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by Shane Sody Tickets are selling fast for next month's quirky and curious Park Quiz, in support of the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize. |
by Shane Sody Tickets are selling fast for next month's quirky and curious Park Quiz, in support of the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize. |
2. What's on in your Park Lands |
2. What's on in your Park Lands |
by Alex Jones Check out what’s happening in your Adelaide Park Lands over the next few weeks.
Gearing up for the Nature Festival later this month, there is a focus on biodiversity, with lots of guided walks, as well as bike rides, a fire festival, glass art in the Botanic Garden, and much more.
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by Alex Jones Check out what’s happening in your Adelaide Park Lands over the next few weeks.
Gearing up for the Nature Festival later this month, there is a focus on biodiversity, with lots of guided walks, as well as bike rides, a fire festival, glass art in the Botanic Garden, and much more.
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3. Sports buildings secrecy |
3. Sports buildings secrecy |
by Shane Sody & John Bridgland The Adelaide City Council has invoked secrecy provisions in the Local Government Act to prevent you reading a plan about proposed ratepayer funding for sports building replacements in your Park Lands. |
by Shane Sody & John Bridgland The Adelaide City Council has invoked secrecy provisions in the Local Government Act to prevent you reading a plan about proposed ratepayer funding for sports building replacements in your Park Lands. |
4. Know your Park Lands plants: Tiny Star |
4. Know your Park Lands plants: Tiny Star |
by Siti Farhana Maidin In our series Know Your Park Lands Plants, we're looking this time at a small native flower that has been identified so far, in only one Park within your Adelaide Park Lands. It's a Tiny Star. |
by Siti Farhana Maidin In our series Know Your Park Lands Plants, we're looking this time at a small native flower that has been identified so far, in only one Park within your Adelaide Park Lands. It's a Tiny Star. |
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The Adelaide Park Lands Association has four Park Lands strategies: Explore, Inspire, Protect and Restore. But we are only as strong as our members. To be effective at these strategies, we need YOUR support. |
The Adelaide Park Lands Association has four Park Lands strategies: Explore, Inspire, Protect and Restore. But we are only as strong as our members. To be effective at these strategies, we need YOUR support. |
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You are reading the non-members version of this newsletter - which means you are not (yet) a member. If you were to become an APA member, you would then be able to book for any of our Guided Walks for free, and you would also unlock 15% discounts to all the merch in the APA Shop. More importantly, your membership fee (as low as $20 per year for a single concession) would be tangible support for our Park Lands strategies: Explore, Inspire, Protect and Restore. Membership is not the only way you can help. Another simple option is to donate. Even better, join our volunteer team. Currently, we need a parent with a young child or children, to write reviews of each of the ten Park Lands playgrounds, from a child's perspective! Can you do that? Respond via the form on our volunteer page, here. |
You are reading the non-members version of this newsletter - which means you are not (yet) a member. If you were to become an APA member, you would then be able to book for any of our Guided Walks for free, and you would also unlock 15% discounts to all the merch in the APA Shop. More importantly, your membership fee (as low as $20 per year for a single concession) would be tangible support for our Park Lands strategies: Explore, Inspire, Protect and Restore. Membership is not the only way you can help. Another simple option is to donate. Even better, join our volunteer team. Currently, we need a parent with a young child or children, to write reviews of each of the ten Park Lands playgrounds, from a child's perspective! Can you do that? Respond via the form on our volunteer page, here. |
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6. Pleased to meet you, Samantha |
6. Pleased to meet you, Samantha |
Samantha Buttery is passionate about a few things: photography, painting, family, and your Park Lands. |
Samantha Buttery is passionate about a few things: photography, painting, family, and your Park Lands. |
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7. The good, the bad and the ugly |
7. The good, the bad and the ugly |
by Shane Sody There are several unrelated construction projects either under way, or recently completed in your Park Lands.
Opinions will differ about which ones are good, or bad, or ugly. See the pics to make up your mind.
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by Shane Sody There are several unrelated construction projects either under way, or recently completed in your Park Lands.
Opinions will differ about which ones are good, or bad, or ugly. See the pics to make up your mind.
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8. Be a citizen scientist - log biodiversity |
8. Be a citizen scientist - log biodiversity |
by Shane Sody For four days this month, you can play a part in the annual “Great Southern Bioblitz” - recording biodiversity in your Open, Green, Public Adelaide Park Lands, and elsewhere. |
by Shane Sody For four days this month, you can play a part in the annual “Great Southern Bioblitz” - recording biodiversity in your Open, Green, Public Adelaide Park Lands, and elsewhere. |
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9. Tearing up the rule book |
9. Tearing up the rule book |
by Shane Sody If you wanted to build a new house, a shed or a carport, you would need to comply with planning rules. However if you are the State Government, and you want to build on the Adelaide Park Lands, then you have no such constraints. |
by Shane Sody If you wanted to build a new house, a shed or a carport, you would need to comply with planning rules. However if you are the State Government, and you want to build on the Adelaide Park Lands, then you have no such constraints. |
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10. Light Square: two final options |
10. Light Square: two final options |
by Shane Sody The City Council is seeking your views on its two final options for the future of Light Square / Wauwi.
Back in April, the Adelaide Park Lands Association proposed that the Square should be re-focussed on pedestrians, not cars.https://www.adelaide-parklands.asn.au/blog/2024/3/28/reclaim-light-square
However both of the two final options put forward by the City Council still prioritise Currie Street traffic through the middle of the Square.
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by Shane Sody The City Council is seeking your views on its two final options for the future of Light Square / Wauwi.
Back in April, the Adelaide Park Lands Association proposed that the Square should be re-focussed on pedestrians, not cars.https://www.adelaide-parklands.asn.au/blog/2024/3/28/reclaim-light-square
However both of the two final options put forward by the City Council still prioritise Currie Street traffic through the middle of the Square.
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NEWSLETTER TEAM
Editor: Shane Sody
Contributors (to this issue): Carla Caruso, Alex Jones, Siti Farhana Maidin, Nick Munday, City of Adelaide. Layout: Sabrina Iqbal Proofreader: Trish Russell
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Read back issues of this newsletter here:
www.adelaide-parklands.asn.au/newsletters
Send content enquiries/submissions to:
secretary@adelaide-parklands.asn.au |
NEWSLETTER TEAM
Editor: Shane Sody
Contributors (to this issue): Carla Caruso, Alex Jones, Siti Farhana Maidin, Nick Munday, City of Adelaide. Layout: Sabrina Iqbal Proofreader: Trish Russell
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Read back issues of this newsletter here:
www.adelaide-parklands.asn.au/newsletters
Send content enquiries/submissions to:
secretary@adelaide-parklands.asn.au |
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