Wind down (or up - see next message!) for the weekend at our Village Social at the Sharing Shed THIS Friday 12 March, from 6 pm.

BYO Drinks, nibbles and dinner items to share.

Villagers, family members, and friends all welcome. (But please, no dogs.)

Here’s a date claimer for the diary!

There will be an Easter Breakfast Social on Easter Monday, 9 am at the Sharing Shed, with a kids’ easter egg hunt at 10 am.

BYO food to BBQ (We will have a vegetarian BBQ as well as one for regular bacon, eggs, etc.)

Watch the News Feed for any updates to details.

THIS Friday, 12 March, is the second Friday of the month so it’s time for another Friday Social at the Sharing Shed from 6 pm.

BYO drinks, nibbles and food for a shared meal.
(The Pizza Oven will be available if you would like to come over and make sure it is lit earlier in the late afternoon.)

If you have ideas for an after dinner movie, call Tony G to discuss on 8556 6783

Just a reminder about the CDC Meeting will be THIS Tuesday 9 March, 7:30 pm in the Sharing Shed. All Welcome.

Enquiries, comments and ideas to Jacqui G - Phone: 8556 6459 or email

The next meeting of the Community Development Committee (CDC) will be next Tuesday 9 March, 7:30 pm in the Sharing Shed. All Welcome.

Enquiries, comments and ideas to Jacqui G - Phone: 8556 6459 or email

Sadly, as Lou de L is unable to do the required organisation, there will be no “Day on The Green” this year, so please remove from the date from your diaries.

Thanks - Jacqui Good for Community Development Committee (CDC)

Earth Hour this year is on Saturday 27 March 8.30 - 9.30 pm

We are going to hold a beautiful gathering of villagers and friends to celebrate this years Earth Hour.  We will gather in the amphitheatre and share stories, songs and conversation amongst our candles and lanterns.

I plan to read the Dr Seuss story of The Lorax (suitable for all ages) and we invite and encourage anyone else who wants to lead songs, more stories, music, etc.

Please come along with your blanket, candles and lanterns and enjoy the peaceful time together.

Please note that this is the night before our General Meeting and perhaps some city or
long-distance lot owners would like to come down and stay the night?  If so, please let us know and we'll try to find accommodation for you (or perhaps you could
bring a tent and camp on your block!).

Best wishes - Jacqui G for CDC - phone 0412 182 365 or 8556 6459 or email

The Community Development Committee (CDC) is preparing to help maintain our Village tradition of meals to help new parents in the period just after birth of a new little villager.

You are invited to be part of the available roster group to be called on for this very pleasant task that helps give new mums and dads a chance to focus on bonding with baby.

If you can help, please let Jaqui G know - by phone on 0412 182 365 or 8556 6459 or email

As we have a number of new villagers moving in, it is a good time for a reminder about “petiquette”.

Village events that involve food and/or children need to be dog-free, so please leave your dog at home for all such events.

(And if you are a smoker, please leave your smokes at home too. The Village has a “no smoking on common spaces” policy.)

We want to see everybody from oldest to youngest enjoying Village events - it sometimes needs just a little consideration of what’s enjoyable to all.

Community Development Committee (CDC)

The Community Development Committee (CDC) would love to receive recipes and any suggestions you may have for processing the fruits and veg that we grow in our gardens and orchards.

If you have developed anything yourself or have some good old tried and tested recipes, please send them to me!  This includes drying, pickling, etc etc.

Hopefully one day we'll have a Village Cook Book - yummmm! - something to support the sorts of processing we can do together.

Thanks so much - Jacqui Good - email

Earth Hour this year is on Saturday 27 March 8.30pm - 9.30pm

Earth Hour is a global event organized by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund). It is held on the last Saturday of March annually, with a request to households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness of the need to take action on climate change.

Let's get involved one and all this year.

We're planning a special time together to recognise this event, in the Amphitheatre, by candlelight.  We may have singing, music, and hopefully story-telling.  Please put this in your diary - I'm sure it'll be a beautiful time.

Anyone interested in contributing to this event, please contact me soon, many thanks, Jacqui Good 8556 6459 or email

The first Friday Social for 2010 will be a Pizza Night on the last Friday of the month - Friday 29 January - from 6pm at the Sharing Shed, with a movie to follow in the Amphitheatre at 8:30 pm.

After that, we will have two social events per month - a shared meal (or drinks / nibbles / finger-foods) on the 2nd Friday of the month, and a Pizza Night on the last Friday.

Through summer, the socials will all be shared meals at the Sharing Shed with movies afterwards, but once the weather cools off and daylight savings ends, we will change to having the 2nd Tuesday socials as drinks / nibbles / finger-foods in Village homes.

Reminders and details will be given in the News Feed for each event.

Tony Gerlach, our movie organiser, needs your requests, suggestions and offers for ‘family-friendly’ movies (DVDs) to show in the Amphitheatre. Get in touch with him at 8556 6783 or by email.  

If you would like to host a social in your home this year, get in early and pick your preferred month. Contact Jacqui Good on 8556 6459 or by email.

Plan to join us for Friday Socials. It's great fun and you can meet and catch up with so many neighbours and friends!

This year, the Community Development Committee (CDC) will be holding regular meetings at 7:30 pm on the 2nd Tuesday of each month, the next one being on 9 February in the Sharing Shed. Reminders and venue details will be posted in the News Feed before each meeting.

You can give items for discussion, ideas and suggestions at any time to Jacaui Good  on 8556 6459 or email

The group welcomes new participants and ideas. Why not count on coming along.

Don't forget - if you need support to help with sickness, crisis, emergency transport, or other difficulties and don't know who to ask, or if you just need someone to talk to and don't know where to turn, call Gillian Clampett, our Community Support Contact, who can help you find the support you need - Phone: 8556 5998 or 0429 690 004.

At its last meeting, the CDC decided that it would be beneficial to have someone designated to check up on, and sensitively handle, personal support situations within the community - such as a need for help or understanding during illness, bereavement, etc. Then there is also the desire of community members to know in a timely manner of any other villager's need for help or understanding - and not find out on the 'grapevine' long after the support could have been used.

Often we would like to help those we know could probably use it, but are inhibited by concerns about their privacy - we don't know whether they want the situation widely recognised or not. On other occasions, we would like to ask for help ourselves during a personal difficulty or crisis but are hesitant to do so for fear of being thought a nuisance or a whinger.

That's where the support Liaison role comes in - as someone you can go to if you have concerns about a fellow villager needing help, or if you need help yourself but are hesitant to broadcast it. They can then discreetly and sensitively check up on the person you have become concerned about, or let others know for you that you could use some help or understanding.

Many thanks to Gillian Clampett who has very kindly consented to take on this new role.

So - for those personal situations where you want know if someone needs help, or if you would like some help or understanding yourself, have a chat with Gillian at 8 Yacca Way or phone 8556 5998

The Community Centre Working Group is keen for you to contribute pictures to the "Story Book" that will help stimulate and bring together ideas for our "Village Hear". The concepts can be relevant to any Market Street facility, including both buildings and landscape surrounds. We have already received a number of interesting images and notes (see ATTACHED for a few examples), but we need as many ideas as possible.

Send your pictures (and caption notes) to Franka Gerlach, Working Group convenor by Email, or in hard copy to 5 Clematis Walk, Aldinga, SA 5173.

We will make a montage of the images and caption notes for display to the whole Community.
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