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November 30, 2020 2 Comments Activities, Health & Lifestyle

Bush Tracks and Tales – November

Scaly Bark Creek Walk The Scaly Bark Creek walk provides a chance to see some flora species, like the Swamp Mahogany gum, that are not seen in other areas of the Hills Shire. These eucalypt trees provide habitat and food for the …

One man’s recycling is another man’s resource! National Recycling Week 2020

November 9 to 15 marks National Recycling Week. And now is a great time to learn all about recycling and its benefits. As part of the Planet Ark initiative, now in its 25th year, the annual event highlights the need to minimise …

September Book of the Month – Taste Top 100: the Fast Revolution

Spring into health with the book of the month for September – Taste Top 100: the Fast Revolution. Synopsis: Losing weight has never been so easy, so sustainable, or tasted so good. The Fast Revolution makes the entire process not …

August book of the month – Wolfe Island

Delve into a rich and evocative story of family with the book of the month for August – Wolfe Island by Lucy Treloar. Synopsis: Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself …

May book of the month

Learn how to practice mindfulness in these uncertain times with the May e-book of the month – The Neuroscience of Mindfulness by Stan Rodski. Synopsis: Explore the benefits of a mindful approach to life Cutting-edge studies in neuroscience have in recent years …

Get your child reading with Louise Park

Author and education consultant Louise Park knows some of the best ways to begin your child’s journey into habitual reading. And she will be sharing her well-sort after tips during an “in conversation” with the Mayor of The Hills Shire, Dr Michelle …

‘I love to write and I feel very uncomfortable if I’m away from writing’: Delve into the world of critically acclaimed and bestselling crime writer Dervla McTiernan

She’s known for her crime stories which have readers second guessing who the killer is. And it appears Dervla McTiernan’s critics weren’t wrong about her critically acclaimed and bestselling murder mystery series, which includes The Ruin and The Scholar. Her third novel, …

Get to know Diana Rouvas ahead of her Australia Day performance at The Farm

Winning the Voice 2019 was a hard won achievement that was “20 years in the making” for Diana Rouvas. She began singing when she was just four-years-old and had written her first song by the age of seven. At sixteen years old the …

Q&A with the Hills Shire Council’s Australia Day Ambassador Mr Eddie Woo

Australia’s favourite maths teacher, Eddie Woo has been announced as the 2020 Hills Shire Council Australia Day Ambassador and will be addressing the crowd at Council’s annual Australia Day event at Bella Vista Farm. Mr Woo started his now internationally renowned Wootube …

Hills Community Aid celebrates 50 years of service during OBF

Hills Community Aid has been serving the community for 50 years thanks to the dream of a young mother-of-five from Baulkham Hills called Mary Lane. Worried about the social isolation of people living in the Hills, she started lobbying for a community …

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