Stirling Scene Bunuru 2020

Enter the 2020 History and Heritage Awards Entries are now open for the 2020

History and Heritage Awards. The City established the bi-annual awards to recognise the efforts of individuals and groups striving to conserve the City’s history and heritage. The Heritage category acknowledges conservation of the built environment and streetscapes as well as the education and promotion of heritage within the City of Stirling. The History category calls on entrants to submit photographs (up to five) taken in the City of Stirling prior to 1990. For the ‘Photograph with a story’ section, entrants will need to provide a short story (up to 200 words) with each image and the ‘Photograph with a caption’ requires a small caption (up to 10 words). The City will also present an award for the Best Youth Entry. Visit www.stirling.wa.gov.au/heritageawards to enter.

Above: Major prizewinner Ilan Veerappan and family celebrate with Joe Brazzale and Roy Roex from Big Rock Toyota

The City’s Museum Curator Tracy Willett (centre) with church members in front of Osborne Park Uniting Church. The church is part of the City’s Heritage List

Take a book, leave a book Little Street Libraries are proving a great way to share the joy of reading. Starting to pop up around the City, the often brightly coloured bookcases encourage residents to take a book and leave a book.

remember to drop by and exchange a book. If you would like to add a Little Street Library to public land in your neighbourhood, please email littlestreetlibrary@stirling.wa.gov.au with your proposal. Please note: you will need to arrange for your Little Street Library to be maintained. Shrink your energy bills As part of the Living Green program, the City is offering free home sustainability audits and information sessions about low energy living, building low energy homes and installing solar on a budget. Learn how to lower your energy bills and find out what parts of your home are likely to be guzzling power and water. Visit www.stirling.wa.gov.au/ livinggreen to register for a home sustainability audit or to attend an upcoming energy session.

To launch the program, members of the Stirling Men’s Shed recently built a nifty Little Street Library that has since found a home at the Inglewood Town Square. If you’re in Inglewood,

Making the City small business friendly Small businesses across the City of Stirling can look forward to faster approvals thanks to an innovative new project. The Small Business Friendly Approvals Project is about refining the City’s approval processes and cutting red tape to make it as straightforward as possible for small businesses to thrive in Stirling. a simple online lodgement process where customers can register, lodge and pay for applications in a single transaction. Visit www.stirling.wa.gov.au/ smallbusinessapprovals for more details about the project.

With 22,000 local businesses contributing $6 billion to the WA economy each year, it’s vital that the City takes steps to make it as easy as possible for local businesses to start, grow and prosper. A Small Business Development Corporation initiative, the project will pave the way for the City to introduce

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