Friday, 13 September 2024
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Community to help heal country with fire

Community to help heal country with fire

Jason Smith, centre, and Danny Gardner are organisers of the patrula nayri traditional fire workshops, who are currently seeking funding to continue their community-based workshops. (PS) “We are taught we should fight fire, but we are reintroducing fire as a friend,” said Jason Smith who, alongside Danny Gardner, is an organiser of the patrula nayri traditional fire workshops. Both Mr Smith...
Youthworks gives back to community

Youthworks gives back to community

Huonville High School students who are a part of the Youthworks PCYC program recently donated benches constructed by them to Huon Regional Care in Franklin, with residents Lyn and Graham happy to place the benches within the building’s gardens. (PS) The restarted Youthworks program, run through the Hobart PCYC in conjunction with the Huon Valley PCYC, has seen a boost for disengaged youth in...
Huon Valley’s latest production Miss Bilby and the Moss-covered Cleric

Huon Valley’s latest production Miss Bilby and the Moss-covered Cleric

The cast of Miss Bilby and the Moss-covered Cleric rehearse the script, written to emulate the popular radio shows of the mid 20thcentury. (PS) Following the success of Bloody Murder, Huon Valley Theatre dives into the past to recreate a 1950s radio play this weekend, with Miss Bilby and the Moss-covered Cleric. When Clementine Bilby, an Australian opera singer and Miss Marple-clone, stumbles...
Variety fuels a good start

Variety fuels a good start

From back left, Huonville Primary School’s AST Teacher Dan Brown, Principal Ian Thomas and Variety Tasmania CEO Mohammad Aldergham and from front left, students William Stemm Cowen, Chelsea Lee and Neilah Purdon at the breakfast program. (PS) Variety Tasmania is ensuring no child is left behind - funding Huonville Primary School’s breakfast program so every one of the 340 students has the same...
Indigenous round sees 'Battle of the Huon' between Huonville and Cygnet

Indigenous round sees 'Battle of the Huon' between Huonville and Cygnet

Last Saturday saw both the Huonville Lions and Cygnet Port support Indigenous round, wearing specially designed jumpers for the Women's, Colts, Reserves and Seniors matches. Purchase a copy of the Huon News today to read all of the match reports, as well as plenty of great action shots from all games!
26TEN helping locals

26TEN helping locals

Approximately one in two people in Tasmania do not have the literacy and numeracy skills that are needed for life in a technologically rich world, something that 26TEN is working to improve in the Huon Valley.As a 26TEN Community, businesses, organisations, and individuals are working to help Huon Valley residents improve their adult literacy and numeracy skills, with everyone in the Huon Valley...

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