Carols a team effort
AVONDALE School hosted its third Community Christmas Carols event on December 3, entertaining about 5000 people in a family-friendly evening.
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Headlining acts included 2013 The Voice Australia winner, Harrison Craig, and renowned Christian artist and former Play School host, Colin Buchanan.
Other performing artists included Dan Murphy, Ashrae, Felix Quinn Music, The Promise, and a community band made up of Avondale School staff and friends that led the carols, putting the focus on the birth of Christ as the ‘Reason for the Season’.
The event kicked off with a kid’s pre-show at 5pm, with jumping castles, face printing, and a variety of food for sale from specialty locals. There was also an appearance by Santa from a helicopter.
So much work by a lot people behind the scenes made the event a success. It was very much a team effort. This was only made possible by the generous donations of many sponsors and the time and effort of many, many volunteers.
The night was capped off by a fireworks spectacular, with a soundtrack composed by a former Avondale School teacher.
Sponsors included local and other businesses: Grow Up Group, Tubby Signs, Avondale Early Learning Centre, Morisset City Real Estate and Cooranbong Central Real Estate, Abbot Design, Beyond Sound and Lighting, MobileStagez, J&C Hill Pty Ltd, Accent Software, Bodywise Smash Repairs, SpecSavers Morisset, and Cooranbong Specialist Tyre and Exhaust Centre.
Special thanks also to the RFS in Cooranbong and Dora Creek for their logistical expertise in assisting with the parking, and to Rhema-FM for broadcasting the event.
- Colin Chuang, marketing communications manager, Avondale School
Newcastle is not region
THE picture of four of our Hunter mayors welcoming the state government’s Greater Newcastle Metropolitan Plan (“Metro plan sets out future”, Lakes Mail, December 7) shows what support there is across the Hunter’s LGAs for co-ordination for a regional plan for jobs, transport, housing, health and the environment.
There are a few ideas of merit from this metro plan, but it is too “Newcastle-centric”. Newcastle is a wonderful city, but it is not the whole region, and it isn’t where most Hunter people live. You can’t just chuck a few tram tracks and buildings in the centre of Newcastle, with some vague idea of a fast train and few new suburbs and call it a “Regional Plan”!
Thank you, state government, for your dud plan developed in Sydney. We want our own visionary regional plan with transport connecting the whole region, with new jobs promoting our tourism and new technologies as well as protecting our environment. Then our four mayors, and the Maitland mayor, would truly have a plan worth celebrating.
- Stephen Dewar, Toronto
Helicopter noise
I FAIL to see why a resident of Dora Creek, who will suffer no affect from the helicopter landings at Trinity Point, finds the need to comment on the issue (“Trinity Point”, Lakes Mail, Letters to the editor, December 7).
Apparently the contributor was not present at the affected area the day the noise trials were carried out, or he would hold a completely different view.
And he has also not studied the proposed flight plans, when he states that it will not fly over housing.
Open water always amplifies noise. Hasn't everyone heard the profanities from a disgruntled fisherman in a boat, who appears to be a kilometre away.
Most of us are for progress, but a helicopter rattling above us is not progress, its a backward step.
The owner of Trinity Point already has access to a landing field at Cooranbong. Let him land his guests there and limo them to his resort.
- Mark Spinks, Brightwaters