Friends of The Schoolmaster's House Inc. in Kooragang | Landmark & historical place
Friends of The Schoolmaster's House Inc.
Locality: Kooragang
Phone: +61 490 128 640
Address: Schoolhouse Road 2322 Kooragang, NSW, Australia
Website: https://kooragangwetlands.com
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25.01.2022 Sunday July 4th Friends has a fundraiser BBQ at Bunnings Heatherbrae. More than sausages we' ll sell our crafty things plus the Buttterflies and Bushland book. Hail rain or shine we'll be at the front entrance with our EFPOS machine and high hopes.
24.01.2022 Friends has a set of 20 and will be doing some Sticky Beak science this year to complement forthcoming Clean Up Ash Island events. Sampling the mud and water in the tidal zone of the mangroves which will be swept for litter and junk - you never know what tiny critters we will find.
22.01.2022 This month marks 100 years of Rotary in Australia. To mark the occasion the Dungog Rotary Club has arranged with the Dungog Common Land Management Committee tha...t we plant 200 E Pinctata (a Grey Gum) tube stock as Koala food for the next hundred years. So 100 trees for the years past and a further 100 for the next century. Today those 200 trees were planted. Our thanks to Riverdene Nurseries at Gresford for growing the trees and Paul Thomas and Patrick Timenchenko for doing the planting for us. Bill Dowling also for the horticultural advice and selecting the optimum location for the grove. We are planning to put a park bench adjacent to the fledgling grove so hopefully the good folk of Dungog can sit and look at the Koalas in the decades to come. Our commemorative flag is on a pole at Hollywood Hill, courtesay of the Chamber of Commerce. The team are Patrick, Rotary President Bev Irwin and Paul Thomas. See more
21.01.2022 Citizen Science on Kangaroo Island includes the Dunnart study. One of The Friends of The Schoolmasters House volunteers participated in monitoring wildlife camera footage, says he scored two wallabies!!
20.01.2022 Tools that make work easier for older creakier volunteers
20.01.2022 https://go.nextdoor.com/heartoftheneighbourhood
19.01.2022 Planting Day Sunday July 19th 9.30 to 1.00 pm
18.01.2022 Our clever IT expert has fixed the link to Get Tickets on the www.kooragang wetlands.com
17.01.2022 Thanks Nat and Col.
16.01.2022 https://omny.fm//newcastle/barry-maitland-sfx-and-mixdown
16.01.2022 https://australian.museum//m/scholarship-winner-announced/
16.01.2022 This not a zoom or online format, this is real time real life with covid19 safety strategies in place
15.01.2022 WA is about to become the new leader in Australia's fight against killer ocean plastic! We congratulate Stephen Dawson MLC and the McGowan Government on their a...mbitious plan to ban single-use plastics and save our ocean wildlife. In the first stage (2020 to 2023), the state will ban plastic plates, cutlery, stirrers, straws, thick plastic bags, polystyrene food containers, and helium balloon releases. In the second stage (2024-2026), the state will ban single-use plastic barrier/produce bags, microbeads, polystyrene packaging, cotton buds with plastic shafts and oxo-degradable plastics. Yet plastic pollution is increasing at an alarming rate. Every day we wait more dolphins, whales and seabirds are dying. We urge the government not to wait - bring in a ban in 2021 and help us save more animal lives.
15.01.2022 Around Ash Island today for our Clean Up Ash Island grant activities.The small polluters - cigarette butts, rubber fragments, broken plastic objects and similar are what we target, but we get big ones too like a deflated blowup mattress and bike wheels.
14.01.2022 Grasses in the Arboretum plantings
13.01.2022 Our island is not as travel catalogue spectacular as this site. Every bit as lovely to us.
12.01.2022 The Schoolmasters House will be open for visitors on the Queen's Birthday Monday from 9am to 1pm. Weather promises to be cloudy (and coolish) but the House is warm and visitors can see what a very active Landcare group is up to.
12.01.2022 The Friends of The Schoolmasters House has funds from the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources for a grant named Cleaning Up Ash Island. The a...im is to get rid of polluting rubbish from the fringing mangroves and the saltmarsh edge. Events inviting community participants will appear during the next six months. Meanwhile - we've started by volunteers from the Friends doing a weekly rubbish run along the roads and carparks next to the mangroves to collect any litter. NPWS does a collection during the week and Friends does another - a collaborative project continuing decades of care for Ash Island and combating rubbish dumping. See more
12.01.2022 "Gas is for old farts"
11.01.2022 Ash Island Planting Day is on this Sunday 15 August 9.30-12.30pm. Forecast is for some showers so please make sure you have wet weather gear. Gumboots are reco...mmended. The plants will love it! Holes are pre dug so planting is easy peasy and the company is great. Meet 9.30am at Planting Site (not at Shed or House). Map attached, people and signs will point you on your way to turn onto paddock before Riverside Park. Toilets available. Call Alissa 0400 995 360 if you're lost. Morning tea provided at planting site. Covid care means the snackies are prepacked, yummy and we have fruit which must be peeled, plus varieties of muffin. Also coming up - Clean n' Cruise Sat 5 Sept 2020 8.45am-12pm. Meet Old Punt Rd Tomago (not at Shed). Map attached. On-going removal of tidal rubbish from mangrove flats in the Hunter Estuary.
10.01.2022 Do you know the face of your Regional Landcare Coordinator Network? The NSW Landcare Program has 12 Regional Landcare Coordinators who support the 72 Local Lan...dcare Coordinators across the state ensuring that our Landcare communities are thriving, connected and supported. #landcarensw #nswlandcareprogram #facesoflandcare #landcareiscommunity #landcareis #landcare #lls #nswlls This initiative is made possible by the NSW Landcare Program. A collaboration between Local Land Services NSW and Landcare NSW supported by the NSW Government. You can read more about this partnership here https://landcare.nsw.gov.au/landcare-program/
10.01.2022 https://madeitsyd.blob.core.windows.net//2_2x_c0f856de6536
09.01.2022 Fun day for all the family and a good thing to do for yourself and your community.
09.01.2022 Vera Deacon, Island Queen , Warrior Woman using her pen instead of a spear, Humble Humanitarian, Fierce Defender of all things green and beautiful. Vera, alwa...ys smiling and or laughing, joyous even when things look bad, pragmatic, no impossible dreamer. If it needed to be done she’d have a go, no waiting for others to start. She shared her inner wealth just like she shared her material wealth freely and to good purpose. Vera made things possible I met Vera and her pink trackies when I joined the volunteers on Ash Island. Vera’s pink pants are a marker to look for in images of planting days. At the third Sunday of the month plantings she filled her personal quota of twenty trees planted. In the early days we had no pre-dug holes and Vera did her own digging, sometimes with a big mattock if the smaller ones had already been taken from the tool trailer. Hat tied firmly under her chin and an armful of stakes and plant protector bags she’d be off across a paddock or on the river bank. New volunteers got a lesson in how to do it, how to spread the stakes and put the empty pot on one so the watering truck wouldn’t miss it. She hugged and chuckled and loved us all. Even though my name is Julia for a long time she called me Paula. I know you’re Julia but you are a Paula and she’d giggle at herself as she flung her arm around my neck and added "and I loves ya girl". She’d tell us stories about her ASIO file and giggle about that as well, having no love for dunderheads with officious souls. But she forgave them their small pettiness. Vera has been a good friend to the Friends of The Schoolmasters House. She gave us the money to buy the two banners we fly at events that, like Vera, mark a path and announce a purpose. Vera has given us a model of leadership and commitment to emulate, for who could ever replicate a Vera. Vera was a woman of true love for her friends, for the Earth, for her Malcolm, for her riveer, her children and her mourned husband. She laughed at herself and her passion for Mosquito Island. They told me NOT to say the M word again but she still did. She’s IS living history and we are thankful she has put much of it on paper. I’m glad I met Vera and that she was my mate. The world is better because she lived in it and still does in the spirit of all she met and laughed with. See more
07.01.2022 Photographs showing the hard lives of those living in a shanty town along the Hunter River at Hexham in the 1940s. (Pix magazine, Vol. 7, No. 20, 17/5/1941). Read the full article by clicking this link:https://tinyurl.com/yt4jpbt9
07.01.2022 A fortunate occurrence - sent a (drone) photo of the proposed new water pipe track and hey presto we can see the paths created in the Arboretum. They were funded by a grant from Orica and are well used.
07.01.2022 https://australian.museum/get-invo/citizen-science/digivol/
06.01.2022 The shorebirds of the NSW coast are locals too. Luckily, keeping them safe is easy.
04.01.2022 Was given some tracksuit material. Only fluffy on the inside. Jazzed it up with some polar fleece. XL Pouches.
03.01.2022 Are you registered for Wednesday yet? With all that is happening, we would love you to join us on Zoom for our free talks and workshop. At a time when things ar...e dramatically changing, let's look at pathways to a better future. Invite family, friends, community.. Head over to Eventbrite to register: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/communities-leading-climate See more
02.01.2022 Walker past Phragmites on one of thepaths we had made with help from Orica Newcastle and a grant through their comminity investment program. The growth in the plantings in the Arboretum has been wonderful.
01.01.2022 The Friends of The Schoolmasters House has funds from the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources for a grant named Cleaning Up Ash Island. The aim is to get rid of polluting rubbish from the fringing mangroves and the saltmarsh edge. Events inviting community participants will appear during the next six months. Meanwhile - we've started by volunteers from the Friends doing a weekly rubbish run along the roads and carparks next to the mangroves to collect any litter. NPWS does a collection during the week and Friends does another - a collaborative project continuing decades of care for Ash Island and combating rubbish dumping.
