POLICE NEED YOUR HELP

For the 17th straight year the Melbourne North Police Station in conjunction with the Melbourne North Police Community Consultative Committee are holding their annual Christmas Toy/Food drive.

Melbourne North police are asking the local community to donate non-perishable food items/groceries as well as new toys to us which we then pass onto to local service providers who support those doing it tough at this time of year.

This year we are again supporting the following agencies.

The Venny children’s communal back yard and support service in Kensington

Ronald Mc Donald House in Parkville.

Could I please ask you to promote this event to your colleagues, students, friends, groups. I know many work places have a gift giving tradition amongst staff. Perhaps this year your work places could making a donation to this initiative.

We are collecting donations up until the 18th of December, with donations being accepted at the Melbourne North Police Station, or any of collection points listed on the attached flier.

I can also arrange to attend and collect donations from your organisation.

Should anyone have any questions please feel free to contact me or pass on my details.

Thank you very much and wishing you a very Merry Christmas.

Nick Parissis

North Melbourne Recreation Centre Term One 2020 and Summer Intensive lesson enrolments

OPEN 1 DECEMBER!

Our friendly and qualified instructors at North Melbourne Recreation Centre will help develop the skills you need to be safe around water.

Term One 2020

Lessons will run Thursday afternoons and Saturday mornings, commencing:

· Thursday 30 January 2020

· Saturday 1 February 2020

Summer Intensive

Focuses on combining stroke development with water safety skills such as survival and rescue techniques. It is designed to equip the student with skills necessary to be safe and knowledgeable within an aquatic environment.

The program is run as a five day intensive which involves a lesson each day.

Dates are as follows:

Week one – Monday 6 January to Friday 1 January 2020

Week two – Monday 13 to Friday 17 January 2020

Week three – Monday 20 January to Friday 24 January 2020

Cost is $87.50 for the week.

For further information, please contact North Melbourne Recreation Centre on 9658 9444 or emailmarc.camilleri@melbourne.vic.gov.au

Marc Camilleri | Programs & Events Coordinator | North Melbourne Recreation Centre | Waterways & Recreation

City of Melbourne | 204 – 206 Arden Street | North Melbourne 3051

T: 03 9658 9444 | F: 03 9658 9621

E: marc.camilleri@melbourne.vic.gov.au | melbourne.vic.gov.au/nmrc

Interested in Learning Auslan

Auslan classes for term 4 will continue each Friday mornings at 9am for parents and carers at NMPS.

Classes begin on Friday 1st November and the last class with be Friday 20th December.

Cost:a casual class price of $30 or $160 for the term.

North Melbourne MS 24 Hour Mega Swim

On 30 November to 1 December, the North Melbourne Pool will host the annual North Melbourne MS 24 Hour Mega Swim.

We are calling on our participants from North Melbourne Primary School to sign up and participate in this great fundraising event.

Challenge yourself and swim your heart out in support of people living with multiple sclerosis across Australia.

The MS 24 Hour Mega Swim is a fun team relay event, suitable for any level of swimmer. Each team has a swimmer in the water for the entire 24 hours and competes for laps swum and money raised for MS.

Registrations are already open and can be found at https://www.msmegaswim.org.au/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.event&eventID=585

It would be fantastic to obtain the strong support from North Melbourne Primary School again either as an individual or team!

For further information please contact marc.camilleri@melbourne.vic.gov.au

When: Tuesday the 19th November 2019

Time: 6:45 - 7:45pm

Where: North West Patch Community Garden, 36-54 Courtney St, North Melbourne

Looking forward to seeing you there.

*Please note: To those new and old members who have not attended any meetings in this financial year please note that our membership charter specifies that as an active member you need to attend at least four of the eight meetings held a year, and as we are fast approaching 2020 I urge you to please be in attendance.

Future North West Patch Meetings:

● Saturday 22nd February 2020 (Location TBC)

● Tuesday 24th March 2020 (Location TBC)

● Saturday 18th April 2020 (Location TBC)

● Tuesday 19th May 2020 (Location TBC)

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