Kevin Canning is one of the principals of the Penrith Men’s Walk & Talk, which starts every Thursday night in the Coffee Club opposite Tench Reserve. A Life Member of both the Emu Plains Junior Rugby League Football Club and the P&C Association, Kevin is driven by a desire to be actively involved in the […]
09 May 2024
From the minute my husband Greg overheard that I was going to be interviewing Little Pattie, our home was filled with the dulcet tones of him singing “He’s My Blonde Haired, Stompie Wompie Real Gone Surfer Boy.” It’s a bit of a tongue twister but very catchy – yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah! Little […]
09 May 2024
A huge crowd celebrated a fantastic day of racing and entertainment at Hawkesbury’s 19th standalone Richmond Club Hawkesbury Cup meeting. Hawkesbury Race Club Chief Executive Officer James Heddo stated “We were very fortunate to miss a lot of the rain that fell throughout Sydney during last week and offered a complete package of high-quality racing, […]
09 May 2024
St Marys Central Park will see Coachmans Park connected with Kokoda Park to create a green link from Queen Street through to South Creek. Penrith City Council has reached an exciting milestone in the transformation of the St Marys Town Centre, with the awarding of the landscape design contract for St Marys Central Park. […]
03 May 2024
Penrith City Council’s plans for the future of St Marys have taken another exciting step forward with the St Marys Town Centre Place Plan finalised. At the April Ordinary Meeting held on 29 April, Council endorsed the Place Plan which is a community-led roadmap outlining 23 actions over the next five years to transform the […]
03 May 2024
Penrith City Council has sold 158-164 Old Bathurst Road, Emu Plains to Akura and its capital partners (trading as Emu Plains Developments Pty Ltd), which will deliver Council’s vision to boost local employment with an industrial subdivision on the site. Akura will be responsible for overseeing the future development of the site. Akura is an […]
03 May 2024
LOCAL identity Ross (Rossco) Hutchison has been immortalised in oils, the subject of an entry by artist Corrinne Hemsley into this year’s Archibald Prize art competition. Rossco’s painting is a striking composition, with his extensive and varied life history revealed in the brush strokes of the portrait. He has danced in front of the Queen […]
03 May 2024
The staff at the Meadowbrook Health Resort will get you healthy…or die trying! This May, Richmond Players presents Death by Chocolate, a play which combines all the elements of classic murder mysteries with scathing satires of the 80’s health crazes, technology and fashion. Members of the newly renovated Meadowbrook Health Resort are dropping like flies, […]
03 May 2024
FOLLOWING a sell out 2022 Australia tour – The World of Musicals in Concert returns to Australia in 2024, featuring an all new show. Coming to the Joan on May 10, they can’t wait to bring the best and most believed songs of Broadway and the West End to a Penrith audience. The World of […]
03 May 2024
Pendragons State paddlers. Photo supplied. ON April 19, six members of the Pendragons Dragon Boat Club competed at the Australian National Dragon Boat Championships in Perth, Western Australia. Kim Stein, Janine To’o, Julie Gray, Peter Fox (Senior B), Elaine McNaughton and Madeleine Jacques (Senior A) were all selected to represent NSW and fought hard against […]
03 May 2024
