Hello Hume’ns (The awesome people of the Hume area).

The Long weekend is here and everyone knows it’s March Madness. (unless you have been living under a rock)😁. With so many events going on like the F1, Moomba, The Flower & Garden show, AFL, etc, etc. Then you would think there would be nothing going on locally but I have you covered. It might not be as glitzy or glamourous but supporting local always gives you that warm heart feeling. So whatever you choose to do? Hopefully I will see you out there and say Hi, I will be wearing the Hume pulse tshirt.

In this week’s Humepulse edition:

In the recent Council Meeting agreed to increase their voice on the federal and state planning, regarding data centres in the Hume region. This issue has been steadiliy increasing due to the digital gold rush that the Tech sector are chasing. The Hume area already has a few Data Centres and 2 other projects in propasal stage. Land has been acquired to then house data centres at a later date in Mickleham.

Cr Kurt sounded the alarm late last year and it seems that he has been right in his assesment of this so called digial gold rush. My biggest worry is the water that these facilities use and where they plan to get it from? We just got Greenvale reservoir back as a place to enjoy. [ INFO]

This week is the start of pay negotiations by various councils and Hume Council is one of them. The Australian Services Union is asking for a 10% pay increase and has already filed for protected action. If things drag on we might have rubbish piling up and our libraries empty if it drags out. [ INFO ]

This weekend is the first Clean Day for the year. It’s a chance to clean up the place and get rid of the bulky stuff. See the list below.

The Places you can take these items.

We thought we would add events that are free or cost very little to attend. Check out the Council Calendar for this week [ INFO ]

The goverment have handed out grants to the council to upgrade some of our local shop strips. Three locations were chosen under the Grants called the Multicultural Business Precinct Revitalisation Program. The grants are an attempt to freshen up the area as well create more foot traffic to the strips. [ INFO ]

The locations are - Barry Road Shopping Precinct, Campbellfield,  Hume City Council , $100,000 Mahoney's Road Shopping Precinct, Campbellfield, Hume City Council , $80,000 Olsen Place Shopping Precinct, Broadmeadows, Hume City Council , $100,000

Hometown Australia has earmarked a large portion of land in Mickleham for a lifestyle community. Now with Civil works having been completed the Housing portion is ready for sale and plans to deliver 196 homes to an over 55’s retiree demographic. [ INFO ]

If you go past Somerton or through Somerton along the Hume highway you can’t miss the enormous Gantry’s. This week the final Gantry was finished at the back of the site of the new Melbourne Intermodal Terminal (ITC). From the front you can only see the 4 gantry’s but there are another 3 in the back section which brings the total to seven. Originally they were supposed to have 12 Gantry’s but as plans change, they only have the seven. (ITC) are almost fully functional and have trains already picking up cargo and taking it to the Port. This means we should start to see a reduction of trucks on the roads in the surrounding areas. [ INFO ]

This Trampoline playground is not your average play and jump type of place. Any kid looking for thrills and a heap of fun, then this is the place to be, and it is now open in craigieburn. At the time of writing this newsletter we missed the actual grand opening which happened earlier today, but we are only at the start of the long weekend. It’s worth checking it out if you have some kids that are bored. [ INFO ]

The Base, 7/24 Riley Rd, Craigieburn

Looking for something a little more nourishing for the soul? Then this event is the one for you. Learn a skill for life and take control of your health with the knowledge you gain. Meet up with other awesome Hume’ns and go into the running for a 90 minute garden consult. [ INFO ] bookings essential.