From Italian ginger bread, to gelato, flat bread and antipasto to homemade sausage and sweets, the festival celebrating its 20th anniversary, will have event-goers’ tastebuds dancing.
“We are proud to produce a festival that celebrates food prepared in age-old ways along with new twists on classics,” City of Canada Bay Mayor Helen…
Each child will be given the opportunity to turn the sweet delectable Italian ice-cream into their very own work of art, with encouragement from the supportive audience. The fun starts at 1.30pm.
Adult event-goers haven’t been left out of the gelato fun, with Cremeria De Luca offering a blind tasting competition. This one is for those with…
“I am very excited to be performing at the 20th anniversary of Ferragosto,” De Vito said. “Being of Italian heritage, I’m very proud that the festival has grown from a little idea to a calendar event that draws more than 100,000 each year.”
The singer, who runs a vocal and performance studio in Five Dock, is looking…
Joe Di Giacomo, who was a director of the Five Dock Learning Centre, which focused on teaching Italian, and a member of the Five Dock Main Street Committee, suggested it might be appropriate to give the event an Italian flavour and celebrate the area’s strong Italian influence in 1998.
The idea to emulate…
“How awesome to have more than 100,000 people came along to our 20th celebrations. It was a wonderful day celebrated both by locals and visitors alike,” City of Canada Bay Mayor, Helen McCaffrey said.
“I had many people approach me throughout the day to say they were having an incredible time and a number of local…
There are about 2000 more Staffys registered in the City of Canada Bay than Labradors – the most popular breed in the state according to Dogs NSW.
In fact, there are a number of breeds in the City’s top 10 that differ from the NSW list including the Kelpie, Cavoodle, Jack Russell and Maltese cross Shih Tzu. …
The Future of Canada Bay Model Exhibition designs will be on display in the facility at Cabarita Park during the school holidays, with a play zone also set up for families to drop-in and create.
Entries are now open for members of the community to use the plastic bricks known and loved by children and adults to produce a unique design as part of this fun…
City of Canada Bay Council’s outdoor aquatic facilities are some of the most picturesque in Sydney, featuring heated salt water pools with panoramic harbour views, shaded children’s pools, cafés and kiosks. After an off-season of maintenance work on both pools, the facilities are in good shape heading…
City of Canada Bay staff have collected items that many would disregard as waste materials such as old car tyres and used boxes, scoured kerbside collections and hunted through second-hand shops to find pieces to illustrate just how easy it is to use a bit of creativity and imagination to turn any space, even a small balcony, into a work of…
The centre, which opened next to Council’s Five Dock depot last November, accepts waste from those living across Sydney with 1,000 City of Canada Bay residents along with about 100 residents from 27 other suburbs recycling more than 16 tonnes of household hazardous waste since the centre opened.
The Community Recycling Centre provides a free drop-off…