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Holding Ground for Arthurs Seat 2 Mins Read Silver Leaf Art Box’s Chiara Finnigan, artist Rosie Weiss and Holding Ground curator Penelope Gebhardt at Silver Leaf Artbox. Picture: Elizabeth Clancy Share Rachel Derum’s ‘Improbable, Beautiful as though I had wings’, 2021 paper collage WORKS by 76 contemporary artists come together in Holding Ground, an online art exhibition and fundraiser being held to stop the proposed expansion of a contentious granite quarry at Arthurs Seat. Charitable organisation the Ross Trust, and the company it owns, Hillview Quarries, plan to dig the quarry on the north face of Arthurs Seat which would destroy remnant old-growth bushland that is home to koalas and 27 threatened or endangered species. ....
age 99, died on March 28, 2021 in Edina, MN, with his loving children close by. He was born in Duluth, MN to Per and Victoria (Swenson) Esbjornson. When John was five his mother died and he and his brother Robert lived with relatives and friends while his father worked to support them. They moved often until Per found Anna Dahlin to care for them on her farm in Wright, MN. She lovingly providing the stability they needed. Anna and Per later married and John spent the remainder of his childhood there, graduating from Cromwell High School in 1940. He credited his experiences on the farm for fundamentally shaping his life. ....
Chorus of young voices add to quarry opposition 2 Mins Read Not in our backyard: Younger voices have been their concerns about the proposed quarry at Arthurs Seat. Picture: Supplied Share Picture: Supplied CHILDREN are speaking out about a new quarry that the Ross Trust plans to carve out of Arthurs Seat not far from schools and kindergartens. The Ross Trust, a charity which owns Hillview Quarries, plans a granite quarry about 800 metres from Red Hill Consolidated School and Monterosso Early Learning Centre in Red Hill, and about 1.9 kilometres from Dromana Secondary School and Peninsula Specialist College. Creating the proposed quarry involves clearing 38 hectares of bushland – equivalent to the area of 21 MCGs. The quarry would also include an old quarry site, so in total it will cover 43 hectares and be 190-metres deep. ....