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Celebrating Ayyam-i-Ha

Celebrating Ayyam-i-Ha

On Saturday, 25 February Habib and Fahimeh Niakansafy of Redwood Village hosted a celebration of Ayyam-i-Ha attended by about 25 friends and community members. Ayyam-i-Ha means intercalary days. They are four or five days inserted into the calendar to make it fit into the solar year. The Bahá'í Faith has a calendar, comprised of nineteen months, each of which has nineteen days making a total of...
School supplies drive helps kids learn

School supplies drive helps kids learn

The beginning of the school year can be a tough time for parents who are struggling to keep up with the cost of living, with some families having to make sacrifices to pay for the school supplies and stationery that their kids need to learn.To make sure no student misses out, a dedicated team of volunteers and sponsors have teamed up with local Neighbourhood Houses to provide over 160 school...
Woodbridge Cricket Club smashing sixes

Woodbridge Cricket Club smashing sixes

  Woodbridge Cricket Club was awarded 2022 National Good Sports Club of the Year and 2022 Good Sports Tasmanian Club of the Year on February 16. The awards ceremony was held at Parliament House in Canberra. Good Sports is Australia's largest community health sports program, working with more than 10,000 community sports clubs across Australia, including more than 550 clubs in...
Bus service woes in Kingborough

Bus service woes in Kingborough

Residents within Spring Farm and Whitewater Park Estates are voicing their concerns at the lack of school bus services in the local region.Councillor David Bain has been receiving numerous enquiries from residents who say they were advised by the Department of State Growth that a Metro or school bus service would not be considered yet as the 'area is far from fully developed'. Cr Bain conducted...
Better walkability equals big benefits for greater Snug

Better walkability equals big benefits for greater Snug

A recent report by the Menzies Institute has highlighted that while there are good opportunities and reasons to walk in 'greater' Snug, there are some rough, unsafe and disconnected sections in the network of pathways.Improvements in these sections would bring significant benefits to the local community, both for the safety of local school children and to improving social connections and...
Celebrate all Australians

Celebrate all Australians

January 26 represents a complicated day for Australians with debates continuing over whether this should be a day to celebrate Australia or whether we should Change the Date.Councils across Tasmania including the Hobart City Council and Huon Valley Council have recently moved to have their citizenship ceremonies observed on a different day.Kingborough Council could be soon to follow.Kingborough...

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