We’re very excited about our kitchen!

The builders finished up the majority of their work on Friday … and so we’re back inside for programming this week.

Come past and take look. We’re still getting ourselves organised … but it is great!

Darebin City Council is collaborating with Seniors Rights Victoria and Housing for the Aged Action Group on the Warm Safe Home Project.

The project is a mechanism to build awareness of elder abuse, and will be showcased at Preston Library in early June, for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day that takes place on June 15th each year.

The project asks people in the community to decorate a small house and talk about what it means to them to have a warm safe home.

If you are feeling creative and/or would like to help build awareness of this important issue, you can collect a cardboard house from us. Drop it back once you’ve finished. We’ll then pass the completed houses back to our Council colleagues for them to include in the exhibition.

Note, we should have the kits ready by the end of Monday!

Welcome to Term 2. We’re pretty excited to be back.

And … hooray, our renovations are nearly nearly nearly done! The floorboards that were hiding under the carpet and lino have been filled, sanded and polished this weekend. They look amazing!

The kitchen plumbing is in. And lino is down in there - to match the floorboards in the other rooms. It looks super! Out the back the pergola now has a roof and there is a new tap and outdoor sink.

So, a day or two for the floors to dry and then we just have lots of things to move back into the right rooms! And the builders have a few more jobs like skirtings and painting to finish off.

By next week we anticipate that we should be able to set up the tables and chairs and reposition our usual furniture.

It is going to be so amazing to start to explore the opportunities created by our new/improved spaces.

Please let us know if you have any programs or activities you’d like to see run at ACC into the future. Send us an email info@alphington.org.au or call us on 9499 7227.

Our local ANZAC Day Dawn Service will again take place at Alphington Park near the war memorial, at dawn from 6.30am on Thursday 25 April.

Meet your neighbours and warm up with a cup of tea and toast afterwards at the Alphington Bowls Club.

Join Clare on Monday afternoons from 1-3pm or on Thursday evenings from 6.30-8.30pm … and explore your inner artist in a fun, relaxed and supportive small-group setting.

Clare’s classes run for two hours weekly over an 8 week term. The fee is $320.

Class dates are:

• Monday 29th April - 17th June

• Thursday 2nd May - 20th June

Contact Clare to enrol online at swirlart.com.au or you can give her a call to find out more etc., 0423453160.