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News In Brief
• Multiple Winners at the fourth annual BMBA Business Awards, held at YesterGrange on October 30, included GlenElla Guesthouse, Spa Sublime, Fine Flowers and Bygone Beautys. Spa Sublime also took out the Harry Hammon Gold Business Advantage Award – winners, photos @ bmba.com.au
• Emirates-owned Wolgan Valley Resort & Spa has engaged design house HBO+EMTB to restore an early colonial homestead in the grounds of its new Australian 6 star hotel on the Newnes Plateau. “The 1830s homestead is an excellent example of early 19th century construction techniques [and] the restored building will provide a fascinating window into the domestic life of our earliest pastoralists”, said HBO+EMTB heritage director, Brian MacDonald
• National Trust Australia, which owns several Blue Mountains properties, has announced new strategic directions and closer community engagement. “Heritage plays an important part in creating our sense of place and belonging …[and] as the Trust embarks on this radical change, the commitment of our volunteers and staff becomes integral to our development”, said executive director, John Neish
• Sydney-based Blue Mountains Private Safaris has launched a series of walking tours, accessing some of the Mountains’ most remote areas and including optional overnight camping. The company operates similar ventures in the Northern Territory and Western Australia – wildbushluxury.com
• The NSW Roads and Traffic Authority has abandoned plans for an archway over the M4 Motorway at the base of Lapstone Hill. The archway would have carried traffic information, welcome signage and advertising messages but had been criticised in the Penrith and Blue Mountains local government areas for its aesthetic qualities
• With road widening works underway at Lawson, residents in Blackheath at the top of the Mountains are preparing to counter the possibility of similar development there, alleging a threat to the regional tourism economy from B-Doubles and B-Triples (which would be able to access the Great Western Highway for the first time) and citing the need for a broader integrated transport strategy based on rail for the movement of inland freight to Sydney
• Two Mountains residents have been nominated as finalists in the NSW ‘Australian of the Year’ Awards. Environmentalist, Jon Dee, is founder of Planet Ark; and courageous anti-drugs campaigner, Tony Trimmingham started the Family Drug Support organization, which operates a 24 hour help line, thirteen years ago. The Awards will be announced in Canberra on January 25.
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