Como Barbecue, Sunday, 28 March, 1 p.m.

So many responses from people coming to the barbecue at McDougall Park on Sunday. Dozens of people have emailed and phoned. Steve Irons, John McGrath and Lynn MacLaren, our local members of Federal and State Parliaments will be there, with the Mayor James Best, Deputy Mayor Sue Doherty plus Glen Cridland and myself, your ward Councillors.

I hope for a lot of conversation about what is happening in our suburb, about what we can do, ourselves, to make this an even better place to live. Yes, there will be things that we believe someone else should do, and we’ll have a conversation about these too.

Sculpture on the Beach at Cottesloe recently was a lot of fun. That community has done something special to make their community stand out. I found the ideas and the experience inspirational.

At a community forum on the Melville side of the bridge last night so many people came up with ideas about what they could do personally to make this area even better. To follow up on this we’ll be building a FaceBook site around the statement “What I did today to make a difference.”

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