Lions Club of Turramurra

Clean Up Turramurra - 5th February 2023

Today Kim Retson-Yip, Mitchel Camptom and Tamara went out about our monthly task organised by
The Lions Club of Turramurra Inc. to clean up a little bit of our living surroundings mainly on our recreational spaces and local play grounds.

Working through from the bottom end of kissing point road, Vernon Park, Field of Dreams and Aluba Oval, we collective picked about 4-5 kgs of scattered rubbish/plastic waste.

From the usual toffee wrappers, cigarette butts, to bottles, cans, tissues, brown paper bags and straws all scattered and disposed off in the grounds and surrounding areas seemed like a common thing. It's disappointing that even area we use for recreational purposes are also common place of littering and goes unseemingly unnoticed by most bypasses.

Many though stopped to ask what we were doing or stopped to say thank you and was a nice gesture.
On more happier note we also got to meet with Lindy Williams form the KuRingGai Council to discuss some possibilities of establishing a bush care group to helps in expanding our work with the local environment and surroundings. So we are looking forward to this space.

We need a more volunteers and if you have an hour once a month on a Saturday 8-9am and you are happy give a lending hand, we love to see you. So please come along and get involved in the local surroundings.

Thank you to Lindy Williams form Council and all who participated today for taking time away from your weekend to give back time to your local community and its environment

Clean Up Turramurra - 7th January 2023

The Lions Club of Turramurra Inc. carried out a monthly clean up amidst the rain and very wet weather.

We mainly cleaned up South Turramurra around the creek and entrance to the Bradley reserve.
We picked up so much rubbish, bottles, cups, toffee papers, plastic bags and even milk cartons.
About 3-5 kgs in rubbish.

On a quiet rainy morning while cleaning up we took time to appreciate the local nature which was so nice. the beautiful creek flowing rapidly, bush turkey, pigeons, parrots and frogs were some we came across. This was so refreshing to see.

Clean Up Turramurra - 3rd Dec 2022

Another month came by and we at the Lions Club of Turramurra and our very helpful volunteers got together today to clean up our local streets with the intention of keeping our area clean and to reduce plastic waste scattered on our streets that usually ends up in our waterways!

We creatively picked up about 8-9 kgs of rubbish and saved it all washing away. Aluba Oval a focus point today was reported to have had a lot of toffee wrapping papers. Others picked up empty plastic bottled, beer bottled..plastic bags, pieces of duck tape mainly in front of building sites

Christmas Get Together 2022

The Lions Club of Turramurra held its Christmas get together on Friday 25th November at the Pennant Hills Leisure Centre.


We were happy to have in attendance many of our very own club members, friends and family as well as our District Governor Lion Vin Pang, past District Governor Lion Sunil Amaratunga, Pennant Hills President Peter Watson , Cherrybrook President Helen Roth.


Everyone enjoyed the lovely music, sang Christmas Carols and had a sumptuous Christmas dinner specially made by our club members.


Thank you everyone for an enjoyable evening!


Clean up Turramurra  Commercial Area for a Plastic Free Environment - 27th March 2021

The Lions Club of Turramurra organised another local clean up (4th) in Turramurra this time in the Turramurra commercial area. 4 club members and 2 volunteer/friends of Lions participated in the clean up of the area near Coles supermarket car park & surrounding area, Uniting Church car park and surrounding roads and the Turramurra station and surrounding road as well as a long the Pacific Hwy.
We mainly picked up cigarette butts, Pizza boxes, confectionary wrappers, coffee cups, beer bottle lids and bottles were manly picked. In total 5 bag and about 6-8 kilos of plastic and other rubbish removed from washing in to the waterways and ocean. Thank you to Lions Roshan Wicks, Kuruppu Gunawardena, Shavera Gunasekera & to the Kimberlee Stevenson & Kerrie O'Brien for their great work in helping me in the clean up

By Tamara Wicks
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Clean up South Turramurra - 6th March 2021
​6th March 2021

At our second monthly clean up on the 6th March 2021a group of four Turramurra Lion members, and five friends of lions gathered to clean up streets and parts of the bush in South Turrramurra.

We spent an hour each, this morning and cleaned up approximately 20km of street and parts of bushland up and down, with about 5-6kgs of waste collected.

This month we observed that the waste was found mainly near construction sites and bush areas and near bus stops. The breakdown of a sample of 2.9kg of collected showed 2kg waste*, 700g recyclable plastics and paper and 200g soft plastics (that were acceptable for recycling). Unfortunately, the soft plastics that were collected which normally could have been recycled was too dirty so had to be binned.

Thank you to the friends of Turramurra Lions, Kim Retson-Yip and Petrina and her friend and Sarah Lou and Laurie Tre and to lions club members, Tamara Wicks (Event Planner), Roshan Wicks , Dilhan Wickremanayake and Tim Bishop who joined us in the clean up today.

By Dilhan Wicks
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Clean up South Turramurra - 6th Feb 2021

At the Lions club of Turramurra the Environment and sustainability is the signature project of the clubs and on the 6th Feb 2021 a group of 7 Turramurra Lions and a group of friends of Lions gathered to clean up the streets and some part of the bush in South Turramurra.

Just spending an hour or an hour and a half each (once a month), we managed to clean up approximately 14km of street and parts of bushland up and down, with 6-7kg of waste collected.

It was quite a surprise to see pieces of waste such as Micro plastics, plastic bottles, Single use bags, PVC pipes, Waste paper, Aluminium drink cans, Tarpaulins, Face masks. Wrapping paper, cigarette butts, Plastic netting, Single use cups, Whipper snipper cord, Confectionery wrapper and Doggie poop/bags as well.

The purpose is threefold, to create a clean environment for us to live in, reduce plastics/micro plastics washing up through our creeks, drains & water ways into the ocean and help people understand the reasons and importance why.

In doing this activity, we observed some trends such as larger roads had more waste, Creeks often had washed up plastic along the edges and most of the waste was found in places between residential areas and bush areas and near bus stops. It was great to notice that there wasn't much waste around houses, which goes to say local residents do the right thing.

David Attenborough’s documentary’s and call for urgency on this can be found in his videos on Netflix and you tube. Here is a one simply explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTcMPy6L88E

Thank you to the friends of Turramurra Lions, Steve and Kim Yip, and Petrina and to the lions club members, a big thank you to Lion Tamara Wicks -Secretary (Event Planner) and also to Lion Roshan Wickremanayake  - President, Lion Tim Bishop, who joined us in the clean up today. 

If you would like to join us or need help creating a clean-up group near you please do not hesitate to contact Tamara at the Lions Club of Turramurra on 0401687879 and she will be more than happy to assist you. 

By Lion Dilhan Wicks
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Community Planting Day
​2nd August 2020

The Lions Club of Turramurra Inc. participated in the Ku-ring-gai Council's - Community Planting day at the Bannockburn Oval. This was organized to celebrate the "National Tree Day" which was on the 2nd of August 2020. We had a total of 20 members /family participated in the event. The team enjoyed being a part of the Council's community event and worthy cause. More information can be found on our Facebook  Page.


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Plastic Free July

Plastic Free July..
July 2020

(and yes, we know it's not July...) but we can still commit to help reduce plastic waste throughout the year and not just July! and yes, we know it's not July...) but we can still commit to help reduce plastic waste throughout the year and not just July!and yes, we know it's not July...) but we can still commit to help reduce plastic waste throughout the year and not just July!


Plastic Free July is a global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution, so we can have cleaner streets, oceans, and beautiful community areas. We have participated in the Plastic Free July project to do our bit to help. More information can be found on our Facebook  Page.


VISION AND HEARING

We serve to prevent avoidable blindness and improve quality of life for people who are blind and visually impaired. The Lions Club of Turramurra Inc collects eyeglasses and hearing aids for distribution around the community and in Sri Lanka. We conduct eye and ear screenings for free in the Lions Mobile Sight and Hearing Van and partner with local eye doctors to provide low cost eye exams, eyeglasses, and even surgeries to eligible residents. Our club is unique in that about half of our members are visually impaired, which gives us insight into the needs of this population.

ENVIRONMENT

The Lions Club of Turramurra Inc is passionate about recycling! From bottle caps and pull tabs, to egg cartons, to eyeglasses and grocery bags, we care about our environment. Our club also runs 4th Grade Foresters where we provide trees for 4th grade students to plant. We serve to sustainably protect and restore our environment to improve the well-being of all communities. We’ve seen how our stewardship of natural resources can improve quality of life and increase engagement in Hampton Roads. We will continue to work for the health of our planet.


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Waste Tracker
​We at the Lions Club of Turramura, have started to measure domestic waste on a weekly basis. If you are a member of our community and would like to join hands with us to reduce household waste please use our tracker to keep track of your domestic waste.
​Help make a difference in our environment every day !

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EYEGLASS RECYCLING

From the Recycle For Sight Website:

“Lions Recycle for Sight Australia is part of the Lions Clubs International Worldwide Eyeglass Recycling Program, headquartered in Queensland and operating throughout Australia and overseas.

We receive requests from humanitarian organisations either travelling to a third world country or supplying shipping container loads of suitable humanitarian aid from Australia to groups in the third world”.

Items Accepted:

Spectacles
Contact Lenses
Hearing Aids

You can contact club president and make arrangements to hand them over. 

Roshan – 0434827770

Balmaringa Reserve Kissing point road, South Turramurra NSW 2074

+61 434 827 770

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