“It is important to recognise the work of our fellow citizens and I encourage every community member to get involved and nominate someone,” she said.
“Citizen of the Year awards is the perfect opportunity for us to reward those residents who work hard to support our local community.
“Australia is a great country of volunteers and our City is brimming with…
Categories include Citizen of the Year, Sports Citizen, Arts and Culture Citizen and Young Citizen.
“This is an honorary award that recognises and celebrates local citizens who have achieved extraordinary feats,” Mayor Angelo Tsirekas said.
“The recipients of these awards are inspirational individuals who have dedicated their time to care for, as well as…
Council’s Stop Litter in the Bay project has taken out top honours in the ‘Hey Tosser. Litter Reduction Award’, says Mayor Angelo Tsirekas.
Applications are open for the 2015 Colour the Bay Garden Competition and City of Canada Bay Mayor Angelo Tsirekas is encouraging community members to enter their beautiful gardens.
Coming into its fourth year, the garden competition recognises avid gardeners across Canada Bay with a $500 cash prize on offer in each category.
“We have some beautiful gardens in Canada Bay and the…
“Approximately half of our household waste is made up of food scraps. Instead of sending it to landfill we could be nourishing our soil,” Mayor Tsirekas said.
“We already recycle our plastic, metal and paper, but few of us are recycling our food scraps as well.”
We have recently joined the Compost Revolution in a bid to reduce the amount of food waste…
“This program is an opportunity for local groups to receive funding for projects, events and services that benefit the community,” Mayor Tsirekas said.
“I encourage local organisations to apply to have their initiatives sponsored” he added.
Applications for round one of the program are now open and close on Sunday, 31 May.
For more information,…
City of Canada Bay, as part of the Parramatta River Catchment Group (PRCG), has committed to the vision of making the River swimmable again by 2025.
“We believe this vision is quite achievable,” said Mayor Tsirekas.
“We already have a number of swimmable spots along the River in Canada Bay including Cabarita Beach and Chiswick Baths; which are monitored…
Our work in sustainability has been recognised with another award win, says City of Canada Bay Mayor, Angelo Tsirekas.
City of Canada Bay won the Climate Change Resilience Category at the inaugural 2014 IPWEA (Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia) Sustainable Solutions in Public Works Awards.
The national award was presented to City of Canada Bay for…
“We are committed to supporting a range of initiatives and projects that benefit community groups, charities and sports organisations through the Club Grants Scheme,” Mayor Angelo Tsirekas said.
Several local participating clubs have funding available in the following categories:
Application forms are available from…
“This is a funding program established through local clubs who generously offer funding for programs that assist our community,” Cr Tsirekas said.
Funding is available for programs in community welfare and social services, community development, community health services and employment assistance activities.
“The participating…