POOL PARK ACTION DAY

your RSVP appreciated for planning purposes to either: ParkCareTeam@gmail.com OR Facebook http://ow.ly/qlsVo

Sunday 17th November 9 to Noon
meet at DuckPond BBQ area
BYO gardening tools & drinks for lunch
wear your gardening gear
followed by FREE LUNCH!!

we go ahead rain, hail, flood, fire or tsunami ;)

-a Blackheath Community Alliance event-
Supporting the ParkCare Team: volunteers caring for Blackheath Memorial Park. 

Alliance members include: Blackheath Area Neighbourhood Centre (BANC); Blackheath Chamber of Commerce & Community; Blackheath Community Centre Committee; Blackheath Croquet Club; Blackheath & District Horticultural Society; Blackheath Highway Action Group (BAG); Blackheath Public School Council; Blackheath & Mt Victoria Rural Fire Service; Blackheath Quota; Blackheath Scouts; Blackheath RSL; Blackheath Streetscape Group; Blue Mountains Rhododendron Society; Friends of Blackheath Pool & Memorial Park; Medlow Bath Residents Association; Phoenix Choir; Popes Glen Bushcare Group; Rhododendron Festival Committee; Rotary Blackheath; Rotary Upper Blue Mountains Sunrise.

The return of the local

The return of the local: Two new[ish] books look at the places where social ecologies take root and flourish, writes Ian McShane in InsideStory (21 June 2011)
http://inside.org.au/the-return-of-the-local
Book review of The Australian Pub by Diane Kirkby, Tanja Luckins and Chris McConville UNSW Press | $49.95  and  Community: Building Modern Australia edited by Hannah Lewi and David Nichols UNSW Press | $59.95

80 YEARS YOUNG

Blackheathens will have been enjoying a swim BLACKHEATH POOL for 80 YEARS as the 2009/10 season opens!

"In 1929 The Citizen’s Committee was formed and carried out considerable amount of work by voluntary labour to convert the old upper dam into a swimming pool. Pool ready for use in the summer of 1929/30. As soon as work finished on the conversion of the old railway dam into a swimming pool a group of local residents established a swimming club. Theclub existed for nearly 50 years and conducted competitive swimming, water ballets and other types of aquatic events in the pool." excerpted from BMCC's Blackheath Memorial Park Draft Plan of Management July 2009 p.68

SEVEN YEARS AGO

Press Release [*28 January 2004*]

COMMUNITY ACTION SAVES POOL

A unanimous decision by Council at it’s 27 January meeting has secured the future of Blackheath Pool. The Olympic Pool is to be reconstructed, a new water treatment system installed and toddlers will have shade cover. Crucial to community concerns was the retention of the ‘free-from’ pool. Council has undertaken to repair & remediate this pool too. The public gallery was crowded to overflowing at last night’s Council meeting to hear five speakers in favour of Blackheath Pool - Owen Kelly, Libby Sorby-Adams, Lisa Armitage, Dick Harris & Doug Spiller.

The meeting followed Australia Day’s highly successful ‘Blackheath Pool Party’. More than 500 local residents & supporters gathered at Blackheath Pool for rather unusual Australia Day celebration – a Pool Party without a Pool!! The event highlighted Council’s closure of the pool complex this swimming season. Speakers told of the great affection Blackheath community has for its Pool, and underscored its critical value to the social fabric of the town. “It’s not just a swimming pool, it’s the social heart of our village” said Lisa Armitage, “we’re angry and confused – they’re just bamboozling us!”

At last night’s meeting Councillor Terri Hamilton presented a petition of more than 1,500 signatures and 180 letters of complaint to Michael Willis from concerned Blackheath residents & visitors. The result of her amended motion at Council was that the Olympic Pool is expected to open for next swimming season. “We’re happy with this result” said Simon Hare an organiser of the Pool Party, “but we recognise that though this battle is won, we must keep a watching brief on progress”.