Our little church cum chapel near the cemetery was busy last week for the funeral service for Mr Bernard A. Cockshutt, an early resident of Kettering and then Snug. For many years he was employed at the Electrona works. Mr Cockshutt was buried near his wife who died 12 years ago.
For present day Kettering residents there will be a Community Service on Sunday, June 30th commencing 9.30am.
A unanimous decision was made at a Special General Meeting of the Kettering Yacht Club last Tuesday night. A majority of members present voted in favour of accepting the committee’s recommendations to purchase the Roaring 40’s building and lease, which will then become the new clubhouse.
Local volunteers were busy last week working to complete Stage 1 of a three-stage project to upgrade the Kettering Point Walking Track and extend the track around the headland to Trial Bay. Project co-ordinator, Eric Baldwin, said he was delighted with the result.
The Cove Hair Studio will be opening for business today. Click here to view flyer announcing the opening.
Organiser Elspeth Haughie reports the Kettering Heart Foundation Walkers recently celebrated the third anniversary of the groups formation . . . with a walk!
After originally being lodged in May 2012, a development application for the multi-million dollar DIER Ferry Road upgrade finally made it into the public domain over Easter this year. Construction work is expected to commence in September this year. A copy of the development application can be downloaded here (2Mb PDF). Closing date for representations is 22 April 2013.
Kettering Walkers Co-ordinator, Elspeth Haughie, reports that the plans to complete the footpath along the Channel Highway from Saddle Road to Ferry Road are well advanced.
There is much activity at the Oyster Cove Marina. Over the past two weeks a large hill, affectionately know as Mount Boustead after the man who created it, has rapidly disappeared. It’s made way for a new expanded hard-stand area.
A Kingborough Council committee has recommended up to $65,000 be spent replacing the dilapidated and ageing timber pedestrian bridge linking the Kettering Oval Track with the Oyster Cove Marina.
Miriam Imms reports that the Kettering Church, along with other Channel churches, will be lighted from 6.00 pm to 9.30 pm over Easter on Thursday 28th, Friday 29th, and Saturday 30th March as a token of awe to the tremendous history changing events of that first Easter.