HISTORY
Streets for Peace
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In the International Year of Peace in 1986, two Forest Road residents, Rachel Cocks and Joan Fitz-Nead, initiated a Community Project Streets for Peace with funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs. The project aimed to build community engagement in Peace issues and included
In 1987 the Tasmanian Peace Trust supported extending the Streets for Peace project to enable preparation, printing and distribution of a Streets for Peace kit made available to all Tasmanian schools. This was completed in mid 1987, and the National Museum of Australia included a selection of Streets for Peace project documents in its Peace Movement Memorabilia collection. |
Community Peace Park
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Hobart City Council was asked in 1986 to designate an area in the Forest Road vicinity to establish a park to commemorate the commitment of the local residents to Peace. The Council generously designated the area between Prospect Place, Roberts Street and Liverpool Crescent as a Peace Park. This site is a major thoroughfare from Forest Road to Liverpool Crescent, and is a popular viewing spot for the end of the Sydney to Hobart yacht race, and other river activities.
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Parties, plants and plaques
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To celebrate the establishment of the Peace Park, a community party was held on Saturday 28 February 1987, when children from Goulburn Street Primary School and others planted shrubs, and were encouraged to monitor their progress.
Since that time, a number of organisations have installed remembrance plaques in the Peace Park, including
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Community projects |
Members of the community group have supported a number of Peace Park development and promotion projects such as
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