We have feedback from a few folks that they would like a click button on this website for personals – such as things for sale, or services on offer, or resources for sharing… and so forth.

We are looking into fixing that up. Meanwhile, here is a personal from Lil Waud. 

For Sale

Samson Multipurpose Juice Extractor Augur-style low-speed extraction which preserves nutrients, enzymes and juice quality far longer than other juicers.

• Juices all fruits and vegetables including wheatgrass
• Minces onions, ginger etc and makes nut butters
• Makes smooth icecream from frozen fruits (eg bananas, mango) and sorbets from frozen juice.
• Grinds coffee beans
• Makes pasta and noodles (using extruder)
• Easy & quick to clean and set up
• Recipe book 

As new, barely used. Cost $430 price asked $300

Lil Waud 6224 7390    Call round and try it!   

Next community gathering is at Trish and Stu’s.

Tuesday 29th
7.30 pm.
131 Waterworks Rd.

So far this year we have been sidetracked by the traffic calming issue. It’s time to get onto other sustainability projects.

We can letterbox the whole Waterworks Community, inviting them to join our activities.
We also have the opportunity to conduct an invaluable research project – on barriers that people find inhibit them from becoming more sustainable.
But these are just two ideas. If you have things you would like us to discuss, just go immediately below this and click where it says comments.

Any feedback, good ideas, good references……..etc are much appreciated.

Chris H

Welcome to our community website.

We can add new features as people see the need, but for now here are a few tips:

• This is an open ‘blog’ site. It will open up on the latest story entered – not on a fixed home page. This makes it interactive, timely and alive.

• The site is accessible to anyone, but only registered ‘users’ may contribute to it. If you are a Waterworks community member you should already be listed as a ‘user’. If not, please contact Chris.

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Hobart council organised a meeting last week to discuss the traffic calming measures planned for Waterworks Rd. About a dozen Ridgeway residents and two members of the Waterworks Valley community (Steph and Trish) attended; Ald Ron Christie chaired the meeting and Deputy Mayor Eva Ruzika and Ald Elise Archer were also present, as well as Leon Parker, from Hobart Council’s Road Services. 

We attended  mainly to reassure Ridgeway residents that Waterworks Community was not trying to create and ‘us-vs-them’ situation, and that we weren’t blaming the problems we experience with the road on Ridgeway residents. We also wanted to make it clear that our request for traffic calming was driven by concern for the safety of all road users including, of course, those from Ridgeway. Continue reading →

One of the group’s most successful and delightful achievements has been the implementation of the ‘walking school bus.’Many families having young children live along Waterworks Road and they attend the local primary school, Princes Street Primary. There being no bus service down the valley, as a community, we were well aware of the environmental and social impact of our children being driven to and from school:

• pollution from vehicle exhausts
• usage of fossil fuels
• potential danger of more traffic on our narrow, windy and often slippery road
• less exercise for our children
• and the cost of fuel.

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