This years planned Ride to Pool day at the Coburg Olympic Pool has been more or less cancelled due to forecast rainy and windy weather on Sunday 17th of January 2010. The bands will not be playing and there will be no inflatables as rain makes operating the electrical equipment and inflatable pool equipment dangerous. The sausage sizzle has also been cancelled.
Hopefully, it's just a postponement though - there is talk of rescheduling festivities for the end of the summer season.
Ride to pool day this Sunday!
On Sunday January 17 it is the Ride to Pool day at the Coburg Olympic Pool. This was a spectacular day last year and promises to be again, with music and dancing, swimming fun on the pool inflatable and in the jumping castle. Friends of the Coburg Olympic Pool will be selling some t-shirts and there will be a sausage sizzle.
The music line up is:
2.00 - 2.30pm Que Paso (bluegrass band)
2.45 - 3.15pm Nicola Lester.
3.30 - 4.00pm Nick Murphy
4.15 - 4.45pm Ross McLennan
5.00 - 5.40pm Short Order Chefs
Entry is free as Christine Campbell, the member for Pascoe Vale, is
sponsoring the event. The pool will be open usual weekend hours from 11-6. Pass it on and see you there!
Coburg Beach now open for the 2009-10 summer season
by Kitty Owens
Coburg Olympic Pool, secret oasis of the north, is now open for the summer season. The plantings of succulents out the front are doing well and suit the retro frontage of the pool. Grab your bathers and tell your friends to meet you under the peppercorn trees!
Upcoming events include a free event celebrating the start of the season on Sunday 13th, 11-6pm - the inflatables will be out. A pool party with bands is being planned for mid January, in partnership with the Friends of Coburg Olympic Pool.
Last year there was a big jump in attendances for the season (15 000) even though the pool had been closed for two years. Let’s build on the success of the community in getting the pool re-opened, and make the most of our lovely creekside pool and picnic area this season.
See you in the lap lane!
Coburg Olympic Pool, secret oasis of the north, is now open for the summer season. The plantings of succulents out the front are doing well and suit the retro frontage of the pool. Grab your bathers and tell your friends to meet you under the peppercorn trees!
Upcoming events include a free event celebrating the start of the season on Sunday 13th, 11-6pm - the inflatables will be out. A pool party with bands is being planned for mid January, in partnership with the Friends of Coburg Olympic Pool.
Last year there was a big jump in attendances for the season (15 000) even though the pool had been closed for two years. Let’s build on the success of the community in getting the pool re-opened, and make the most of our lovely creekside pool and picnic area this season.
See you in the lap lane!
Have you seen the plants new plants in front of Coburg Olympic Pool?
by Janet Grigg
A couple of weekends ago, a few of the Friends of Coburg Pool (FCOP) met out the front of the pool armed with succulents from our gardens, compost, gardening tools and mulch for a spot of guerrilla gardening. We had noticed how sad the bed out the front looked and decided to do something about it. After an assessment of the soil (dry and water repellent) and consideration of plant placement, we decided to work on the long bed. Soil replenishment and planting then began in earnest. By the time we'd finished, it looked so much better.
If anyone is passing by, I'm sure the new plants would appreciate some water, maybe from your water bottle if you are nearly home. There is still another garden bed at the entrance to the pool with a weed tree (cotoneaster) that needs to be removed and that could could do with some plants. Perhaps another group might decide to do some more guerrilla gardening? Every time I go past on the bus and see the garden we planted still there and growing, I get a little thrill. By the time summer comes, I'm sure the garden will have grown, filling out the bed some more and be looking even more magnificent.
A couple of weekends ago, a few of the Friends of Coburg Pool (FCOP) met out the front of the pool armed with succulents from our gardens, compost, gardening tools and mulch for a spot of guerrilla gardening. We had noticed how sad the bed out the front looked and decided to do something about it. After an assessment of the soil (dry and water repellent) and consideration of plant placement, we decided to work on the long bed. Soil replenishment and planting then began in earnest. By the time we'd finished, it looked so much better.
If anyone is passing by, I'm sure the new plants would appreciate some water, maybe from your water bottle if you are nearly home. There is still another garden bed at the entrance to the pool with a weed tree (cotoneaster) that needs to be removed and that could could do with some plants. Perhaps another group might decide to do some more guerrilla gardening? Every time I go past on the bus and see the garden we planted still there and growing, I get a little thrill. By the time summer comes, I'm sure the garden will have grown, filling out the bed some more and be looking even more magnificent.
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