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25.01.2022 These are some of the wallaroos that survived the fires at Mt Vic. The inspiring and experienced wildlife carer Margaret Gough will be demonstrating what you should and shouldn’t feed wildlife, and answering questions about caring for wildlife, at 12.30pm on Sunday 26 January at the Family Picnic Day being organised by the Rotary Club of Blackheath District 9685 at Blackheath Oval. You can view the introductory video made on 9 January in Mt Victoria below, but Margaret will be able to answer many other queries in person. https://bit.ly/2Rht5Zv
25.01.2022 We are very excited by the fabulous group of people gathering to form the new Rotary Club in Lithgow! All are welcome to join us at our last meeting for the year tonight, Tuesday 26 November! It starts at 6 for 6.30pm at Club Lithgow (opposite Village Shopping Centre). Come and hear about how to be part of The Lithgow Sprint and throw in your ideas for the future of the Club.
24.01.2022 Today is the beginning of World Immunization Week! Please share #VaccinesWork #EndPolio
20.01.2022 Only three days to go to get your entries in for the Rotary Club of Blackheath District 9685 Hounslow Photographic Prize! Entries close on 23 February. Themes: Beauty and/or Terror of the Blue Mountains and Hidden Secrets of the Blue Mountains Overall prize of $1000 and $500 prize in each category.... Download the entry form here: https://bit.ly/3bZApBJ Exhibition to be held from 13-15 March. Official Opening 7pm Friday 13 March Presbyterian Church Hall, Wentworth St Blackheath
19.01.2022 Blackheathen Virginia Field was such an interesting guest speaker on Thursday night at Rotary Club of Blackheath District 9685. She's co-written the book 'Nature Heals: An Introduction to Nature-based Therapies in Australia and New Zealand' and spoke of her long history working in community development and using community gardens and horticultural therapy to help people deal with depression, dementia, eating disorders, disabilities and rehabilitation. Nature-based therapies i...nclude the Japanese 'forest bathing' and working with animals and even adventure therapy. Beyond Blue is also now working with nature-assisted therapy. You can read more about her book here: https://naturehealsbook.com/
18.01.2022 Something very exciting is happening in Lithgow and The Big Fix and Rotary Club of Blackheath District 9685 are thrilled to be part of it! The Big Fix has just received funding from the Nepean Blue Mountains Primary Health Network (NBMPHN) to launch The Lithgow Sprint. The Sprint will be working with the community to share all the inspiring ways they're changing their story quickly. It will also be running a free Permaculture and Social Enterprise Design Program with mentorin...g to help young people create and develop social enterprises, and working with them to create their own Lithgow Pluriversity! Next Tuesday everyone is also invited to help start a new Rotary Club in Lithgow. The meeting is at 6 for 6.30pm at Club Lithgow. But check out this weekend alone! Cementa, one of Australia's best Arts Festivals, is on at Kandos, with more than 40 artists making, exhibiting and performing work in 20 venues across the town. On Saturday, there will be a book launch of "Day Walks from Newnes" at 2pm in Lithgow, followed by the Destination Pagoda Bush Dance Fundraiser at the Lithgow State Mine Heritage Park from 3pm - 10pm. And on Sunday the Tarana Farmers Market will be running a workshop for children in which they take home their own succulent in a pot they'll decorate. It's a fundraiser for the Rural Fire Service, who really need your help! The Well-being Grant The Big Fix has received is through a Federal Government initiative called Empowering Our Communities. Its goal is to provide support to farming communities affected by the ongoing drought. Come and check out these amazing events and support an awesome community! You can follow The Lithgow Sprint on Facebook here: https://bit.ly/2KI11uF Or visit the website here: www.thelithgowsprint.org
18.01.2022 It has been a very sobering end to 2019 with yet another major fire yesterday. We wake to greet another year thanks to the extraordinary work of our Emergency Services and we can't thank them enough! Rotary Club of Blackheath District 9685 will be organising a Community Picnic on Australia Day to bring the community together, thank our Emergency Services and raise funds for those affected by these ongoing fires. Rotary is the sponsor of this month's Local News and we'd like to do a big shout out to Aaron from At Print Creative Solutions who's also a member of Rotary Club of Nepean. Penrith NSW Australia. He came back from holidays to print this edition and donated his services to support the Blackheath Appeal.
15.01.2022 Overwhelming gratitude to Rotarian Larry Howard and his Blackheath RFB team for their contribution to protecting the communities of NSW from the fires.
15.01.2022 This Sunday 26 January the Rotary Club of Blackheath District 9685 and Blackheath Tennis Club, Blue Mountains, NSW are organising a Family Picnic Day to help bring the whole community together to relax, to again thank our emergency services, and to enjoy being in our beautiful village again. It's an especially important day for children to get out and have some fun after the stress of this holiday period. There will be lots of entertainment and sporting activities for the who...le family from 10am to 3pm at Blackheath Oval. "Pack a picnic and come along to hear live music, cricket and football for kids as well as a free tennis open day. Test your skills against the SpinFire Ball Machine plus ANZ HotShots tennis for three- to nine-year-olds. (Hot shots introduces young children to the game on smaller courts with lighter racquets, lower nets and low compression balls.) There will also be cricket ball bowling and batting machines, music, pinata and water events." (Blue Mountains Gazette) Most importantly, meet and thank our wonderful Emergency Services who've been exhausted by this long drawn out fire crisis. To help support them into the future, come and find out how you can volunteer to join the RFS and other services at The Big Fix stall. If you're aged between 16 and 30 and are feeling overwhelmed by the scale of the ecological crisis, come along and talk to us about our Blue Mountains Pluriversity World Heritage Environmental Regeneration Program. If you're a business struggling to cope, come along and meet the Blackheath Chamber of Commerce Inc. and discuss strategies for moving forward.
15.01.2022 Time to celebrate our fabulous community together! The Rotary Club of Blackheath District 9685 is throwing a Christmas Party for Blackheath at the Blackheath Bar and Bistro and the whole community is invited! Join us and invite your friends. RSVP by Monday 17 December to Barry on 0448812359 or [email protected]
14.01.2022 SAVE THE DATE and come along to the Rotary Club of Blackheath District 9685 Australia Day Family Picnic on Sunday 26 January at the Oval in Blackheath. Rotarian Edwin McCoy has been hard at work this week getting posters up. The program keeps getting bigger by the minute. As well as the live music, tennis and other sporting events, we'll be meeting and thanking our Emergency Services and helping to recruit new people (particularly young ones!) to join the RFS; we'll be sharin...g information about feeding wildlife; and launching the Blue Mountains Pluriversity's program this year to learn how to help our World Heritage Blue Mountains regenerate after the Fires. Bring a picnic and invite friends up from Sydney for the whole Australia Day Long Weekend to help support as many local businesses as possible and get Blackheath humming. #topofthemountain #allinthistogether #community #firerecovery
13.01.2022 As the world responds to a pandemic caused by a virus for which there is not yet a vaccine, we recall how the fight to #EndPolio by Rotary International & its partners has reduced polio cases by 99.9% since 1988 because #VaccinesWork The global health community needs Rotary’s help to spread the word about the importance of vaccinations during World Immunization Week, 24-30 April. We can all do our part to keep our communities healthy by encouraging everyone to immunize their... children. You can download Rotary’s World Immunization Week Toolkit at the link below, and use #VaccinesWork and #EndPolio hashtags on your social media posts to raise awareness.
08.01.2022 Only 6 days left to get in your entries for the Rotary Club of Blackheath District 9685 Hounslow Photographic Prize! Entries close on 23 February. Themes: Beauty and/or Terror of the Blue Mountains and Hidden Secrets of the Blue Mountains Overall prize of $1000 and $500 prize in each category.... Entry forms and more information from www.hounslowphotographicprize.com.au Exhibition to be held from 13-15 March. Official Opening 7pm Friday 13 March Presbyterian Church Hall, Wentworth St Blackheath
08.01.2022 Time to get the camera out and get snapping to enter Blackheath Rotary's Hounslow Photographic Prize 2020! Entries close 23 February. Read more here: https://hounslowphotographicprize.com.au/index.html
06.01.2022 Have you been taking photos of the fires, the regeneration, and/or beautiful places in the Mountains to attract people to come and visit? Don't forget that photographers from all over the region will be coming together and sharing their work in Rotary Club of Blackheath District 9685's Hounslow Photographic Prize. It's a great opportunity to showcase your work and potentially win a substantial prize. Entries close Sunday 23 February. There are two categories:... 1. Beauty and/or Terror of the Blue Mountains 2. Hidden Secrets of the Blue Mountains An overall winner will receive $1000 and then $500 first prize in each of the two categories. Other prizes may also be awarded at the show. All photos must show scenes from within the Blue Mountains City Council area or Blue Mountains National Park. The exhibition will be held at the Blackheath Presbyterian Church Hall, Wentworth Ave, Blackheath. Opening Night Friday 13 March 2020, open from 13th-15 March 2020.
04.01.2022 Unusual Folding Bike Display! at the Family Picnic Day tomorrow, Sunday 26 January, at Blackheath Oval. There will be entertainment and sporting activities for the whole family from 10am to 3pm and you can also check out an eclectic collection of folding and separable bicycles - come and have a look, a laugh and take some pics!
03.01.2022 Supporting the Environment is Rotary International's new area of focus!
02.01.2022 We have a full day for the whole family planned for Australia Day this Sunday at Blackheath Oval. Activities start at 10am and finish at 3pm ... check out our program here:
02.01.2022 Blackheath Australia Day Family Picnic - Sunday 26 January 2020 @ Blackheath Oval from 10am. This event is being hosted by Rotary Club of Blackheath District 9685 and Blackheath Tennis Club. It will be a great day of entertainment and activities including vintage car and bicycle display, cricket, soccer and tennis activities, African drummers, Blue Mountains Pipe Band, Ukulele players. Fire truck display, Raffle and lots of other activities. Sausage sizzle, ice cream and drinks will be available for purchase on the day.
02.01.2022 Many thanks to sixteen year-old Jim Schoeler who has played The Last Post for the last six years at Rotary Club of Blackheath District 9685 Annual ANZAC Golf Day Classic and ANZAC Service.
02.01.2022 There was plenty of laughter, and ideas for next year's program just kept flowing at tonight's meeting of the Lithgow Rotary Club. We'll be launching a youth mentoring program in Lithgow early next year! Contact us if you'd like to join the Club and be involved.
