Mayor's Weekly Message

Some great Earth Hour events tonight

28 Mar 2014

To help mark Earth Hour this Saturday evening (March 29) there will be some exciting community celebrations between 6:00pm and 9:30pm on the grassed areas on Manly Council Chambers Forecourt at the corner of The Corso and Belgrave Street (opposite Manly Wharf).

Highlights will include a candle-lit family picnic (BYO or food tents onsite), complete with bands, and buskers; performances by folk band Benjalu and local favourite, Winston Surfshirt; and an 8:10pm screening of the Earth Hour documentary special, ‘It’s Lights Out for The Reef’ (highlighting the urgent need to protect the Great Barrier Reef from the impacts of climate change).

At 8:30pm, take part in a special Earth Hour candle installation on the water at Manly Cove!

Earth Hour has evolved from a single moment to a year-round social movement and celebration of the fact that all of us have the power to inspire action on climate change. 

Great weekend for cricket tragics

Manly Waratahs cricket sides have made a successful start to their finals campaigns with great wins in First Grade, Fourth Grade and Fifth Grade in last weekend’s heart stopping matches. The contests were all played hard in what was a great showcase of finals cricket.

Our First Grade side showed great toughness in coming back from a seemingly hopeless position with Penrith at 0/90 chasing our 243 to win by 41 runs.

Unfortunately our Third Grade team bowed out of the finals but not without providing a spirited performance in a close fought contest.

We can now all look forward to an exciting First Grade home semi-final at Manly Oval; a Fifth Grade semi at Mike Pawley Oval in a fantastic weekend for Northern Beaches’ ‘cricket tragics’. We also have a Fourth Grade side travelling to Sutherland to tackle the Sharks.

Be sure to cheer on the Waratahs this weekend!

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