What’s Happening in Mill Park: Easter Updates and More

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Good morning, Mill Park, and welcome to this, episode of the Mill Park podcast. My name is Cameron Bloet. I’m the host of this podcast where I talk to you, the resident of Mill Park, about what’s happening in the area, what’s going on, places to see, people to know, and all that sort of good stuff. So without further ado, let’s get on with the show. Being what is it now? Wednesday morning. It’s time to look forward to the week. Been a while since I’ve released the podcast, so I’m not gonna really talk about what happened last week. But it’s just to move forward and talk about what’s going on in the future. Seeing as school holidays, and we have all the kitties home.

I think by now, they’re probably getting close to pulling their hair out. Some are looking forward to going back to school. Some aren’t. But, anyway, Easter’s coming up. So there’s a four day weekend for those of us who work for a living, and all that sort of stuff. So speaking of four day weekends, it’s important to know what’s open and what’s not. So, obviously, Plenty Valley will be closed on Good Friday. Some of the local eateries may be open, so you’ll have to check, check locally with that one. Suss it out. Did have a quick look at a couple of websites of some of the stores before I recorded this just to do some research, and they all seem to say that they’re going to be open on Good Friday.

And I don’t want to give anyone I was hoping about that. So, you know, pancake parlour’s gonna be out, but let’s head down there and then find out it’s shut. So, I would suggest you check locally. So maybe give them a call, over the next day or two if you do plan on going out there on Good Friday. That being said, after Good Friday, back to normal training hours for the store. The smaller some of the more smaller shops inside that, inside Plenty Valley may or may not be open. You’ll need to check locally for that one. But, Saturday, it’s nine till five. Sunday, ten till five. And Monday, being a public holiday as well, is open ten till five.

That from there, I think we’ll head on to, Mill Park Library. Mill Park Library will be closed from the eighteenth to the twenty first, so that’s pretty much the whole period. So there won’t be anything happening out there. Once it does come back, there are some events. If we have a look, your park library. What is happening? Going through it now. Things to do today. Tech help between two and three. Thursday, there’s, libraries after dark. There’s a library’s a running group. There’s a chatty cafe. Then next Tuesday, there’s a preschool story time and all that sort of stuff. But I’ll go over that one on the next episode. So, hopefully, that’ll come out Monday.

Anything happening in the council area? There is there was a council meeting last night. Haven’t been able to catch up on that one, see what was going on and what was said, but it does. It is looking looking to be an interesting one when I do catch up with the details on it. I need to find out because I think the lord mayor, Aidan MacLendon, is causing a bit of causing trouble, or is someone causing trouble on his behalf? Well, I don’t know. This is it. The intent is not to make this one a political podcast, so I’m not going to mention too much more about that. But once I get, the notes and everything like that, which I might do for the next episode, I’ll talk about what happened in council, anything that we should be relevant to us in the area, for that, those head over to the the Whittlesea Council website and see what’s going on over there because I think there is some golf. There’s some parent meetings.

Young parents, where’s that? Thursday? Plenty Valley young parents group. So it’s, Plenty Valley from 10:30 till twelve meets at the y. Food Bank, unfortunately, is in, Thomastown, the track, between the track and the library, on Wednesday between 10:30 and twelve. Bookings are essential as places are limited. As I said, seniors golf that is Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Growling Frog Golf Course. Donnie McGraw, Yan Yean, you will need to book on that one. So please call 0392172170. The City of Whittlesea positive aging department. There is every Monday.

There’s a social exercise in walking football, which that one is at the Mill Park Basketball Stadium. So once again, you’ll need to book on the customer service team, nine two one seven two one seven zero, and press option 4. Check out as I said, check out the government. We will see government. We will see council website for that one. And for those of you who don’t know, Plenty Valley or Mill Park has its own radio station. So Plenty Valley FM, which is 88.6 on your FM dial. Doing my best. Hades DJ sound there. Bit of a, bit of a sidetrack. How what was it?

The for those of us who are old enough to know Gen X is the, when they did their five of the more five five of the best and then five more or something like that. Anyway, bit of a waffle there. So that there’s head on over to, pvfm.org.au. You’ll suss out what’s going on out there. There are some, good shows that are there, to listen to. So we’ve got, let’s have a little program guide. Waiting for the interwebs to load today. Got classic rock kicking off now and goes till twelve. And then as well-being Wednesdays with sneez, from twelve till two.

Two till four is random access. Wednesday drive is four till six. Deep cuts is six till eight. And then all things classical from eight to eleven, and then PBFM overnight from eleven till twelve. And as I said, this community radio, so this is, predominantly, listener funded. It is a registered charity and all that sort of stuff. So if you’re interested in listening to the radio, outside of this podcast, which happens once a week and want some music to go with whatever’s going on in the background, do suggest that you, head on over and listen to PVFM.

As I said, it’s 88.6 on the FM dial, and, you know, see what’s going on over there. What else we got? Oh, something else. Being school holidays, there is in case you weren’t aware, the Circus Royale is out at, Plenty Valley Shopping Center from the fourth. It ends on the twenty seventh. So when’s that? Ah, the Monday after oops. Twenty seventh. Yes. That’s the Sunday after Anzac Day. So it goes for another another two twelve days. Head on out there, take the kids out. Tickets, you will have to book online. Tickets are depending on what session you want to go to.

There’s grandstand ringside of VIP ringside. So that ranges from 25 to $55, and I’m not sure whether there’s a service charge or anything like that. But, yeah, hit on and have a look. Tickets are valid for children ages two to 14. So if you wanna buy a kiddies ticket, if you’re under two, they’re free. If they can sit on a parent’s lap and no prams are permitted inside the big top, singing seating is allocated at time of booking. So there there’ll be some entertainment for their kitties during the or even some of the adults too, and all that sort of stuff.

So what else is there? What else is going on in Mill Park? I think that’s about all. So I might make this one a bit of a short one. I’m not gonna bore you too much with stuff. My plan for the next episode, as I said, dropped the ball a little bit. Had a few other things going on in life and and didn’t get quite into the swing of things, but, wanna do a bit of a review of some of the local businesses. So over the next week, I’ll be, you know, chatting to a couple of businesses and then, you know, showcasing them, in the the following episode, and all that sort of stuff. So, yeah, if you’re listening and you’ve got a business or anything like that that you do want to plug or or that you see mentioned in a future episode, please let me know, and I will do my best to talk about it. As I said, I’m not gonna, you know, this isn’t advertising or anything like that. This is just my way of giving something back to the community, because, you know, I I think we we need to know what’s going on in the place. And and as I said right from the start, eventually, I’d like this to be a a central repository of where things is going because we need to rebuild our community.

We need to, you know, rely on each other. I mean, you have a look at how much go go listen to some of the stuff at work. You know? We’re we’re so obsessed with all the stuff we see on TV as if any of that is real life when, you know, the reality shows aren’t. It’s all scripted and, you know, editorially cut and edited and things like that to create engagement. I mean, why aren’t we talking about what’s going on in the neighborhood? Why aren’t we talking about, you know, our neighbors and and things like that that, you know, this is going on in the neighborhood, you know, spending more time. I understand it’s coming into the colder months, so not everyone’s gonna be staying outside and things like that. But, you know, I’d like to see, you know, people you know, way back when I was growing up, you know, your neighbors all wave to each other. You’d be out and, you know, you drive off for down the road. Your neighbors would wave, and you’d always get away from your neighbor. And we seem to be, not doing that anymore because, you know, some people know who other people are, but then a lot of times that they don’t. You know, I’m I’m making an effort to, you know, to wave to my neighbors because if something happens, they’re the ones that you’re gonna be relying on.

You know, they’re the ones that are gonna come and say, if you go away, you know, they’re the ones they’re gonna know if something’s going on in your place or they’re the ones that, you know, they will come and help you if something happens. And, you know, I I did say I didn’t wanna make this political, but I will make one political comment. I’m, let’s say, a devout anarchist. I believe that the community should be able to look after itself, that we’ve handed too much of our agency over to the government and, for that.

So I’d like to rebuild the community. And, you know, I intend to do that, you know, over the next twelve months. So, you know, twelve months’ time when I’m talking about this and looking back over these episodes, I can say, you know what? This is where I started. This is what’s going on. Everyone gets to know each other, and all that sort of stuff. So I may even get to having, you know, a bit of a neighborhood get together or a barbecue or something like that somewhere at one of the the local parks or, you know, maybe, what is Calenac Reserve or something like that. But we’ll see, see what happens. Maybe, you know, just an impromptu Christmas dinner or Christmas lunch or Christmas get together or something.

So, you know, we’ll see what happens. And me. But, you know, this is the plan. We we we’ve we’ve got to bring back community. We’ve got to, you know, be the ones that rely on each other. And, you know, you don’t have to love your neighbors. You know, you do have to think, yep. You know, I’ll be there to help them if something happens. Sorry about that. Just a little bit of a cough there. So yeah. You know, it it it’s the thing. That’s what I like to see. So let’s keep watching this space, and we’ll see what happens over the next twelve months. So, anyway, as I said so what happens? That’s about it for this show.

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