Coming up! We’re looking forward to seeing lots of neighbourhood dogs 🐕 in the Alphington Dog Show this year. All the categories for entry are on our website. Don’t be shy. Bring your fur baby along!

The Twilight Kindergarten Open Evenings are a fantastic opportunity for parents of future kinder aged children to visit local kinders and make a truly informed decision about which kindergarten is the best fit for their family. 16 different kinders in the City of Darebin are participating in this event this year.

As many young families already know, it useful to start looking for a kindergarten program early as enrolment processes vary across Victoria.

Local kindergartens will be open for tours between 6pm and 8pm on:

• Thursday 23 March – kindergartens north of Bell Street

• Tuesday 28 March – kindergartens south of Bell Street

To find out which kinders are part of the program and how to book in head over to the Darebin Council link here.

Thank you to all the lovely stall holders that brought their fantastic items for sale last Saturday.

We hope you all enjoyed the atmosphere and the great food, face painting and kids craft on offer.

Here are some lovey photos of the day!

This week is National Recycling Week and we’ve been celebrating recycling in our programs. We kicked off with Visible Mending Club on the weekend and sent along some fabulous potential mending supplies for the group that Anne had kindly donated (patches and lace and all sorts of interesting things) … then offered a range of fun recycled craft activities for playgroups … and will finish the week mixing up recycling with gardening … making recycled seed packets for seeds we’ve saved from the garden and also potting up some of the lettuce seedlings we’ve been growing - again in recycled pots and tins.

And we made this great sign as well! Just for fun. Using a whole range of donated/recycled things we had hanging around … so Happy National Recycling Week.

Are you a local maker? Would you like to have a stall at our upcoming Christmas Makers Market. It is going to be on Saturday 26 November which is in fact election day … always a fabulous day to be out and about in the community and walking in the neighbourhood. So we expect lots of local to stroll past … and hopefully combine their democracy activity with some retail therapy …

If you are keen for a stall you can book here.

If you are keen to get a jump on Christmas shopping and buy lovely things from local makers then save the date.

As usual we will have a lovey craft activity for any children who come along and a sausage sizzle to keep energy levels up.