkesbury Community News | 27 September 2019 Read online: www.hillstohawkesbury.com.au COMMUNITY NEWS Debbie (not her real name) fled her home, terrified for her life and found a refuge with the Lisa Harnum Foundation in the Hills. She says she literally had nowhere to go “Looking back now there were so many when she found a safe haven for herself and red flags..alcohol was the major issue.” her three children at the LHF transitional Debbie had a 5-year-old from her first housing. They stayed for nearly 11 months. marriage and the couple went on to have to She told her story to the Hills to have two children together. Hawkesbury News this month after hearing “He was psychologically and that the LHF house, which was in danger of emotionally very controlling. In 2013 his closing, had been saved by an anonymous anger just escalated. He would say I was benefactor. stupid and I was always making excuses “I don’t know if I would have survived for him.” She said she became really scared the ordeal without their (LHF) help. They and started seeing a counsellor. “One gave us practical help. To have a safe home Monday night he threatened to kill all of is crucial. Things escalate if you don’t get us and I left. I want to my friend’s house our lives. I had support and was able to talk to a lawyer out straight away. Even if you have a full in Baulkham Hills and rang the police and organise somewhere to rent. If help hadn’t been time job, finding rental places is hard.” that night. Someone had just left (the LHF there I would have just gone through the cycle again. The She said she fled the family home at house) so a spot had become available.” feeling that there is a place for you while you sort yourself the end of 2017. “I was in a relationship for She said remaining in the area was not out is so important. One of the women I shared with was nearly 12 years. I was only two years into just important for her but for her children suicidal when she arrived at the house but now she has my marriage when the abuse occurred.” as well. her own apartment for herself and her two children and is The couple were introduced by her “I wanted to continue to kid’s routine so completing her MBA.” cousin who was a colleague and they that they could go to their school. Feeling “If we hadn’t had safe housing we would have had a corresponded for a long time. She was secure was so important. 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