Shire of Victoria Plains Community News - September 2016

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Muresk is turning 90!
Help us celebrate the many accomplishments made by Muresk and its students, staff and graduates over
the past 90 years. Please join with the Muresk Old Collegians’ Association (MOCA) to celebrate this
significant milestone in the history of agricultural education in Australia.
Muresk 90th Anniversary
10 am to 3 pm on Sunday 30th October
Muresk Campus, Muresk Road, Northam
Muresk alumni and their family and friends are invited ‘back to Muresk’ to help celebrate and reminisce the
many achievements made by Muresk over the past 90 years. Not the least of them being the great sense
of community spirit and mateship that has been shared across generations of Mureskians!
All Muresk alumni are requested to update their contact details for the MOCA database at:
or for those without internet access, please phone Deb on
0419 911 980 or Trish on 0427 330 103. This will ensure you’re sent an invitation to the 90th Anniversary
and kept up to date with future MOCA activities, reunions and events.
Please register to attend the Muresk 90th Anniversary celebrations via the Eventbrite site. Just search for
‘Muresk’ or, for those without internet access, please phone 0427 330 103.
Funds for community gardens available
Member for Moore Shane Love MLA is encouraging communities to consider establishing a community
garden.
“Funding for community gardens had been extended to 2019-20, which provides $100,000 per year for the
establishment and maintenance of community gardens," Mr Love said.
"Community gardens provide a vital hub for the local community.
"They are not just for the green-fingered. They provide people of all generations an area to come together,
share a cuppa and a love of the great Western Australian outdoors.”
Mr Love said community gardens enabled people to learn about gardening, built a greater understanding
and a sense of community between neighbours, parents, young people and people from different
backgrounds.
Since the introduction of the grants program by the State Government in 2013, 37 projects totalling
$464,853 have been funded across Western Australia.
“I am pleased that the State Government has made a further commitment to this program and I encourage
all community gardens in Moore to apply for funding,” Mr Love said.
Applications for the latest round of funding close on 20 October 2016. For more information,
visit