Brighton Community News
BRIGHTON Girl Guides and Old Beach Scouts have decided to sleep rough to raise awareness of the plight of Australia’s 100,000 homeless people.
Girl Guide Leader Fiona Hardman of Gagebrook said a winter sleepout was planned for Saturday, August 7 at Pontville as part of National Homeless Persons’ Week and just as Brighton Community News was being distributed.
Continue reading “Winter sleepout aims to help the homeless”
By ROSS HOWARD
BRIGHTON Bowls Club members ended the 2009/10 bowls season with a presentation dinner at the clubrooms to celebrate one of their most successful seasons ever.
The ladies divisions 2 and 4 won the southern finals and then travelled north to take on the northern finalists and defeated them convincingly to become state champions when division 2 ladies defeated Cressy 51-43 and Port Sorell 62-48. Division 4 ladies defeated Deloraine 70-43 and Ulverstone 82-48.
Continue reading “Bowls celebrates success and looks forward to more”
WITH another summer of cricket soon upon us, the Old Beach cricket club is hoping to enter four teams in the Southern Cricket Association this season.
The club is always looking to welcome new faces, whether interested in playing or supporting your local team.
Continue reading “Old Beach Cricket Club welcomes new coach”
By JOHN HALL
INSPECTOR Lee Renshaw, the new boss of Bridgewater Police, is bunkered down in his concrete-block windowless office just off Green Point Road.
He arrived in April during a tumultuous time, with promotions and transfers underway.
By TONY FOSTER
Mayor of Brighton
THE past decade has seen considerable community activity and development in Bridgewater and Gagebrook and with the current growth and exciting development planned for the future, it is important that we do not lose the impetus that has been built up.
We must build on the accomplishments achieved under the leadership of Kris Fitzpatrick and more recently, through our community liaison officer John Klug. This work has provided an excellent conduit between the community and Council and has established a solid foundation for future community activity and progress. Continue reading “Bridgewater community committee to continue good work”
PROUD owners Scott and Natasha Donaghy are extremely pleased with the results their bakery has achieved in both state and national bakery competitions.
In the past eight months Brighton’s Best Bakehouse has been successful in two bakery competitions.
Continue reading “Brighton’s best bakehouse continues to win awards”
BRIGHTON Council is looking after the needs of its residents and the environment by rolling out new yellow and green 240-litre recycling bins on September 1.
The new bins will replace the crates householders currently use for recyclables such as old newspapers, magazines and cardboard, as well as empty milk cartons, bottles and cans. The crates can hold only 60 litres of recyclables, which is one quarter of the capacity of the new bins, and residents have to carry them to the kerbside every week. Continue reading “Recycling bins roll out next month”