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Hunt Club Clean Up

A group of community volunteers have organised this clean up to coincide with Keep Australia Beautiful Week.

Everyone is welcome to come along for just hour to pick up some rubbish in the surrounding area.

Bags, rubbish pickers and children’s coloured safety vests provided, you just need warm clothes, sturdy shoes and gloves.

Come along to see what a difference one hour can make.

Meeting at the shopping complex we will wander the surrounding streets to pick up litter for an hour.

Please register if you would like to come along in case we need to contact you.

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Saturday 20 August 9.30am – 10.30am

Hunt Club Shopping Plaza surrounds. Linsell Boulevard, Cranbourne.

Berwick Neighbourhood Centre Book club/book swap and writer’s space.

Enjoy reading yet you find you end up with too many books? Or would simply like to chat to fellow readers about the latest good read over a cuppa?

Maybe you’re a budding writer needing a space to collect your thoughts or wanting the support of others who are also on their writing quest?

Whether it be to read, write or simply enjoy the company of others come along.

Mondays from 12.30pm to 2pm.

Venue: Multipurpose Room.

Contact the centre for more details on 9704 1863.

Little Flamingo Design Market

The Little Flamingo Design Market is a handmade market in Cranbourne West.

The market has a great mix of makers with candles, cards, art, bags, plants, cookies and so much more!

Plenty of parking at the Hub and opposite a lovely park and small shopping centre.

Saturday 20 August from 12.30pm at Cranbourne West Community Hub. 4A Flicka Boulevard Cranbourne West.

Science Week at Balla Balla Community Centre – Mad Food Science Experience (8-12 years old).

“Quirky” food experiments to get the kids onboard to understand the health benefits of food.

– Create ‘Magic’ with food dyes.

– Sugar ‘Experiment’.

– Create ‘Wicked’ Green Smoothies.

– Learn about gut bacteria + sugar = GROSS.

– Worm farms (yummy) and sustainable activities.

Followed by a healthy lunch where we discuss changes that can be made with information gained by the experiments.

Limited places are available for this free event.– call 5990 0900 to register.

Saturday 20 August 10.30am to 12.45pm.

Balla Balla Community Centre, 65 Berwick-Cranbourne Road, Cranbourne East.

Second-Hand Book Fair + More @ Narre Warren North

Bargains galore at this charity second-hand book fair! There will also be thousands of books, DVDs, Records and Board Games for sale. Come along and discover thousands of items at super low prices, and support the charitable works of the Knights of the Southern Cross plus Lysterfield Lake College and Harkaway Hills College.

$2 Books, DVDs

$1 Children’s books, LPs/Records

Friday 26 August 3.30pm-4.30pm, Saturday 27 August 10am-2pm

Harkaway Hills College, 20 Abeckett Rd, Narre Warren North.

Free kitchen caddy & (recycling) question time!

City of Casey residents can collect one free kitchen caddy per household for their food scraps to add to your fortnightly food and garden waste collection.

Green Living in Casey’s Waste Education Team will also be available to answer all your waste and recycling questions. No bookings required.

Tuesday 23 August 12pm to 3pm at Bunjil Place.

2022 Australian Masters Indoor Cricket Championships

Join us for the Australian Masters Championships where the best masters aged indoor cricket players will represent their state or territory for the first time since 2019.

Saturday 20 August – Sunday 27 August at Casey Stadium. New Holland Drive, Cranbourne East.

Sing into Spring concert

Casey Choir will be back in concert for the first time since 2018.

The group is hosting its annual Sing into Spring Concert later this month.

The choir has around 40 members and are renowned for their harmonies.

The concert will have something for everyone, from pop to musical theatre to spirituals.

Sunday 28 August 2pm at the Cardinia Cultural Centre Function Room, 40 Lakeside Blv, Pakenham.

Tickets at trybooking.com/CBGTS and also at the door.

Pearcedale Community Market

Pearcedale Market supports local produce and local artisans, as well as sustainable products and environmental education.

held on the third Saturday of every month, Pearcedale market has local produce, a produce swap, local businesses, sustainable living products, as well as education and workshops on topics like bread making, etc.

Saturday 20 August 9am to 12pm. 45 Pearcedale Road Pearcedale.

Tooradin Lions Community Market

The Tooradin Community Market operates on the 3rd Sunday of every month from with a wide variety of goods for sale on the Tooradin Foreshore.

Fresh produce, craft, bric a brac, plants and flowers, unique gifts, sausage sizzle, hot and cold drinks

Run by The Lions Club of Balla Balla – Ordinary people doing extraordinary things – All profits go towards supporting people with a disability, community greening, fundraising for worthwhile causes.

Memorial Island – Sawtell’s Inlet. South Gippsland Highway, Tooradin

New Vogue/Old Time dancing

Come and join a friendly group of people and dance the evening away, tea and coffee provided. Singles welcome. Cost is only $5.00. Held at the Timbarra Community Hall, Berwick every Thursday evening 7.30pm to 9.30pm. If you are a complete beginner to ballroom dancing and would like to learn, we are able to offer you a 6 week beginners’ class to be held on Wednesday evenings from 7pm to 8.30pm at no cost.

Narre Warren North Pop-up Blood Donor Centre

Got a bit of time next month? Time to give blood and change lives? 1 in 3 people in Narre Warren North will need blood, and they need people like you to give it. We’re popping up in town from 29 August to 9 September. Don’t forget to pre-book your spot at lifeblood.com.au,

on our app or on 13 14 95

Narre Warren North Hall

Old A’Beckett Road

Open 8am until 8pm

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