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Collapse Issue 466 - 25 Mar 2019Issue 466 - 25 Mar 2019
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Mabel turns 101
Vehicle-activated speed signs to be trialled in Hillview St
Ethan organises student strike for climate action
Shepard St flooding expected to improve in 18 months
Ettalong to get recycling bins
Responsible development group forms with 80 people
Strata subdivision is approved
Bouddi Foundation seeks grant applications
Law firm welcomes new partners as others retire
Action group founders step aside
Fishing club closes after 30 years
Channel needs State planning, says committee chair
Dredged sand to replenish Ocean and Umina beaches
Specific dredging plans still needed, says committee
First class in permaculture held at Killcare
Salvos at Bring Your Bills day
Euchre club donates to local schools
Community fair held at Phegans Bay
Church publicises Easter festival events
Easter fete at Patonga
School holiday activities announced
Another fire at community garden
Unit fire in Warwick St
Three grants from Council
Retirees help charities distribute food
Activities for St Patrick's Day
Parking fines to be reduced
New playground for Empire Bay
Preschool celebrates 30 years in August
CWA bakes vegan scones for festival
Woy Woy residents targeted for heritage walk
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Planning controls were result of exhaustive consultation
Council decisions will destroy the Peninsula
Flood was 27th in five years
More thought needed for pre-polling venue
We didn't win
Put Peninsula ahead of political ambitions
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Aged care organisation celebrates 30 years
Brothers celebrate 50 years in medicine
New book compiled as breast cancer resource
Ground-breaking ceremony for 114-bed extension
Suicide prevention briefing to be held in Woy Woy
Geriatrician writes book on medical care for older people
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Opera in the Arboretum despite difficult five weeks
Troubadour president to speak at regional seminar
Rotary club pledges $40,000 for music program
Artist holds exhibition in Botanic Garden
Local pair produce TV program on men and their sheds
Children's film in Woy Woy
Meet the authors at library talks
Artists' collective moves to Ettalong
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Principal stresses importance of reading program
Robotics to be taught at primary school
Assembly for day against violence and bullying
Year's first Interact meeting at Umina campus
Scholarship will help pay for university studies
Garden bed restored
Harmony Day held at Pretty Beach
Ettalong misses out
Swimmers qualify for zone carnival
Teddy Bears' Picnic at Woy Woy South
Students compete in zone swimming carnival
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Umina was top-performing surf life saving club
Roosters have first loss of season
Premier League competition starts without Umina
Champions emerge in Handicap Pairs
Netball club seeks players
New oxygen kits for surf clubs
Retired international to develop SEU juniors
Southern Spirit wins champion player awards
Ettalong wins Seniors Triple title

Rotary club pledges $40,000 for music program

The Rotary Club of Woy Woy has pledged $40,000 over five years to support a stringed-instrument scholarship program.

Club president Mr Russell Grove said the club was thrilled to be supporting the program at the Central Coast Conservatorium.

"Our Rotarians are happy to assist young strings players excel in the program by pledging $8000 per annum towards the program over the next five years," Mr Grove said.

The support will enable 20 local children aged seven and eight with an aptitude for music to become the first wave of students in a selective string instrument scholarship program.

"We are looking for children interested in learning to play a stringed instrument who may be participating in music programs or even just love to sing," said conservatorium artistic director Mr Patrick Brennan.

The program aims to significantly bolster the region's overall number of young string instrument players.

"These young instrumentalists will, in time, form the backbone of the Central Coast Youth Orchestra," said Mr Brennan.

"The Coast has a rich tradition of strings players but the conservatorium has noticed a drop in the number of young players taking up a string instrument.

"Coincidently the conservatorium has also witnessed numbers double in programs for woodwind, brass and percussion instruments.

"This is excellent for the Coast's musical community but it's time to see more students taking up string instruments to help balance the orchestral instrument equation," Mr Brennan said.

The program will officially commence in October.

All places in the first wave of the program have already been filled.





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