Julian Leeser (Berowra, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

On Saturday, our community came together to clean up the graffiti which has been such an unfortunate feature of Pennant Hills, Thornleigh and Normanhurst. Local residents, shop owners and police agree that the level of graffiti across these communities in unprecedented and that something had to be done. I convened a graffiti-busting army with Alister Henskens MP and Councillor Sallianne McClelland. I want to give a special shout-out to Roger Norman and his team of Mark Hedges, Ross Warden, Colin Brunker and Duk-Soo Park from Turramurra Rotary. Roger organised the logistics of the clean-up. He trained our volunteers. He's truly an inspiration. Together with the volunteers, we donned gloves and masks and got to work fixing the ugly mess that the vandals made.

I want to acknowledge all the volunteers on the campaign from Thornleigh Hillcrest Uniting Church, including Brian Wilcockson, Jeni Tresize, Mike Little, Jim and Gill Mein, Lee Lowe, David Firth, Callan San, Sue Wilcockson and Micho and Gielie Loubser. I give a big thanks also to Maggie Morris, the Thorp family, Isabella Chen, the Musico family, Joseph Habkouk, Rose Gray, Isabella Skelly, Robert Joscelyne, Karen Awad, the Riley family, Emilie Boshoff, Gaby Samiya, Astrid Pickup, Surin Jung, Jasmine Mazidi, Sahana Kaur, Keira Rodrigues, Tina Faber, Deborah Egan-Wiggins, Maria Ferraro, Urmila DChuna, Brian Norman, Ryan Bridcutt and Stephanie Brown.

Local businesses also helped out, with R Hair 4 U, O, Dough, Wooden Mill and Well Versed Homes, as well as Dulux, Southern Cleaning Supplies, Kennards Self Storage Thornleigh, Inspirations Paint Hornsby, Uni-Pro and Bunnings Thornleigh sponsoring. Thank you to our wonderful community.

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