GunSmoke newsletter notices

Issue 105 of Gungahlin Smokesignals - Gunsmoke - is now being delivered. It's about a month late, and this means that a number of the date claimers have slipped by.

We sincerely apologise for this delay - to our readers and our advertisers.

GCC is a voluntary not-for-profit organisation, and like any such group the individual people putting in their time sometimes run into personal demands and family issues, and these will always be higher priorities over community work.

We are working on Issue 106 right now so that it can go out on time. But we really do need some new people on board. Gunsmoke needs someone who enjoys working with Publisher to put the content together once every two months.

And we need another person who likes dealing with businesses to pull together the advertising. With more than 14,000 copies distributed for each issue, Gunsmoke represents the best way for our local businesses to reach local people.

So can you help? Click on the Contacts page above and drop us a line.

GunSmoke is delivered to more than 14,000 homes north-west of the Barton and Federal Highways, including Mitchell and Gungahlin.

The latest edition of Gunsmoke - issue 105 - will be out in February.

If you wish to advertise your business, better be quick!

Please email us at gunsmoke at gcc.asn.au (replace the "at" with "@").

GunSmoke is prepared by volunteers of the Gungahlin Community Council, and we pay to have it delivered to more than 14,000 homes north-west of the Barton and Federal Highways, including Mitchell and Gungahlin.

The latest edition of Gunsmoke - issue 104 - is now out. Distribution should be completed by 30/11/07.

So if you haven't received your copy by then, we need to know.

Please email us at gunsmoke at gcc.asn.au (replace the "at" with "@").
The sooner the better, as the distribution company is better able to identify reasons why.

The aroma of lavender is well-known for its calming properties. This is what Rebecca Karr of Anthony Rolfe Avenue wanted when she purchased ten beautiful lavender plants and planted them at front of her property recently.  

Rebecca needs some beauty in her life at the moment, as she is struggling with the effects of chemotherapy after being recently diagnosed with cancer.  

On Friday 12 October, she was devastated to find that all the plants had been removed from their garden by someone who apparently thought they had a better use for them - or as she says in an email to Gunsmoke: "some scum bag has stolen them".

Does anyone out there know about these plants?  Has this happened to anyone else in the area? Maybe you can help Rebecca replace these plants for her garden. Contact us at info at gcc.asn.au if you know anything.

Hello everyone. I am Janet McKinney, and I have been dragooned into being the editor for the Gunsmoke at the recent AGM. Actually, I did volunteer - it has been a dream of mine for several years to be a part of a community publication like this.

I completed a Degree in Mass Communication in 2004, and discovered a real passion for writing and communication.

It is my vision to see the GunSmoke work hand-in-hand with the website to provide you - the residents, business people and workers in Gungahlin - a vehicle to have your voice heard in the community.

Read more: New Gunsmoke Editor

Welcome to another issue of Gungahlin Smokesignals. As I write this, it has been an incredibly busy couple of months, and it-s likely to be mid-June before we see any let-up. Some of it has been self-inflicted - taking on new things and stirring things up on behalf of the community. But a big share of the workload has been due to a number of ACT Government consultation processes all going at the same time - they have simply just had too much on for us to be able to respond to everything, and some areas have had to go without a response from us.

Here's a quick look at just a few of the things that have been on our agenda in the GCC of late:

Read more: Gunsmoke 101 Report

Welcome to 2007! With the festive season well and truly behind us we are preparing for a very busy start to the year in the GCC.

The ACT Government's Planning and Land Authority (ACTPLA) is in the midst of a major overhaul of its key planning regulation - the Territory Plan. GCC Executive Member Kevin Cox and I attended several consultation workshops prior to Christmas that were looking at the proposed structure of the new Plan. My overall impression is that ACTPLA is heading in the right direction, but there is a lot more work still to be done. The next stage of this project will be the actual detail of the regulations themselves, and as always, 'the devil is in the detail'...

Read more: January Welcome