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After many weeks in the
planning, we finally held our Community Day last Saturday!
It was a great success.
Approximately 50 neighbours turned up, including: Mrs Chicello from number 17,
Sophie, David and Angel from number 25, Pauly, Simon and Pia from number 10 and
even the punk rockers from number 19 (Sean volunteered that his visit to the police
station was due to him violating his parole, we didn't get into why he was on parole in the first place). Abdul turned up just before we
packed up.
We collected many great
ideas on what we could do if Council gave us a piece of the car park land for open space. It was great to see people like Mrs Chicello writing down her ideas and
meeting new people. I really hoped it was giving her a bit more optimism for the
street that held over 56 years of memories.
Just the fact that the community
came together, met one another and shared their ideas was really encouraging.
It proved to me, and my fellow organisers, that people wanted to get involved with
their community. They definitely wanted a space where they could exercise, walk
their dogs, play, get involved in community activities like a community garden and
that’s just a small selection from the many ideas we received.
So, now the next step –
delivering these ideas and our petition to the Council. Watch this space…
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