Articles This Week
Profile Story Antics: Personalised Books For Children You Can Create OnlineManly Mum Kellie Marks was forever being asked by her two-year-old daughter to use her name to replace the characters in her favourite story books. A hardware developer by trade, Kellie took this problem and teamed with her friend and fellow Manly resident, award winning serial entrepreneur Lara Solomon. Together they set out to create a platform that could personalise children’s books quickly and easily online. As a result, Story Antics was born with the website launched on October 11th - visit: storyantics.com
In the life of Mark Foy is seen some of our pioneer Australian spirit, our impetus to get up and go, to create new frontiers where old class systems tried to place obstacles by establishing sailing for all, especially the working man, and being the founder of the Sydney Flying Squadron as well as introducing handicap racing, which was originally referred to as the 'Mark Foy System';
The Columnist Neptune encouraged the club to support the new Mark Foy system. Named for the Australian who invented it, this system of staggered start times according to handicaps, so that participants and spectators know exactly where the boats place without having to wait for the handicappers' report; (1890, March 1). Australian Town and Country Journal (NSW : 1870 - 1907), p. 38. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71108468
His contribution to sailing has resulted in his being inducted into Australian Sailing's Hall of Fame on Friday, October 18th.
Mr. Foy exemplified how business can be combined with pleasure and sportsmanship, whichever area or state of Australia you may be in, as the list of Mark Foy Cups or championships run in sailing and horse racing extended from Queensland to Western Australia and follows a pattern of introduction that aligns his setting up and opening of further Mark Foy stores in these same areas. Mark Foy is also among the first people on record to ensure Pittwater’s beautiful spotted gums stayed where they belong.
Pittwater Offshore Newsletter Update October 13th, 2019
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Pets of the Week
Amelia
AGE/SEX: 4 years / F
BREED: Sharpei X Staffy
Amelia is a lovely friendly dog with people. She is good with kids and suits kids 8+yo. Our trainer says: "Beautiful dog who will make a great family dog. Very trainable. Knows "Sit". She is strong on lead and loves bit of a jog but then settles to walking at a good pace. She follows direction well. She is inquisitive of calm dogs but if other dogs are reactive, she will react back. She enjoys pats and cuddles with walkers. She has a smooth coat and weighs 23kg. Walker say: "Keen to go, pulls on lead constantly. Ignored cars, lunges at dogs. Enjoys being patted." “Very kind and respectful, high energy staffy!”, “Food motivated. Likes to run at first but eventually slowed down to a good pace for walking." She comes desexed, C5 vaccinated, heartworm free and microchipped. Also included for the love and health of our dogs is a free Health and Wellness Voucher with our DR Vet. Her adoption cost is $450.
Suki
Suki is a beautiful long haired smokey tortie girl rescued from the pound when her time was up and is approximately 6 years old. She enjoys her days grooming her lovely locks and being patted. She is social with other dogs.
Suki is located on the Northern Beaches and comes desexed, wormed, F3 vaccinated, FIV tested and microchipped. Her adoption fee is $220. To meet her please call DoggieRescue on 9486 3133 or email cats@doggierescue.com
For further details or to meet all cats, rabbits and dogs at Doggie Rescue call 9486 3133 or email monika@DoggieRescue.com. Visit www.DoggieRescue.com to see all our dogs. www.facebook.com/doggierescue
Rehoming Organisation No R251000024.
Mona Vale Hospital Auxiliary Stalls 2019
Pittwater Place, Mona Vale stalls:
July 6th, August 3rd, September 7th, October 5th, November 2nd, December 7th
Selling sewing, knitting, craft, books, 9am to 3pm
Sausage Sizzles at Bunnings, Narrabeen: 8am to 3pm
Saturdays, July 13th, August 10th, September 14th, October 12th, November 9th, December 14th
New Season for Sailability Pittwater
Sailability Pittwater is a volunteer organisation which provides sailing for people with a disability.
Our main recreational sailing activities are at Rowland Reserve, Bayview, and we run competitive sailing for people with a disability out of RPAYC Newport. We are currently looking for new volunteers for our Saturday morning program at Rowland Reserve and Tuesdays at RPA. For more information at www.sailability.org/au/pittwater or call John on 9982 5656
Congratulations Christine!
The Artist behind the Sydney Art Space at Mona Vale, Christine Simpson, is one of those Sculptors whose work will be on display as part of Sculpture by the Sea at Bondi.
Congratulations Christine - outstanding!
Running October 24th to November 10th 2019 Sculpture by the Sea returns to the Bondi Beach to Tamarama Beach coastal walk as the world’s largest free to the public sculpture exhibition. See the spectacular coastal walk transformed into a 2km long sculpture park over three weeks featuring
100 sculptures by artists from Australia and across the world.
Visiting Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2019
To help you get organised for your visit please visit the organisers information for visitors and local residents. They have tips on getting to the exhibition as well as some great local places to eat and stay.
There are many ways to add to your experience when you visit Sculpture by the Sea. Pick up a catalogue to find out about the artists ($12 from helpful volunteers at the information marquees) drop into a free weekend Aqualand Artist Talk, check out the suggested Walking Routes for people with varying degrees of mobility.
For schools they offer a free online Education Program and a subsidised education program on the coastal walk including sculpture making workshops and focus tours.
For people with disabilities they offer free Tactile Tours. Bookings essential. For more visit: sculpturebythesea.com/bondi
About Christine's work.
Collaboration: Christine Simpson & Hirofumi Uchino
Emergent
Materials: stainless steel, aluminium mesh, auto UV resistant paint
(240cm height, 220cm width, 400cm depth)
“We both like to work site specifically, finding things on site that we can relate to, tapping into the vibrational energy and the things that are there to create a harmonious union and entity empathetic to that situation.”
Emergent is a site specific sculpture with sound, intended for the acacia trees in Marks Park. The key concept for this artwork was that it related to the coastal environment of Bondi and that it was a collaboration between the artists and nature at this site and the
artwork behaved as if it might be communicating with the trees.
Originally we hoped that the sound component of the artwork could be thrown from a distance into the sculptural form, but after our first site meeting it became clear that the sound needed to be housed in the artwork and could only amplify within the parameters of the sculpture. We considered recording the trees’ internal sounds with microphones.
Christine recently went on a trek to the Larapinta outside of Alice Springs and at one canyon, if you put your ear to the trees, you could hear them drinking water! It would be really cool if we could record the sounds of the acacia trees in Marks Park. If we can’t
detect any sound from the trees we plan to pick up sounds from the sculpture as it is suspended throughout the trunk and branches of the acacia trees.
The sculpture itself will be made to wrap, twist, and shimmer to create a moire-like affect making the form appear to morph and emerge through the trees, becoming at once one with them and yet having its own existence.
We started with an idea of combining sculpture and sound to represent some sort of vibrational energy field coming from the trees in Marks Park. We then started drawing some ideas and selected one for our application to be in Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi.
When we were selected to be in the exhibition we realised that the artwork needed to have a much more sturdy form to handle the situation where people tried to climb on the sculpture. We decided to use a stainless steel frame and bind the external planes of the
sculpture with aluminium mesh. We plan to paint the sculpture so it appears like a sort of rainbow body floating through and around the acacia trees.
We both like to work site specifically, finding things on the site that we can relate to, tapping into the vibrational energy and the things that are there to create a harmonious union and entity empathetic to that situation. Our inspiration comes from energy, nature, built
environments and the cosmos.
Artists Statement from Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi 2019 Artists and their Artworks, Page 6, at
Above: The artist’s sketch for Emergent presented in the artists submission to Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi; the artist’s computer generated image showing Emergent on site in Marks Park.
Looks and will sound fantastic!
Sydney Art Space End of Year Exhibition
While on the Sydney Art Space, they are in the process of organising the end of year exhibition which will be on at Avalon Recreation Centre, opening on Friday 15th November from 6-8pm. This is always filled with wonderful creations - everything from Sculpture to Paintings and more - well worth a visit!
About SAS
Being principal educator at The Shed Sculpture Studio for the past 12 years, with a Diploma in Education, and the completion of a Master of Fine Art and Master of Studio Art at Sydney University’s Sydney College of the Arts, Christine Simpson’s acquired arts practice-education knowledge has led to the reality of opening and delivering this quality arts teaching facility.
Sydney Art Space is easily accessible with an off street drop-off zone directly out the front and free 3 hour undercover parking directly opposite in Pittwater Place. It is also conveniently positioned 2 minutes walk from public transport and Mona Vale Village and less than 10 minutes walk from local schools.
Sydney Art Space gives people of all ages and stages the ability to develop and enhance their creativity and confidence by learning real skills to begin and/or grow their arts practice in a fun, safe, nurturing and non-competitive learning environment. Small art class sizes enable individual attention and the opportunity to belong to a caring creative community. Whether it be sculpture, drawing, painting, weaving, printmaking, carving, creative writing, children’s art and our School Holiday Art Programs there is something for everyone to get inspired and be creative.
For more visit: www.sydneyartspace.com
Australian Sailing Hall of Fame Inductees 2019: Mark Foy and Greg Hyde
Bayview resident and BYRA supporter Mark Foy was named as one of the four new inductees into the Australian Sailing Hall of Fame at the Australian Sailing Awards 2019 on Friday, October 18th.
The video that runs below has been published by the Australian National Maritime Museum with the accompanying text:
Mark Foy was a visionary and a man of great passion who championed the sport of open boat sailing in the iconic working craft of colonial Sydney Harbour.He was a colourful character remembered for his efforts to take the sport interstate, nationally and internationally. He changed the face of sailing with the formation of the Sydney Flying Squadron in 1891. Through innovative rules and coloured sail emblems he put skiff sailing firmly in the public eye and made it a hit with both sailors and spectators alike. His legacy lives on.
The Pittwater Online History page on Mr. Foy runs this Issue as an extra celebration.
Greg Hyde Too!
Clontarf's Greg Hyde is another of the four inductees into the Sailing Hall of Fame this year.
Congratulations Mr. Hyde - wonderful news!
Regular readers will recall that Greg trains here as part of Crystal Bay Sailability as well as through Manly Sailiability.
Born in 1962 Greg grew up in a sailing family on our northern beaches.
Greg as a toddler, circa 1964, in family's dinghy
In 1977, while a student at Balgowlah Boys High, he turned to competitive sailing. In his first year sailing Cherubs, he dominated that year’s national titles in Brisbane with crewmate Bruce Painter. In the same year, 15-year-old Greg picked up a windsurfer for the first time. Within a year he placed 4th at the World Windsurfer Championships behind the only board-sailor in the World Hall of Fame, Robby Naish.
Over the next 10 years ‘Hydie’ as he was known, dominated the class locally, went to the Olympic Games and won three world championships. He was Australia’s pre-eminent board-sailor when windsurfing began to captivate public interest. With only 12 months experience on the Windglider, (the European board design chosen for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics) he won major events in Europe and finished sixth in Los Angeles, winning the last race.
In the early 1990s, Greg turned his attention to yacht and skiff racing and in 1985 helmed the Flying Circus to win the Sydney to Mooloolaba race. In 1988 Greg came second in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, which he subsequently won in 1993 at the helm of Cuckoo’s Nest. As skipper of OTIS in 1995 and 1996, Hyde won back-to-back national 16-foot skiff titles and became the first in the history of the class to win every heat of the national championships with a perfect zero point score.
In 1996 Greg only just survived a rare and usually fatal form of encephalitis that left him in a coma for several weeks. He learned to walk, talk and read again. A year later he was back in the water sailing again and came sixth at the 16-foot skiff National Championships before experiencing further strokes.
Hyde then turned to the Access and 2.4m classes and campaigned for the 2012 London Paralympics in a bid to represent Australia at both forms of the Games. He won a gold medal at the 2009 Masters World Games in the Access 303 class (for 45+ years) and the Access World Championship in 2012.
Newport resident and sister Barbara Kendall is Greg's rock, and co-ordinates his sailing program.
Those who stroll along Manly's Pathway of Olympians will find his name among the legion who are honoured there and with this year's announcement, one more recognition of this outstanding gentleman (because he's a lovely bloke too) brings back into focus all he has achieved and may yet achieve.
There may even be a nice cake at the next Crystal Bay Sailability and Manly Sailability training days....!
Greg Hyde with Family, 2000 Sydney Olympic Games Torch Relay. photo courtesy Greg Hyde.
Tumbledown Dick RFB Firies Fundraiser
On Saturday November 9th 2019, 600 firefighters will be climbing the iconic Sydney Tower Eye, including Team Tumble, as quickly as possible in full structural fire fighting ensemble to raise money and awareness for Motor Neurone Disease (MND). Please help Team Tumble raise as much money as possible to help stop this devastating disease.
Teams of firefighters will race to climb all 1504 stairs (98 floors) of the Sydney Tower Eye, each carrying an additional 20kg of gear. It will be a gruelling challenge, however it is nothing in comparison to the challenge patients with MND face every day.
MND is Motor Neurone Disease, or ALS, or Lou Gehrigs Disease. It doesn’t matter what you call it you don’t want it. Normal healthy fit people exactly like you get MND. It strikes indiscriminately, at anytime with no proven explanation.
MND is a progressive, terminal neurological disease. MND affects the nerve cells (neurones) controlling the muscles that enable us to move, speak, breathe and swallow, causing them the degenerate and die. A person’s senses and intellect are not affected.
Every dollar raised will directly support vital MND research at the Macquarie University MND Research Centre.
Every cent helps. Please dig deep.
BYRA is 70 years old this year
Yes in 1949 after an informal race around Lion Island two yotties Mr. Dalton and Mr. Williams decided they should form a club, for full details Visit: https://byra.com.au/our-history/.
Or: Early Pittwater Paddlers, Oarsmen, Rowers And Scullers: The Williams and Cedric Vincent Williams
That was 70 years ago and to celebrate those years it has been decided that as well as our annual around Lion Island Race for keelboats we should also have a dinghy race and a Social gathering after the racing on the Sunday evening.
The celebrations will be on the last Sunday of November, that is the 24th.
The keelboat race will start as usual at mid-day. The dinghies at their usual start time.
Watch for more information on the Social Activity and the Notice of Race in coming Issues. Also remember that visitor non-member boats are welcome to participate in this our Historic birthday race.
Whether you’re looking for a social outlet, wanting to learn to sail, a seasoned racer, or an opportunity to get the whole family out on the water, at BYRA we have something for everyone.
As a valued member of our Club, you can enjoy the unique benefits as well as access to our beautiful Club grounds and facilities.
Visit: https://byra.com.au/
Narrabeen Rock Pool: Safety first!
After the first two weeks of swimming the new ramp on the boardwalk was extremely slippery. We're pleased to say, after discussions with the Council, permanent anti-slip treatment has been installed.
Narrabeen Amateur Swimming Club
First Patrol Was One To Remember For Patrol 5 !
Patrol 5’s first patrol of the year started off on a brisk and windy Saturday afternoon. During the course of events we were approached by Colin, a blind elderly gentleman who was once a South Maroubra boat rower, he asked if someone would take him out into the surf as he had not had a swim for longer than he could remember.
The gallant Adam and Ben were quick to offer their assistance and took Colin out further than I think anyone expected. Collin was over the moon at the experience and confessed to having a tear in his eye as the memories of the water came flashing back. We cannot emphasise enough the difference we can make to peoples lives.
from Warriewood SLSC's Wazzup Newsletter: Issue 3, 2019/2020 Season, Published October 17th, 2019
CABPRA & Costa Drought Proofing at Bi-Annual Meeting
On: Tuesday October 29th, 2019 at 7 p.m.
Come and join us at the Avalon Sailing Club and catch up on what’s been happening around our area.
Presidents Update
Catherine Kerr will share a brief summary on the status of the Avalon Place Plan, Mona Vale Hospital and feasibility of footpath extensions in the neighbourhood.
Coastas Tips for Summer
We are thrilled to have Costa join us to share his ideas on planning a garden that can withstand imminent water restrictions plus tips on drought proofing for Summer.
Visit: cabpra.wordpress.com
Avalon Preservation Association 2019 AGM
Avalon Preservation Association will hold its 2019 AGM at the Avalon Bowling Club on Monday 25 November 2019 from 7.00pm.
The guest speaker will be Prof. Peter Davies, Associate Professor of Environmental Planning and Interim Head of Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Macquarie University.
Professor Davies
Prior to working in academia, Peter worked in state and local government for 20 years as an environmental scientist and manager.
Professor Davies will talk on the topic of "The Urban Forest, Loss and Opportunities", a subject dear to the hearts of Avalon residents, who are all welcome whether APA members or not.
To find out more about APA please visit:
Click on logo above to visit their website.
The purpose of www.westpittwater.com.au - is best defined by the vision of the West Pittwater Community Association.
To be a supportive community, encouraging and promoting civic pride, interest in community affairs and goodwill amongst residents.
To protect local fauna and flora and generally preserve West Pittwater and its environs.
To secure essential facilities including public wharves and reserves and to protect private and public property.
To speak with one voice and represent the interests of the Western Foreshore community when in discussion with Pittwater Council and other relevant government bodies. The WPCA website provides a forum for the better realisation of these objectives. Visit: www.westpittwater.com.au
